In April of 2021 my wife and I had a bad motorcycle accident. We are lucky that we survived the accident. Here is a link to the report on ABC15 (local news station) about the accident. The police closed the highway for 4 hours for an investigation of a potential fatal accident. I don't want to go into details what happened, but I would like to tell you that your life can change in the blink of an eye. It has always been my motto "Life is short, don't wait" and I'm glad I did what I did as long as I was able to do it. Don't say "I can do it next week, month or year". Do it as long as you can. Our life isn't the same anymore after the accident and there are things we can't do anymore. I don't want to complain. I just want to use this example to make you aware how quickly everything can change.
The year is 2023. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now available for the general public to play around with. OpenAI released it's ChatGPT on November 30, 2022 and within 5 days 1 million users registered with ChatGPT. In January of 2023 there where already 100 million users using ChatGPT.
There are a ton of YouTube videos about ChatGPT how to use it and how it will change the way we use the internet, etc.
I tried it for myself. I used ChatGPT to create text about the "Chuckwagon History", Then I used another AI to convert this text into speech. Now I had an audio file with the spoken history of the chuckwagons. I used some pictures I took at a chuckwagon cook off and created a video with the pictures and used the audio file as commentary to the pictures and created a YouTube video. The whole process took me about an hour.
Here is the link to a YouTube video created with the help of AI.
In the meantime I have used ChatGPT for many different questions. From cooking ideas, programming code and all other searches I would use Google for. It's just easier and faster to use ChatGPT then Google.
Try it for yourself. There is the link to ChatGPT.
Here is a great article about the next decade in artificial intelligence. Check it out: https://situational-awareness.ai/from-gpt-4-to-agi/
I was always fascinated by cactus flowers. Let's take for example a prickly pear cactus flower. This flower blooms only one day. Since I have such a cactus in my backyard I decided to create a time lapse video of these flowers. I took one picture every minute for 13 hours. Basically from sunrise to sunset. Playback is 8 frames per second. That's 480 times faster than in real life. Music is "Keep On" by Xbloome.
Here are some slide shows I created with Adobe Photoshop Album. These files are in PDF format, but may not work properly with an Adobe Reader newer than 8.0. Newer Adobe Readers will show the slide show but will not play the background music.
Click on a link below to start the slide show.
Since these files are quite large download will take time. Please be patient.
20 MB - New York 2007
19 MB - France 2007
16 MB - Dubai 2007
57 MB - Tirol 2007
11 MB - Desert 2008
11 MB - Arizona Spring 2008
10 MB - Death Valley 2008
33 MB - Harley Davidson 105th Anniversary
10 MB - Para Gliding
44 MB - Christmas Cookbook
Below are all the banner pictures from the top of the page. They are inserted randomly every time a page is displayed.
Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, NM:
Bike pictures:
Tombstone from the "Boothill" in Tombstone:
OK Corral in Tombstone:
Canyonlands in Utah:
Buckhorn Saloon in Pinos Altos, NM.:
Flower pictures:
Native Americans at the Heard museum in Phoenix:
Madrid, NM.:
Mardi Gras in New Orleans:
Ringling Museum in Venice, FL:
San Francisco:
Scorpion Gulch at the South Mountain Park in Phoenix:
Sunset Pictures:
Tortilla Flats on the Apache Trail in Arizona:
Durango - Silverton Train, CO:
Very Large Array in New Mexico:
Canyon de Chelly in Arizona:
White Sands National Monument, NM:
Yellowstone National Park:
Grand Canyon:
Rafting on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon:
Rio Secreto in Mexico:
