This mountain had given me a lifetime of rejection. It had nearly cost me my life. So much pain and suffering to come this far. A sudden hailstorm. Crash. Police. Ambulance. Motorcycle parts all over the road Somehow I walked away with scrapes. I arrived at the mountain broken. Bleeding.
My motorcycle journey began today before sunrise, in thick fog, with one last pause at the Pacific Ocean beneath a watchful moon, brilliant and full. Then I turned inland, away from the sea, toward the desert. L.A. traffic gathered around me, taillights streaming north, the restless movement of people
You are not sitting inside a climate-controlled environment looking through glass. Temperature, wind, rain, fragrance, earth, farms, water, altitude, light, fatigue, distance—all of it reaches you directly. Unlike ordinary travel, a long motorcycle journey becomes contemplative. Riding thousands of miles may look like an extreme act of doing—
Here is what it feels like to use AI in my job all day. AI is cheerful and perky. It immediately admits its mistakes, then quickly retrieves the next wrong answer. There is no embarrassment, hesitation, or evidence that the correction meant anything for being consistently wrong.
I just bought the Insta360 X5 camera and tried it on a motorcycle ride on Palomar Mountain, California. I mounted it to the handle bars for part of the way, then on a long pole extender mounted to the rear tour pak mount.
What does it feel like to be a mind? A mind alive behind the eyes, seeing within the darkness. The senses enter like waves: fragrance, sound, light, pressure, breaking upon an inward shore alive with color and meaning. Thought gathers beneath the surface, rising in a cognitive mist, illuminating hidden
I bought some sparkling water in cans at Wegman’s. Then I noticed a 40¢ “carbonated deposit” charge on my grocery bill. Huh? If I put sparkles in my water it costs me 40¢? That’s crazy! So I did a little research … Massachusetts enacted the Bottle Bill in 1982.
Have you noticed that everything is moral these days? News, entertainment, media don’t just report what is. They preach a moral message, intended to make you a “better” person. But what is the basis of this morality? Reality is not morally neutral. There is a Way built into things:
Not many songs are sung for fathers. The world remembers kings and conquerors, the men who stood upon balconies and waved to crowds, the poets whose names endure, the generals whose statues gather pigeons and rain. But the fathers; they rise before dawn, when the sky is dim and the
Let’s assume there is a Creator … How would he create? How would a mind cause physical reality? We create by thinking. How do you move your hands? How do you wiggle your toes? You think and it happens. In a limited sense, your own mind already demonstrates the mysterious
A living cell is not merely chemistry. The mystery of life is more profound. A cell contains: * information storage (DNA) * error correction * communication networks * energy production * transport systems * molecular machines * self-repair * replication A bacterium contains millions of coordinated molecular events every second. The remarkable thing is that life is
Californians head to the polls this week to once again vote for moral superiority over reality, DEI over public safety, and feelings over functioning cities.