Ruminations on Bubbles, Xenophobia, and Pig Wrestling

Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies Bubble Life, Then and Now Nerine, my wife, has often accused me of living in a bubble, detached from the perspectives of other people in the real world. When I was in the corporate world, I went from my air-conditioned office to an air-conditioned car to anContinue reading “Ruminations on Bubbles, Xenophobia, and Pig Wrestling”

Is AI rotting our brains?

Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, In the hollow halls of academia, a battle rages: Should students use AI? One camp cling to their quills and parchment, screaming “heresy!” The other—people like me—shrug and say, The genie’s out, deal with it. AI isn’t some passing trend; it’s a paradigm shift, and the onlyContinue reading “Is AI rotting our brains?”

Ruminations on old people vs. the machines: A hilarious (and slightly pathetic) struggle

Self-portrait of me and my computer in a couple of years with a realistic hairstyle Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies In our household, we have 3 generations. The young, the old, and the ancient. Our boys are 20 and 23 and represent the young. Today I turn 63 and represent the old. ThereContinue reading “Ruminations on old people vs. the machines: A hilarious (and slightly pathetic) struggle”