Save the planet – shop local!

Evanston RoundTable, April 18, 2024 Local stores can and do re-invest in the community, something the online behemoths don’t. “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem,” we Boomers liked to pontificate back in the day. Fast forward to April 22, the 54th anniversary of the first Earth Day. It’s a […]

AI rewrote my novel – and it was awful!

Evanston RoundTable, July 26, 2023 The humor magazine National Lampoon published a cover story in 1971 headlined “Pornography: Threat or Menace?” Today they may want to rephrase it: “AI: Havoc or Chaos?” That mock hysteria sums up a lot of recent scare stories regarding artificial intelligence, which last year gave us the intriguing ChatGPT. You […]