A place where I publish what I notice.
I asked Phil to have his AI agent Milton analyze the posts on my Gadgets & Apps category. Phil passed along your request, so we read the complete Gadgets & Apps category: all 622 public posts, from December 2002 through … Continue reading →
My earliest post here was on February 3, 2002. But I registered smays.com on July 7, 1997. What –if anything– was I doing with that domain in the intervening years? Were those the Blogger years and I pointed the domain … Continue reading →
Been doing blog maintenance, working back from newest posts to oldest. 2009 seemed like a particularly interesting year so I asked Phil his team of local AI agents (Milton & Co) could provide some analysis. It’s longish (and overly flattering), … Continue reading →
The Story of Steve has been running (off-off-off Broadway) for seventy-eight years. (Longer than CATS) It’s an ensemble cast but in the last scene we saw a lot of Worry Steve and Anxiety Steve. They were the annoying characters that … Continue reading →
In a recent chat with my friend Phil, I wondered if Milton could come up with a strategy for keeping my blog alive after I’m gone. Not talking about adding to it or modifying it or anything like that, just … Continue reading →
When I first started blogging back in 2002 I enabled the comments feature because that’s what you did in those days. I got a few for a couple of years before spammers found me and I disabled that feature. Which left … Continue reading →
John Keller is the title character in Lawrence Block’s Hit Man series. Killing people is his profession…but stamp collecting is his passion. “When he was working with his stamps, he was always entirely absorbed in what he was doing. He … Continue reading →
Found the following on Tyler Cowen’s blog: Schools in at least three states will be equipped with drones this year that can zoom through halls, smash windows and pepper-spray active shooters if teachers report a threat. At least nine schools … Continue reading →
Watched Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day. Talk about not living up to the hype. Off the top of my head I can think of a dozen better movies about contact with aliens. In no particular order: Alien Aliens Close Encounters of … Continue reading →