life – This Game Is Over, Salvucci Sez

I Don’t Know if AI Is Coming for Your Job, But Here Is What It Is Doing To Mine

Every few days, another newsletter lands in my inbox warning that the robots are about to take everyone’s job. The copywriters are panicking, the coders are updating their resumes, and the graphic designers are looking into carpentry. I can’t tell you whether generative artificial intelligence is going to replace your tax accountant or write theContinue reading “I Don’t Know if AI Is Coming for Your Job, But Here Is What It Is Doing To Mine”

Philly is the Paris of the USA (humor)

I actually read that line in the Philadelphia Inquirer, what passes as a newspaper of record in my readopted home town. Having spent nearly forty years in Texas, I think I know B-S when I see it. I’m not here to tell you that isn’t really true, because you’re not an idiot. Or if youContinue reading “Philly is the Paris of the USA (humor)”

Suicide Hill

When I was a little kid–oh, oh, here we go–we made do with the “toys” that Mother Nature gave us. Since I was a little kid in an urban environment, 66th and Haverford in Philly, toys were frequently trees, hills, pot holes, walls, dog defecating grounds, abandoned beer bottles, and various swearing neighbors, usually maleContinue reading “Suicide Hill”