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You Can’t Go Home Again – But Do I Really Want To?

Will AI Grifters Push Everyone Back to the Analog World?

I’ve Got a Noir a Day Habit

DARK CITY: THE LOST WORLD OF FILM NOIR by Eddie Muller

Squeezing the System: What Happens When You Ask an AI If Greed Rules Politics

Replacing a Bluesound PowerNode 2i with a WiiM Amp Ultra

The Things That We Love

Are My Thoughts Like Your Thoughts?

The Forsytes on TV

How Aware or Conscious Was I At 5 Years Old?

Finding Old Movies on YouTube When You Don’t Have TCM

Are We Witnessing a New Age of Computing?

Notes on the “Introduction” to A WORLD APPEARS by Michael Pollan

STEVE JOBS IN EXILE by Geoffrey Cain

What Exactly is Loneliness?

Separate Tables (1958) and Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (1971)

How Many Photographs Do You Need to Remember Your Life?

Is Your AI Getting Smarter?

Have I Burned Out My Nostalgia Neurons by Being Too Nostalgic?

Prepping for Power Outages?

FiiO JT7 $119 Planar Magnetic Headphones

Why Are We Sending Humans To the Moon When We Could Send Humanoid Robots?

Do We Really Need AGI and ASI? Isn’t AI Good Enough?

ABUNDANCE by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

Do I Have Any Real Uses For AI?

Audible Has Granted Some of My 2018 Wishes

Where Do “I” Come From?

Should We Accept/Reject AI?

The Coming of Household Robots

Are You Preparing for the 2030s?

Ever Wonder Why Web Pages Keep Reloading on Your Phone? Or How Advertisers Know What You Are Thinking About Buying?

I Need To Shut Up About Getting Old

What Computer OS Do I Recommend To Friends in 2026?

Finding Purpose in Retirement

Are We Alone?

Can We Fight Back Against Enshitification?

Why I Prefer to Use the Word “Reality” to Mean Everything Instead Using the Word “Universe.”

Why Did Kristin Diable’s “My River” Sound So Great On My Cheap Headphones at 5:55am This Morning?

DVDs vs. Streaming vs. Plex/Jellyfin

Could I Have Said “No” to Television in 1957?

What I Learned After Buying a UGreen DXP2800 NAS

Jim and Susan’s TV Watching 2025

Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years by Paula Fredriksen

THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell

“Racing Mount Pleasant” by Racing Mount Pleasant

DAC Compare: Fiio K13 R2R vs. Geshelli J2 vs. AudioLab 6000A

Past-Present-Future As It Relates to Fiction-Nonfiction-Fantasy-SF

Am I Too Old To Start A Second Brain?

Create and Control Your Own Algorithm

Can Rereading THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ Help Me Remember What It Was Like to Be Ten Years Old?

Are Podcasts Wasting Our Time?

Reading With a Purpose

I Find This Very Disturbing

Do You have Aphantasia or Hyperphantasia?

Homeschooling Myself in My Seventies: A Spiritual Journey for an Atheist

Reading at 13 vs. 73

Why Was Last Night’s Dream So Damn Intense?

Avoiding Mirages in Reality Created By Words

Why We Fail As Individuals – Case 1: An AI’s Insight and Advice

Why We Fail As Individuals – Case 1

How Many People Listen to You

Watching Old Movies vs. Old Television Shows in Old Age

I Had A Fascinating Chat with CoPilot About a 1948 Science Fiction Story about Artificial Intelligence

Science v. Greed

My Attachment to Old Magazines

What Situations Make You Feel Lonely?

How Many Readers of My Blog Are Actually Alive?

Visiting the ER Makes Me Philosophical

The Limits of Learning

What Should I Major in at Old Age University?