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.
26 Jun 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We didn’t even try to make it home that night. Ted and I loaded up the tank in the dark and drove some forty miles north, to a small town and the nearest motel, worn out from only a few hours of sleep the night before. The next morning with clear...
24 Jun 2023 5 minute read 3 comments Diomedes
We did just that. Ted and Sarah stayed up with me late into the night. This was because each rescue plan we considered had many more chances of a disastrous ending than success. The element of surprise was out since Ted and his party had escaped a...
22 Jun 2023 3 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
There was a diner in this town and parked in front of it Ingrid recognized two of our farm trucks. We rushed in and found Ted sitting at a table with his two children, his boy now twelve and his daughter sixteen. There was another young couple wit...
20 Jun 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The next morning we parked our horses in the nearest fenced field, borrowed the nearest truck and drove south at full speed. Our road approach would take us to the farm first. But just as a precaution I decided to use my old tactic. I stopped the...
19 Jun 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Sarah, though ten years younger than me, became my new crutch through these wanderings and adventures together, through all our long, late-night talks. She had taken the place of Dora in my life as my love, as Dora abandoned any interest in me sin...
18 Jun 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Dora didn’t finish programming Pan until a full week after we completed the other three. She'd come up with a slightly altered plan in his design and was able to fit another petabyte of hard drive into his guts. Dora requested that we perform the...
16 Jun 2023 5 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Juliet After the six day trip across the Pacific we found the lab just as we’d left it and set to work. We had all the components to make four more Dora-like beings and the robots were already there, all female of course and lovely. While Ted and...
15 Jun 2023 2 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
The next morning we sped away, hours before our late night poker players could possibly wake up. Once again this surreptitious departure took a toll on me. It seemed like this was becoming a theme in my life, from my first flight into the woods wi...
14 Jun 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Once again I realized that we’d struck out in finding any useful additions to our colony. Since it was already late afternoon and there were no towns along the highway heading east for many hours, I took them up on there offer of staying the night...
14 Jun 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Our destination of Phoenix took us through Las Vegas and Sarah, coming from a small town in Oregon, requested that we stop or at least drive slowly through this ‘wonder of the world’. So I steered our vehicle down the main drag at a snail’s pace....
