Daily Archives: May 18, 2021
A Week Without Tonsils
Posted on May 18, 2021 57 Comments
So, I got my tonsils out last week. A procedure which many of you know went a little sideways, but everything turned out okay in the end! Anyways, now that it’s been several days of relaxing and healing, I’m here to report on how recovery is going. Before we get into it, I am someone […]
The Big Idea: Alex Zohar
Posted on May 18, 2021
Is there such a thing as too much progress? Sometimes we are more preoccupied with the question of “if” we can do something, we don’t think about if we “should”. Such is the case in Emotional Robots: A Question of Existence, when the very robots that replace us may find themselves replaced. Follow along in co-author and […]
Christy Gaitten, RIP
Posted on May 18, 2021 15 Comments
My pal Christy Gaitten (seen here on her wedding day in 2000, from a snap Krissy took) passed away yesterday. I don’t think she would want me to get too mushy or overlong in a public remembrance — she definitely edged toward the “sarcastic quip” side of things — so let me just say that […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying