¶After driving for about 14 hours, I arrived at the cell phone lot at Logan International about seven minutes before Renee and Jake landed. We couldn’t have timed that better if we tried!
¶I did have one slowdown along the way, about an hour outside of Boston. It’s always interesting, and a little disturbing, to get a closer look at things on the shoulder of the expressway. Things you typically never notice (or can’t notice) when zooming by at seventy miles an hour. I noticed several things during my 20-30 minute delay — tires, bottles, random metal car parts, shoes (seriously), and vape cartridges, to list a few.
¶I took this picture mainly because I couldn’t confirm the identity of this coily thing without the aid of pinching to zoom on my phone.
¶Yep - it’s a dead snake.
¶Prior to Johannson’s statement, Open AI made this claim in a post Sunday: “We believe that AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity’s distinctive voice—Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice.”
¶They left out the part where they intentionally selected the actress who had a voice that sounds just like Johannson’s.
¶Up early and on the road to Boston for Jonathan’s graduation.
¶It’s a dashboard sunrise kind of day.
¶This is a first for me - second charging stop of the day is at a supercharger at a casino.
¶This is a first for me - second charging stop of the day is at a supercharger at a casino.
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