An Ode to the Ticket Stub On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single game — an NBA1 record to this day. Why discuss basketball on a World Cup post? Because 100,000 people say they attended that game, but the venue sat less than 5,000 . So how do you differentiate the eyewitnesses from the liars? Easy: ticket stubs. ...
Preface This post ended up much longer than I’d thought it be. This document is part journal, part armchair philosophy, and part soapbox. More directly, this is a snapshot of my thinking before I start a new chapter: content creation. Much has been written about content, but I’ll condense my opinion to one phrase: content creators are the used car salesmen of the Information Age. That is, morals and ethics go out the window for the sake of money. While a used car salesmen employs dirty tactics to sell you a rundown car, content creators shamelessly publish whatever gets them views, likes, sponsorship, etc. Examples of this are endless, but Ross Creations’ possum launcher is an obvious one. ...
AI1 is ruining writing. I don’t mean how AI slop is polluting the internet. I don’t mean how our reliance on them is degrading our skills . I mean flesh and blood writers avoiding certain patterns to duck AI-use accusations. The most common one: the em dash. The New York Times defended the em dash better than me . My gripe is the unexpected burden AI has put on humans — proving they are human. ...
Split. If you’re a dancer, you probably thought of someone, hips to the ground, with their legs parallel to each other. If you’re a runner, you might have thought of your pace at each mile in a marathon. If you’re a bowler, you might have thought of the dreaded 7-10 split. Same word. Different meanings. Language is like that. Its imprecision can leave things ambiguous. Artists can use this to great effect in novels, poems, plays, etc. ...