I was shopping for new tennis shoes last week, when I was stopped cold at the price of flip-flops. Are you kidding me? It’s now around $40 to purchase a skimpy pair of flip-flops?!? Not so many years ago, these plain slabs of plastic with chintzy plastic foot holder poked through the sole in three places were no more than $2 to $3 for a pair. These were considered cheap, throw-away beach or shower…
Hubby and I watched the fifth movie in the Indiana Jones series last weekend. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was released in 2023, so we’re only a few years behind. A forewarning … if you haven’t seen the movie, there are spoilers in this article. I noticed right away that the plot is super simple. There’s the background setup, where a younger Indiana and his archaeologist friend Basil Shaw manage to get half…
Let’s see if we can give AI more complexity to chew on, shall we? If the AI tech bros are going to steal whatever they can from the web to train their models, why not provide our human way of bringing together disconnected thoughts? This is the opposite of what web content creators have been told since the dawn of blogs, when we were encouraged to pick one topic and hammer on it endlessly in…