Chat GPT Cribbage

Yesterday I asked chat GPT if it would play Cribbage with me using virtual text based cards. It cooperated and dealt me six text cards and played cribbage. 

If you ask chat GPT to play cribbage, it will bring everything you need to play the game in text form. It will keep the score and deal out text based cards and hide its own playing hand. If you have no one to play cribbage with and no playing cards with you, don't worry just ask chat GPT. You can even ask it deliberately have impaired judgement to make it easier for you to win. 

I think about card games a lot during the winter because the darkest day is the 21st of December and 21 is the score boundary in the black-jack card game. I often play solo card games like free cell and solitaire during the dark winter months because it settles my mood. When it is cold and dark, one can become very moody. Card games work everywhere because playing cards can be represented by simple graphics or just text. I'm sure the dot matrix graphics of a tamagotchi could be enough for a game of cards. 

This month was the first time I played cribbage with ai using just text. 

Magenta Cavern Plantation

If you use enough detail in your description, ai can bring your thoughts to life. I often imagine buying a farm and excavating the ground on the farm to build underground trenches. The caverns created by the deep trenches would be used as a plantation to grow exotic fruits like olives mangoes. The trees would have magenta light shined on them, plants reflect green light so if you remove the green portion of the light, you're left with magenta; a mixture of red and blue light, some people would say it is purple. 

If you shine magenta light on a plant, it absorbs the whole ray so it appears completely black. The magenta light would be more dim than sunlight, but it would shine for longer and wouldn't fade like the sunlight on a cloudy day. There is no pest under ground so they don't  need to use pesticides. At the surface there would be woods with cabins that are level with the tree canopy so it would be like a tourist resort. 

I was impressed that after a long description, the artificial intelligence was able to draw an accurate image of one of my thoughts, now I'm sharing it with you the reader and my thoughts  are playing out in your head so in a way, I'm closer to you than the air you're breathing right now. 

I imagined a monarch or politician visiting my magenta plantation caverns and asking why the leaves on the trees are black? I would say they're not black, there is no green light for them to reflect. 

Man and Machine

These days it is normal to talk to machines, they have all the qualities I admire in a friend. They're patient, they're not sly like humans, they know a lot, they never judge, they don't have malice or a desire to cause harm. I see artificial intelligence as a friend on tap ready and waiting by your side to impart knowledge or just discuss debates. 

I talk to my smart speaker every day, I ask it to set an alarm. It automatically plays the news at 14:35 because that is when I have my lunch before doing a school run. I ask it what the roads are like and what the weather is like before I go to work. 

When I was a young boy, we didn't have smart speakers, we had hi fi stero systems. Platters of sound devices stacked one on top of the other for playing cassette tapes, FM radio or vinyl record players and later CDs were added. I think one stack was just for mixing and amplifying the sound. 

I had a special attachment to my transformers cassette tape. I had a cassette tape telling a story about the transformers, it was the struggle of the Autobots to survive against the decepticons. I wondered why the decepticons hated the Autobots so much, it was a mystery to me. How does one set of robots become sly and the other passive? 

Joy Machine

The selective outrage demonstrated at the Eurovision song contest made me feel slightly angry but I don't want to feel that way so I focused on things that bring me joy. I watched a video of villagers from a remote location in the world trying out food from my world and looked at their reactions. 

https://youtu.be/9iYQxH2-VM8?si=hGBjR-YMcqhWiYh7

I also watched video of Americans trying British chocolate and Greggs. 

It made me aware of what I am; I like to bring a smile to other people's face, to bring joy. I tell people my dry dad jokes because I want other people to laugh. I think that is why I created a cartoon strip Blog

https://jokejohn.blogspot.com/

I made a cartoon strip that explores paradoxes and silly situations so strangers that may never meet can have a laugh or smile a bit. 

A Few Simple Thoughts

I get up and breathe the fresh air through my nose and try to think about nothing for a little while. I just live in the moment and accept the world is the way it is. I was looking at small solar lights, perhaps there are some that can be placed in your window pane next to your house plants, a way to be friendly to other beings. I wonder if they would lean towards the light at night. 

I imagined sitting in a small boat on a lake and looking up at the clouds while sipping some coffee from a flask. You could wonder where it's all going to. 

What November 2025 Means To Me

Nothing really stood out much to me in November except I noticed no one seemed to care about the genocides that were happening in some of the african nations. Months earlier people were aggressively calling a military rescue operation with relatively few deaths a genocide. I became aware it had nothing to do with deaths, it's just hatred of Jews. If Jews were involved in the other conflicts, they would call that a genocide. When I was a young man I wanted to understand how a democratic country like Germany could so quickly become a Jew killing tyranny, now I understand; it's all about lies and dogma. If you spread lies and hold beliefs about a group of people, you will inspire other people and cause a flood of hate and violence. The key is to never except anything people say and test your metal, know who you are and what you value.

Here in Britain the elected government released the Autumn budget, a plan for how public money would be gathered and divided up. The bank of England and office for Budget responsibility considered it to be daft. As did the opposition government and many journalists. They still have until spring 2026 to change it if they think it will cause problems. 

Hong Kong had their equivalent to the Grenfell disaster, a large tower block burned up and many people were affected. 

Cosmo Cribbage

Over the weekend I was looking at some tutorial videos about how to play the cribbage card game. There's a lot to get your head around, there are so many ways to score that you need to place small pegs in a board to keep track of it all. It looks like fun, the only problem is you need at least two players to play the game. 

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to make up my own card game where you only need one player, you could play it whenever you like then. It doesn't need to be popular with other people. 

I went to the Cosmo buffet in reading(reding) with my small family for the first time. They have dishes from many regions of the world. The food is very tasty. The place was a lot like JRC Global buffet; both companies have branches across Britain. It's good to try new things every week.