Someday (as far as is currently known), life will be over for everyone. Therefore, so long as I’m alive, I want to contribute positively to human history. I want to help make life easier for people in the future, just as people in the past made life easier for me. Right now, people are concerned…
When I was a kid, I saw a movie on TV called “The Natural.” If I recall correctly (and this is all from my memory so I assume it’s merely directionally correct), it’s about a guy who is about to start his professional baseball career, but he’s shot and so that career does not materialize….
Back when I was naive, like two years ago, I believed in stuff like facts. While some aspects of the universe were unknown, we knew that Earth revolved around the sun and that time only moved forward and at a constant rate. Now, as time proceeds, I have questions. Let’s start with the “arrow of…
I believe the printing press is one of the best inventions ever made, possibly _the_ best, tho indoor plumbing is up there. Since the advent of ChatGPT, however, I’ve heard several people explain that ChatGPT is awesome, in part, because it allows humans to effortlessly generate “boilerplate” copy. Although I am enthusiastic about AI, I…
I used to be certain that ‘science’ was ‘true’ and things like ‘spirituality’ were fiction. Indeed, I feel like I had a fairly materialistic opinion for the vast majority of my life so far. But like, what do we really know? Throughout my life, I’ve learned things then later learned they were wrong. Specifically, I…
Something that gets on my nerves _and_ seems unnecessary & unhelpful is people acting against their own interests. I know a guy, and early in the year, he was lamenting to me that children should be prohibited by law from getting sex-reassignment surgery, to which I say /shrug. Firstly, I have zero children so like…
Ever since I suffered a few strokes the other year, I’ve not really spent much time socializing. Fortunately, I have a couple friends from childhood, but they’ve got kids and stuff. So I get more time with you, blog. Anyway, I’ve noticed that I quickly make plans whenever I meet anyone. This winter/spring, I was…
I lived in New York for about 9 years and 11 months…. Then there was this weird pandemic thing. But anyway. I love New York (as the saying goes). I went to Texas circa Covid, because my mother was unwell, and there was a sense that normal life was effectively over (which may be true…
Back before I went through hospitalization and what-not, I was primarily concerned with “small ball”—trying to keep my now-ex-fiancée happy and that sort of thing. Stuff they talk about in pop songs. Nowadays, I’m much more interested in things that interested me when I first visited the elementary school library. Here’s an example: What are…