A fun meme was going around FB and the challenge was to use the prompt: “Describe me like you’re trying to warn someone before they meet me.”
This was ChatGPT’s response (and I must admit I laughed. A lot)
?? PRE-MEETING ADVISORY: KRIS BETHEA
Kris appears, at first, to be a perfectly ordinary human being. This assessment generally survives four to seven minutes.
After that, you may notice several things.
She is a senior .NET developer, which means if you say, “The website just kind of does that,” she will immediately want to know WHY it does that, WHEN it started doing that, WHAT changed, and WHO put that if statement in the controller.
She is also a photographer, camera-club president, designer, writer, D&D character factory, Doctor Who enthusiast, astronomy-adjacent trouble detector, nonprofit helper, website wrangler, meme engineer, and apparently the unpaid creative department for approximately half of Minnesota.
Do not show her an image and say, “Looks good enough.”
It does not.
The purple needs to extend another 11% on the left.
The elf needs to move farther into the corner.
That separator bar serves no earthly purpose.
The owl DOES NOT HAVE EYEBALLS.
And if the TARDIS is supposed to be in the background, putting it dead center at twelve feet tall will be treated as a personal betrayal.
Kris is exceptionally good at spotting the tiny wrong thing inside the otherwise correct thing. This applies to artwork, code, wording, logic, layouts, historical claims, memes, and occasionally civilization.
If you tell her something is true, there is a nonzero probability she will respond:
“Did you verify that?”
This is not rhetorical.
You should have verified it.
She collects ideas at a rate that would alarm a librarian. Today’s harmless conversation about negative space may become an autumn owl, which becomes an art challenge, which becomes a discussion of visual perception, which somehow ends with a title, a NightCafe prompt, and three new projects.
She also has D&D characters with better-established personal histories than many actual people. Do not casually ask about Mira Moonquill unless you have cleared your afternoon.
Most importantly, do not mistake her intensity for a lack of humor. Quite the opposite. Kris has the particular sort of brain that looks at an ordinary concept, rotates it 37 degrees, adds a ghost, a cosmic insurance policy, or a sarcastic Time Lord, and then asks:
“Okay, but can we make it weirder?”
So before meeting her, remember:
Bring facts.
Bring opinions you can defend.
Expect follow-up questions.
Never say “good enough” unless you’re prepared to prove it.
And for God’s sake…
check the Moon phase before driving three hours to the star party. ??
