Thoughts on Life and Death by Alua Arthur
Time is fleeting. Live now, because tomorrow is not guaranteed. Alua Arthur says it much more eloquently than I can. Watch this: If you’d like to support my efforts, why not buy me a chocolate…
Happy Valentine’s Day!
The obligatory Valentines’ Day post. I hope you spent the day with your loved one, or the person you want to become your loved one, or even the persons you love or want to become…
Mixing Natural and Artificial Intelligence to make us smarter
Yesterday I was talking about whether we should make human beings smarter, or should we make improvements to Artificial Intelligence. I think we should work on both because there are more than enough problems to…
Better Natural Intelligence Or Better Artificial Intelligence?
When I was a kid, I was a big fan of Sherlock Holmes (Amazon). I admired the way his brain worked and how he could take the smallest of clues and put them together and…
Ring and Run in the 21st Century
So, I’m sitting at my desk working on the computer this afternoon. I can hear some kids walking by the house outside. Like most kids, they are loud on Saturdays when they don’t have to…
I just can’t win
Before we got married, my wife was never a big fan of games. Way back when we tried to include her in one of our role-playing game sessions and it didn’t work out. She took…
Light dawns on a new era, part II
It seems that after all the work of verifying and authenticating my domain, and moving over to Mailerlite’s new platform, not everyone on my mailing list is receiving my emails. Or some readers are getting…
Death of a million cuts
It’s the guy who cuts you off during your morning commute. It’s the lady who rear ends you because she was paying more attention to her phone. It’s the person who takes more than 15…
Visiting my step-son’s grave
I stand next to my wife as she reads a letter she wrote to her deceased son as she sits at his graveside. He passed away a little over a year and a half ago.…
Look up
Back when Heroes (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813715/) first aired, they had a storyline where a young guy was trying to impress the Cheerleader. It may have been in the comics version, I don’t quite remember. I’ve slept since…