Random thoughts, life lessons, hopes and dreams
The weekend before Christmas, I stopped into a local supermarket to pick up a few things for Christmas dinner. As I was making my way past the meat counter, a man stopped me. There was water on the floor. The situation was dangerous. Liability was in the air. The man was in charge of the... Continue Reading →
No, it’s not the opening line of a joke. Or, if it is, the joke is in poor taste, and the person telling it will find himself asking, “too soon?” About a month ago, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a Tesla Model-S self-driving car ran over and “killed” a robot that was... Continue Reading →
As has become customary here at No Facilities, today’s post has been inspired by recent events and by Linda G. Hill’s special kind of torture know as Stream of Consciousness Saturday. The prompt Linda gave us for this week is: “Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is ‘passive/aggressive.’ Use one, use both, bonus... Continue Reading →
Remember the Discovery Channel show about how the natural processes and animals would gradually reclaim the planet from the ill-effects of humankind? Well, this post isn’t about that show (I did like it though). This is about the awkward phase we’re moving into where we will be dealing more and more with machines and robots... Continue Reading →
