jim.liebert
Keep to the right
My grandfather’s cigarette never left his lips, so everyone remembers him with a perpetual Popeye squint from the smoke wafting up to his eyes. My memory is much more specific. I remember the day grandpa saved my cousin Karl’s life.…
The return of smoky dive bars, or what’s new with Twitter
Twitter/X reminds me more and more of a dive bar in the 1980’s. Sticky bathroom floor for reasons best not contemplated, and, when you finally leave, you’re covered with the stink of cigarettes. Having said that, I spent a non-inconsequential…
Department of arcane weights and measures
Step right up and try your luck! (P.S. – these can be a little tricky!)
Money changes everything
Early Artifical Intelligence (AI) has been driven by Large Language Model (LLM) processing where AI consumes large quantities of text (copyrights be damned!) and uses that data to sculpt responses to queries, striving for the goal of grammatically correct, mostly…
Not quite quasquicentennial
It is 1903. Arthur Kenney, with his wife Margaret and their two sons, buys two tracts of land in Mellen, Wisconsin. They’ll build a house on one and subsistence farm the other. Arthur will try his luck as a saloon…
Just somebody that I used to know
Test your memory … there was a time when you knew all these people!
April is the cruellest month (sp)
It didn’t quite rise to a poetry slam but sophomore year in high school my friend Terry and I had an ongoing Beatles versus Dylan argument. If I left a notebook or homework unguarded he’d write Beatle lyrics all over…
Pandora’s Box
Pandora’s Box¹ I live about four blocks from Lake City Way in Seattle. Every big city has roads like Lake City Way, industrial thoroughfares full of used car lots, ethnic grocery stores, ramshackle bars, and, this being Seattle, cannabis stores.…
Even more interesting quoths
We just don’t recognize life’s most significant moments while they’re happening. Back then I thought, “Well, there’ll be other days.” I didn’t realize that that was the only day. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes…