I Thought We Could Be Friends

I don’t know if this has always been the case, or if it’s a new thing. Almost every night, as the sun sets, I find myself getting increasingly worried about things that range from unlikely to extremely unlikely. It’s as if the sun represents hope and possibility, and as it sets, I feel like yet…

Once upon a time, it made sense to be very explanatory to get the desired results, but that approach is now backwards. Instead of things getting easier for people, people gotta start getting (way) smarter. Things that were once intuitive are starting to seem advanced. It’s getting scary.

I’ll admit I had the lyrics of this song wrong and my childhood best friend was right. Alas. At the beginning of Ministry’s “Just One Fix,” two guys are talking, and one says “Give me the Thorazine” and the other replies, “You don’t need the Thorazine.” I always thought he said, “Give me the force”…

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…

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….