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Snark as a Gambit to Critique AI

Snark as a Gambit to Critique AI
On the road…again!!!   Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams   Chronicles of a Footloose Forester    By Dick Pellek     Snark as a Gambit to Critique AI       One category in the Chronicles of the Footloose Forester has recently become an archive about Artificial Intelligence.  AI already “knows” about...
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Flipping the Bird

Flipping the Bird
On the road, again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    Flipping the Bird  It took an Internet newsfeed story to spark this attempt at a chronicle based on a similar gesture, both acted out some decades ago.  The Internet story in early 2025 was...
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I'm Going To Ditch Worry

I'm Going To Ditch Worry
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   I’m Going To Ditch Worry   When a family member mentioned being worried about the future, the Footloose Forester asked her to ditch the worrisome thoughts and program her thinking with a positive attitude.  He...
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Artificial Intelligence Is Capricious

Artificial Intelligence Is Capricious
    On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Artificial Intelligence Is Capricious   It would be a great temptation to use the whole of AI source material as a quick, easy way to answer a question, inspire a nascent theme, or create...
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Manna From The Heavens

Manna From The Heavens
On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Manna From The Heavens   Unless you are a biblical scholar, chances are that your understanding of the Bible has lots of gaps about some specific passages and circumstances that you have never personally experienced. ...
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The Two Lakh Homeless of Bombay

The Two Lakh Homeless of Bombay
On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   The Two Lakh Homeless of Bombay     A chronicle about a strange city after dark, remembered from the window seat of a public bus at night, and daydreamed after a passage of 55 years…well it...
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Inspirational Memes

Inspirational Memes
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Memes Can Be Inspirational   Creating memes is a modern way of making a point without spending a lot of time or risk losing the potential audience.  Memes as reproductions of classical quotations are...
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Tags and Links Create Networks

Tags and Links Create Networks
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Tags and Links Create Networks   A string of related blogs is a useful way to search and research the characteristics of personal writing styles and to quickly understand what inspires and moves some...
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People Who Mattered

People Who Mattered
  On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Self-Quiz About People Who Mattered   In an exercise of introspection about who and how some people in his life influenced him, the Footloose Forester first started with a copied list of salient issues...
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Round Pegs and Square Holes

Round Pegs and Square Holes
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Round Pegs and Square Holes     PhD Committee: Now, Candidate for the PhD, I want you to give this committee your views on the idea of putting round pegs in square holes and square pegs in...
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What Copilot Knows About You

What Copilot Knows About You
On the road…again!!!   Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams   Chronicles of a Footloose Forester    By Dick Pellek       What Copilot Knows About You, A Function Of What Is Asked     In everyday life, the answers you get depend upon what you ask, and who you ask.  With...
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Pluggers, Like You

Pluggers, Like You
On the road…again!!!   Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams   Chronicles of a Footloose Forester    By Dick Pellek     The Pluggers     The Pluggers in life have been my own chosen groupies.  They know that they are not elite, highly skilled, ultra talented, or the fastest runners on the...
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A Solitary Tree is Not a Lonely Tree

A Solitary Tree is Not a Lonely Tree
On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     A Solitary Tree Is Not a Lonely Tree   When casual visitors to Internet sites mention planting trees as a useful practice, the whole gamut of their past experience and current expectations may come...
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A Vision From Heaven

A Vision From Heaven ***   ­No Body, No Wings   The Vision Couldn’t Be Seen by Eye   But Through My Humbled Mind   A Beautiful Spirit of Color   That Floated Tirelessly, From Here to There   From its Bottom, Stars Sparkled   And Bright Lights Shone Through  ...
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Hectarage

Hectarage
On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Hectarage   The stimulus to attempt another chronicle of the Essays variety owes its impetus to both a previous posting on social media and to a dream about that posting.  Hectarage , as the purported...
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On Deceptions

On Deceptions
On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   On Deceptions   Many of the games and puzzles one finds on the Internet are enticing time wasters.  And they are usually rife with hidden hacks, deceptions, and subterfuges that promote in us a sense...
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On Smiles

On Smiles
On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    On Smiles   If you are curious about where you might look to personally see almost everybody smiling, you might try a Catholic church, just after the priest says, “Let us show one another a...
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Dear AI,

Dear AI,
On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek                                                                         ...
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Chinese Party Balloon

Chinese Party Balloon
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Chinese Party Balloon     The humor category of Chronicles of a Footloose Forester is pretty skimpy, not that there is no humor in the world. Lest the world forgets, however; more than a few comedians have...
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Espionage and Transparency

Espionage and Transparency
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Espionage and Transparency Espionage Espionage, spying or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of ... The on-line dictionary definition...
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