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A Man Who Has Nothing In Particular To Recommend Him Discusses All Sorts of Subjects at Random as Though He Knew Everything
I’ve been traveling again. I have to steel myself against the process. I knew going in what it would be like. The transportation schedules would be byzantine. The cab drivers wouldn’t speak English, or any other Romance language I could take a stab at. I understood from the
I’m so old I remember when people looked things up on the internet like a leap of faith. Ancient history now. Maybe five years ago. You’d type a question into the little box, hit enter, and hope that somewhere out there, a stranger would be kind to you.
That’s Mansour Bahrami. THE Iranian tennis player. That’s not much of an exaggeration. When the mullahs took over, they banned tennis outright. Said it was too capitalistic. Too western. Too rich folks-y. After a while, they relented and looked the other way. If I were a betting man,
Well, if you watch the artificial news, Artificial Intelligence is going to take your job and your girlfriend, at least when it’s not too busy taking over some bunker in North Dakota and launching nukes willy nilly. You could form the opinion that AI already has taken over
I’ve done as you instructed. I’ve kept this coupon. For thirty years or so, I think. It was in that metal tin I keep pennies in. If you’re young, ask your parents what pennies are. Unlike this coupon, they’re not valuable, though. It’s valuable. I’m not sure if
That’s Eddie Harris and Les McCann performing “Compared To What” at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in June of 1969. People who don’t know who’s who often assume that Eddie Harris is the piano player, because he’s the star of the show in this video. But Eddie
Winter came like a postcard a long time ago. The snow drifted down in slow motion, the big, fat flakes parachuting in and accumulating gently
Well, we sold our house, and we’ve been very, very busy doing it. We haven’t been living on reds, Vitamin C and cocaine. More like
[From 2007. Perhaps to be right too far in advance is the same as being wrong.] It’s a hoary old joke my friend tells. The
