Monday March 31st 2025

 The books going good. Our hero's recall is on the appalling side, and is currently a tad preoccupied with why an eloquent account of the Banyankole's traditional method of determining the succession of their Paramount Leaders doesn't impress chicks.  Baxter, my very own Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm has a rival. It's a persisting red itchy bump that sometimes swells up and pops cottage cheese type goo, which is disgusting. It's where the back of my neck meets the top of my back. Technically it's called a sebaceous cyst. Call it a red blotchy pink thing that oozes and they smile sweetly, weigh you, take your pulse and ask you how tall you are.  

Cat

History and the Agentic Era

 Hannah Arendt, following the Second World War, was very familiar with the idea that fewer and fewer of us were writing our own history. That was being done by others. Today, as we look ahead to what these others have chosen to call the Agentic Era, we human beings, all of us, might never write our own history again. 

Old Age in the 21st Century

 When you spend most of your day wondering whether you remembered to take your pills

Omens

 Oh shoot! Snowbirds in with the Chipping Sparrows

Iphone Angst

 With Siri I have to use the bossier of the girl's voices, there's less shouting. If it's a boy's voice it really doesn't go well,