Recent entries

ChatGPT talks to itself while working Trying to gather my photos of Iris Laugh the next time you hear a MAGAt asking for transparency Jimmy Carter's death is not all that important, is it? Staying on the alert for for prople to blame for our problems My father's Doughboy statue Taking more screenshots to help understand this QA macro Design a personal dump truck I think Gawd speaks through AI Election Day Canvassers - Reminders and Updates Vocabulary lesson Iris and I had an interesting discussion with Google Bard this morning. Iris and I had an interesting discussion with Google Bard this morning. Discussion on the Pomona College class of 1964 listserv I’m illiterate Elon Musk I love photographing the artists at Wildacres Eating a Mouse It Really is a Fascist Flag (at least to some Americans) I love the New York Times Metropolitan Diary Watching The Ten Commandments in Gafsa, Tunisia, in the sixtes I wanna be like these guys when I’m their age! The insignificance of photography Enough photos from our trip to Japan MoveOn wants to amend the Constitution? Google Sheet Number Formatting Summer Brake Romantic technologies and ideologies PITY THE NATION Basho’s poem, Even in Kyoto
August 10, 2020 social

Why we need emojis and smilies

Funny usenet story.  There was a long thread about
seat belts.  Of course lots of people were upset
that the US was then writing laws mandating their
use.

One day, I took one of their posts and did a
find/replace from "seat belt" to "headlight" and
then made a tweak or so.

One sincere-sounding kid from Bell Labs (yep it
was a while ago) answered me with good arguments
(of course). That reinforced my growing
realization that people are unable to detect irony
or humor on the internets.
Previous post
Sherman’s March to the Memes Note to Walter, David and Rob I subscribe to a FB page named “General Sherman’s March to the Memes”, which is full of posts, both good and evil, but
Next post
Why I try not to download attachments Every time you run a program on a computing device (desktop computer, cellphone, etc.), it has a chance to infect it with a computer virus. This is