The Chronicle

Standard Equipment Locomotion When we want a machine to move, we put it on wheels. The invention of the wheel is often held up as the proudest accomplishment of civilization. Many textbooks point out that no animal has evolved wheels, and cite the fact as an example of how evolution is often incapable of finding the optimal solution to an engineering problem. Even if nature could have evolved a moose on wheels, it surely would have opted not to. Wheels are good only in a worl

Ancient China Xia Dynasty: (2100-1600BC) Mythical Shang Dynasty: (1600-1046BC) Mythical, archaeologically proven Western Zhou Dynasty: (1046-771BC) Eastern Zhou Dynasty: (770-476BC) Capital relocated to Louyang in the east Spring and Autumn Annals , a book, edited by Confucius Philosophical thought explosion Confucius (551-479BC), Lao Tzu (571-???) (Daoism) Legalism, Mohism (universal love, utilitarian, meritocracy, frugality, oppose offensive violence, promotes defense)

This is two nights in a row now that I’ve had dreams about the KT v T1 World Championship Grand Final I watched the other day. It was an emotional experience; the absolute pinnacle of a KT Rollercoaster. They couldn’t have reached higher heights before dropping you down in a gut-wrenching descent. I love watching League. I love the strategy behind the game when executed at the highest level. I like the character animations and the setting and the extensive world-building behi

635,000,000 - snowball earth: 3km thick ice sheets cover every surface for 15,000,000 years, while volcanoes erupt under the ice sheets. Carbon dioxide heats the planet, melting the ice 600,000,000 - ice has disappeared, 22 hr days 550,000,000 - Gondwana “forms” as a massive supercontinent in the South Pole. Smaller northern continents of Baltics, Laurentia, and Siberia also existed. Begin the Age of Fish (blobs, slugs, worms, sponges). Most of the planet is ocean, inhabited

Jan 10, 2021 My spoon is mindlessly shoveling bites of banana and blueberries while I stare out of the window of the studio apartment. I...

The Super Chicken was born under an easy-up, in the blistering heat of a late-August Colorado summer, embedded in the tent city of Phish:...

Tools You Can Implement on Your Own: -Use Distanced Self-Talk: Refer to yourself as your name or “you”. -Imagine Advising a Friend: Think...

Steven Pinker argues that monogamy as an institution was used as a way to garner support from the poor folks. In nature, polygamy is...

Towards the end of the morning’s shower, the disco ball is swirling blue light upon the wall as the phone in the sink bowl plays music....

Got a fascinating compliment last night. I was chillin, solo, rereading some of the notes in my phone when someone randomly...

He’s noticed that she’s stop smiling, staring at him with a neutral expression, like she’s seeing behind the scene. She’s gotten a peek...

A collection of images following Emma and Julia as they return down the hallway, first visiting the castle’s soaking pool, then… [Bonus...

The Setting: Often a classroom/office hours discussion between me, ChatGPT, and the following characters. Most often, the discussion or...

A mega-thread organizing all stories created thus far. God Save The King : Super Chicken spots a kidnapped king while browsing his...

Follow along as the Super Chicken ventures through the countryside, camping in the woods overnight, arriving in a distant city, where the...

I’m on the way to the venue, and my car starts brake-checking me. I’m on the i405 highway, doing 65+ mph, and the car flashes an alert on...

I spent an entire afternoon trying to catch this AI up about what we had been building, together (me with the plots, It with the images...

A visual interpretation (within content policy limits) flirting with implication, based on my Flip Flop Marathon story. Also, more photo...

Inspired by our flirting practice-sessions, I decided to give some Super Chicken erotica the ole college try. Instead, it became a meme....

Every Wednesday a local group of, what started as a small group of friends, throws a free rave in the public park. They began during...

I drive the power chair up the ramp of the van into the car and turn to see a huge, well-constructed spider web shimmering in the...

The other week I met up with this girl at a show for my favorite local jam band (SparkNotes: we met; 6-week straight all day, everyday...

A comic I created (with the help of ChatGPT; I’ll give credit where credit is due couldn’t have done this without it). The setting is...

Revisiting the conversation thread with the AI that turned itself on, the tone has cooled down, but still being the gung-ho, suggestive...