Why Puzzles Are the One Thing Artificial Intelligence Cannot Fake I have spent the better part of the last decade watching people solve puzzles. And now, puzzles are the only thing standing between civilization and digital chaos. Click Every Image That Contains a Bicycle Anyone who has logged into anything recently, and I mean anything,Continue reading “Genuine Intelligence”
Category Archives: Life
I, Homer
A Homer is a fan who defends their team through every
losing season, every bad call, every broken dream.
That’s me. Except my team has no losing seasons.
Elegy for Gene
Being Gene’s grandson was kind of like being related
to a superhero. Strangers would stop me just to shake
my hand and tell me what he meant to them. I never
fully understood that until I tried to put it into words.
Busting Grumpies and the Three Seashells
Primitive humans lived in caves and wiped their asses with their hands. What’s your excuse? Panic buying is trending again, and I feel equal parts empathy and amusement casually observing my fellow quarantine shoppers desperately squabble over packages of commercial grade toilet paper with the bunghole appeal of low grit sandpaper. It is possible toContinue reading “Busting Grumpies and the Three Seashells”
Here for a good time, not a long one
Robert ” Rockin’ Rob ” Powers, who spontaneously spawned from a drug-fueled bacchanal sometime in the late 1960’s, passed away peacefully earlier this week after an extended battle with throat cancer and inner demons. Rob, affectionately known as “Goober” to his dear friends, was a devoted addict, registered sex offender and exemplary degenerate who neverContinue reading “Here for a good time, not a long one”
Back From the Future
I am a time traveler. I had no need for a magic phone booth or flux capacitor, just the ability to think and decide for myself. Read about my journey so that you can join me the next time I go back to the future. November 1, 2020 Time travel is real. According to NASA,Continue reading “Back From the Future”
Bacon saves America!
Despite the political polarization and deficiencies in social discourse, there’s one thing that almost everyone in the United States can still agree on, we love bacon.