On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Bloggers and Their Intellectual Property, Courtesy of AI AI isn’t going away, so we all better learn how to use it to our advantage without stepping on booby traps and embarrassing ourselves. Full disclosure: the Footloose Forester...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek The US Postal Service Has a Few Problems This is not a normal Chronicles of a Footloose Forester posting, but readers will get the point. It may get filed under the Humor category of chronicles. Nonetheless,...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Fli Li on the Menu Backpackers at the youth hostel in Calcutta were eager to share information about places to stay and what to eat in Bangkok. They were headed west and the Footloose Forester was...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek From Generalities to Specifics The essential transition from generalities to specifies is one reason why the Footloose Forester demands of himself to look beyond the big picture in science-based issues, to the underlying factors that lead to...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Questions and Answers About Wild Grasses The impetus to create today’s chronicle came from the website Quora.com, to which the Footloose Forester is a subscriber and contributor. If there is a life lesson in...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek At Least Copilot Has a Sense of Humor In the continuing quest to ascertain the strengths and weaknesses of Artificial Intelligence systems, the Footloose Forester frequently asks the same question of Copilot, in both...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek The Grapevine Walking Stick Moving along at age 87, the Footloose Forester has a cane or two handy, just in case. He prefers to call them walking sticks because even young hikers use walking sticks but youths are...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek 243 ways to know Il n'est jamais trop tard pour apprendre Nunca es demasiado tarde para aprender Es ist nie zu spät zu lernen Li pa janm twò ta pou aprann ʻaʻole loa e...
On the road…again!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Where Was Warland, Montana? Only with the evolution of geospatial markers and the gradual adoption of digital geographic coordinates was it possible for the Footloose Forester to finally stamp “mission completed” on the precise location of (historical)...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Copilot in Think-Deeper Mode Says ... The link above (in a coded blue font) should give you an 11-page biography of Dick Pellek, as requested by the author himself. He was not expecting such depth and...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Decimal Geographic Coordinates, a Chronicle Update As GPS coordinates become more important in locating lost hikers and downed airplane pilots, the Footloose Forester wanted his readers to know that decimal geographic coordinates are more convenient and easier to...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Learning From Experts If we don’t learn something from the experts who are willing to teach us, then we are missing opportunities to be our better selves. Well-reasoned advice, in the opinion of the Footloose Forester,...
On the road...again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Demise of Donald B. Overrocker You don’t get to know many people well in Basic Training, and that was true for Overrocker. The short period of a couple of months saw us together on five-mile...
On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Musings by E-Mail One of these days the musings that have been piling up in the email archives of the Footloose Forester may get collected into a single document called Musings by E-Mail. The collection would not necessarily serve...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Déjà Vu and Cognitive Dissidence, All Over again Youse guys and gals out there, the ones wit da big vocabularies, might get a chuckle or two about how dis jerk who calls himself the Footloose Forester...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Street Smarts vs. Books Smart(Debate with Self) As the first person in his family to attend college, the Footloose Forester had to seek counsel from teachers and upperclassmen at Rutgers for advice about getting along, how...
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Claude Focuses on Deeper Desires of Inquiries The Footloose Forester asks: what snark is footloose forester up to today? (FF input to Claude) Claude responds: Edit I'll search for recent content from...
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Langouste and Turtle Eggs for Breakfast Without the dreams, conjuring up a chronicle these days becomes more infrequent. Usually, the dreams are only stimuli to pen a chronicle but they contain enough clear...
On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek 3 Rattlesnakes, 1 Eyelash Viper, and a King Cobra At times it takes the threads of eidetic fragments of memory to stitch together a chronicle that is worth putting on paper. The dream...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Fake News and Fake History Today, AI inadvertently becomes complicit in political controversy. When the Footloose Forester wanted to check on the timeliness of Copilot (an AI program) responses, in his 25 August 2025 posting on Facebook,...
