memory lane

  • daily blogging

    daily blogging

    I was recently cleaning out my basement and came across a cardboard box with some of my old junk from elementary school: grade four homework assignments, precisely. I was in a extra-curricular writing program, where we wrote little creative fiction stories and turned them into coil bound books that other kids could borrow from the…

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  • sound chatter

    sound chatter

    My first crude interaction with a chatbot opened with the simplest of requests: “Doctor Sbaitso by Creative Labs. Please enter your name.” Oh, sure. This crude little DOS program that came along free stuffed in with the sound card hardware was at best a gimmick. Those old enough to remember when computers could not produce…

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