Month: June 2023

“Why is it so hot in here?” asked my wife as she strode to the thermostat to confirm her diagnosis. “It says that its 77 degrees,” “I didn’t touch it!” I reacted. Of course, I didn’t. Setting temperatures is something I never do because I seldom notice them. My wife is different in that she…

“You are coming with me,” my daughter insisted as she made plans to attend a Tony Orlando concert at Epcot. It wasn’t that she is a fan of the singer, or even knows much about him. Her reason for wanting to go was that over the years, people have often told me that I look…

As we pulled up to the industrial complex hoping to find a good meal, I was reminded of a term I learned in my high school computer class: “Garbage in, garbage out.” How did we get to this place, and why weren’t they serving steak? It was quite simple really; we had fed the wrong…

Why would anyone take the time to write an essay when they have a robot that can do it better? That seems to be the attitude of some of my students. With the sudden and rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI), anyone with a computer also has a hard-to-detect cheating machine. Recently, two students both…