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.
25 May 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
How 'Genius' finds the strangest lodgings. I lived in Puerto Rico for six years and completed close to sixty electrical buildouts of commercial stores. Only one was a disaster, not just for me but for every contractor involved. It was a large new ma...
22 May 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Consciousness is our ability to perceive and to think. Some people have it to an astonishing degree. Others, the plurality of people, have it to a lesser extent and those at the far end of this spectrum are downright slow, dull and stupid mortals, th...
18 May 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This is an essay on noble deeds, examples of them. We don't use this term very often these days, so some explanation is in order. To be 'noble' is to be 'high-minded', to be kind and understanding above the norm, to be generous in some act that invol...
14 May 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The following happened in Puerto Rico in 1997. The company Mickey and I worked for as foremen for two years , which I helped build from the start, declared bankruptcy, not by lack of talent on our part but by our thieving manager, swindled out of...
26 Mar 2022 7 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Why I write. A portion of the picture ‘the student’ a pseudo Rembrandt. First of all, to simplify this complex question to a stranger, I’ll start by clearing away some debris, the common motives that many people will suspect, because these are the...
24 Mar 2022 40 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I've started a 'part two' and in the first chapter a Russian invasion of our country which I think you'll enjoy. Two years later It was quite a joy to begin repopulating a world that had almost rid itself of mankind. We set to it with a gusto and...
22 Mar 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Previous Chapter ... Montreal and gas The Suncor refinery Montreal. suncor In the following weeks the game plan went into full gear. Sheila and her contingent were escorted to Montreal and started reparations, almost around the clock, Sheila wit...
20 Mar 2022 24 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Previous Chapter ... A Campus restored Our state of affairs was finally starting to look up, the State of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire in pa...
17 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Humans design computers and computers carry out what we call algorithms, complex calculations factoring in as many variants and possibilities as we can imagine. We allow them to trade for us in microseconds. We give them ever greater influence over o...
16 Mar 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
For all my 'doom and gloom' essays of what's to come, my philosophical comparisons of wealth and poverty or reflections upon different ages, the dangers of technology, its advantages and costs, or any other complex question I've endeavored to dissect...
