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I keep hoping that at some point, the people in charge of artificial intelligence will use it for something that would benefit the world. You know … how to eliminate famine. Or how to eliminate poverty. Or how to eliminate terminal disease. Unfortunately, that’s not happening. Because these data centers and digital farms are instead…

I’ve known Audley Stephenson for the better part of sixteen years. We met when both of us were part of the National Basketball League of Canada – I was the league statistician, he worked his way from content creator to commissioner in a few short years. Even when the league finally folded in 2021, we…

The news hit last Sunday like a clean wash of rain over a sewer field. A Taste of Italy, the restaurant whose owners used Islamophobia and hurtful and bigoted rhetoric to attack a family who had just lost their autistic son in a tragic accident, is no more. The owners sold the lease on their…

Ah, time to write another blog post. Up and at ’em. 17 years without a day off … what shall I write about this morning? Wow. Seventeen straight years of blogging. Holy consistency, Batman … “Mr. Miller … we need to talk for a moment.” About what? “Well, you seem to lean on a certain…

As far as I was concerned, Tim Tebow put together one of the most painful moments in Pittsburgh Steelers history. I take you back to the 2011 AFC Wild Card game. Tim Tebow was quarterback of the Denver Broncos at the time – a backup QB, no less – and the Steelers were about to…

Yesterday was a trip to the New York State Fair – this time, to claim my six prints (four of which were accepted, two of which claimed ribbons) and my latched hook rug (which also claimed a first place silk). Once again, a successful run in Syracuse, and this time – for the first time…

This happened last week during my trivia hosting stint. As I set up my equipment for the weekly trivia contest, a young couple arrived. They ordered food from a server, and picked up one of the trivia scoring booklets for the game. This was at ten minutes to 6:00. A little early, but I can…

It’s August 25, 2009, and I’m migrating my independent blog from a self-hosting site with a blogspot.com suffix to the main blogfarm of the Albany Times Union’s media center. And in that move, I asked the blogfarm operator, Mike Huber, how often I should blog for the site. He said about once a day is…