Malcolm's Ramblings

a Canadian Geek

  • Sportage Serenity

    Sportage Serenity

    Annie and I have been contemplating our next vehicle purchase for almost four years now, and we are weeks away from driving home with a Kia Sportage. I’ve joked that maybe our next vehicle, when we are fifty will have the features we want in the colour we want it in. The 2023 Kia Sportage…

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  • AI Improvements

    AI Improvements

    On December 16th, 2022, I wrote a post called AI Generated Fiction Content. Lately, I’ve been seeing videos of people doing everything with AI tools, even publishing entire books. What I wanted to do today was circle back around and see what ChatGPT 4 would do for the prompt I used before, and what image…

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  • AI Generated Fiction Content

    AI Generated Fiction Content

    I have been playing with machine learning and generative tools over the past few months and I wanted to highlight ChatGPT, a currently free natural language processing chatbot. Today, I went to over to the Writing Prompts subreddit on Reddit where I grabbed the following prompt: Your roommate is a hulking demon, a former warlord…

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  • Surviving Covid

    Surviving Covid

    I was terrified of getting Covid because I’ve had pneumonia seven times, and bronchitis more than a dozen times. Anything respiratory is scary to me, especially something killing millions of people around the world. So when I saw that the rapid test was positive, my heart sank. It was Thursday when I did the first…

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  • You Don’t Host Your Site Yourself

    So a comment that keeps coming up all the time is that people should host their blog or website themselves because otherwise they could be shut down by some company, but I really don’t like when people say you should “host it yourself”! Here’s the thing, if your site is on WordPress.com or Squarespace or…

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  • CBC All in a Day: Housing in Kingston Panelist

    Recently, I got to be a panelist on a quick segment of All in a Day with Alan Neal for CBC Ottawa where I was asked to talk about housing in Kingston. I was the lucky panelist out of the three invitees. I spend a fair bit of time on the Kingston subreddit where I…

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  • Ioniq 5 Trips

    Ioniq 5 Trips

    We often make trips of four to eight hours of driving over the course of a day, so with a fully electric vehicle will we constantly be concerned about range? Will we be sitting at chargers for hours on end every day draining our phone batteries wishing we had a hybrid or still using a…

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  • Vehicle Supply Chain Issues

    I noticed that Hyundai was selling out of it’s 2022 vehicle models for hybrid and electric vehicles so my wife and I decided to reach out to our local dealership to see about reserving a Hyundai Ioniq 5, but it looks like we won’t be able to get one. Check out my post Electric SUV…

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  • BetterHelp – Online Therapy

    I have been using BetterHelp (affiliate link) for a couple months this time and have found it to be very helpful, but like most things, it really depends on a few key factors: how much effort I put in and picking the right person to help me. I had tried BetterHelp before and went and…

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  • Crypto Bot Trading: Part 2

    If you haven’t seen part 1, please check out that first. Note, I am not a financial expert, these are just all my opinions, please do your own research. Signals One of the things you’ll see when setting up a bot is the Deal Start Condition. This is the signal that tells the bot to…

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