Recently, I had an amusingly absurd dream - a common enough occurrence for me. I remembered just a snippet, and asked ChatGPT to re-write it in a way that would be engaging and somewhat coherent. My input: Experiment: I'm going to do my best to…
(repost from 11/30/21 on reddit - inspired me to make a podcast. Bridle and Saddle was the original story that became The Mayors) "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Salvor Hardin Let's recap, shall we? The story begins with Hardin…
I just found out the hard way. Every winter for the past twenty years or so I do a backcountry ski trip with a friend I've known since our college days at Penn State. We originally rented overnight huts but switched to snow camp…
For a long time I was a huge fan of TED talks, and would eagerly gobble up the latest talks as they came out, then dove into the regional TEDx talks as I used up the main series. I saw a lot of great talks in this time and really appreciated what TE…
I'm going to try to keep this blog mostly related to the podcast, sci fi, etc., but I feel like I have to vent a little. Most listeners are unaware that my wife is from St Petersburg, Russia, and still has family there. I also have a lot of Russian …
I've long been a fan of the mission of the Long Now Foundation, headed by the amazing Stewart Brand, long famous for his Whole Earth Catalog back in the seventies and many other imaginative and forward-looking projects. To say Long Now is forward-lo…