Google, like Congress writing laws, chooses names for its updates that make them sound the best they can. The current update everyone is on about is officially named the “Helpful Content Update,” or HCU for short. …

I spent 44 years doing no exercise other than what I did for fun. Even as these dried up, my body settled on a little bit overweight, but no big deal standard weight. I might vary a bit from week to week, but in the end, I had what I…

An arctic llama is the coolest llama there is. Less esoteric, THE arctic llama is me. Don’t ask. I’m still coming up with a good origin story. Arctic Llama Images I have Midjourney, but I haven’t really broken into using it for much yet. However, every once and a while I actually come up with something I like. Something cool enough to be arctic. (Dorky? Yeah, I know. That’s why it is here out of the way in the corner of the internet where I’m posting my random Midjourney “successes.”)

One Man, One List. The greatest books around. Does that title sound amazing? Are you certain it is an oversell of what lies behind it? Do you wonder why you even clicked, or otherwise ended up here? Welcome to my world. The Best Reads in All My Books Every trip to Barnes & Nobel ends with me…

As a writer, the recent addition of a conversation-based text interface to a popular AI has writers and content creators running around proclaiming the sky is falling. As is true with most sky-falling panics, this one isn’t as bad as they are making it out to sound. AI and ChatGPT…

Successful writers share certain habits that contribute to their success. While talent and hard work are important, these habits can help writers reach their full potential and achieve their writing goals. Here are 10 habits of highly successful writers: They set goals: Successful writers know what they want to achieve…

In 1992, Ross Perot ran for president as an independent candidate and made a memorable statement about the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). …

Let’s let these jackals work for us one time. — Terminator If you’re going to lose your job to AI, you might as well make it do the work. Like many others, I have spent the last several days playing with ChatGPT when I should have been working. Amongst writers…

Apparently, there is some sort of movement to boost its minimum wage above the $7.25 federal minimum wage that acts as a floor on wages. All the same players are back with all the same warnings and admonishments, but this time many of those old positions just simply don’t hold…