The Lone Ranger

As this blogger was scrolling the news on Sunday, May 21, the first notice was that former Hawai‘i State Senator Sam Slom had passed away. Over the next couple of days, more recollections and reflections on Sam came out, reminding everyone that a generation of political actors are passing away. The loss hit as others who have been part of the Hawai‘i Republican Party, which was respected in the general ...
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In principle, and then formally

This blog’s last post on the 22nd of April entitled “Silent and silence” suggested that as of April 10, 2023, the national emergency over COVID was over and done with. This had to do with the passage of a Joint Resolution in Congress, signed by President Biden, that ended the emergency. And then this blogger wrote that he was surprised that there was very little fanfare over the end of ...
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Silent and silence

It started so silently that there was not even a notice in the paper, or at the clinic door. It happened when this blogger went to his physical therapist appointment at the clinic on April 6, 2023. In walking through the hallways, a sight came upon that was startling…a fellow patient in the clinic not wearing a surgical mask. Thinking about how strict everyone has been about wearing masks in ...
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ChatGPT/Bard…a writer’s perspective

As this blogger has been recuperating from rotator cuff surgery since the middle of March, the discussion on the viability of ChatGPT, and now Google’s effort in Bard, has only increased in a very short amount of time. ChatGPT, or Chat “generative pre-trained transformer” is an artificial intelligence chatbot. A chatbot has been used for a while, especially in customer service applications, in which a “bot” taking the form of ...
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Why Rep. Pierick tested the D-line

If you are a football fan, and watch every play, every once in a while, there is a play that you ask “what was that all about?”. For this writer, it usually is one where the quarterback will try to run the ball through the defensive line and maybe gain a yard, rather than throw the ball for longer yardage. In looking at the strategy, one could say that what ...
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