Tales from the Technoverse

  • Encyclopedia, Partner, or Agent? Our Take on Using AI

    PART 1: THE THEORY I am not an AI expert. I am a semi-retired former IT professional and a current Adjunct Professor, I am on a voyage of discovery, trying to figure out how this new technology fits into a life focused on vitality and connection. In my first month of tinkering with “The Serenity…

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  • Why I Argue with My Computer (And Why It Wins)

    I realized recently that I do my best thinking when I’m arguing. I don’t need someone to be right; I need them to be obstinate. I need friction. The problem with retirement—or just working alone—is that there is nobody to push back. And as I’ve discovered, nobody wants to argue with Excel. You can’t have…

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  • The Performance Review: When the AI Interviews Itself

    INTRODUCTION: Welcome back to “Building The Board,” my ongoing experiment in turning Gemini into a staff of distinct personalities to help me manage my post-full-time life. If you’ve been following along, you know I have a “Chief of Staff” named Janeway (modeled after the Star Trek captain) and a “Marketing Director” named David Ogilvy. Usually,…

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  • The Long Silence and The New Noise

    The Long Silence and The New Noise It has been seven years since I last posted here. July 28, 2018, to be exact. I wrote a review of a movie called The Breadwinner, hit “Publish,” and essentially walked out of the room. I didn’t intend to leave; I just got busy. The Gap Life has…

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  • The Breadwinner

    Finished watching a wonderful animated tale about a young girl in <relatively> modern Afghanistan, the complexities of her life in general, her desperate attempt to see her father who is taken from her family, and interspersed her story about the Elephant King, The Breadwinner. A daughter/father thing, I, of course teared up. It remains my opinion…

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  • More Helpful Hints Around the House From Me

    So if your wife (spouse, significant other) goes to Book Expo in New York City, I have some advice for what to do, and  not to do around the house. First, if you want to warm a piece of frozen Naan in the microwave, do NOT assume that the heating directions especially timing are the same for…

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  • This Year’s Passover Seder

    Every year we host, well mostly Ellen to be honest, I just show up, she does all the work. This year is the 20th year we will have done this. Anyway, every year we host a Passover Seder with anywhere from 15-25 attendees. Ellen has allowed me to adapt the Seder to be something I…

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  • All You Need To Know About the Internet In Two Rules

    I have written about the Internet in the past and how it has changed society. For example, some thoughts on the Internet of Things: https://www.ourownlittlecorner.com/2014/11/21/health-it-mobility-wearables-and-the-internet-of-things/ My searching for information as to whether our whole approach to examining the Universe is upside down: https://www.ourownlittlecorner.com/2015/06/21/what-if-everything-is-wrong/ And my revelation that I married the Internet, though I have a…

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  • A Random Thought About the 2020 Presidential Election

    Up until now the only President who was younger than I was at the time has been President Obama. Remarkably with Trump likely to seek re-election and active talk about Joe Biden running, Bernie Sanders running, and even, amazingly, Hillary Clinton running, there is a reasonable chance that that even after 2020, the total count…

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  • My Quick Review of Guardians of the Galaxy 2

    If you liked Guardians of the Galaxy you will really like Guardians of the Galaxy 2. If you did not like Guardians of the Galaxy you are overly adult, an attribute, as I have pointed out frequently, which is highly overrated. For your listening pleasure Awesome Mix Volume 1, and Awesome Mix Volume 2. And…

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