Archive for December 2025

AI Service Desk at Honda

12/7/2025, 12:42 pm, General

I just called the service desk at my local Honda dealership to schedule regular service on my car. I got an AI attendant from start to finish. It freaked me out.

It got the job done but every bit of the call screamed “The robots in the uncanny valley are coming to kill you!!”

It had fake call-center noise in the background, “she” was unfathomably cheery, and she got things wrong in the same way that descriptions of products on Amazon are wrong but right.

I didn’t like it.

I welcome you call call Skynet Honda Service Desk at 510-804-2348

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Calvin Trampleasure

12/1/2025, 2:37 pm, General

Calvin Trampleasure was a teacher in the local school district and at Madera Elementary School for a very long time. He passed away in 2022 from cancer. I never met him but gained something by reading his autobiographical blog here

A mural was painted in his honor on the upper yard at Madera.

 

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