Cover illustration by Neysa McMein… one of the foremost female illustrators, or maybe just foremost illustrators, of the first half of the 20th century.
Starting in 1916, she did dozens of Post covers, and a bit later, for a time, did all of the McCall’s magazine covers. In the 30s, she created the original Betty Crocker, who looked so real she got letters at General Mills.
She marched for women’s sufferage, entertained the troops in WWI, painted recruiting posters…. and lived an artsy, Bohemian existence, hanging out with the Algonquin Round Table, and knowjng everybody, it seemed, in the entertainment world.
And tonight I had to Google her, because, I’m embarrassed to say, I keep forgetting her first name… which she made up on the advice of a numerologist.
Well, it’s pretty obviously AI, unless you believe that Leonardo actually designed “yog histioaiod” mechanical systems and painted the “Muon Lise”.
It’s too bad, really.
An AI app obviously researched and compiled the information, and with possibly a bit of human guidance “designed” the poster…. no doubt stealing the basics of the layout and illustrations from previous human work, because that’s how AI works.
Much as I hate that aspect of it, it could probably be a useful tool, especially in situations where educational materials are scarce, or unaffordable.
But the human who used AI to create it obviously had no interest in accuracy, and just churns out this sort of thing to fill a web page, or build traffic, or (I hope not!) even to sell, and was too lazy or hurried to even read and correct it.
Or it might be a non-English speaker, using it for the above purposes, without a clue as to the content. They’re not the kind of mistakes that come from merely limited English, by confusion with words or rules of a different language. They’re pure nonsense, so someone didn’t care.
“Ready in minutes” because the dough was raised with baking powder, like a biscuit (American meaning, a bit like scone dough), instead of yeast. But IIRC.. and I might not… there was a tiny bit of yeast in the mixture, for flavor, but no time for it to do the work.
The sauce was bland like canned spaghetti, closer to thick tomato soup than Bolognese, and the cheese a little packet of dried Parmesan.
Chef Boyardee was, in fact… still is… a maker of canned spaghetti, and raviolis, but they couldn’t put pizza in a can.
Pizza was still a novelty in many parts of the US… outside big city Italian districts. Eventually I think Americans got more familiar with what it was supposed to taste like, and this product disappeared.
Search says it’s a huge honeycomb, found in South India.
Commenters online say it’s not a honeycomb, per se, but a brood comb… the cells are open, and dry. Some are full of pollen, not honey, and some are empty.
They say it’s bad for the bees to harvest brood combs; some surmise that it was harvested for beeswax, not food.
just in case
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That is the most trustworthy face I’ve seen this month.
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I hope you can hang on to it…
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Looks good enough to take a bite out of it. I bet the resident pup is confused & conflicted.
Nah… They go by smell… Probably doesn’t know what it’s supposed to look like.
It’s me who’s confused and conflicted.
Took me longer than any dog to figure it out.
I’ve seen cheesy furniture before, but this might take the ….cake? Or do I have to say the pizza?
The pie?
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Irony is a beautiful thing.
Not when there’s a lamp-post. True story.
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Cover illustration by Neysa McMein… one of the foremost female illustrators, or maybe just foremost illustrators, of the first half of the 20th century.
Starting in 1916, she did dozens of Post covers, and a bit later, for a time, did all of the McCall’s magazine covers. In the 30s, she created the original Betty Crocker, who looked so real she got letters at General Mills.
She marched for women’s sufferage, entertained the troops in WWI, painted recruiting posters…. and lived an artsy, Bohemian existence, hanging out with the Algonquin Round Table, and knowjng everybody, it seemed, in the entertainment world.
And tonight I had to Google her, because, I’m embarrassed to say, I keep forgetting her first name… which she made up on the advice of a numerologist.
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Proud Mommy.
Yes, we think they’re adorable too.
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AI?
The graphic might be, but the accomplishments aren’t.
Their descriptions are.
Not everything but a significant percentage.
Well, it’s pretty obviously AI, unless you believe that Leonardo actually designed “yog histioaiod” mechanical systems and painted the “Muon Lise”.
It’s too bad, really.
An AI app obviously researched and compiled the information, and with possibly a bit of human guidance “designed” the poster…. no doubt stealing the basics of the layout and illustrations from previous human work, because that’s how AI works.
Much as I hate that aspect of it, it could probably be a useful tool, especially in situations where educational materials are scarce, or unaffordable.
But the human who used AI to create it obviously had no interest in accuracy, and just churns out this sort of thing to fill a web page, or build traffic, or (I hope not!) even to sell, and was too lazy or hurried to even read and correct it.
Or it might be a non-English speaker, using it for the above purposes, without a clue as to the content. They’re not the kind of mistakes that come from merely limited English, by confusion with words or rules of a different language. They’re pure nonsense, so someone didn’t care.
Yeah. And THIS is supposed to be the FUTURE?
God help us!
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Can I get him to clean my kitchen?
That was very well done. The man is a pro.
Wow… Mopping as an art form.
Practicing for the Olympic squeegee team.
Since you’re doing the job anyway, it helps to have fun with it!
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Great… something new to fear.
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My Mom made it a few times.
Weird stuff.
“Ready in minutes” because the dough was raised with baking powder, like a biscuit (American meaning, a bit like scone dough), instead of yeast. But IIRC.. and I might not… there was a tiny bit of yeast in the mixture, for flavor, but no time for it to do the work.
The sauce was bland like canned spaghetti, closer to thick tomato soup than Bolognese, and the cheese a little packet of dried Parmesan.
Chef Boyardee was, in fact… still is… a maker of canned spaghetti, and raviolis, but they couldn’t put pizza in a can.
Pizza was still a novelty in many parts of the US… outside big city Italian districts. Eventually I think Americans got more familiar with what it was supposed to taste like, and this product disappeared.
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This guy looks like a serial killer.
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Monday.
?
Mondays are a mistake.
It is simply the single word…
MISTAKE
You are actually looking for the word, “MISTAKE”.
I know, dumb and confusing.
No, not really.
If they’re saying it’s a mistake cos it starts with Monday… European calendars usually start with Monday, and so do lots of business calendars here.
And bedsides, it’s a list, not a calendar. Nobody said it even had to be in calendar order.
There’s no question mark after “mistake”… but that shouldn’t be the mistake cos there should have been one before the question was asked.
If it has something to do with the picture, itself… I don’t see it.
why would there be a question mark before a question?
It is simply the single word…
MISTAKE
You are actually looking for the word, “MISTAKE”.
I know, dumb and confusing.
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Silly me… I thought it was giant bread.
Search says it’s a huge honeycomb, found in South India.
Commenters online say it’s not a honeycomb, per se, but a brood comb… the cells are open, and dry. Some are full of pollen, not honey, and some are empty.
They say it’s bad for the bees to harvest brood combs; some surmise that it was harvested for beeswax, not food.
I was always told it was none of my beeswax
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Mademoiselle Scheel with Lions, Ringing Bros circus, 1905 …. photographer Frederick W. Glasier
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Is this what waterskiing looks like when you’re 95?
How you gonna get her up?
Same way they got her down?
Like me. Slowly.
London Street at night.
Male Horned Lark in the Caja del Rio area west of Santa Fe, New Mexico
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“MMMMM Boort Boort Boort.”