Mea Vita: Carpe Diem

I asked some popular AI chatbots to analyze the open source data that San Diego provides . I started off analyzing the data for parking mete...

I enjoy learning new things, especially if it involves a paradigm shift that changes my perspective. But what's a trusted rule that yiel...

AI is great at manipulating text and documents, and it does a very nice job at examining photos and transcribing text from images. But toda...

Gravity is not a a fundamental force in the universe. Gravity is one of the four fundamental interactions in the universe, but it’s not a fo...

I was recently speaking to some Veterans Administration (VA) consultants who told me that they're seeing a big shift in the time it take...

Last week I watched some clips from the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live . As a kid, growing up in New York, I used to stay up late t...

Without a doubt, the entire world has seen the shakeup in the U.S. federal government led by the President and DOGE. In a nutshell, the fund...

I came across this Lego diorama of a head (bathroom) in boot camp. It's a reproduction of the final boot camp scene from the movie, Full...

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems. – Grace Hopper Before solid-state electronics, like the transistor, there w...

Podcast  of this blog post. Having witnessed firsthand the explosion of the Internet and the birth of social media, I observed a profound sh...