There’s an acronym in computer science called GIGO, it stands for Garbage In, Garbage Out. It means that if your process uses a flawed input, the output will also be flawed. There are three things that people tend to confuse. Those are, data, information and knowledge. It’s important that everyone
I travelled to Montreal once. Well, several times actually. It’s a nice city. But, I always found being there to be a bit unsettling. There’s something slightly off about it. It’s like being in an American city, but not quite. The street signs don’t look like they should, some of
The only way you’re going to take anything away from reading this is if you can have empathy for your fellow Americans. Being the curious guy that I am, I did a bit of research and found that lack of empathy is one of the major indicators of psychopathy. And,
If you want to slowly change your environment, you use air conditioning. But what if you wanted to slowly change an entire country? Yesterday, I was in the parking lot of our local range, waiting for it to open. A guy about my age came up and started talking with
In 2017, Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota stated that the rural (Republican) areas in Minnesota are “mostly rocks and cows.” In August of last year, he said that the Minnesota National Guard was made up of “19-year-olds who are cooks.” Rural Minnesotans have a wry sense of humor. They took
The year 2020 will go down in history as the year that about half of Americas lost their minds. OK, maybe they didn’t entirely lose the ability to think rationally but they certainly lost the ability to think for themselves. Why do you suppose that is? I have an explanation.
There’s a line in an old Creedence song that goes like this, “I see the bad moon a-rising. I see trouble on the way.” I see it too. In three weeks, either President Trump will have won his second term, or Joe Biden will have successfully stolen the election. In
A while back I talked about how no one person is capable for speaking the entire black community. Not Jesse Jackson, not Al Sharpton nobody. That’s because there is no such thing as a “black community”. The population of black people in the U.S. is simply too diverse for any
There’s a term that a lot of people mispronounce. I don’t think they’re misusing it, because the context is generally correct, but the pronunciation is sometimes wrong. That term is “moot”. You’ll hear a lot of people pronounce it “mute”. As an adjective, the word “moot” means doubtful or irrelevant.
There’s a term that I hadn’t heard much before this year, and then I started hearing it a lot. That term is “gaslighting”. I didn’t understand what it meant so I did a little poking around. The term “gaslighting” comes from a 1938 play (and subsequent film adaptations) titled “Gaslight”.