Bill Burkey

President @zebraskimmers focusing on CNC coolant automation w #ml & #ai, research design/analysis. Pepperhead, domain names, occasional potter.

Reading poetry

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Last night I was driving north on Pearl between Wade and Clark, and all the street lights were strobing ... I have never seen anything like it.

Since CPP cannot seem to resolve the no/low power issue after this many days, given the odd partial power and the strobing street lights, is there more to the story? Likely a coincidence, but who knows in these days of ransomware and hacking.

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@clepublicpower since june 30th and STILL the power has not been fully restored. FAIL

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@LindFritz far too vogue-ish from me ...

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🇺🇸🆚🇧🇪 The USMNT's biggest test of the World Cup.

Round of 16 · Mon July 6, 8PM ET · win or go home.

Our model makes Belgium (#3) a 68% favorite. Can the USA pull the upset at home?

Full preview — form, tale of the tape & odds:
https://t.co/C9mq1extCD

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@obeca Mr Ed!!!

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@lida1xs nice!!

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@clepublicpower doesn't take a weatherman to know the the climate is warming ... where is the capacity planning and implementation?

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@claudeai except for all the "This model's safeguards flagged this message. This sometimes happens with safe, normal conversations. Switched to Opus 4.8. Send feedback with /feedback or learn more" messages and model drop backs.

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@QamarRiaz1 this looks interesting ... I was thinking something similar at Cleveland's Ingenuity center

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That Mexico v Ecuador game was hot! Mexico came out ready to play. I hope team USA has their mojo workin' tonight vs Bosnia & Herzegovina

see the latest in my little worldcup site: https://t.co/8OYYNEMkzZ [check it out, let me know what you think]

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ohhhh Cleveland!

https://t.co/THs8sJuXoL

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@LindFritz ayo!

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@melostrom @ImMCarvalho chilling indeed!

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the worldcup! soccer, er, futbol, is great fun to watch. Go team USA!

A little thing I built to help me enjoy the 'cup' -- https://t.co/8OYYNEMkzZ

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cleveland, where the heart of rock and roll is still beatin' ... from the 'Lottery League' at the Ingenuity facility - creativity, inclusion, music, fun!!

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@melostrom Good morning Mocha!!

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ai is a transformative technology, I embrace/support ai art and creativity. However, phony ai mashups of winehouse, marley, king are repugnant ... shame on you google for hosting this trash and making money on it "do no harm".

[Bill Burkey @crbill]

"... O what will I become?"

Moment Vanishing
by Elizabeth Spires

Now, in the quietude of evening, the dove comes.
It does not flash its feathers, does not
make a sound, but feeds on what the finches
leave behind. How little it needs.
A few hard seeds. A drop of water.

It is late summer. It is always
late summer here. The air is hot and dry.
Brown leaves lie like hands in the yard.
There is no place to turn. No place to stop.
We are hurried along, pushed farther into our lives.

Moments are vanishing all over the earth
as bombs explode, the victim is hooded,
great populations scatter on endless dust roads.
It is too much. We avert our eyes.
We wait like children for the coming of the dove.

And if I were allowed a question,
one question, of the evening dove
who asks for nothing, whose pleasure
is a few small seeds, whose heart I covet,
I would ask, O what will I become?

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The Sun Grows in Your Smile
by Linda Rodriguez

When you smile, the air grows warm and soft,
the earth is watered with gentle mists,
seeds sprout and spread leaves above the dark, damp soil,
earthworms pierce the crust and frolic across the surface
to the delight of fat, happily hunting robins,
lilies of the valley unfurl beside purple, grape-scented irises,
fat pink and maroon peonies, and gay California poppies,
damask roses hurl their rich fragrance to the wind,
the crazy-with-sheer-joy song of the Northern mockingbird
echoes above other chirps and sweet winged notes,
gardeners join the worms in the warm, rich dirt,
children gallop across yards and grab handfuls of dandelions
to present to mothers who will set them in glasses of water
in kitchen windows or on dining room tables, weeds
glorious after the dark of winter with the color of the sun
that grows and warms and heals in your smile.