Blogs
-
Quick, hide your children. The AI is coming!
The current buzzword within technology circles is artificial intelligence, or better known as, AI. Boiling down a lot of very ingenious programing, all the AI of today is a smart search through a huge pile of data with a user-friendly output. That’s all. There’s no intelligence within the algorithms beyond the intelligence provided by humans…
-
Book Review – Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
Three friends create video games together. Their love for one another define their lives. Introduction: I would consider myself a gamer. I grew up in the 90s and 2000s when video games were a niche activity enjoyed mostly by kids, something that would probably rot my brain, a passion that would eventually fade away as…
-
Website v0.2
As I begin my journey into the online spaces of the world, website construction is underway. Foolishly, I believed I could build something functional in an afternoon. Ha! As Mark Twain is credited in saying, “I did not have the time to write you a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” The…
-
Success Breeds Success… unless you’ve tragically spattered yourself into the moon
You can’t escape! Gravity is one of the most fascinating and mysterious forces in the universe. The universal law of gravity states that two objects are attracted to each other proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them squared. In other words, the bigger the objects, the more attraction. The closer…
-
Book Review – Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
A therapist has therapy, talks about therapy, and imparts deep wisdom. Introduction: Sometimes when I pick up a book, it hits me at the exact moment I need it. I have a few books in my personal library where I not only remember the book for what it was, but also for how it made…
-
Chapter 3: Sunlight
“Come this way.” The Elder with his massive diamond and eight long limbs motioned Geode to follow him up the chamber steps and away from the rainbow Heart-Crystal. The narrow, carved passageway they entered felt cold in comparison. “What did I do wrong? Why don’t they like me?” Geode asked, his worry too great to…
-
Chapter 2: Fissures
Aggite moved ahead of Geode, talking as he walked. “Our home is made up of a series of chambers and the connecting tunnels. We are currently leaving the area referred to as the Nursery. There are a few dozen spaces similar to the one we used during our last two cycles, all of which are…
-
Prologue: Stories
“There are many wonderful stories floating around in the world.” Martell smiled warmly at the children seated around his feet, their wide eyes and hungry ears ready for him to continue. “Yes, many amazing tales and mysterious nuggets of wisdom one can learn, discover, and uncover.” A hand shot up, a young girl’s. Before he…
-
Chapter 1: Pebbles
The first moments of life for Geode were a mix of confusion, terror, and pure joy. Within that first spark of time, he felt an energy flowing through and around him, a great power touching the infinite and willing his life to be. The link he felt to everything both overwhelmed his senses and made…
-
Book Review –Lord of the Flies by William Golding
A classic everyone read in high school, except me. I read it this month. Introduction: I like to enter into a book without any expectations. I will typically ask for book recommendations and without reading the synopsis or sometimes even knowing the genre, I’ll dive right in. If someone thinks it is good, that’s good…