Curmudgeon-Alley

There is a lot of food for thought in this video. It has struck me for sometime now that folks are more than willing to outsource their cognitive work to computers or other people.  With the invasion of AI (Artificial Intelligence), things are only going to get worse, much worse. And no, the irony of my finding this video on YouTube is on not lost on me.  After all there is a reason that the…

There is a lot of food for thought in this video. It has struck me for sometime now that folks are more than willing to outsource their cognitive work to computers or other people.  With the invasion of AI (Artificial Intelligence), things are only going to get worse, much worse. And no, the irony of my finding this video on YouTube is on not lost on me.  After all there is a reason that the…

Well, maybe not a real conundrum as I have only celebrated the holiday sporadically.  Every few years I will go to a fireworks display, usually at the suggestion of someone else.  Although when I lived in Tulsa, my apartment complex was right on the Arkansas River.  Every year they had a fireworks display put on from a bridge about a 5-minute walk from my apartment.  I simply stepped out onto to…

Well, maybe not a real conundrum as I have only celebrated the holiday sporadically.  Every few years I will go to a fireworks display, usually at the suggestion of someone else.  Although when I lived in Tulsa, my apartment complex was right on the Arkansas River.  Every year they had a fireworks display put on from a bridge about a 5-minute walk from my apartment.  I simply stepped out onto to…

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde. “What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.” ~~ Franz Kafka To see more Quotes for…

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde. “What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.” ~~ Franz Kafka To see more Quotes for…

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde. I came across this excerpt of an interview Carl Sagan did with Charlie Rose.  Sagan died in 1996, and the…

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde. I came across this excerpt of an interview Carl Sagan did with Charlie Rose.  Sagan died in 1996, and the…

yeah I know you did not ask! You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts. My moment of terror: There I was lying wide awake in our king size bed, staring at the ceiling, listening to Señora and the The Wee Dog breathing, but in not…

yeah I know you did not ask! You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts. My moment of terror: There I was lying wide awake in our king size bed, staring at the ceiling, listening to Señora and the The Wee Dog breathing, but in not…

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde. “We have a deficit of wonder. I think it’s because of computers. When I ask people questions now, they get on…

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde. “We have a deficit of wonder. I think it’s because of computers. When I ask people questions now, they get on…

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde. “[Fascism is] a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline,…

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde. “[Fascism is] a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline,…

Life is like frying an egg.  When you want the yolk to stay whole, it breaks.  When you are frying the egg, say for a sandwich, the yolk stays intact, forcing you to break it. Life, you frequently get what you do not want, or you need to make it happen. As I was washing my dishes after consuming my homemade Egg McMuffin, I was watching the crew mow and trim the neighbor’s yard. It was a mix crew…

Life is like frying an egg.  When you want the yolk to stay whole, it breaks.  When you are frying the egg, say for a sandwich, the yolk stays intact, forcing you to break it. Life, you frequently get what you do not want, or you need to make it happen. As I was washing my dishes after consuming my homemade Egg McMuffin, I was watching the crew mow and trim the neighbor’s yard. It was a mix crew…

Vanity Plate of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one in the wild that I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  When I was commuting from my home to downtown St. Louis and back, I was spending anywhere from an hour and half to two hours daily in rush hour traffic. I used the exercise of deciphering vanity plates to help pass the time… plus sometimes they…