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What Jim Was Listening To, that is. Every year I create a playlist of songs that piqued my interest for that year. It helps remind me of what I was listening to and also serves as a reminder not to…

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…

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,…

Three explanations, geared to your interest / attention span.

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…

If you look past all the misinformation, misogyny and racism, Twitter can be funny.

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…

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…

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…

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…