Near the end of his life the famous French novelist Gustave Flaubert, said that he had lived for decades in an ivory tower, writing his books, but, .....a sea of shit has been beating at the base of the tower and I'm afraid it has worn down its foundation.. That's the quote as best I … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | For Madmen Only | The hidden ending in Herman Hesse’s novel Steppenwolf
Trying to rescue my books | Free PDF download of the novel Skol
Once again I find myself regretting the lack of posts here. This is still connected with my new book, Autism dreaming, but not because I'm still writing. The book's first draft was finished in January. What's going on now is hard to explain. My three previous books - The Birdcatcher (2006, 2016), The Shyness Guide (2013, 2017), and Skol (2019) … Continue reading Trying to rescue my books | Free PDF download of the novel Skol
Returning to this world
It's hard to believe I haven't done a post here for 2 months. I won't go into all the reasons -there are too many. One of them was a pair of tax disputes with CRA (Canada's tax people) - an unreal world if there ever was one - where I represented myself alone, since a … Continue reading Returning to this world
Rescuing the Future | The attack on Salman Rushdie | his book Joseph Anton
The attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday......was a shock to me, but not a surprise.
Rescuing Nature | Let’s leave wild pigs alone | these unrecognized gardeners of the planet
Here in Ontario, Canada, farmers and naturalists are alarmed about the frequent sightings of wild pigs in the southern part of the province. We're being asked to report any sightings so the authorities can go after them quickly, since experience in the USA has shown that they must be eliminated immediately. So there were a … Continue reading Rescuing Nature | Let’s leave wild pigs alone | these unrecognized gardeners of the planet
Rescuing the Future | Artificial Intelligence | Humanizing robots and Dehumanizing humans
In all our programming, in all our obstacle-detection logic built into the LISP code, we had never accounted for this... possibility – man kicking robot to show off to girlfriend.
A New Alan Conrad
Until today, whenever you visited this site, the photos you met of Alan Conrad were dishonest. That is, they were five years old, taken when I was age 70. I've been feeling guilty about this deception, so I've finally produced new ones. So whatever you see from now on is the authentic me, in 2021. … Continue reading A New Alan Conrad
Death and Remembering | My wife Merle is gone
Almost as soon as I said I was back here, I had to leave. My wife Merle went in the hospital on May 16, where her condition steadily grew worse. I was going to include a rant here about the current Ontario government's attempts to erode the Canadian healthcare system, in our case depriving Merle … Continue reading Death and Remembering | My wife Merle is gone
I’m back | The trauma of moving and saying goodbye | hope for the future
What would you think of a 74 year-old man who set out on the hardest, longest, most traumatic undertaking of his life? One that would physically and mentally exhaust him, and render him, after it was over, unable to think straight or do anything constructive for days? For the past two months I've been unable … Continue reading I’m back | The trauma of moving and saying goodbye | hope for the future
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