Tag: Art
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Shakespeare Is Not Dead, But Alive, For He has Risen
No blasphemy intended by the title, just borrowing a phrase. Allow me to share just a small sample of a single contemporary work set in America’s 1920s to make my point. Let me describe some scenes, so you can tell me what this work is all about. A young woman is a waitress on a…
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The Bottom Line is Wrong
In 1982 when I first started a realistic career as a software engineer to replace my manual labor/freelance writing aspirations with an actual money making venture, I bought a book on how to succeed in business. The very first page said to pick your end goal first and then start your career on the first…
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Fear and Envy of AI
The two most frequent and equally dangerous responses to so-called AI are fear and envy. First let’s dispense with the bear in the convenience store. AI is really, as we in the biz like to say, NBI (Nothing But Initials). There’s nothing either artificial or intelligent about what most of us are talking about. Sure…
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An Ignoramus Looks at Art
I took a 3 week trip hobo-ing cross country from mid-June to early July. This is the first of what may be a few posts about that trip that took the train from San Diego to Washington DC via Atlanta and Chattanooga. One of the first museums I visited in Washington DC was the potentially…
Musings of a Restless Mind 