Back in the day I built a lot of software, then I designed a lot of software, then I designed a lot of software design tools. Now I'm retired on a ranch in […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hachyderm.io/@mralancooper, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
A tenant moved out a few months ago and left behind a massive bunch of books. They are all beautiful, color, coffee table picture books bound in hard covers. There's more than 60 of them and I want to get rid of the whole lot. He was a retired industrial […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
In trying to cancel a hotel reservation I made online, I had to deal with an AI bot. It sounded so lifelike but it was deep in the uncanny valley. The interaction was terrible and slow. The bot could not seem to comprehend that I did not make the reservation with one of his clones but with a […]
Original post on hachyderm.iohachyderm.ioThere are a lot of heated words being shouted about trump's war against Iran. Few of them seem to adequately articulate the underlying problem. trump is in the process of bankrupting the USA. He's stealing as much as he can and burning up all that remains in a Middle Eastern bonfire. Warfare is […]
Original post on hachyderm.iohachyderm.ioMy 11-year-old granddaughter finally got to see my picture on the Wall of Fellows at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA. I was inducted in 2017 and am honored to be up there in the company of the likes of Tim Berners-Lee (invented the World Wide […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]