Enjoy an infinite number of models without worrying about copyrights, distribution rights, infringement claims, or royalties! — This AI (Artificial Intelligence) thing is getting out of hand. Did you know that you can now generate the portraits of an INFINITE number of people … who have never lived?! Artists or Website Owners… Perhaps you are an artist who would like to draw the picture of a man or woman of a…

I miss his rock’n roll honesty, ambivalence, and soft heart for the less fortunates of the world — I think traveling too much contributed to Anthony Bourdain’s early death. I loved Anthony Bourdain (the award-winning celebrity chef and the long-running CNN show “Parts Unknown”) like the rest of the world and I’m still sad and upset how he chose to end his life in 2018. Defiance and Ambivalence I’m not a…

The number of Americans who are estranged from a family member may surprise you — I’m estranged from someone I love dearly for the last 18 years. It hurts every day like hell no matter how hard I try to ignore or “explain” it to myself. Gone for Good… Estrangement is someone you love not talking to you anymore. They are gone for good from your life. Did…

This invisible law of human nature rules our contradictory behaviors — Bob is a smart, mild mannered and gentle engineer with whom I used to work for the same company before it shut down two years ago. After not seeing each other since then, we decided to get together the other day and have a friendly cup of coffee since we…

And my simple solution to an ongoing tragedy — I’m watching the final meters of Tour de France even though I hate any vehicle that requires blood, sweat, and tears to move it. A beehive of wheels and handlebars, a blurring gaggle of skinny males with a hunchback perched on their torture devices, attack the last meters of this…

A new growth sector for the enterprising minds — It all started with a criminal defense lawyer coming up with an ingenious idea: Try your lawyer for free before you agree to pay her! Pay her if you win the case. Go to jail for free if she fails. What was there in such an unheard-of offer not to…

Times are so though fortune cookies now come with a can opener — Even the fortune cookies have changed their tune lately. Could it be a telling tale of the times we’re living in? I don’t know. You tell me. Here is a random sample of fortune cookie predictions and wisdom I compiled recently as an investigative person by eating more sweet and…

Some of the best boxing matches take place at 33,000 feet — Here is what I read the other day in social media, obviously written by someone who had severe diarrhea on his last flight: “Air travel is just another name for getting kidnapped temporarily in a metal tube.” Ouch! A wild exaggeration no doubt but doesn’t it have in it some…

Watch for want you want lest you get it — We’ll call him PX to protect his anonymity. He was the richest man in the world, due to an accidental early investment in the stocks of Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Apple, and Amazon. Yet, preliminaries first. What is Wealth? When you can’t tell how much money you’ve got, that’s wealth. When IRS sends a…