It’s that time of year again when there is just a hint of something special in the air! You can feel it welling up inside! All your grievances are about to burst forth just in time for FESTIVUS, the holiday for the rest of us! It’ll be a Festivus Miracle!
Every year with the regularity and frequency this blog has come to epitomize, we make Festivus greeting cards and send them out to all of the those unfortunate enough to have forgotten to remove themselves from our email list! If you’ve written a comment or otherwise brought your email to Ye Olde Blogge, you’re getting one of these cards in your inbox.
Ghosts of Festivus Past
Here are some handy links to the ghosts of Festivus past.
A Festivus for the Rest of Us: Ghosts of Festivuses Past
A good run down of Festivuses 2017 – 2021. Take a walk down memory lane and see how we kicked it old school!
Festivus 2020: This Year was made for FESTIVUS! Come Celebrate with Ye Olde Blogge
If you wanna see the Seinfeld episode that launched it all, follow the link and watch the video buffer until you get tired of it. Then, you can come back here and AIR YOUR GRIEVANCES!!1! See? Win-win!
It is also a guide to the O’Keefe family’s Festivus traditions. The O’Keefes were the originators of the holiday, so you won’t want to miss that!
HOW TO CELEBRATE FESTIVUS: 12 STEPS (WITH PICTURES) – WIKIHOW
For a more to the point and efficient explanation of everything Fesitvus, visit one of our original posts on the holiday. Don’t forget to put your clock in a plastic bag!
As an added bonus, you get a run down on how to celebrate, i.e. create Festivus Miracles! Who could say no to that?
Festivus 2022: There’s Still Time!!1!
A succinct explainer of how to Festivus and cards from last year.
Ghosts of Festivus Present: the Greeting Cards
For this years’ line of Festivus greeting cards, Ye Olde Blogge went all IA! We use Poe because its free, but you have to plan on a million iterations and tweaks to get something useable. Let me know what you think in the comments!
Whatever you do, download a couple to share with family and friends. You and they will be glad you did.












Ghosts of Festivus Future
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Image Attribution
Well, smell, I done step in it. I made the image using StableDiffusionXL but done messed up and deleted the prompt. Fiddle sticks. Well, ain’t that just a Festivus Miracle?


Brilliant idea to make thoughts of these serious issue commitments visually fun here. Happy New Year Jack
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Some of those cards just crack me up. AI really is going to change the world.
Jack
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I will stick with Alexa for mundane stuff for now.
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I’ve had a lot of fun with various AI’s. My most fun came from JetPack AI, the one that WordPress was using for a while. I’d treat it like a real person and make small talk before making my request of it. It would answer like it was a real person, too.
Usually, I use to help improve my gnarled syntax and grammar. It’s been helpful for that. I also get it to make suggestions for headings and subheadings and summaries and recommendations for improving SEO. It’s been really helpful.
I also use Poe for image generation. That’s a little more frustrating. You usually have to go through a thousand iterations to get a useable image. Often, the image generated only has the barest relationship to the request you put in.
Huzzah!
Jack
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Very interesting thoughts on AI Jack. I am also concerned about the flatness of word use that AL comes up with. The same with Alexa …
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Festivus is on, so let us make a list of our grievances and check it twice.
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I’m hoping to surf the war on Christmas wave and go viral. I can’t believe the right hasn’t picked up on Festivus as a real threat to Christmas. It seems so humanist socialist with its slogan, “for the rest of us.” And, with the giving to the Human Fund.
Huzzah!
Jack
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I guess you don’t have enough MAGA Trolls reading the blog. Admittedly, it would kind of scary for them. They might accidentally think.
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