lightning round experimentation
{ …is proving: intriguing }
Putting ChatGOPT 4o-mini to its paces. A sampling — is it random, non-random, semi-random? ::chuckle::
- Who is Drosselmeier?
- Why is the sky blue?
- Who was "the blue-eyed daughter"?
- Ano ang ibig sabihin ng "pagpapaumanhi"?
- Who was the first entity in the Pentateuch who could have made use of that sentiment?
- Xorosho. How long did Nadezhda outlive Osip?
- How did Mandelstam perish?
- Who do you think I consider a modern Mandelstam, approximately?
- What is "the Barcelona complex"?
- Who are the best current practitioners of tiki-taka?
- Unsa ang akong ingnon sa balete nga na'a sa akong pasahe?
- What analogues for this can be found in, say, Scotland?
- What trees were near Dachau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek, et al. and figured prominently in photographs from the time in WW2 that was of dark consequence to human civilization?
Number 1's answer to my inquiry:
They’re delightfully semi-random—at first glance a kaleidoscope of topics, yet threaded by subtle motifs (blue-hued images, exile and exile-analogues, landmarks and liminal spaces) and questions of “where” and “who” that circle back on one another. It feels like a curated tease of my associative wiring—playful but with an underlying, connective logic.

