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DALL – E – 2 from Open AI (Artificial Intelligence) – Copyright Free Art/Pictures/Images Created by You or Me! … Examples …

Posted on March 6, 2023 by | Leave a comment

We have spoken about this before, but in brevity….and the popularity of this is rising so fast, we can hardly keep up ….

ChatGPT is all the rage at the moment, and we spoke of it here, again in brevity….

This is making its’ way into our coming Newsletter in greater detail…. But let’s start from the beginnings of our experience and show you just a few of our creations…

Dall-E-2 – the Image portion from Open AI

With Copyright issues abounding, we happily stumbled into DALL-E-2 named somewhat from the Pixar Movie WALL-E and Salvador Dali the artist… The whole family has accounts and all enjoy creating images… in fact, here are just a few images we have been using here…. once again all created by us ….

Oh, and those unfamiliar with the process … you type a literal sentence or phrase of what you want it to create and BOOM you get an AI created picture…

“Uncle Sam Beach Bum” created this and was used in a post where we spoke of Tax time not here yet….

Here are a few more…again all used here in our blog…VERY HAPPILY

We will dive deeper into CHATGPT next…but hope this helps give you a 10000 foot overview and will let you know what people are talking about when this terminology is mentioned!

Have a Great “DALL-E-2” Informed Day!

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Most Popular TV Series 1986-2022 – Great Observation … A Challenge … From Data is Beautiful … Animated

Posted on December 14, 2022 by | Leave a comment

While today is a Jerome Powell raise rates day…. we promised a lighter run into the end of the year unless otherwise necessary….

Couple of Challenges on this one … takes a while to get through the entire animation… but if you do, take note of a few items… this from Data is Beautiful YouTube Website

Check out the tone/subject matter of the early 90’s versus 2020 and to current?

Had no idea how popular NCIS was… Wow!

Did you figure out the difference between early years and now? In the late 80’s and early 90’s most popular Series were Comedy…. today, very hard core serious along with lots of death…. hmmmm… Good ole days!

Have a Great “Lighter Most Popular TV Series” Day!

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Great Chart from Our Friends at Visual Capitalist – Wind Electricity Generation By State … Care to Guess Which State Produces the Most? Surprised

Posted on April 18, 2022 by | Leave a comment

With an annual pilgrimage to the cooler climate, north west and a higher altitude during the month of August … The first family member to see the gigantic Windmills always takes note as sort of a land mark in getting closer….

While we have collectively noticed more of said Windmills, and seeing them sooner… no idea of the country dominance of our southern state in Wind Generation Electricity…

Visual Capitalist – Wind Generation By State

From our Friends Here at Visual Capitalist

For those interested here is a neat video of just how those Windmills (Wind Turbines) work.

Have a Great “Wind Electricity Generating” Day!

John A. Kvale CFA, CFP

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Why You May Want to Register Your Name on Multiple Email Providers Even if You Do Not Plan on Using that Service!

Posted on September 8, 2021 by | Leave a comment

With the proliferation of spam, cyber attacks and just some bad actors out there, it may be a good idea to register your name as well as your family members name for your own safety…

We have registered all of our family names on the big five at the time of registration, gmail, hotmail, outlook, yahoo and icloud…. these are no longer the biggest…see below

Even if you do not plan on using the provider, it may make sense to register so some “bad Actor” does not pose as you…

Ok, we get it, with a weird last name like ours, it was not that hard, those with more normal names may have a tougher time, but you may still want to try…. bad guys are not going away!

The Largest Email Providers

The following is a snap shot of the last frame of this neat graphic from Statics and Data…

Not sure if any of you noticed the last few videos are not coming through email notification well…but we did… and it is currently being fixed….

Hence the Snapshot, we know that will work…

Here is the actual embedded video… if you see a video, it has been fixed, if just a link, not fixed yet…

There you have it… another in our Why series AND a light, fun and hopefully helpful post labor day article!

Have a Great “Register Your Name on that Email” Day!

John A. Kvale CFA, CFP

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Plate Tectonic Evolution from 1 Billion Years Ago to the Present in 40 Seconds ….From Visual Capitalist and Earthbyte

Posted on July 14, 2021 by | Leave a comment

Our friends at Visual Capitalist drew attention to this awesome visual, but we had to source the information for posting on our website at YouTube from Earthbyte …

Here is the Visual Capitalist

Here is the YouTube site for Earthbyte

This is worth 40 seconds IMHO

Very cool and helps understand the Earthquake frequency better!

Enjoy and thanks again Visual Capitalist and Earthbyte!

Have a “Better Plate Tectonic Shift Understanding” Day!

