SerendipityView All
Voyage of the Forsaken
In the terror of this moment, as a rancorous ocean violently lashed our frail craft and vented torment upon us, it seemed an eternity since Carrie and I exchanged farewells on that sunny southern shore.
MisanthropyView All
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
Harper’s Magazine February 1947 In view of the exceptional public importance of this article, permission is given to any newspaper or magazine to reprint it, in part or (preferably, since its effect is cumulative) in
MenticultureView All
Ex Machina
When we touched the moon the universe paused. When we created a mind, God stirred. Ex-Machina shows how we might misstep playing with smart toys. A lesson in human-machine interaction that icily depicts, from infinite
ChicaneryView All
Tweets from the Camel Toe
Not since Clampett’s tribe pitched camp by an up-market cement pond has this great nation of exceptionalism so derisively mocked, to mask a swelling pride. As strongmen go, the vulgarian whose Olds 37 so rarely
AnthropicView All
Dear Smart People
This is a letter from one of your dull cousins. No, it’s not to complain or ask you to do my homework, and certainly not to insult you. How could I possibly win at that?
AI BlogsView All
Suicide by Code
Such were the times, infatuated by the dream of artificial thought, few noticed their dominion ebb as the Age of Reason slid to an early grave. In those heady days when artificial intelligence first challenged
Ovine DivineView All
And Those Sheep
Biblical times dwell upon shepherds and flocks, man and sheep. In their eyes, beyond language, sheep evince deep admiration and devotion to their companion species mankind, considered a great and powerful friend. Personkind, in requite,
AustralianaView All
#AusPol ~ Q1 2020
We all know what happened in December. Bushfires and smoke. The PM, startled by the intrusion of Australia at his Hawaiian resort, stumbled in front of the media bus and copped a glancing blow from
SenescenceView All
A Soliloquium of Laments
Enter a naive feeble-minded soul expelled from the timeless paradise of childhood. Discovery’s joy soured by history’s cruelty. Inured of oblivion’s dread by vicissitude’s torment. Suffering the twilight of an unremarkable life, saddened and crushed
Jab me not
Getting on has drawbacks. Ten years in, retirement loses appeal. Siblings and friends are losing their health to a degree that starting a phone call with “How are you going” is not a wise idea.
Elderly as Commodity
[Letter to the editor, Griffith Review 6 September 2007 – responding to Edition 13 ~ Author unknown] The Next Big Thing inspired me to write concerning another demographic whose “political, social and creative agendas have
OlioView All
Olio
The term ‘sheep overboard’ describes an ageless battle: a herd of naive humanity prey to pyschopathic kin. SheepOverboard the website expresses in essay that struggle reflected within. A vanity website for personal musing in public.