I was going to have WordPress AI generate an image of Delroy Lindo and St. Louis Cardinals but it never generated. So I had some other site do it. As you can see, where still a ways away from the singularity where machines rule humanity lol. AI, like all new technology, is full of promise… Read more

I always get thunder and lightning mixed up. I’ll ask, “Wow, did you hear that lightning?” and then get corrected that thunder is the sound that lightning makes. But why? There’s no other object or phenomenon that has different words for the visual and the audio. It would be like if you saw me, my… Read more

I hate reading posts where people complain about self checkout in stores, like Walmart. I love self checkout. We only go to full service checkouts when we have a large cart full of items that we want the checker to bag up. Otherwise it’s in-and-out, no human interaction needed. People say that the self checkouts… Read more

My wife and I joke around that “It’s always Thursday”. Any time we stop to think about life and take stock of ourselves, it’s always Thursday, and I’m always getting the trash ready for Friday morning pickup. One Thursday blurs into the next Thursday which blurs into the next. Time flys by so quickly I… Read more

Last weekend we took a weekend trip to Branson Missouri. I had last went here, to Silver Dollar City, when I was 2 or 3 years old. All I remember is riding the glass elevator and staying in a hotel room. Maybe I remember being in a cave, or I later saw a picture of… Read more

My wife and kids surprised me a gift the other day. It’s the retro Lego space ship, like what I had when I was a kid. I love it! They got it on clearance for $56, which is about half the retail price of $100. Inflation is crazy, folks. For years I’ve mentally tracked the… Read more