The Lego Batman Movie is genuinely so good. It's a great Lego movie, and it's a great Batman Movie. Took me too long to see it.

When AI is discussed, I feel like shouting in the air, "Why can't you have both?!" Why can't you ask a AI Chatbot questions, as you have a Wikipedia page, or a real book, or all three, open at the same time? Why does one thing need to replace another? It doesn't.

I guess the Robin Williams estate created a new contract for streaming rights of Prince Ali and Friend Like Me... They're no longer greyed out on Apple Music!

youtu.be/FdL2GorGdKc?... Rosalina and Bowser Jr!!! 🥰🥰🥰

Something that keeps standing out to me is how working with AI as a collaborative partner really helps me keep things moving creatively. I'm not delegating thinking to 'the machine.' When I'm stuck, I ask for input. Once I know what I want, I direct it. The creative decisions stay mine.

This is a really great and beautiful sound track: music.apple.com/us/album/exp...

Guillermo del Toro is just such an amazing filmmaker. I have very little to say about Frankenstein because I'm positively overwhelmed by it. It's a masterpiece. And I say that without exaggeration, on the contrary, that still falls short. My eternal admiration for Guillermo del Toro.

Is this touching grass? Well, I’m glad someone is doing it, because I’m not. Gross. Time to go back home.

Decided to leave the house and get some dreaded fresh air and sun.

Ok, tequila reposado from Costco with Diet Coke? Maybe I’m trashy but trashy went well with my sandwich. Another please.

This. I always heard the ‘reassuring’ message that “there are no stupid questions” But the truth is that there are questions you don’t want to ask in a classroom full of your peers. Or even trusted mentor/friend. LLMs are great for that.

Between the Evil Queen telling park goers that Disney is sending her away after Halloween season and asking them to file complaints, and a cast member telling me tonight that Paint the Night parade may be gone for good, feels very unusual for cast members to do this. Don’t be cheap, Disney!

And last but not least, I drew a very curvy Baymax at the Animation Academy, lol. I’ve been wanting to attend a session with Scrooge because a friend loves Scrooge, cast member told me they teach him on Halloween season. But they didn’t. I arrived at 6:42 today… they taught Scrooge at 6! 🥲

It’s Christmas time at Radiator Springs in Disney California Adventure! - 11/9/2025

Holiday decorations on the window displays at Julius Katz & Sons on Buena Vista Street in Disney California Adventure - 11/9/2025

Foggy Main Street at Disneyland and Disneyland Railroad Station - 11/9/2025

Foggy Alice in Wonderland, Teacups and Matterhorn.

Monstro looking good with his fresh coat of paint. 🐳

The compression on images on Bsky is really bad. Oh well.

Foggy King Arthur Carousel - 11/9/2025

Sleeping Beauty’s Castle is all decorated and ready for the Holidays, but the season doesn’t officially start until the 14th. So the Christmas lights are not turned on. It looks so pretty though.

San Diego and Anaheim are super foggy, makes for awesome photos, but I’m dreading the drive back. 🥲 Enjoy this LEGO Maleficent though:

Part of the reason why I’m so insistent about folks understanding AI capabilities is that they’re here to stay and we need to start thinking about what to do in such a world. Putting the genie back in the bottle is a pleasant fantasy that delays serious reckoning

Rewatching Voyager and this is another show I absolutely memory holed. I forgot Paris is such a gross jerk

All these meetings today could be our Agentic Chatbots bumping butts.

Image generation I feel is something that OpenAI does better than Google, for the most part. But both are pretty good, especially when I think back to what was it? 2 years ago when I was asking Dalle to generate some weird witches? Here are the results across 4 different models, starting w/ DALL-E:

Love seeing all the different kinds of bipedal robots that exist today. It's fascinating to see them actively try to keep their balance, and how at times it may seem like they will tip forward and fall. And it just makes me be in so much awe about how our own bodies work. Humans are cool.

I had been waiting last night to see pictures of Heidi Klum's Halloween costume, and, it did not disappoint. She's so cool. If I had not just the money but access to the teams that work with her, I'd also do what she does.

Going trick or treating to Taco Bell. And by that I mean, I’m just buying Taco Bell on Halloween.

I don’t think Tron Ares is going to grow on me the way Tron Legacy has, but man, I really like the NIN album: music.apple.com/us/album/for...

So, this is fun. Spammed Gemini with a bunch of text/rules for a virtual pet and it did a pretty great job creating a playable little thing. The first version had a memory leak which it identified and fixed. The second version I just asked for a cheat code to make the virtual pet grow.

Probably one of my most unattractive aspects, and one that I dread giving up, is my ability to spend an entire Saturday in bed doing nothing other than listening to music, scrolling social media, and napping. It’s kind of why I used to enjoy my Vegas vacations. Lounge all day and eat good food.

I’m going to tell my students this was Brexit

I just took a handful of peanuts and some candy corns, and guys, that tasted like a Pay Day bar in pseudo/Halloween trail mix form. 😮

Wow, this is so beautiful.

This meeting could have been your AI Agent reaching out to my AI agent.

New post: Most people think you need foundations before attempting hard things. Prerequisites as requirements. But that's just an artifact of industrial-scale curriculum design. Prerequisites are activation energy, not gatekeepers. 🧵

This is a really beautiful poster. I kind of really want it. But, ugh, do I want to drive to LA? I really don’t. 😔

The Tron Ares soundtrack by NIN is really good. I like it.

Define your music taste in 8 artists: 1. Björk 2. Radiohead 3. Portishead 4. Fiona Apple 5. Billie Eilish 6. The Beatles 7. Amy Winehouse 8. Alan Menken (Broadway/Disney Musicals) Recommendation algorithms don’t work well for me.

I should spend more time inquiring about cool shit to the chatbots than the time I spend reading angry shit on Bluesky. I would say “social media” but I don’t use any other than this one. :P

Spent more than I planned to playing around with the new Veo3.1 update. It seems to follow prompts better than the previous model. Next step is to feed it drawings and see how it handles that vs. the previous model. Short demo of various clips below:

On my way out from grocery shopping I walk out by a magazine stand, the other day I noticed they had cool stuff like Pokemon Magazine, which I did not know existed. So today I decided to stop there first, picked that and NatGeo (on cats). I didn't look at the prices....

Another “AI as a tool” a “Creative Partner” story, this time from Tippett Studios. www.cartoonbrew.com/vfx/phil-tip... Things are going to keep shifting and it will happen rapidly.

The version of Yoshi's Story main theme in Mario Kart: World is so beautiful it got me a little emotional and nostalgic. I don't think I had heard it before.

This is amazing. Gears and wheels are cool.

Oh no, I have 60 posts. Time to delete 80% of them.

Sherman, noooo!

Spatial Audio is something that I think is so fantastic. The fact that tiny headphones can deliver that sound quality and head tracking is truly cool.

Is the Girlfriend of the Founder of Antifa Daisy Duck? Donald Duck was in all of those Antifa cartoons during the war….