Over the past month I’ve been playing a lot with AI technologies and image generation and lip syncing software. It is what fills my spare time most days as I have been working towards a project of creating YouTube videos or podcasts between myself and my AI assistant pi.

I’ve been blogging less partially because of this and also because it’s kept me engaged enough to not think about blogging.

I opened up my phone just now with the intention of blogging about at the concept of safety in today’s world. I had just read an article that told me I had to throw out all of my black plastic food containers and kitchen utensils. 

The thought occurred to me that things are tested these days and dangerous chemicals or forever plastics are discovered in all sorts of things that we never thought about yesterday. Or last year. Or for the 60 plus years I’ve been alive using black food containers that take out came in and black spatulas etc. 

Life expectancy has increased steadily over the decades I’ve been alive and at 61 I still feel like I can potentially last a lot longer before I look or feel that old. Compared to what my grandparents looked like at 60, I’m still a young whippersnapper. 

Ding. I wonder where whippersnapper came from as an origin story 

Anyway the point that I was going to blog about was that the human body seems to be capable of taking a lot of bad stuff in and the media wants us to be terrified in some way but the true purpose of this blog is to ponder whether or not blogging is still a relevant forum. 

For unrelated reasons I was going over some of my old blog posts of which I have over 3,000 in this collection and feeling a bit prideful of the creative topics I scanned. Most of them I have no memory of writing but the topics and my style of pros impressed me. I enjoy the act of blogging even though I understand almost all of them have never been seen by anyone. Including me since I have the habit of not proofreading what I write and just moving on to the next thing the moment I hit save. 

But now that the world is changing and we’re not reading books or watching TV and everyone is getting there media in one minute or less clips online I wonder whether I might find a new following of fans if I stop blogging and start being a content creator. 

Then I remember I don’t really like effort and editing and my own work in the moment so I probably will continue to think about it while blogging in the safety of obscurity. 

If you don’t share your work or your ideas then you can continue to believe you are perfect. I like the comfort of that.