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. AI will take over the world and kill us all! I need more of that AI right now, or we’re all going to be losers, dead losers. First let’s dispense with the bear in the convenience store. AI is really,…
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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…
