The Meerkat Muse – 7th February 2024

Welcome back to the Meerkat Muse! Let’s start out with something controversial… Brewing a Storm in a Teacup https://x.com/USAinUK/status/1750136728034169147?s=20 The gist of the Twitter link is the outrageous notion that the Colonies have suggested: microwaving tea! Now, I am not against reheating tea in the microwave, but I won’t brew a cuppa via the microwave! […]

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Writing Prompts: AI Meerkat Art

A few times now, I have placed prompts and ideas into AI art generators. The results come from an app called Imagine, and via Bing. Personally, I think Bing is slightly better, but both apps/sites have served up some colourful and creative interpretations of the suggested prompts. Yes, I am going to show you what […]

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Writing Prompts: What’s something commonly do today that you think people will wonder why anyone would ever do that fifty years from now?

A good question, and one I am struggling to find an answer for. It’s easy to address this from a hindsight point of view (50 years ago, people used landline phones and phone boxes on a regular basis, not anymore), but from the perspective of now, what is going to go out of fashion, to […]

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Writing Prompts: Automation

This prompt is inspired by a trip into town the other day. My wife, daughter and I happened upon this: Automation is already a huge part of our lives. Sometimes, we don’t appreciate the extent to which machines do the work. For example, the job of painting cars often falls to machines. The job of […]

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Writing Prompts: Unplugging

We live in a technological age. Nearly everyone in the developed world – and a lot of people outside of it – has access to a mobile device that grants them access to the sum of human knowledge and achievements. We are interconnected far more than we have ever been. Most processes now require the […]

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Writing Prompts: BI – Before Internet

Do you remember life before the internet? The answer is yes, I do remember a time BI – Before Internet. My early childhood was largely computer-free, until the early 90s, and the internet didn’t kick in for a few years after that. We had games consoles in the house, but these weren’t net-enabled, because the […]

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Writing Prompts: Flippin’

I am a sucker for a gadget. Recently I upgraded my phone to one of Samsung’s Z Flip Series, because A: it flips and B: uh, it flips! It also boasts a larger screen than my previous phone, and does represent somewhat improved hardware, though the other chief benefit is that overall, it’s cheaper. In […]

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