Author Archives: billybaba
DECEMBER 6, TUESDAY
VISITING CAROLINE Tuesday I drove with my son, Tom and his wife, Kathy, to Raliegh to see my granddaughter Caroline and to attend a North Carolina State basketball game that they had gotten tickets for. Raleigh is the capitol of
DECEMBER 6, TUESDAY
VISITING CAROLINE Tuesday I drove with my son, Tom and his wife, Kathy, to Raliegh to see my granddaughter Caroline and to attend a North Carolina State basketball game that they had gotten tickets for. Raleigh is the capitol of
DECEMBER 5, MONDAY
EARNING A LIVING (2) Continuing with my employment history, after returning to the United States I attended the University of Iowa, where, again the tuition was very low and paid by my father. Kathe and married and both of use
DECEMBER 5, MONDAY
EARNING A LIVING (2) Continuing with my employment history, after returning to the United States I attended the University of Iowa, where, again the tuition was very low and paid by my father. Kathe and married and both of use
DECEMBER 4, SUNDAY
EARNING A LIVING The last time I thought of myself as earning money was when I worked on a crew that dug up septic tanks in Ithaca, New York in the summer of 1956 or 57. It was extremely hard
DECEMBER 4, SUNDAY
EARNING A LIVING The last time I thought of myself as earning money was when I worked on a crew that dug up septic tanks in Ithaca, New York in the summer of 1956 or 57. It was extremely hard
DECEMBER 3, SATURDAY
INDIAN VISA Todd, Susie and I have been traveling to Europe and India for 15 years. Years ago we got ten year visas to India which would allow us to come and go without having to apply for a visa,
DECEMBER 3, SATURDAY
INDIAN VISA Todd, Susie and I have been traveling to Europe and India for 15 years. Years ago we got ten year visas to India which would allow us to come and go without having to apply for a visa,
DECEMBER 1, THURSDAY
ANTICIPATING MUSSOORIE I was born on the Landour hillside section of Mussoorie in the Landour Community Hospital, in what is now the living room of a private house. I attended Woodstock School, which was then a red roofed missionary boarding
DECEMBER 1, THURSDAY
ANTICIPATING MUSSOORIE I was born on the Landour hillside section of Mussoorie in the Landour Community Hospital, in what is now the living room of a private house. I attended Woodstock School, which was then a red roofed missionary boarding
NOVEMBER 30, WEDNESDAY
SPELL CHECKER, IDENTITY CHECKER Another article on artificial intelligence. It is much more ubiquitous than I had thought. It is one thing for robots to take away the mind numbing assembly line type work that robots are doing. That threatens
NOVEMBER 30, WEDNESDAY
SPELL CHECKER, IDENTITY CHECKER Another article on artificial intelligence. It is much more ubiquitous than I had thought. It is one thing for robots to take away the mind numbing assembly line type work that robots are doing. That threatens
NOVEMBER 29, TUESDAY
CHARGPT This morning I was amazed that only 2 million years ago Greenland was a lush forest and that humans have only been here 100,000 years. But that is science which is a foreign country to me and I can
NOVEMBER 29, TUESDAY
CHARGPT This morning I was amazed that only 2 million years ago Greenland was a lush forest and that humans have only been here 100,000 years. But that is science which is a foreign country to me and I can
NOVEMBER 28, MONDAY
TRUST AND UNDERSTANDING I went to Asheville Retinal Associates to get the second injection into my eyeball to protect me for a blood clot in the back of my right eye. This time I was a little calmer than I
NOVEMBER 28, MONDAY
TRUST AND UNDERSTANDING I went to Asheville Retinal Associates to get the second injection into my eyeball to protect me for a blood clot in the back of my right eye. This time I was a little calmer than I
NOVEMBER 27, SUNDAY
CHANCE A second article in the Atlantic is about coincidences and chance and how we respond to it. One way to understand the universe and our place in it is that the universe is a result of an incomprehensible Big
NOVEMBER 27, SUNDAY
CHANCE A second article in the Atlantic is about coincidences and chance and how we respond to it. One way to understand the universe and our place in it is that the universe is a result of an incomprehensible Big
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 