Floating downstream.
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Modern Writing
It’s so quiet. It’s so peaceful right now, as I write this. The sun is shining, the wind is blowing. It’s a good day in Wellington. There’s a Writers and Readers Festival coming up next week. And this is what I’m thinking about and working on today: writing. I should be outside soaking up the…
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The Drones Over The Lotus Pond – A Prelude
One day toward the end of a long journey through Japan and China, after spending some time in and around Shanghai, we stumbled upon the Long Art Museum—a place that seemed almost hidden in plain sight, with its industrial facade. We approached it a bit uncertain. “Are you sure you want to go in?” Well,…
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Places
We may have found ourselves far away from the place where we started. “And you may ask yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’” (“Once in a Lifetime“) Or should I say, “places,” as many of us look back and struggle to pinpoint just one place to identify with. Our lives unfold across a tapestry…
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Blurred Tech Era Chaos
Yes, this is the result of a difficult dialectic process with ChatGPT. How else would one write a blog post these days? It’s a tough time for writers, but artificial stupidity is not making things any easier. The value of this partnership allows for a dynamic and iterative process, where ideas can be bounced back…
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The Art Of The Coblage Post
I’ve been getting a lot of writing help from the AI lately. Not just asking it, hey write this thing for me, but conversing with it to tease out ideas and revise writing. For instance, I am trying to describe what I am trying to accomplish with the coalesce.me site here: I have been using…
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A Billion Tons of Carbon Christmas Balls
I set myself a deadline to write about this supreme court case Warhol vs. Goldsmith. I’ve blown through two of those now. ?️? The case is still being considered, but the oral argument has been heard. After I had a few glasses of wine and sat down on the couch one night, it was partially…
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Ragequit Remorse
That emotional response was entirely satisfying. And then the realisation you have done something stupid washes over. The first sign you have exposed yourself is when you get that message that your MFA has been disabled. Then you start thinking about your username becoming available and what if someone else registers it. Within 30 days…
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Goodbye Twitter
This was the last thing I tweeted on Twitter. I didn’t bother to try downloading an archive of my tweets or whatever. On the nightly news I heard about the poll. I saw some of Musk’s tweets today. I don’t care. It’s like Live Journal. Dead to me. Just for being associated with Russia and…
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Make America A Nightmare Dystopia Again
MAANDA should be emblazoned on my hat. This is what the hopefully dwindling supporters of a similar sounding acronym are really saying, briefly re-energised by certain re-election announcements. The other morning I suddenly began thinking about Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World after not having thought about that book in a long while. I did…
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It’s Possible To Dream.
There is a lot we still don’t know… About what? Politics? Making art? The Universe? Science? There is certainly a lot about mathematics I still don’t know. Sometimes things just come together. Randomness is a factor. With every major software upgrade, there is that annoying period where the things you used to do don’t work…
Who are you? What are you doing here? Did I use your image file? Did you use one of mine?