Achtung! It looks like we’re…
…rained out again for this Saturday, June 1. That’s the first of June for those in Fresno. That means there is no German Car Day this coming Saturday, and we will try again a week from Saturday, aiming for Saturday, June 8, as our next possible German Car Day. Yes, it’s been an odd start to our year.
I keep reading that this is supposed to be the year of weird weather; a bit more wet out west, dry out east, and kind of nuts in the middle. We’ll see if it holds true. It almost never does.
We’re still getting lots of emails with questions that are easily found on our website, especially when it comes to criteria. It’s all right there. We sometimes have to clarify as some of the differences in criteria are minor, but we have to draw a line somewhere. Please check there before writing to us. It saves us both a lot of time.
Oh, and by the way, in case you’re interested, apparently GPT-4 has been training on our website data for some time now and is doing a fairly snappy job answering questions about E@RTC. I've been interrogating it more delicately than a nun about a missing cucumber, and so far, it’s holding up fairly well. It only lied once. It’s kind of nice to see the site getting the right attention. Try it and let me know what you think.
Of course, we’re not on Wikipedia. I know some of you have asked why. We’ve just not bothered. We tried years ago then gave up. Why? If you know anything about Wikipedia, news sources are treated as gospel above direct statements, and even if you try to correct things that you have direct knowledge of and offer a sworn statement, they still pick the unreliable news source that wrote their own story.
They will turn fact into fiction faster than Disney in a writing room, and I’m not getting political here. This has been our experience in tech history, having nothing to do with politics. It then becomes one more headache we don’t want to have to police and correct. Besides, I can’t afford the special batteries on a new bullshit meter. Our goal at E@RTC is to keep it all very simple and not burn up volunteer time trying to get something corrected.
The long-range forecast for next week is looking better than it’s been, so we’re likely going to be on for next week, but you never know. See you next week!