Never forget that in our drive to design advanced AIs that could better kill our fellow humans, we created AIs that could kill all of us. Skynet. Berserkers. There are many more stories we have written where that is exactly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for April, 2019
I’ve had a good vacation over all. Loved the trip. Not the food poisoning. Enjoyed the time off. Got my bedding washed. About to go see about some landscaping around the house. Some of the normal things that normal people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Food poisoning sucks. Especially when you get it on the last day of a convention. Luckily for me, I got it after the con was over, at the official “aftercon gettogether.” The cooks couldn’t prepare hamburgers right and a few[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dairycon has come and gone and today we drive home. There will be a few more toys in the car than when we went. A few lesser dollars in our billfolds or bank accounts. And there will be the memories[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today is Dairycon, a gathering of one or two hundred closest friends who love Transformers almost as much or more than I do. We are coming together in sunny Fond du Lac Wisconsin in the Cow Palace of the Fairgrounds.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some of you know that I like Transformers. The big robots from Cybertron, not the electrical grid thingies. Some of you have had learned more about Transformers than you ever wanted to know while talking to me. It is the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Puppy Rides Again. You may have read what I’ve written about the new puppy before. The night we took her from her person’s home, she was…unhappy. She fought. She nearly sent me sprawling down the stairs to keep me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some of you may know that I recently acquired a new puppy. Well, she’s eleven years old, so puppy may be a bit of an exaggeration. And she was 19 pounds when we got her, so…maybe a bit big as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Drew Hayes starts the second book of his multi-year story much as we’ve seen things start in other school-devoted series like Harry Potter. The students are getting ready to come back to school. Many students are returning. Some are not.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I watched Unplanned this weekend. Yes, that is the movie filmed from the perspective of a Planned Parenthood manager who became a Pro-Life activist after seeing an abortion in action. You may have heard that they Unplanned was banned from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…