What good is reading?
I’m wallowing in online information sites where you read stuff rather than watch videos. Digital video is erasing everything else. What’s the point. I keep cramming text into my brain just like I’ve been doing every day for the last eight decades. Reading is my life. What good is reading? All it does is […]
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
DanK offered to show me what Claude design could do. He asked me to send him my favorite ten stories and Claude will design a book. Why the fuck not. I’m dwindling away. Google Search keeps reducing the number of my pages that it indexes. I was trying to look at the SpaceX launch online […]
The AI Invasion
Everywhere I look I see AI invading. The Turing Test has long since been sent to the old folks’ home–AI can write stuff well enough to persuade you a human did it. Fool me once, fool me forever. There’s no going back. I look at VentureBeat.com several times a week–it’s been around […]
Instructions to Forgive
Instructions to forgiveA poem by Cesar Verrier First, remember. It is a painful task. Be gentle with yourself. Write down your recollections. You can’t forgive what you refuse to remember. Start your excursion into memory before you were so cruelly treated. Recapture what your life was like then and what you were like, too. Reconstruct […]
The Technology of Text
The Technology of Text Back when history began, writing was a secret for a small inner circle of kings and priests and tax collectors. Then a sudden technological advance let ordinary people convert text into audible speech. It was 2,700 years ago, and Greece was just another grubby little kingdom until King Cadmus […]
Copywritering 9-16-24
I was a copywriter for a long time and then the Macintosh computer came along and changed the entire graphic arts industry. Typesetters were among the first to vanish. A prominent Santa Barbara typesetter suicided. I myself profited by draining the life out of typesetters using my laser printer. When I bought my first laser […]
Copywritering 8-7-24
Copywritering: August 7, 2024 “Copywritering” is the process of attempting to earn a living by being a copywriter. I’ve been doing it a long time. I never expected to retire: I thought I would work until my final breath. I’m not in retirement, I’m still trying to adapt my skills toward being a […]
Copywritering 8-6-24
Copywritering 8-6-24 I saw an article today, “Big Tech’s AI shock troops came for us — are you next?” by Josh Slocum. He was laid off as a content creation writer when the company he worked for went out of business last week and all thirty writers are now in the unemployment line. “It’s not […]
Macintosh blab
Macintosh Blab, 12-23-23 Part of my normal morning browsing schedule is to look at the forums at MacRumors.com, and I’m bemused at how dead the forums are. The excitement after the Halloween announcement of the new m3 chips has bloomed and faded, and now nobody has anything to say about anything. Maybe it’s due […]
Chat-GPT-4
I signed up for Chat-GPT-4 ($20/month). Maybe I can figure out something to do with it. Maybe I can use it to write blog posts. GPT-4 is made by OpenAI, which also sells the DALL-E image generator. The publicity about GPT-4 led me to believe it integrated DALL-E, but, nope. I opened GPT-4 and uploaded NANO.9, […]