Instead of new random ideas, below are some fun memorable quotes from this year.

Thinking to myself

  • Real Canadians pour maple syrup into their tea, instead of honey or milk
  • sometimes you just need a break or something different…
  • Not always necessary to improve: sometimes it’s good enough - just celebrate, be happy & dance!

Nicknames

  • Long Island Mike
  • Drazen & Deputies

True conversation

  • L: Can we have pasta on Sunday? (match day)
  • M: Do you mean for dinner? or lunch?
  • L: BREAKFAST.

Motivation

  • What we do in life, echoes in eternity
  • Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
  • I’m just an alcoholic who became a writer so that I would be able to stay in bed until noon.

Movies (back then they were better somehow)

  • Footloose: overcoming things as a teenager
  • Psycho: a classic horror movie
  • New Spiderman
  • Born on the 4th of July (Vietnam war)

A few thoughts or ideas managed to sneak in as well

  • I will probably have a different boss next year (promotion?)
  • Ask chatGPT for some ideas, but use that to come up with others
  • I have three very good books on AI / ML - I should really study them
  • like pandas but for tree-structured data (i.e. XML or JSON)
  • non-English chat gpt (polish, german liaon)
  • sending a future message to yourself (only I’d use something like “message in a bottle”)
  • Swiss property search webcrawler: including customizable scoring based on location, commute times, tax score, etc.
  • non-technical hacking of chat GPT: i.e. plant ideas (like inception movie) or maybe taking advantage of what chat GPT would recommend in the stock market (and doing opposite)

Coding Projects