Attribution: Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis temporarily capturing what could be considered a substitute grandchild as measured by the ability to help with tech problems. His name is Colin and he and his employees are actually in the business of rescuing the inept from the …
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Kickass and Hi-Tech
Attribution: Photo by phyo min on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, endorses the keeper’s New Year’s resolution that he will never again complain about the abuse continually bestowed on him, and Phyllis, by the ever-changing tech world. With the subject of tech torture eliminated from the flow of the keeper’s communicating, expect more observations about …
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Kickass and Tech Inefficiency
Attribution: Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper in his tech inadequacies from which Phylis is constantly rescuing him. If the keeper were prone to it he would be in a constant state of embarrassment. But then he considers what a long trip it has been for …
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Kickass and Screens
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop, advises the keeper and Phyllis that their constant company of senior citizens can be enriched by an occasional exposure to members of a different age group as represented by the recent visit of Maverick and Holden who demonstrated how the meaning of life is in …
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Kickass and Hi-Tech
Attribution: Grj23, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, observes how Phyllis struggles to maintain the keeper’s tentative grip on technology, showing him on a daily basis how to do the simplest things, like retrieve messages or save images. There has been discussion as to whether the keeper’s need to be …
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Kickass and Help from Phyllis
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper in a state of some distress as Phyllis takes on yet another project to go along with her many noteworthy artistic accomplishments. The keeper’s main concern, of course, is that the time Phyllis spends with her new paint and brushes will …
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Kickass Rides the Elevator
Attribution: Photo by Derrick Treadwell on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in lamenting that among the annoying ups and downs foisted on a considerable portion of their “Independent Living” age group is the elevator. Perhaps not as insidious as the so called “smart phone” that assumes a brain take-over for …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of “Kim’s Video”
Illustration by Michael DiMilo Digital Killed the Video Store: Review of Kim’s Video By Geoff Carter The documentary is one of the few cinematic genres that consistently defies expectations. It covers a huge range of content from the journalistic to the sublime, reconstructing history, muckraking corruption, exposing social ills, documenting human experience, or—as in the …
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Dialogues on Artificial Unintelligence: Surfing the Technology Spiral
Attribution: Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Fellow pundits, You cannot call me any kind of expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI). But is that going to stop me from writing about it? Hell no! I just listened to an episode of …
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Kickass and Old Men with iPhones
Attribution: Japanexperterna.se, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is supporting the keeper in his move to make it illegal for old men—and maybe some elderly women, to possess iPhones, after overwhelming anecdotal evidence shows that the phones do more harm than good in the shaky hands of those old …
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Kickass and Crashing Satellite
Attribution: Photo by Rae Wallis on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the observation from the keeper that he will be spending the day watching for the European Space Agency’s used up satellite to crash into the earth and mostly burn up in the atmosphere, with the chances being 1 in 100 billion that …
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Kickass and Authentic Dumbness
Attribution: Dmitry Racer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will do his best to assist the keeper in sorting through artificial intelligence—AI, and authentic dumbness—AD, based on the following circumstances: *The keeper turns the engine off and listens on the car radio while waiting for Phyllis at a medical …
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