Books

‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ is worthy of much praise in my humble opinion but that is the extent of the plaudits I would assign to…Read more

We need to realize that we live in a Faraday universe in which there are scientifically observable effects – not causes.  Causes are inferred.  We don’t observe causes; we…Read more

Science is a methodically cumulative phenomenon, each advance depending upon earlier discoveries.  But discoveries do not occur with methodical regularity, unlike the search for anticipated observations to confirm or…Read more

This post is nothing more than a quote from Christopher Volpe who quotes Kurt Vonnegut who wrote Cat’s Cradle in addition to many other imaginative novels. This image is…Read more

So ChatGPT and I have become quite chummy. It writes these awesome Python programs for me that prove my various contended points. So I decided that although I know…Read more

You Is the term ‘potato’ sometimes used to indicate a low power computer?ChatGPT ChatGPT Yes, the term “potato” is sometimes informally used in the tech community to refer to…Read more

December 1, 2021 On November 15th, 2020, Kelly died. One month later on December 16th, 2020, her husband and my good friend Rick Nelson died. Rick had been a…Read more

Drawing involves the transformation of information from our physical reality into another which is a portrayal of that reality.  Basically when sketching objects that exist in our three-dimensional reality,…Read more

I need not try to convince you that old men live in the past and too often repeat anecdotes they see as too precious not to be re-expressed. Not…Read more

I read Christopher Volpe’s daily comments in ‘Inside Art’ today. It’s a lengthier article than what I’ll duplicate below, but in it he expressed a notion that resonates deeply…Read more