Good morning. Don’t do anything responsible today, without being irresponsible. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

What should I do tomorrow?

When I buy shrimp/prawns in the US, it is sold by count per pound. How are shrimp sold in the normal world? #food

“Belief is a dream we wish to be real.” #weiting

Wintergreen is rare and wonderful.

Kale or collard greens for turkey-day?

We interpret what we experience by what we understand. There is no way to interpret the unknown by what is unknown. That is the human way. #life #frankenstein #failure

If you don’t make people think, you’re just agreeing with them. #life

Vicious Rumore: Apple to augment haptic electric notifications to send an electric pulse through your body in the event it detects a heart stoppage or defibrillation. #apple #medicine #cardiology

The reason the “Cavs” are called the Cavs is because it cost too much to create uniforms with “Cavaliers”, and they didn’t want to reference King Charles… #sport #failure #marketing

Understanding language is a subset of understanding meaning. #linguistics #ai #llm

Style does not determine substance. Marketing is style. Selling is substance. Once you move from selling to marketing you leave the realm of substantive and move to style. Humans have been conditioned they would rather get what they want than what they need. #marketing #failure

There are three types of critic: those who praise those who disparage or predict gloom those who do not judge.

A bagpipe allows you to suck up bags.

“Predicting the future is easy given enough information. The flaw is, you never do and data is not information.” — Harry Seldon

The hardest decision is the one that requires you to think. — ancient proverb I just made up

Vicious Rumor: Apple to introduce haptic notifications, which will send an electric current through your body, whether you have notifications enabled or not for critical events. #apple

“Sleep is a dream of the insomniac.” #writing

Yes, Jell-O™ makes a cranberry flavor. You can also buy a “can” mold. I’m sure it’s not as good as homemade cranberry jelly… but I’m sure people will buy it… www.southernliving.com/jello-tha… #jello #food #failure

Why do we have turkey (mostly) only on Thanksgiving here in the US? #thanksgiving

Predictive AI (or the AI used in a predictive manner) is the AI we should all fear… #ai

Is a tossed coin/die actually random, or is it influenced by the initial physical forces that are imparted to it? Is the outcome an indication of your state at the time of the toss, and is any interpretation of that state valid? What is the probability it is? #physics #destiny #bayes

A tossed coin never falters in the presence of gravity. — ancient proverb I just made up

When you die, where do you plan on going? Where will you actually go? #life #human

I’m slogging through writing this book. At least I’m moving it forward. I think following the detailed outline, is slowing me down. Live and learn. Or, live and wing it. #writing