We had a good Thanksgiving. Watched MST3K all day, read, took the dog on an excellent walk on the long leash up at the local university. Had an excellent dinner.
Riley – you can’t take a bad picture of himIn the Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons, Artificial Intelligences known as the TechnoCore trick humanity into providing the processing power of their own brains to serve the Technocore’s purposes. They do this by providing the technology for space-warping gates, allowing interstellar civilization to exist. When humanity uses the system, their neurons are used. And humanity uses it CONSTANTLY.But I guess it’s cool if we let the world’s AIs steal our creative output, by providing “free” platforms for use to use. Nothing bad could happen.
My favorite SF series, by the way. Wonderfully written – gorgeous.
Last week we went to see Fran Lebowitz speak at the Eisemann Center here in Richardson. I remember her appearing on the old David Letterman show in NBC, but was not really that familiar with her. It was entertaining. Going to look into more of her work.
We went to see Front 242 last night here in Dallas, at the Granada Theater.
First a little bragging. My amazing wife got us front row balcony seats. We could sit for the whole show and no one could stand in front of us. The balcony at the Granada is a fantastic place to see a show.
This was to be the band’s last live tour. The guys are getting up there. They are a little older than me, and they’ve been doing this since about 1983. They’ve earned a rest.
We’ve seen them once before, same venue, 2017.
The show as great. I love the imagery Front 242 uses on the screen. Just amazing. The crowd was generally older and cool. Not the kind of crowd you encounter so often these days where people are standing in groups talking while the band plays.
We needed this. 
Today is Carl Sagan’s birthday.
Can we please have more Sagans than Rogans? Please.