"The Greatest Discovery in Human History"

 

Jabberwocky

 

Street Smarts: A Series

 Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

- Steve Irwin

Ultimate Old School

I made a Black Friday purchase of The World Book Encyclopedia.

Actual volumes for a bookshelf.

A new edition, of course, and so not the same as the version that captured my attention in grade school.

The volumes will arrive on Monday.

Big smile.

[I mentioned the purchase at Thanksgiving and got the expected stares. The techno-barbarians don't understand the quasi-religious nature of the experience.] 

[Next idea: card catalogues to organize my library. A mere glance would provide a daily morale boost.] 

Big Howard regarding Big Will

 

First Paragraph

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatsoever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to.

- From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

We Gather Together

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

May the Lord's blessings be upon each of you.

[Photo by Preslie Hirsch at Unsplash]

Time Travel

 

The Benefits of A.I.

 

Let's assume that the potential primary benefit of Artificial Intelligence comes to pass and that cures are found for many deadly diseases.

Does a society in which people get a generous annual income, and yet don't need to work, sound like a pleasant place to live?

[Photo by Costa Live at Unsplash]