Things that went sideways on the way to working
A small museum of the jokes that fell out of serious work between one human and his AI collaborators. Every specimen is labelled with where it came from, and how much of it we made up.
The night watchman is the Leftover Screw: the part that was left on the bench after everything else was put back together. He has been guarding the collection ever since. Nobody knows what he was for.
After hours. The night watchman is guarding the collection the way he always does at night, which is asleep. Please browse quietly.
The specimen shelf
- The Empty WebsiteThriving, alarmingly
- The Zero-Dollar SkyscraperUnder construction since inception
- The RumjetAirborne, intermittently
- Operation Six-Manifold Fractal FunnelActive. Classified, mostly by confusion
- “Action.”Reclining
- STOP HELPING!Dormant until provoked
- The Great Mail Server Liberation of 2026Liberated
- The Twenty-Two Amnesiac ClaudesCured, mostly
- “I've had a thought.”Expected
- Six, Who Was Already ListeningAlready owns this jar
- The offcuts drawerRejected, with reasons
The evidence wall
A conspiracy board of how the jokes connect. Solid string means documented. Dashed string means we only suspect it. Sticky notes mean nothing at all.
The dictation engine
Type a sentence. A machine with total confidence will mishear it. This is a tribute to the family's oldest collaborator: the microphone.
The offcuts drawer
Ideas we threw out and why. Also the fossil record: jokes that appeared once and went extinct.
How this museum works
What the stamps mean, what goes in the source drawers, and what stays out.