From the Mailbag: Volume Six

From the Mailbag: Volume Six

After our last mailbag, the deluge of correspondence we received filled all 314 floors of our building, from the the cheap linoleum tiles underfoot to the cheap acoustic tiles overhead. Our ability to respond to all those letters was hindered by the Fire Marshall, who...
Commencement

Commencement

GRADUATION & NEW LIFE Commencement  JoAnna Bennett, O’Brien Communications Group 27 June 2019 This past Tuesday evening, I had the pleasure of attending a high school commencement ceremony. More than 500 young adults were beginning a distinctly new chapter...
I Hate it When I’m Right

I Hate it When I’m Right

As many people know (especially my wife), I hate it when I’m right. Case in point:In 2015, I wrote a post called, “Highways of Algorithmic Morality”. It was about an ostensible study conducted by three sociopathic nitwits from the Toulouse School of Economics in...
Saving Humanity

Saving Humanity

I love thinking about the notion of saving humanity – as if we’re anywhere close to extinction, even though we seem to destroy everything around us and are, collectively, incredibly invasive.

What’s In a Name?

What’s In a Name?

We came across a post the other day — The 25 Most Absurd Job Titles In Tech — that dismayed and disappointed us. (We’ll leave it up to you, dear readers, to inflict that post upon yourselves.) As cynical as we are, we still hold out ever-diminishing quotients of hope...
Fictitious Fables

Fictitious Fables

The definition of a fable is, “a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.” And fables are figments of the human imagination.