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As of 2024, here are the photos of mine that are currently featured on Google Chromecast. You may have seen them on your television as a sort of default screensaver.
This is the Stanford Dish, I took this photo on a hike there a few years back.
Toronto’s Skyline, it seems there’s always a new building going up.
The Giant Dipper, an iconic wooden roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
The Sky Glider at Santa Cruz Boardwalk
A wall that you can see on the hike around the peninsula in Howth, Ireland
CN Tower, it’s in Toronto, and is easily the most iconic feature of that city’s skyline.
This is a sort of mechanical calculator at the Museum of Art in Vienna.
The Wine Barrel above is from Picchetti Winery in Northern California.
An AI Podcast for your Newsletter
I’ve been working with the folks at Full Stack Economics to build an automated system that converts their newsletter into a private podcast feed for subscribers. The system uses Google WaveNet, and could be modified to work with almost any newsletter. I’ve tested it so far with both Ghost and Substack. Each episode also includes images from the original post. To see them, I recommend Overcast, although other apps work as well.
If you’re interested in hearing what it sounds like, please subscribe to Full Stack Economics. If you have an email newsletter that you’d like to offer as a private podcast feed to your subscribers, please reach out: email@davidfwatson.com.
I’ve been running a newsletter for a while now via Substack, it just contains interesting stuff I find on Twitter each day. I use it as an outlet for my need to tell people about every interesting tidbit I come across. By batching them together, I’ve also found that it’s easier to get an idea of what the most interesting stuff each day really was, avoiding stuff that turned out to be irrelevant by the end of the day.
As of 2021, here are the photos of mine that are currently featured on Google Chromecast. You may have seen them on your television as a sort of default screensaver.
Above is a wall that you can see on the hike around the peninsula in Howth, Ireland
Below is CN Tower, it’s in Toronto, and is easily the most iconic feature of that city’s skyline.
This is a sort of mechanical calulator at the Museum of Art in Vienna.
The Wine Barrel below is from Picchetti Winery in Northern California.