“Between me and the machine, there is no estrangement. I am the machine…”
Author: Louis Cannon
Underrated writer Louis Cannon grew up in the vast American West, although his ex-wife, given the slightest opportunity, will deny that he ever grew up at all. You can read more stories on his Substack account.
READY, FIRE, AIM: Sir Isaac Newton Ruined My Life
Here’s a oil portrait of my (distant) relative, posing in his bathrobe at age 46…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Through a Glass, Darkly
Here is the “Global Trends” logo, that appears on page 2 of the report, and which I personally think would make a great logo for a video game…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Greenest State in the Known Universe
I’ve never been to Vermont, but I’ve been to a lot of other states, and I’ve always thought Colorado was the “Greenest State”. WalletHub, however, ranked Colorado as number 17…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Am I Suffering From Cave Syndrome?
Yes, I will admit, I’m “attached to the anxiety of uncertainty.” That’s not an entirely new thing…
READY, FIRE, AIM: How Many T. Rexes Were There?
Here’s an imaginative illustration of a Tyrannosaurs Rex, in a bad mood…
READY, FIRE, AIM: My Fear of Extraterrestrials, Explained
For one thing, people generally have the mistaken notion that “aliens”will look like slightly deformed humans…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Variants… Infectious and Otherwise
We’ve been hearing, lately, about “variants” with names like B.1.1.7 (United Kingdom)… B.1.351 (South Africa)… P.1 (Brazil)… B.1.1.207 (Nigeria)… B.1.427 and B.1.429 (United States)…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Game is Rigged
Mr. Mechanic didn’t use too many foreign words in his actual article, and all the words over two syllables were pretty familiar to me. Like, “entitlement”. Everybody is using that word, nowadays…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The World Has Become Too Complicated
When I was a kid, my mom handled the shopping duties for the family. All the bread was shaped the same. All the Crisco cans were the same size…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Why Do We Procrastinate?
“Tomorrow” is way too soon. Certain things can wait almost forever. And deserve to…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Interview with the Easter Bunny
“Yes, I know; that’s hard to believe. 50 billion colored eggs. And that doesn’t include the chocolate eggs or the marshmallow chicks and ducks…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: I Totally Missed April Fools Day
It got so bad that the First Day of Spring was being celebrated on April 1. That’s when Pope Gregory XIII decided he’d had quite enough of this nonsense…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Romance of All-Day Protection
I’m thinking about protection this morning, because some forms of protection have a time limit…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Ultimate Goal of Human Existence
Those of us blessed with a healthy dose of skepticism will argue that just making it through the day, well-fed and alive, is not the primary goal of human existence…
READY, FIRE, AIM: What Happened to My Shoes?
Above is a photo of a cargo ship owned by Chidori Ship Holding LLC — the ONE Apus — capable of carrying 14,000 twenty-foot cargo containers…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Women’s History Month, 2021
The biggest changes, however, took place when women began to graduate from colleges with degrees in history, and history books began to acknowledge that women existed…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Elites… Good, Bad, and Ugly
What everybody doesn’t know is that it’s an empirical inevitability that Elites — through their accumulated wealth — will rule your country, whether you live in the US, or China, or Russia, or Egypt…
READY, FIRE, AIM: To Meat or Not to Meat, That is the Question
We can wipe the carbon out of our footprints, any day of the week and twice on Sunday. And we can prevent animal cruelty, if we happen to be suffering from “meat guilt”…