Thursday 05/01/2025
An uncommitted day on the calendar. Frittered away much of it. Spent some time with Claude.ai. Back on day 6.108 I mentioned trying out Claude as a writing partner. Claude was so full of chat, comment, and ideas that it was kind of overwhelming, and I set it aside. Since then I have learned a bit about AI prompting. Today I asked Claude to help me write a new set of Project Instructions, aka global prompt, for the writing project, which it did. Then just couldn’t figure out how to proceed. Mental or writer’s block. Frustrating.
At 7 joined Joanne and we walked the half mile to the Lucy Stern theater to see the Palo Alto Players production of Jersey Boys. I was sure I had seen a musical about the formation of a singing group, but that, whatever it was, was not Jersey Boys. This plot was completely unfamiliar to me. But the show was quite good. The production was A+ quality, I can’t imagine a Broadway show being better. Dozens of set changes and costume changes and just endless, skillful, dancing and singing. So much snappy choreography. And of course great songs, “Sherry Baby”, “Dawn”, “Walk Like a Man”.The only thing I’d downrate it for was audio quality. It was loud and I mean, my ears are still ringing like after a rock concert. And one of the main characters was hard to understand, some combination of his joisy accent, his style of delivery, maybe a mic issue? But all told, top notch stuff.
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