I tried the new Coca Cola on/off button. It doesn’t work.
Author: pompilian tofilescu
ChatGPT and the nail
A friend writes on Facebook: “ChatGPT will replace our brains.” I reply: “The hammer didn’t replace our hand. It became an extension of the hand whenever we drive in a nail.”
Michigan left
After living in Michigan for 8 years I still have this existential dilemma – what’s the correct way of doing a Michigan left: right turn, u turn and go straight, or go straight, u turn and right turn… 🤪
A definition of silence
I have some twenty old radios, some with vacuum tubes, some with transistors, bought at the flea market. One day, I imagine arranging them along the walls of a room, its windows flung wide open to let in the noise of the city. Then I would switch them on and tune each one to a… Continue reading A definition of silence
A new Bible
I hear the doorbell at last and rush to open it, full of hope. They’re evangelists; last time they were Jehovah’s Witnesses. I tell them not to give me any brochures and ask whether they have a Bible. One of them does. I invite them in, make tea, take out the tin box of Danish… Continue reading A new Bible
Baldanders
Borges said: he is Baldanders and thereupon takes the forms of a man, of an oak tree, of a sow, of a fat sausage, of a field of clover, of dung, of a flower, of a blossoming branch, of a mulberry bush, of a silk tapestry, of many other things and beings, and then, once… Continue reading Baldanders