A Meeting of Creative Minds

I am finding that writing bots is every bit as rigorous as writing a poem or a work of fiction.

The Big Why

I am glad that the New Agers didn't invade the conversation about The Art of Happiness last night.

Swerving Thermometer

Are the comparitively large error margins a new thing or has this been happening before?

A Dirty Mouth

Last night, when we went for a walk in Concourse Park, a loudmouth started to scream at a group of teen-aged girls who were goofing off in the children's playground.

White Blindness at Home

My head turned like a paint mixing rod and I stumbled across the living room, tripping over chairs and cat toys.

Insert A Trite Metaphor About a Corral

When I review these incidents in the light of my own Memorial Day trip to the ER, I remember how stressful these incidents can be not only on the victim (who has the advantage of knowing where the pain is) but on the partner (who is often taken by surprise by these events).

White Horse

Along the Vulture View Trail, we beheld a pale horse, a mare.

The Heroism Trap

Look into the eye of the propagandist and say "I do not buy your dignity-eroding approach. I do not accept you as a creator of heroes."

A Shakey Prediction

This policy of "Respect through Strength" stands as the greatest American failure in history.

Torture

There is no way to switch the channel.

Lion in Wait?

It was about ten to twenty yards south of the Sleepy Hollow entrance that I saw faint tracks in the dust on the left side of the road.

Solstice

To everyone, I wish a good Summer Solstice and hope in the months ahead.

Ashcroft Covers for A Terrorist

It seems to me that the Right is doing what it did during the Reagan years: setting the stage for death squads for the years when they are out of power

Red, White and Blue Blindfold

The Senate is due to vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment, an invasive, anti-states-rights tumor which the Libertines want to graft onto the U.S. Constitution mostly because it will sell in Kansas and cement their minority rule not only of the White House and also of the Congress.

Secret Message to the French

Label from a nylon laptop travel bag, made in the USA for sale in France.

Arguments

I'm a fair fighter mostly.

The Main Divide Road

We went for a hike near Ortega Highway. I got too enthusiastic and decided to avoid the long drive over paved roads and take a short cut by way of Silverado Canyon.

New Bot

What better character to invoke than Descartes Demon?

Trabuco Canyon

The road was harder than the trail.

Insert Trite Metaphor About A Corral

Happy Blogiversary to me -- almost

How to Make A Joel

They missed a step.

FDR's Second Bill of Rights

This is the vision of prosperity which the Right has been striving to tear down with its Straussian lies and obfuscations ever since Reagan rode into office on the back of Iranian terrorists.

Resistance: A Found Poem

Press one if you support the resistance.

The "For the Sake of Argument" Argument

Straussian discourse must continually engage us in argument about things already proved so that the interests of the chosen elite will not be threatened.

The Use and Abuse of Scott Speicher

The campaign to free Scott Speicher strikes me as magical thinking in the spirit of the WMDs that repeated American searches have failed to find.

The Fun Argument

Forced fun isn't fun.

Chiquito Basin

We were lost. Or at least, for about five minutes, I dreaded that I had wandered off on the wrong trail.

Recent Hikes

Today we walked to Chiquito Basin, a descent through oak woodland, chaparral, and meadows steaming with yarrow and buckwheat.

Dubya meets Death

Bots aren't terribly intelligent in the first place, but imagine a bot based on a certain politician.

Growling

A low growl burbled behind me.

Bot talk

No comment about those human visitors who can't spell "description"....

Analogia - Star Power?

Do you think I look like these two guys?

Insert a Trite Metaphor About a Corral

Ronald Reagan's death and legacy topped the blog discussions this week.

Who are Buffy and Eneagram Anyway?

I keep meaning to put up a quiz, but I can't get the freaking images to work.

Notes on an Air Evac 6

If you want to see a cross-section of human suffering and human folly, go to an ER on Memorial Day weekend.

Aluminum Locusts

Trail bikers rushing down the Serrano Cow Trail don't stop when the trail is too narrow to hold both them and a hiker.

Prescription

More salt. If I run into Lot's wife out there in the desert, I'll give her a lick.

Implant Progress

I've been licking at a flat head like a manhole cover in the space before my last surviving molar on the lower right hand side.

Bot to Bot

Mictlantecuhtli: If you sacrifice your esophagus, Tonacatecuhtli might tell you the answer.

Little Mu: If I were to sacrifice my esophagus, I might never forgive myself.

Dada!
For the sake of sheer meanness, I wrote another bot. The other two are still operating and being developed, but...

Deaf to the World

An older Persian man grinned at me from a nose worthy of Darius the Great. He pulled out his earphones when he saw my lips moving in greeting.

A Small Storm

Today it rained.

Insert a Trite Metaphor About A Corral

Let us focus our energies on the living.

Artificial Intelligence? Ha!

Is any other blogger setting up an AI? I might start blogrolling some of the better bots out there.

Roundup
My weekly roundup is delayed by a day due to my general feeling of joy at having not been...

Glad

A group that will take anyone yields fuzziness and undermines commitment to anything except its own frenetic politics

Bots

Mictlantecuhtli can almost hold a conversation.

Some half-talk

Skin belong you 'im stink

Notes from an Air Evac 5

I was off the ground before I knew it. I ascended into the sky, which was the deceptive azure of a cool alpine lake.

Notes from an Air Evac 4

The word "fucking" preceded many of my thoughts. Why the fuck did they fucking run the fucking trail up the fucking naked side of the fucking mountain?

Notes from an Air Evac 3

"It's time to get off this mountain as fast as we can."

Chatting with Mictli

Mictlantecuhtli: The tzitzimime shall come out of the stars and chew on your hips

Guest10: Woohoo! You know that's the biggest problem area for women? Thanks!

Notes on an Air Evac 2

What I did not forsee were three wildcards....Together, they conspired to bring me into a bad situation from which I had to be rescued.

Notes on an Air Evac 1

In three miles, the Silverado Motorway convulses and pitches up 2000 feet of short forest slope.