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Monday, June 30, 2025

Watch the General Lee jump the fountain in Somerset, Kentucky

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This is already the most beautiful thing I've seen all week.  A Dodge Charger kitted out to look like the famous General Lee from The Du...
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Saturday, June 28, 2025

ChatGPT Psychosis: Yes, this is a real mental illness

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I regularly work with artificial intelligence as an AI trainer.  I also have a lot of experience in the mental health field, as both a profe...

Svengoolie! Or: How I spend many Saturday nights

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Not looking like there's going to be any going about this evening.  There are a few things I've got on my plate, which isn't nec...
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Friday, June 27, 2025

Time to play... The Lottery

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Will this be Old Man Warner's "lucky year"?  He's no doubt praying that it isn't. A 1969 film adaptation of Shirley Ja...
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The Supreme Court does right: Slapping down rogue judges and asserting parental rights

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This is a good day to be a sensible American. This morning the Supreme Court handed down some rulings and I was looking forward to seeing ho...
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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Found on a Peanuts page on Facebook today...

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This definitely made me crack up. It is said that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.  If that's true then Lucy Van Pelt's gras...

Dear people of New York City: Why are you doing this to yourselves??? (Zohran Mamdani)

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To be honest, I had never heard of Zohran Mamdani until this week.  But what I've learned in the past few days scares me and it should ...
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Friday, June 20, 2025

Happy fiftieth anniversary to Jaws!

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Making us afraid to go into the water for a full half a century. One of the greatest scenes in film history: Quint (played by Robert Shaw, w...
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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Laz A. Mataz presents his debut novel: Dimensions of Essence

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Hey gang!  Got something special for ya... A very dear friend of mine, Laz A. Mataz, has been working on his first novel for awhile.   Dimen...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Book status report for June 2025: Proposal, agents, subtitle

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This was supposed to be a weekly feature.  That notion has obviously fallen by the wayside.  But many of y'all have asked how is the boo...
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Sunday, June 15, 2025

Father's Day 2025: Pictures of Dad

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Today is Father's Day.  And more than usual I'm feeling melancholy.  This is the eleventh Father's Day without Dad.  There's...
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Saturday, June 14, 2025

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four now has a trigger warning

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Of all things 1984 -ish, this story about Nineteen Eighty-Four  itself might be the most 1984 in the history of anything. Image from the mot...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Donald Trump, the Confederacy, and Honor

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Over the weekend I watched Gettysburg , the 1993 Civil War epic film about the Battle of Gettysburg.  It's one of my most favorite histo...

Bleeding-edge ChatGPT artificial intelligence beaten at chess by Atari 2600

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I love  this story!! I'm impressed by ChatGPT.  But I've also got a healthy respect for Atari Chess, a cartridge for the classic Ata...
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Saturday, June 07, 2025

It's the fortieth anniversary of The Goonies!

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The perfect movie about young adventure.  Released on June 7th, 1985. My family saw it in the theater about a week later, at the long-gone J...
Thursday, June 05, 2025

A lesson on humbleness

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Had some very good news today!  Wish I could share it but I had to sign all kinds of non-disclosure agreements and whatnot.  But trust me, i...
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