Today, on my birthday, I made a thing!
And it’s even kind of good!
Here it be :
Kind of astounding what AI can do, isn’t it? In many ways, that impresses me more than mere image generation.
Because this is music and music is magic and me being able to make an entire song just be typing in the lyrics and a general description of the sound I wanted and having it come out that good, that credible, is power at its most profound.
And those fools let it fall into the wrong hands…. MINE! Muahahaha, etc.
The song’s far from perfect. I really should work on those lyrics more, some of them are rather awkwardly worded and I shouldn’t have been quite so gruesome when describing Dumb Donnie’s fate in El Salvador.
Still, not bad for something that started out as just something to write to test out what Riffusion could do.
I’ve also uploaded it to TikTok like I normally do with my videos, as well as posted a link to it to my BlueSky, where it might just catch on.
Well a fellow can dream, can’t he? In my fantasy, the song goes mega viral and catapults me into overnight fame and practically forces the Onion to hire me.
I even get interviewed on As It Happens!
Also, I’m a billionaire with an anthro stallion boyfriend and a spaceship.
What the hell, if you’re gonna fantasize, go big!
All in all, it’s an unusual thing to get up to on one’s birthday but I am enjoying it. If I had more energy, I would have searched for a bunch of images to put on the screen to accompany the music.
Would have been more entertaining that just putting the lyrics on screen, which was tedious and exacting work.
Oh well. Live and learn.
I’m framing this whole thing in my mind as my having made a gift for myself. After all, I did make something which pleases me on my birthday so I think it counts.
And it’s so rare that I can successfully create something substantial. Though I suppose I shouldn’t denigrate my other videos.
That just leads to me having to renigrate them later!
Aw crap, I am getting the strong urge to nap. Well not till I have done my words. Hopefully the sleepiness will pass and I will be able to get things done before I zonk out for a while.
I’m glad I put some effort into playing around with Riffusion. That is exactly the direction I need and want to go in my life : letting myself really invest myself into the things I do, and looking for things to do that can take that kind of investment.
Creative things, for the most part. I have enough creative energy to run a large factory. The kind that works with molten steel.
Not to make anything with it. Just because they can. For kicks.
I’ve tried out my brand new Brita water bottle. It works great but it’s kind of a pain in the ass to use because the only way to fill it is to pour water directly into the built in straw and that’s tricky to do with any precision so I end up wet.
And that’s no fun.
So what I need is a funnel. A simple little funnel to stick in the neck of the bottle so it can act like a wider mouth for the thing.
Once I got that going, filling it up will be much easier and I will use it a LOT.
If only it fit under the tap in my ensuite.
OK, that’s enough for now. Time for a well earned nap.
A long way up
I’ve been having trouble getting out of bed again.
The same ol’ story. In between waking up and getting up, there has to be this period where I sit on the edge of the bed while I try to gather the motive force to get out of bed and face the world.
Dunno what has brought that ol’ beast back to life. I guess I’ve been feeling a little lethargic in general. Obviously, I am not going to declare myself to be ill when it is probably just a lack of food and/or hydration.
So, yellow alert only. If that.
But it’s still troubling to be having trouble getting out of bed again. I am definitely going to be keeping an eye on the situation.
Oh well, at least I have gotten lots of birthday well-wishes on Tapestries, which makes me feel good, both for the goodwill itself and the pride I feel in myself for actually taking the initiative in letting people know it’s my birthday to get that goodwill.
All in all, very positive.
Oh, and I had a chat about what power supply to get with my good friend, nimbat, and mistress of all things hardware, Windchaser.
So I know which one I’m going to get : this one here.
Of course, I’ll need to have the money first. That little detail. Looks like birthday money is not coming along any time soon, so I would have to make up the around $65 difference between my remaining Amazon gift card balance and the price of the thing from my current cashflow.
Dunno if I want it that bad. I might prefer to wait a month before subjecting myself to another month with less spending cash.
Or I could get a membership with Descript instead. That’s around $50 and that would allow me to see if they can do what I want with my recorded audio.
If they can, then $50/month is a small price to pay for being able to just record my usual talking head video then hand it to Descript to add the images and videos.
That sounds so good.
So it’s kind of a fork in the road of destiny : I could pay for something that enhances my enjoyment of video games, or I could pay for something that might get me ahead.
Right now I am leaning towards the PSU because my satirical news idea requires a fairly specific set of images and clips and I dunno if a generic, transcript-based service would be able to keep up with that.
But who knows. Maybe it can. In which case, sweet.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.