Mind Games – April 23, 2024

graphx spwilcen Societal dementia I suppose, old crank that I am, any puzzle would be good exercise for my brain.  Not talking here about jigsaw puzzles.  Like old-fashioned crossword puzzles.  I’ve always been a fan of crosswords, good crosswords. At risk of honoring MSM concerns, the LA Times and New York Times come immediately to

Reader Shenanigans – April 21, 2024

graphx spwilcen Opinion While it would be something of a stretch to presume WP’s “Reader” engine employs anything one could call sophisticated AI, it does something to cull sites for presentation when I use the “Reader.” The variations in perversion runs in cycles as site planners1 direct developers to “tune” the whole workbench process, evidenced

Serves Us Right – April 19, 2024

graphx spwilcen Triggers: Politics, opinion We’ve been told AI “learning machines” have exploited the internet to “read” and digest human interaction and human “thought” recorded there [to teach themselves]. Shudder to believe that, searching for “factual” data to bolster “memory” and decision [knowledge] bases, AI has considered anything [everything] on the internet factual. Not bad

Celestial Follies – April 9, 2024

graphx spwilcen This is the “day after,”1 I know.  “Day of,” after a quick read of newsfeeds and the WPers I do my best not to miss, being outside and busy with premature spring chores made sense.    WPers were slightly below par.2  Never bought into “full moon,” blood moon,” “harvest moon,” moon through an

Student Loans – April 5, 2024

graphx spwilcen Read where Sleepy is out to buy votes again. Handlers probably explained his standing in the polls.  They then reminded him he could use Federal funny money to reassure stuloan wannabe defaulters they’ll not have to worry about BMW repos.  That would ensure their grateful votes in November’s National Lotto. Really, I’m okay

Cardio – April 5, 2024

graphx spwilcen Today I got plenty of cardio in.  Gonna look good when I put it on the spreadsheet I use tracking weight/BMI, meds, BP, diet, liberal lapses, and exercise regimen.  I missed taking it to my latest physical. I decided to skip it, (not the cardio, delivering my spreadsheet) really, because it did not

Horror Games – April 4, 2024

spwilcen When you start a nasty game, expect nasty things to happen. Expect nasty things to happen to innocents you drag into the arena.  Expect only cardiac sanguinators to not hold you culpable for collateral horror; absolution will be transient. Expect those you bully and innocents themselves will tire of your game and bring it

In The News – March 31, 2024

spwilcen Fiction, kiddies, fiction. If you have trouble with that, there’s not much anyone can do for you Or you can consider this “April Fool!” a day early. Public Distrust Poll – The opinion of America at large. Bill Penpoint, ace field reporter for WXPB forwarded the latest TAP (“Trends in American Preference”) poll which

No Worry – March 30, 2024

graphx spwilcen MA: language, social impropriety, opinion, politics, truth Everything is going to be okay Boomers and younger old farts won’t delay your new society much longer. Don’t lose any sleep worrying.    Why not? In ten or fifteen years Boomers will stop wasting money drawing Social Security and using Medicare. Boomers, you know, those

The Swineherd’s Guests 4 of 4 – March 30, 2024

spwilcen Uninvited Guests – III The following morning, the farmer woke and went to tend his swine. When the farmer entered the sty, he was shocked to see his farm had been set upon this second time. He found the sty a shambles, all the outbuildings ransacked and destroyed, all the morning’s food eaten, all