All of this thinking about information, entropy, and what’s fundamental has been happening alongside something much closer to home, and in some ways, more real. So, I thought I’d share… In the last 3 months, I received the news that my half-sister, Jennifer and half-brother, Jack, both died. They died in their sleep. The cause…

Greetings! I have been on an intentional blogging hiatus and have not posted anything since last March. I did so because of the need I felt to focus on researching and learning about my latest intellectual passion, sometimes referred to as the physics of information. This is the somewhat flowery name for the theory that…

A brief description of the process I use to edit and publish my photos.

A brief introduction to cryptocurrency. Consider this a primer.

Me, trying to deal with the aftermath of emotions following Trump’s win.

A brief discussion of my attending a talk by Richard Dawkins.

In this post I describe the experience I had ingesting magic mushrooms for the first time in 50 years.

A memorial to my life-long friend, Tommy Johnson, from Duluth, Minnesota.

Wow, it’s been more than a month since my last blog post. I guess a lot has been going on, so I thought I’d drop this post just to share. As usual, Fall 2023 entered with what can only be described as someone flipping a switch! It’s like this every year. Two weeks ago we…

The following is another anecdote from my childhood This one has to do with the time I had a grade school teacher tell me a bald-faced lie, which I believed, and it probably altered the course of my life. I attended Duluth Sacred Heart grade school from kindergarten through 8th grade. Growing up I, like…