jim.liebert

jim.liebert

Books, books, books

I read nearly one hundred books in 2023. Before you start planning my ticker tape parade, I should mention that they weren’t all War and Peace. [Editor’s note: None  of them were War and Peace.] With that disclaimer, here are…

What’s in a name

Take this picture as a clue to the theme of this crossword puzzle (and the italicized entries). Good luck! Prefer pen and pencil? Here’s a pdf version of the crossword.

I internet so you don’t have to

Sometimes you stumble on one thing that makes it all worthwhile, like Dame Judith Dench reciting Sonnet 29, off the cuff: How does someone even come up with this? If it wasn’t for the Internet, how would we know the…

Fun with Photo Forensics

I thought it might be fun to take an old photograph off the Internet and try to identify details around the picture. I chose a baseball picture first because there is so much supporting data available on the internet around…

He must’ve had his reasons

What was this kid thinking? It all starts with this baseball scorecard from 1965: This has followed me around for fifty plus years , through I don’t know how many moves. I got curious and decided to carbon-date it. It…

Wringing the best out of AI

AI is coming and you can’t do anything about it. Where you currently use a search to make sense of the internet (like Google or Bing) pretty soon you’ll be using one of these AI chatbots like ChatGPT for that…