Click here for a PDF version of this post. A mockery by Kline Leopold Hedrös ©2023 Nobody expected libertarian aliens to set up a memory trading post off the west coast of Antarctica, but they did, and now Pam and her mates on the good ship Forget Me Not were entering the UN-patrolled waters around … Continue reading Pam and the Alien Memory Biz
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Society Prefers Dead Liabilities
The other day, while trolling the fetid depths of Reddit, I was amused by the response to this story about more and more boomers becoming homeless. The nugatory netizens of Reddit were not sympathetic. They blame the execrable boomer generation for many of the ills, both real and imaginary, that have befallen them. Yes, boomer … Continue reading Society Prefers Dead Liabilities
The Book of Terms
Click here for a PDF version of this post. A tale by Kline Leopold Hedrös ©2023 Arthur – 2024 The first time Arthur saw the old wooden box, he wondered if it was worth anything. It was a recurring thought. A week before, he had learned of the death of his grandmother, Alice, while zooming … Continue reading The Book of Terms
Let ChatGPT Index Your LaTeX Documents
Indexing documents is an ongoing chore. You would think picking out “good” book or article index words would be a trivial pseudo-sampling-sorting task, but that is not the case. Building a useful index requires something like “comprehending” the text. You must read the document, understand what’s in it, and then judiciously select words that elucidate, … Continue reading Let ChatGPT Index Your LaTeX Documents
Morals are Demons that People Actually Believe In
Too much has been written about “morality.” It almost pains me to add to the deluge of drivel this topic has inundated the world with, but pains aside, here goes. If you are human and reading this1, you’ve probably been advised and instructed for your entire short life to be a “good moral person.” It … Continue reading Morals are Demons that People Actually Believe In
J graphviz’s Euclid’s Elements
In Sarah Hart’s new book Once Upon a Prime she relays John Aubrey’s account of the philosopher John Hobbes’s1 first exposure to Euclid’s Elements. Being in a gentleman’s library Euclid’s Elements lay open, and ’twas the forty-seventh proposition in the first book. He read the proposition. “By God,” said he, “this is impossible!” So he … Continue reading J graphviz’s Euclid’s Elements
A Note on the Writer’s Strike
For the last few weeks, the Hollywood writers have been on strike. I won’t bore you with the details. Like all strikes it boils down to money. The writers feel they aren’t getting what’s owed to them, and the production companies want to hold onto as much sweet moola as possible. Normally I’m indifferent to … Continue reading A Note on the Writer’s Strike
Donald Patterson
Click here for a PDF version of this post. A parable by Kline Leopold Hedrös ©2023 After being missing for over a century, Donald Patterson’s frozen naked body was found sitting on a boulder overlooking a tranquil lake. His eyes were closed, he was leaning forward, his palms were on his knees, his legs were … Continue reading Donald Patterson
Sympathy for Ptolemaic Epicyclers
Histories of science tend to cast “old theory holdouts” as uncouth, backward, prejudiced, and stinky nitwits. If you don’t immediately jump on the shiny new science bandwagon you’re on the wrong side of history and doomed to a legacy of ridicule and disdain. Mind you, these just so histories fail to mention that most new … Continue reading Sympathy for Ptolemaic Epicyclers
Some Modest Proposals for SVBish Bank Bailouts
Here we go again another criminal bank bailout. Don’t even try and argue that the SVB bailout isn’t a bailout. You can tell it’s a bailout from all the frantic explanations the Biden gang is pushing telling us how giving funds, way over FDIC deposit insurance limits, to deposit holders in 2023 fundamentally differs from … Continue reading Some Modest Proposals for SVBish Bank Bailouts
Analyze the Data not the Drivel 