In college, a friend of mine wrote a story about a kingdom in the northern latitudes ruled by a queen: This was no Snow Queen or Queen of Hearts; nevertheless, she was every inch a queen, and to prove it, she had her own castle with gargoyles, turrets, parapets, towers and what not. The kingdom’s …
The Hainan Island Incident of 2001 is overshadowed by events that happened later that year, but when it transpired, it set the then-still-nascent Internet abuzz. An American spy plane, which had been flying over a disputed section of the South China Sea, collided with a Chinese fighter jet and was forced to make an emergency …
I was going to research how manufactured homes are tied down, but realized before I typed the query into Google that I don’t have to think any more. Instead, I typed, How are manufactured homes anchored into Chat GPT, and this came out: Manufactured homes are anchored to the ground using a variety of methods, …
I recently tried out the new free AI chatbot, Chat GPT. When I began the task, I thought that the content would be Stepfordian. I believe that I was wrong. Text in italics is all computer generated, with no editing by me. Prompts are in bold. Chat GPT – Write a paragraph about managing mobile …
Moral Hazard, by Kate Jennings, is a book that was published to great reviews and moderate sales in 2002 and then sunk like a stone. You can pick it up for under five bucks now on Thriftbooks, but for a while you could buy it on Amazon for a penny plus shipping. It is the …
Brendan Behan made much of growing up in a tenement, but he did not say that his grandmother owned the building. Brendan’s mother’s mother, Christine English, was referred to as the Empress of Russell Street, because she owned several tenement houses there, each of which could hold up to a hundred people. Residents would come …
–Assume a water molecule. –Where am I? -Some AirBNB in central New York. -What time is it? –3:45 AM. –Can I take a piss, O Socrates? -Of course. -Can I get a drink? -What can you do with a quart of water molecules? -Drink, wash, flush the toilet, put out fires. -Where does a water …
A suite of flash fiction pieces titled “O Mangi Questa Minestra…” written by the staff at Dirtlease.com has been selected for the finals of the prestigious 2023 annual defenestrationism.net flash fiction contest. The winner is determined on the basis of fan voting. You can vote here, here or here (Newfies, Kerrymen, slow surfer dudes from …
Here’s a text a resident of my park in northern New York who I will call Maria Gutierrez recently sent to Mike, the manager of that park: Hi Mike, I really need your help. What do I have to do to take Casey off of this lease? I don’t want him here anymore. I have …
I got a ‘B’ in con law class, but I think that my reasoning is sound in the attached. Newfies, Kerrymen, and employees in the manufactured housing section of the title division of the DMV can click here.