Random thoughts on a drizzly day

 Here are a few thoughts I posted on facebook today.

A hint for those who missuse and misspell consistently here. The mark of a good editor is not so much knowing how to spell every word in the language, but in recognizing when you do not know how to spell a word and looking it up. It's pretty easy to type what you think into a Google search to find the correct spelling. Stimulated by a "payed" meaning "paid."

Who said scammers were getting more sophisticated?

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Sorry Deepak NO!

 

All the talk about artificial intelligence reminds me of a joke that made the rounds as computers were coming onto the scene. All the available knowledge at the time was fed into a super computer. Once ready and with some trepidation, developers fed the following question into the machine: "Is there a god?" After much whirring and snapping and blinking lights the computer spit out the following answer: "There is now."

 

I have to wonder why CBS keeps that guy on the early morning news stream. He spends about half his time staring at the camera and nodding his head while his partner speaks. He consistently fades out at the ends of sentences reducing his repoort to unintelligible mumbles. On top of that: This morning I heard him say a record four "ums"and a "you know" in a single sentence. At least get him a speech coach.

I doubt my post had anything to do with it but the guy wasn't on the show the next day. Just sayin'

 

 Todd Rundgren wrote a popular track in 20 minutes, a feat he attributes to his reliance on stimulants such as Ritalin.  And after reading that I had a dangerous thought. All my creative life I have pushed my brain until I came to what felt like a wall, a wall behind which laid an unending creative insight which so far has remained untouchable. Now I am wondering if a drug would knock that wall down and open that whole new creative world now hidden from me. See? Dangerous. I wonder which one would do it. Marijuana doesn't do it. All it produced was nonsense. Of course what's beyond that wall could be all nonsense. What a disappointment that would be. Alcohol helped a little but the lucid time is short lived and the hangovers aren't worth it.