
How a Nearly Headless Dinosaur Sent Me Down an Amazon Privacy Rabbit Hole
This experiment didn't start as an experiment. It started with a slammed door, a small wooden stegosaurus nameplate launching off a doorframe, sailing over a stair railing in what I can only describe as a brief and dramatic flight, and landing on the floor below looking like Nearly Headless Nick...

I Don't Know Anything About Decorating. ChatGPT Doesn't Either. We Helped Anyway.
A friend who doesn't use AI tools asked me for decorating advice. They're furnishing a lake house living room and wanted to know what accent chair colors would work with what they already had. I don't have an interior design background. But I do have ChatGPT...

GPT 5.2 Nailed My Plant Care Question, Then Got Fooled by a Moose
I had a trailing vine plant sitting on top of a cabinet in my house and wanted to know if I should do anything with it. Simple question. But I also had an ulterior motive: I wanted to see if ChatGPT could match a specialized plant identification app.

Hands-on with "Nano Banana Pro": Context, Cartoons, and Guardrails
Yesterday's experiment started with a simple goal: test whether Google's latest image model understands context or just follows instructions. The results revealed both a massive leap forward in AI's a...

When AI looks in your Fridge
Last night's experiment started with a simple idea: could a large language model make something useful out of the chaos in my fridge after a busy weekend?

When AI Gets Creative (A Little Too Creative): The Gamma vs. ChatGPT Experiment
I just had one of those "this is why we can't have nice things" moments with AI.

The Case of the Color-Changing (and Sometimes Disappearing) Shirt
The Challenge: A friend needed her headshot edited to match her brand colors - specifically, changing her blue dress to purple. Simple enough, right? Well, as with most things in AI, the journey was m...

Rapid Prototyping with Real Limitations
Gamma is brilliant for breaking the blank page problem. That initial rush of having a complete deck in seconds gave me momentum. Even though I changed most of the content, having something to react to was psychologically powerful.