The Ultimate Depiction of Famous Hat

 

This morning Travalon had to leave early, so I went down to the dock by myself and saw northern shovelers, blue-winged teals, and mergansers, but I didn't take any photos. Then I had a job interview for my own job. If I blew the interview, then I stay in my current position. If I did well, then I would get a promotion and stay in my current position. Isn't life weird? But when I went out the door during my lunch break, I saw my argyle beret had arrived.

A couple of weeks ago, I was telling Tiffy about my argyle dream, and she said she had an argyle sweater. I vaguely remembered it, and I said, "Can you show it to me?" but she couldn't find it right then. For some reason I was curious if there were argyle hats, so I googled it and got some weird results, but I loved this beret. Better yet, it was almost exactly the same price as I had paid to get Roy back to our family, so Travalon had said he would buy something for me that was that price. He did order the beret, and it came today! So I wore it on my lunchtime walk, and from the dock I saw the shovelers and teals, and a pair of wood ducks. Then I had a two-hour meeting, but it was online and we had to keep our cameras and microphones off, so I snuggled under my mushroom blanket and cuddled Frankie, and you will be shocked (I am sure) to learn that I slept through at least forty minutes of it. Somehow I got all the quiz questions right but one. After that I went down to the dock again, and the shovelers were still there. There were quite a few of them. Will they stay all summer? 

After work we had our Union meeting, and people kept getting booted off the Zoom meeting, but somehow we maintained quorum for long enough to do elections. Once again, nobody was willing to run for secretary, but I have refused to let that duty fall to me every time (I used to be secretary, before I was treasurer), and the guy who took notes today grumbled about it. You know, it might have been my turn, but I just didn't have the bandwidth for it. Then I listened to a talk on forestry, but I really wasn't getting into it, so when Travalon came home, I gave up on it. I did get curious about how AI would depict me, so I asked it to draw me by name, and it said it couldn't do that. So I described myself in great detail, including my "sleeping bag" coat and my third eye beanie, and it said please upload a photo, but I did convince it to just try it... and it does kind of look like me!

However, when I asked it to draw a picture of Famous Hat, this is what it gave me:

That's just a hat. What's so famous about it? So I asked Chat GPT to draw a picture of Famous Hat the person, and it asked me to describe her vibe, so I said, "Her vibe is that she loves music that is minor key, fast-paced, and syncopated. She loves bright colors. She speaks several Romance languages. She plays the mandolin." And this is what it gave me.

I like this so much, I might make it the profile picture on this blog, instead of the actual photo of me gazing at the view from Rib Mountain. But wait, it gets better - I told it to draw a picture of the person named Famous Hat who writes the Famous Hat blog, and this is what it gave me:

I mean, that's kind of like what it said it would do: "Given that the author's online persona is represented by the "Famous Hat" itself, and no personal images or further physical descriptions are provided, it's challenging to create an accurate depiction of her appearance. However, if we were to illustrate her based on the persona she's crafted, we might envision a straw hat with a wide brim, featuring faded natural and navy stripes, adorned with a prominent blue flower. This hat could be set against a backdrop that reflects her diverse interests—perhaps surrounded by musical notes symbolizing salsa music, ancient artifacts representing the Etruscans, lush greenery for her love of plants, and a rabbit to signify her fondness for the animal. This composition would encapsulate the essence of the "Famous Hat" as portrayed in her blog and profile.​" I see the big blue flower on the straw hat, the musical notes, and what could be an Etruscan tower, but where is the rabbit I was promised? Anyway, this is the Inner Me, just like the realistic depiction of a middle-aged woman is the outer me. I'm a little surprised that Chat GPT wasn't able to scan the many photos of me on the blog and come up with some kind of composite, but this is almost more fun.

Okay, this is the absolute best. I asked it to create a drawing of me based on four photos: the one at the start of this blog, and these three:

And so here I am, wearing the hat that should be the most famous hat of all:

What, and I mean this in the kindest possible way, the f--k?? This reminds me of a guy from our church who always wears eight baseball caps, one on top of the other. I'm counting six argyle berets here, and one straw hat, and a liberal dose of the fruit basket headdress. Also, why are the argyle designs extending down onto my face? Maybe I should get some eye shadow and draw argyle on my eyelids. It's the Look that Gets Looks... but maybe not for the reason you'd hoped for.

Famous Hat