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I won the Merriam-Webster new word of 2026!

Well, probably. Just not sure which of my words won, since they’re all such bangers! adacity the double dipping greed of streaming services where customers can pay extra to avoid ads that the streaming service is also charging companies to…

Interesting clicks for ’26

Should you find yourself with some time on your hands this holiday season, here are some blogs/videos that I really enjoyed. A name by any other name This page shows the distribution of a given first name over time. Mine,…

There oughta be a word for that

Adacity – when a streaming service charges customers to remove ads that they charge companies to show. As in The sheer adacity of Amazon Prime. Karmo – the good will you accumulate that allows you to finish mowing the lawn…

Four score, something, something, something

Some interesting quotes from famous people, past and present. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is…

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…

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.…