I am educated in the Western Classical Tradition, B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in Latin and Greek, English major, one year at U. of Toronto, studied under Alain Renoir and Northrop Frye, read most classics full time for many years after university in French, English, Latin and Greek to the modern day. I am interested in the near future of technology, what changes it imposes upon our heritage and character as humans. Short stories and Essays are my medium.
8 May 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I turned to my new wards: "Let's go back and see if there are other survivors. Perhaps some escaped into the woods. How big was your clan?" "Eight, 'sides us. Lil shoud'nt see whats done to t'others." "Well she can sit in my truck until we return....
6 May 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I continued my journey over the following days at a leisurely pace, scenic vistas and park campgrounds my only stops, the smaller the highway the better. I had detailed maps for every region. They were still to be found in every deserted gas stati...
3 May 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My long and disastrous relationship with Dora had taught me to always be on the lookout for subliminal influences, that is, mind control in all its various forms, from overt, brain-blinding, delusional spells to the sweet and slight persuasive whi...
3 Dec 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This is a continuation of my science fiction novel AI. The links to the rest of it are below. Sorry for the eight month gap in continuing it, but work and a serious back injury got in the way. This time we set out at a faster pace along the 90 a...
17 Oct 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I've never had a babysitter. I don't know what that experience would be like, some strange or half familiar girl six or eight years older than me, regulating my few hours between dinner and bed, like an omnipotent queen, making my dinner and command...
28 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
When I was young and in my early twenties, I mean, after having spent five years studying at the fine academy of Berkeley in California in the seventies and read so many great books by great authors, (many of them not assigned by any course I took b...
26 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
What I love about this site is that articles you write about people or topics far away in time or space can elicit replies, totally unexpected, from others where you've touched a sensitive chord of affinity. This just happened to me, where a...
24 Sep 2024 3 minute read 4 comments Diomedes
Just finished reading an interesting new submission on multitasking. Here is an excerpt and my thoughts on it. Many researchers point out that what we call multi-tasking is, in fact, tasks switching. For example, in it is pointed out that: “Multit...
17 Sep 2024 1 minute read 5 comments Diomedes
I've been thinking long and hard on some possible purpose we might all share which will unite all of our warring factions to a peaceful and combined effort worthy of our intellect. We've come this far from apes and are now on the frontiers of sp...
