Looking Back at My First 10 Years of Retirement
by James Wallace Harris, 10/15/23 Friday was my 10th anniversary of retiring. I started work at Memphis State University in 1977 and retired from The University of Memphis in 2013. I hadn’t moved,...
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Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson – Review Part One
by James Wallace Harris Americans have general thought of America as a democracy, although it’s never been a true democracy. When the United States of America was first created a limited number of...
View ArticleI’m Too Dumb to Use Artificial Intelligence
by James Wallace Harris, 1/19/24 I haven’t done any programming since I retired. Before I retired, I assumed I’d do programming for fun, but I never found a reason to write a program over the last ten...
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Reading Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five at Ages 18, 55, and 72
by James Wallace Harris, 2/8/24 When I first read Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut back in 1970 I thought of it as an antiwar novel. The Vietnam War overshadowed everything back then, and I was...
View ArticleChatGPT Isn’t an Artificial Intelligence (AI) But an Artificial...
by James Wallace Harris, 2/12/24 This essay is for anyone who wants to understand themselves and how creativity works. What I’m about to say will make more sense if you’ve played with ChatGPT or have...
View ArticleA Painful Challenge to My Ego
James Wallace Harris, 2/26/24 I’m hitting a new cognitive barrier that stops me cold. It’s making me doubt myself. I’ve been watching several YouTubers report on the latest news in artificial...
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“At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play...
by James Wallace Harris, 3/4/24 My cousins and I on my mother’s side of the family occasionally exchange emails. There were sixteen of us first cousins, from five sisters. There are only nine of us...
View ArticleGrowing Old with Television
by James Wallace Harris Don’t you think it rather absurd that we’re conscious beings who have emerged into this fantastic reality for no reason that we can confirm and yet spend so much of our lives...
View Article46 Years of Marriage and Television
by James Wallace Harris, 4/8/24 Susan and I celebrated our 46th wedding anniversary on March 26th. To commemorate the event, I’ve given myself the task of remembering all the TV shows we’ve watched...
View ArticleBeing Remembered vs. Doing the Remembering
by James Wallace Harris, 4/12/24 My father died at age 49, so I always thought I would die young too. I share a lot of his physical qualities, including heart problems. However, at age 72, I feel like...
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