by vrtapscott | Jul 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
My original title was ‘Is Religion Dying Out’, but I thought that was really too inflammatory, and not the reason I was writing. I believe that our ‘regular’ religions continue strong, although I think some of the same problems I detail below haunt the major...
by vrtapscott | Jul 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
So, today is “Don’t Step on a Bee” day. This could be a blessedly simple and short blog today, but you never know what I’m going to wander into. After all, I was almost sucked into writing about ‘Clerihew’ poetry, since it’s also National Clerihew Day. A sample...
by vrtapscott | Jul 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
I was reading a book by Lawrence Schoen (The Conroyverse, which is great!) and came across some interesting data regarding the unlikelyhood of you ever having been born. That all these factors came together that gave you some infinitesimal chance of existing. Now, I...
by vrtapscott | Jun 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
So, today’s garbage day. It’s an interesting concept, where we simply put anything nasty or dead or rotten into this box by the curb and it magically goes away. It reminds me of a joke about the ‘magic coffee table’ where you leave your chip bags, your crumbs, your...
by vrtapscott | Jun 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
How Intelligent is that? For those not familiar with the term, just a reminder that AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. Basically a computer brain that seems to be human. If you’ve read any of my science fiction books, you know what AI is – AI is Olive, and...
by vrtapscott | Jun 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
So, here we’ve arrived at another writing post! Note the exclamation point, whereby I’m going to whip up your enthusiasm in listening to this… It’s funny, I was actually sitting here deciding what to write about this time when I came across (all right, technically I...
by vrtapscott | May 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Once upon a time I read a book named “Eat This, Not That”. It was about the alternatives to different foods, like they might show a cheeseburger from some major company that wound up with like twelve million calories, and then they’d show one from the same menu or a...
by vrtapscott | May 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
I mean, is it really? Give me a break! Ok, so I collect black pens. I think they look neat. So, every time I get a chance to pick up a black pen (advertising pens, store pens, celebrity pens, ‘really cool looking’ pens) I do. So, now I have a box full of black pens....
by vrtapscott | May 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
What happens to books that were only electronic? I just finished a five-book series called “The Faerene Apocalypse”. It has to do with a generally benign invasion from the fantasy world across the ‘veil’ and their intent is to save Earth from being invaded by the...