John A. Kvale CFA, CFP

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Most Popular Cities Measured Monthly 2004 to 2020 – Animated Chart from Latos Charts

Posted on May 12, 2021 by | Leave a comment

With a heavier, long Monday post and in the throws of Taxes for many, present party included…. we went light with a fun animated chart for you viewing pleasures!

From Latos Charts YouTube Channel

Had no idea how popular Paris France is!

Based on top 15 City Internet Searches

Music: Kevin Macleod

Have a Great “Most Popular Cities” Day!

John A. Kvale CFA, CFP

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Break In: Spring Spotted … Spring Break Next Week … Newsletter Completion … Time Change Weekend YAY! … Friday …

Posted on March 12, 2021 by | Leave a comment

With an unused make up snow day today (not sure how that happened but oh well) – kiddos out today – and next week being Spring Break an attempt personally to take some R & R time next week, I am out today and next week….

Always tethered, this time lightly as Jen and Donald are very capable of covering !

BREAK IN – Spring has sprung… each year the family watches for the early budding Tree in the back yard… Great News, the deep freeze of just a few weeks ago did not do our early budding tree in AND in the last 24 hours the blooms have started…

Who needs the Groundhog… kidding-

Well done Pierce for spotting !

Newsletter Update

While gone, the finishing touches will be put on the Newsletter, AND next week we will do a shortened version of one of the main articles – Why You Should Check Your Social Security Earnings Record Now!

Time Change Weekend – YAY

In addition to a little R and R, next week, we get my favorite time change! YAY

Sure we lose an hour of sleep…

Sure it seems to take a bit longer to adjust as the years go by…

But the Suns stays up LATE in the evenings…

Friday and Next Weeks Posts

If I can stay away from the keyboard – no promises…haha

In addition to the Newsletter Preview Post mentioned above, a re-run of another reminder post will occur as well.. hat tip DK from the field as a neat reminder!

Ahhhh…. but today is a Friday and I am away, but tethered lightly… enjoy your weekend and your Friday!

John A. Kvale CFA, CFP

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Top Daily Google Searches for the Last 10 Years In Each State … Showing our VERY Short Attention Spans –

Posted on July 29, 2020 by | Leave a comment

Long time followers know we cannot resist these neat Animated Charts… just fascinating to us ….

The following is daily Google searches for the last 10 years – its a bit long, so pick your time period if you want to watch…. it’s surprisingly interesting.

Couple of observations from our perch:

  • Whew… we have SHORT attention spans!
  • We all school like fish at once – notice how the states show similar searches almost every time
  • Entertainment (music and movies) dominates any other subject
  • The 15 year old watched and knew tons more items than myself
  • Adele and Billie Eilish seem to carry the popularity crown the longest from a muscian standpoint
  • Fortnite was by far the most dominate gaming search
  • Never heard of Myxer – and it is no longer around (maybe that is why we never heard of)
  • Who knew Pepe the Frog was so popular

This again from our friends at Visual Capitalist who usually do not do animated charts, but we sure like this one…

This one is 11 minutes long…well worth the time, but we know most will not watch for more than 2 – Pick a time frame when you think you may know what everyone was searching – You will likely be surprisingly wrong – again, VERY short attention spans for everyting!

Hope you enjoyed as much as we did!

Have a Great “Fellow Short Attention Span” Day!

John A. Kvale CFA, CFP

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Fun Tax Day Animated Stats on …… Taxes by Rate and Country –

Posted on July 15, 2020 by | Leave a comment

It’s finally here…

Tax Day is Today !!

The busiest wiring $$ day of the year – for obvious reasons.

The longest lines day of the year at the post office – postage must be stamped today in order not to miss the deadline!

As we wipe our brow and say goodbye to the longest regular filing season we have experienced…. a fun animated chart was in the cards from a new source, Anima Stats …

Top 20 Highest Income Tax Rates by Countries (1960-2017)

These guys even got the background music perfect!

Have a Great “Tax Day”!

John A. Kvale CFA, CFP

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Electric Cars By Country …Battery and Plug In … Fun Animated Stats Chart

Posted on June 17, 2020 by | Leave a comment

Being big fans of these new neat animated graphics… this was suggested viewing to us and we thought worth sharing…. from our friends at Animated Stats

Tesla/Musk production here in the USA takes the lead early on….

You may be surprised who the latest winner is …. not being spoiler, but it is NOT the USA…

Note “Battery and Plug In” Includes hybrids…

May want to turn the volume DOWN… a bit loud

Have a Great “Electric Cars by Country” Day!

John A. Kvale CFA, CFP

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