Stories and writing from Substack.
February 17, 2024
About three months ago I started playing around with AI in more of a recreational fashion. Adoption of AI into my work flow was slow at first, but as I gave it a chance in helping me understand technologies and concepts I found it to be a valuable tool. My core focus…
February 5, 2024
The smoke of a cheap cigar drifted across Ros’s nostrils. She stirred slightly, but was not fully awake. In the distance she could hear the shuffling, dealing of cards accompanied by the twang and clink of credits on a makeshift card table.“Ah, a mighty ha…
January 10, 2024
Maintenance accessways were always next to and parallel to public bulkheads. The accessways were accessible through two doors allowing for the ability to traverse between compromised sections of the station without exposing safe ones. The tandem doors worked mechanically ensurin…
January 5, 2024
Emerging from Stu’s apartment was a bustle of activity as inhabitants evacuated the Solar Solarium. There was an interesting blend of frantic individuals mixed with the calm less concerned looks from Stu’s neighbors. Blendburg Borough, Stu and Roz’s neighb…
January 1, 2024
The actual name of the La’zen was not known. In some of the older passages or corridors of the station could be found the letters that, perhaps, provided the full name of the station, but most inscriptions were faded and worn out. In almost all cases the letters…
December 29, 2023
The sleek stranger shifted his stance slightly producing a squeak as rubber boots dragged across the smooth surface of the floor. With dark pooling eyes, long spider-like eyebrows the man stated: “What is this? How long have you been here?”Roz and Stu looked at …
December 27, 2023
Ambient blue light came from a mostly closed door. The scent of burnt plastic could be smelled from outside and a thin line of smoke wafted out of the apartment. Inside, kneeled over a pile of gears and wires, could be found a male looking to be a few years younger th…
December 25, 2023
Roz’lin was fond of her sanctuary, the bay that now moored a crimson ship. She took care to not be followed whenever she visited. Not knowing when the sleek owner would return she slipped beneath a grate, entered a maintenance tunnel, dropped down a few decks and slithere…
December 24, 2023
Engines hum as an adjustment in altitude is routinely made by a mechanical giant orbiting an inhabitable, yet desolate planet. Creaking and popping of plating and bulwark expand and contract due to temperature changes as portions of the station shift between light and dark…
December 20, 2023
Playing with Chat GPT and getting it to respond in using a scene of three characters got me thinking on how those characters might look like. I decided that the characters would be a fun thing to try using Chat GPT’s counterpart Dall-E. With the base character d…
October 31, 2023
I’ve played with getting Chat GPT respond differently a couple of times. Today I was extremely excited to see a prompt for me to set “Custom instructions” in my session with Chat GPT. The instructions indicate that you can give you can inform Chat G…