Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, Here we are again, perched at the edge of the abyss, squinting into the darkness and wondering whether to leap, to peer, get pissed, or to simply scream. Because, dearly beloved, some of us have done something curious: we have become too conscious. The trouble isn’t thatContinue reading “A Zappean Scream into the Abyss”
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Ruminations on humanity’s greatest achievement
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies The Bot Knows Best? So, what’s humanity’s greatest achievement? I asked ChatGPT 4. And because I’m cruel, I made it choose just one. “If confined to one, the scientific method stands as humanity’s greatest achievement.It is the foundation for nearly every other major advancement, space exploration, medicine,Continue reading “Ruminations on humanity’s greatest achievement”
Ruminations on showing off
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies So, who among you has never been a show-off? Be careful now because this is a trick question. If your answer is no, we will need to send you straight to the Pinocchio corner. Admit it, you probably do. Often. A Gentle Reminder (That I’m Brilliant) Me?Continue reading “Ruminations on showing off”
Ruminations on Truth, Reality and Other Carefully Managed Illusions
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies What Even Is the Truth? I’ve been ruminating about the truth again. Ok, ok I know that might not be the most productive use of my time but that’s the price you pay if you have a deranged mind. Not “your truth” or “my truth” or evenContinue reading “Ruminations on Truth, Reality and Other Carefully Managed Illusions”
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”
Ruminations on my career
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies Yes, this blog is often self-indulgent, and today will be no exception. I recently turned 64, and quite astonishingly, my wife still loves me. With less than a year to go until mandatory retirement, I’ve hit an important milestone: I no longer care about career advancement. I’veContinue reading “Ruminations on my career”
Ruminations on Journals, Mistakes, Corrigenda, and Electorigenda
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, Some rightly accuse me of being pompous and using fancy vocabulary. Now that I am pretending to be an academic, I have also found that to be truly impressive you must confuse people with fancy and obscure language and terminology. People may strongly suspect you are talkingContinue reading “Ruminations on Journals, Mistakes, Corrigenda, and Electorigenda”
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?”
Further Ruminations on the Meaning of Life
Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies Let’s talk about the meaning of life again. Not the Monty Python version, although it might be closer to the truth than most philosophical treatises. This profound question has baffled sages, mystics, and drunkards at 3 AM for centuries. So, naturally, who better to tackle it than aContinue reading “Further Ruminations on the Meaning of Life”
Ruminations regarding celebration and contemplation
Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies There are those naturally prone to celebration. I am not one of those. There are those naturally prone to contemplation. I am one of those. I’m not wired for the party scene. Weddings? Snoozefest. Graduations? Meh. Winning the freaking Rugby World Cup twice, well, that warranted a fleetingContinue reading “Ruminations regarding celebration and contemplation”
Ruminant Pink Friday 