Category: South Miami Senior High School
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, June 13, 2023, or: It Was 40 Years Ago Today…(A Tempus Fugit Story)
It’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on Tuesday, June 13, 2013. It’s a sunny early summer day in the Tampa Bay area; it’s warm (86°F/30°C) but it feels warmer, and it’s going to get hotter as the hours tick by. Today’s forecast calls for mostly sunny skies and a high of 93°F/33°C. Today I…
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‘The Cheerleader’s Kiss’ (A Scene from ‘Reunion’ Reimagined by Bing AI in the Style of Erica Jong)
Fifth in a Series of Reimagined Versions of a Scene from Reunion: A Story I wrote Reunion: A Story myself. I put it on Amazon in the summer of 2018, when the world was burning and I was feeling old. A paperback from CreateSpace, an e-book from Kindle. A story about love and loss, youth and…
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‘The Last Song’: Bing AI Chatbot Rewrites a Scene from ‘Reunion’ in the Style of Jennifer Egan
As you know, I’ve been using Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot (powered by OpenAI’s GPT4) to rewrite excerpts from my novella, Reunion: A Story, in the styles used by other writers, including Shakespeare, Poe, Hemingway, Clancy, and even humorist Dave Barry. I’ve also asked Bing AI to rewrite some of the same excerpts in the styles…
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‘The Final Embrace’: (A Scene from ‘Reunion’ Reimagined by Bing AI in the Style of Anais Nin)
Fourth in a Series of Reimagined Versions of a Scene from Reunion: A Story Hey, you. Thanks for reading this. It’s Friday, April 14, 2023, and you know what that means. It’s #FlashbackFriday. Let’s go back to the last day of school, when we were young and stupid and brave. When we thought we could do…
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Edith Wharton’s ‘Echoes of the Past’ (Another Excerpt from Bing AI’s Wharton-Style Take on ‘Reunion’)
If you liked my earlier post, Edith Wharton’s ‘Echoes of the Past’ (‘Reunion’ Reimagined in Wharton’s Style by Bing AI), here’s an additional scene from Reunion as “reimagined” in the style of Edith Wharton by Microsoft’s OpenAI Bing chatbot. (That post also includes a detailed explanation of why I am using OpenAI to rewrite bits…
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Jim & Marty: An AI Sonnet Based on ‘Reunion’
A tale of love that never had a chanceOf Jim who yearned for Marty from afarBut never found the courage to advanceAnd tell her how he felt before they part He gave her a letter on the last day of schoolA letter that confessed his love for herShe read it after graduation and felt a…
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Tempus Fugit (Countdown to the Big Six-Oh Edition): Songs, Schedules, & Off-Campus Lunches…My High School Experience in February 1983
“I blinked my eyes and in an instant, decades had passed.” ― John Mark Green, Taste the Wild Wonder: Poems With less than 18 days before my 60th birthday – the first such recurrence of a “landmark” birthday since my mother’s death nearly eight years ago (and the ensuing physical as well as the emotional…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, June 14, 2022, or: Tempus Fugit Redux!
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It is late morning in Lithia, Florida, on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. It is a hot and muggy early summer day here in the Tampa Bay area. Currently, the temperature is 88°F (31°C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 72% and the wind barely blowing from the north at 3 MPH…
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On Music (Tempus Fugit Edition): Songs for the Holiday Concerts at South Miami High
I joined South Miami Senior High School’s Men’s Chorus in January of 1981, on the first day back to school after the winter break of the 1980-1981 academic year. I did so on a whim; for the first half of 10th grade I had no interest in joining anything beyond the Serpent’s Tale staff and…
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