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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,...