A lot of jokes start off by talking about two or three people "walking into a bar." Of course, the word "bar" in this context means a public house where alcohol is served.

I once saw a visual twist on this classic "walk into a bar" joke in the form of a black-and-white cartoon. The caption was something like, “A mullah, a priest, and a rabbi walk into a bar.” The image showed three figures walking into a wooden bar mounted horizontally across the entrance to an alleyway.

I’m increasingly finding artificial intelligence (AI) to be useful for all sorts of things. In this case, for example, I couldn’t quickly locate the original image on the interweb (and gaining permission to use it would have been a pain had I found it), so I asked Leonardo.ai to generate one for me.

Do you remember when Prince legally changed his name to a symbol? After this, when writing about him in newspapers or reporting about him on TV, the media were forced to refer to him as “The man formally known as Prince.”

Eventually, the joke wore thin, and the man now known as a symbol legally returned his name to “Prince.” The media got the last laugh because they started referring to him as “The man formally known as a symbol.”

The reason I mention this here is that this blog (the one you are currently reading) came about when I ran across two amazing video offerings on the social media site formally known as Twitter (did you see what I just did there?).

The first is obviously generated by AI (but it's incredibly well done). As to the second, I originally believed it to be real, but my friend Steve Manley says he believes AI plays a role. Specifically, he told me, “I just rewatched it zoomed in, and you can tell the guy and the buckets at least are added in.”

But we digress. I also shared these videos from the social media site formally known as Twitter with my chum Matt Pulzer, who responded with a video on Boolean Relationships.

This is GREAT. It’s a few minutes from a show by Don McMillian—an engineer who transitioned into being a comedian.

I love Don’s interpretation on Boolean Relationships (I will be using this myself before the week is out). I also love how he describes the time he tried to tell his wife she was vacuuming their house inefficiently and so presented her with a better algorithm (do you have any guesses how well that went down?)

This struck a chord with me. My own wife (Gigi the Gorgeous) regards loading the dishwasher as a competitive sport. Few things give her more delight than taking an empty dishwasher and placing a plate diagonally in the center of the lower tray, thereby blocking all the best moves for whoever attempts to place the next piece (that would be me, on the off chance you were wondering).

Anyway, take a few minutes to peruse and ponder Don’s video, after which I’d love to hear your thoughts on any of this.