Daily Itinerary
The biggest advantage of having BB, the household robot, is that it frees up Maria Stark Tom's time, allowing the private caregiver to be more competent, instead of spending most of her time acting like a maid, helping Catherine Hepburn tidy up the house.
Some private tasks, including bathing, were naturally handled by this female nurse for Catherine Hepburn. Letting Henry take advantage of this old flame would be so risky that even Kryptonian's teeth might break.
Henry's daily routine consisted more of providing emotional support, doing some heavy manual labor, and taking care of three meals a day.
Catherine Hepburn and Maria Stark Tom would still cook, but given Henry's enormous appetite, they would probably be exhausted if they were to take care of all three meals.
So these two moms who are chefs are more like embellishments showcasing their skills. The main course of the three meals still depends on the Kryptonian' performance.
The task of cleaning and tidying up the dishes could be left to BB. This made Maria Stark Tom quite envious, and she also wanted to install a household robot system centered around BB in her own home.
Unfortunately, the setup cost—even without considering development costs and hidden patent fees, the material costs alone would have deterred this private caregiver from an ordinary family. And that doesn't even include daily maintenance and upgrades.
Henry's daily routine included taking Catherine Hepburn to exercise. Besides New York Central Park, the elderly lady also enjoyed shopping at the Green Market in Union Square.
On Saturdays, I also go to the square across from Lincoln Center, where there is also a farmers market.
Unlike the ingredients sold in large chain supermarkets, these farmers' markets mainly sell crops produced by small farms or ranches near large cities.
These ingredients reduce delivery time, and most are not frozen or refrigerated, resulting in a freshness that is vastly different from the fresh produce offered by large supermarket chains. The taste is, of course, much better.
The price to pay is that the ingredients from these small urban farmers are much more expensive than those from large farms and ranches provided by large supermarket chains.
However, it's not entirely true that all these ingredients are good; the quality varies greatly. Therefore, you need to know how to choose to find the best products.
Besides exercise and shopping, Catherine Hepburn has recently added another activity to her life: outdoor sketching. She and Henry would go out together to find scenery that could inspire her, and then paint a picture.
They don't go too far; most of the time they just find a scenic spot in Central Park. These days, grandmothers can't travel and paint everywhere like they used to when they were young. Sometimes they'd be filming a movie and would paint on the side.
Henry would occasionally join in the painting, but he was always criticized for never being able to capture the likeness of a photograph, no matter how realistic it was. His paintings lacked the artist's emotion. He felt that simply painting the scene realistically was less effective than taking a photograph.
Of course, the Kryptonian who disagreed also brought out their sketchbooks to argue their point.
However, the sketchbook no longer contains sketches of that girl. Apart from street scenes in Los Angeles, it only contains sketches of another woman, Ms. Hepburn, with children around the world.
This made Ms. Hepburn even more jealous! She said sourly, "The emotions in the sketchbooks are almost overflowing, but when I draw with her, it's all so dry."
The Krypton Krypton who shot himself in the foot is in pain, but he won't say a word.
Ironically, at times like this, the elderly woman, diagnosed with dementia, had such a good memory that she could still recall the incident three days later. She brought it up again and again, and then three days after three days.
I had originally hoped that the elderly Catherine Hepburn would have a memory like a goldfish, lasting only three minutes. I planned to use this as an excuse to seal away my sketchbook and never take it out in front of her again.
It seems this will be remembered for the next life.
"Would it be too much to use a memory erasure technique on a 92-year-old?" the Kryptonian pondered seriously.
However, Henry still seriously considered the use of color.
In the past, we used pencil sketches or ballpoint pen sketches, without color, and could only express things through light and shadow, and shades.
Adding color enriches the expressive material, allowing for the expression of more ideas within the artwork.
Starting with the works of the three masters of the Renaissance, from Romanticism and Realism to Impressionism and Abstract Art, a history of Europe art is a history of struggle with color.
Before modern times, chemical pigments had not yet appeared, and the colors used in artistic creation were limited by the development of mineral pigments and natural pigments.
For example, the expensive "Indian Yellow" is actually obtained from the urine of cattle fed mango leaves. The blue color comes from polished lapis lazuli produced in Afghanistan, which is a type of gemstone.
Putting aside the high value of these pigments in their local area, just the fact that they were transported all the way to Europe would have made them worth several times their original value, which would have been a disservice to the caravans or ships responsible for transporting them.
How to express infinite and complex emotions with limited pigments became an important topic for painters at that time.
From Michelangelo's grand scenes in Church frescoes, to Turner's "The Brave Ship Being Towed to Its Final Dock for Dismantling" at dusk, to Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" and "The Scream," why are they depicted in that way?
Generations of painters have rendered their emotions into visible colors, thereby touching the hearts of others.
But when he actually followed his heart and used his intuition to choose colors, and painted a watercolor, Henry couldn't help but laugh. It was a crazy and bizarre picture of various complementary colors fighting each other, and he couldn't make any sense of it at all.
Catherine Hepburn, the elderly lady, described it as "a child's doodle."
Unable to refute the argument, Henry put away his art supplies and temporarily abandoned his painting plans. Based on his research in color psychology, he felt the painting contained a terrifying element that shouldn't be interpreted as something unpleasant.
While he didn't intend to burn them all, Henry still kept the paintings together with his other uncategorized collection. Perhaps one day, when he felt like it, he would destroy them all at once.
They're so busy during the day, and they're just as busy at night.
Update Miss A's algorithm code to continue challenging Tony Stark's intelligence. Although that guy's Artificial Intelligence A.L.B.B.Y., was initially inferior to Miss A in all aspects of learning efficiency, it caught up after a few updates.
While Henry was interested in Tony Stark's algorithmic logic, he wouldn't go so far as to hack into "Hollywood Kid" to study A.L.B.B.Y.'s underlying logic. Similarly, Tony Stark didn't do the same.
The fun of this little game lies in each player developing their own Artificial Intelligence, figuring out how to demonstrate mid-to-late game strength in the fewest possible games, and ultimately achieving a complete victory in the mid-to-late game.
Choosing to act is undoubtedly an admission of inferiority, hence the need to find alternative paths and achieve victory through other means. This isn't a war that must be won by any means necessary; playing like that would be too boring.
Aside from pondering the algorithmic logic of Artificial Intelligence, Henry spends most of his time at the Sheep Cave Valley Laboratory researching topics related to brain aging and disease, searching for a key to solving dementia.
What helped us greatly in this endeavor was not the previous accumulation of knowledge, but the ultimate project in Kree Technology: the construction of the Supreme Intelligence!