The short version
This website exists to demonstrate just how far artificial intelligence technology has come. The page you are reading — along with the homepage, its layout, its words, its quirky little jokes — is regenerated every single day by an AI model. That means if you come back tomorrow, the site will look completely different. New colours, new themes, new metaphors, new layouts. Same Mark, though.
About Mark
Mark Parsons is a real person. He is not a chatbot, not a fictional character, and not an AI invention. He lives and works in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.
Mark is a computer geek who genuinely loves to help people. That is the one constant on this site no matter how the AI decides to decorate things on any given day. He has spent years fixing machines, explaining technology in plain language, and quietly being the person his neighbours call when something stops working.
Why regenerate it daily?
Two reasons. First, it is a fun experiment — watching an AI reinterpret the same handful of facts in wildly different visual styles is a great way to see what these models can really do. Second, it is a small, ongoing portfolio of what is possible right now. The pace of progress in this field is genuinely remarkable, and this site is a tiny, daily diary of it.
See the history
Every previously generated version of this site is archived. You can browse them all here:
» www.markparsons.com/history «
Flip through the archive and you can watch the same person be described in dozens of different visual languages — terminal aesthetics, magazine layouts, brutalist grids, retro shareware screens, and everything in between.
Want to talk to the real Mark?
Email him at mrparsons@gmail.com. He answers his own mail. He is a human being in Brantford with a real workshop, real tools, and real opinions about which laptops are worth repairing.