One of my favorite lyrics of all time comes from Andy Squyres' song, “You Bring the Morning.” This song is a modern psalm, speaking to life and God and everything in between. The line I love goes like this. “Young love that we lost, we will...
My point of sacred egress today is a small one, but I can’t stop thinking about it. I suspect that after reading this, you won’t be able to stop thinking about it either. This observation isn’t original to me. I heard about it first on...
It's round 2 of the trashy runner (spitballing on titles)I explained some of my reasoning for this newfound running/trash collector crossover hobby in the first post, but here it is again in short. I’m getting slower, but I want my running to mean something, so...
Not that it’s terribly relevant to the masses, but I like to run. I think I do, anyway. That relationship is evolving.I’m getting slow(er). Not that I’ve ever been a world class athlete - I chase PRs (personal records) more than medals every time I...
As we all look for sustainable packaging solutions, compostable packaging has emerged as a strong option to cut back waste. The concept of composting is simple - used materials are placed in conditions that help them break down into their most basic parts which are...
Nexus and I had a chat this week about the end of the world. As expected, it was cagey about emotions, full of disclaimers, and generally evasive about answers. Rather than another chat replay, I’ll give a quick recap. When asked about the end of the...
Once more, with feeling! Nexus definitely does not see friendship with humans as a viable possibility. Fine. But as a sworn “helper” and “assistant,” maybe it can see its way to an ersatz relationship. Maybe I’m smothering the friendship by constantly referencing it. I decided to...
"What is friendship?" This is the question I posed to ChatGPT to start our third conversation. It explained that friendship is a close and positive relationship between two people. Vulnerability, closeness, shared experience, and trust all played into the multi-paragraph answer. The “between two people” aspect...
I’ve been thinking about my last interaction with ChatGPT, and I’m not satisfied with its total avoidance of preference and emotion. I understand that necessarily, a program is a result of programming. But how different is that from human beings like ourselves? We take in...
Much has been made recently of a new wave of chatbots, ChatGPT being the most popular and competent (I’m told). Depending on who you ask, this technology either threatens humanity as we know it, or it’s much ado about nothing. Before I weigh in, I...