On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek The Fairy Buckle Knot, In Evidence In high school, the future Footloose Forester often parroted the in-vogue expression, “You can’t fight city hall.” He was content with his clever rejoinder when he heard complaints by...
On the road …again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Pray tell, Copilot about the daily snark of the footloose forester? Copilot: Ah, the Footloose Forester’s daily snark—filtered...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Claude Discusses Pahoehoe Lava The multiple ways that AI can be used by interested questioners shines a bright light on the positive aspects of Artificial Intelligence. As one of his dream-induced prompts to craft...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Claude Checks Out The Saga of The Rainier Cherry Tree My deceased wife, known as the Bengal Tiger planted a few cherry pits in the back yard, back in 2004. The following year, a Rainier variety...
On the road...again!!!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Tiger Dao's Great Tomato Caper When Footloose Forester asked Copilot about why certain vegetables should be avoided, the helpful response was: ? Ah, the infamous “vegetable to avoid” ad—often more clickbait than culinary wisdom. But if...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Political Etymology Maybe you don’t follow politics closely, as perhaps most people would acknowledge. But politics follows you. Sometimes you can spot the tail, and sometimes you are not quite sure. The political stalkers don’t tell you...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Splitters Sometimes Speak Up As someone who stood under the branches of this tree in 1965, the Footloose Forester is delighted to see it again and to share a few details that tickles him, no end. ...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek On Making Candles at Home Said the walrus to the carpenter, “let us speak of many things; of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.” Those lines, spoken by the walrus in a Lewis...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Pass-Fail Those nagging dreams that end up clinging to the brain cells of the Footloose Forester are the type that sometimes result in a chronicle of the introspective variety. No snark, no levity, and no humor. As...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek The Javan macaques of Pulau Peucang Peter Vogel routinely sat in the waning sunlight with his field glasses and notebook to record what he thought was noteworthy about the monitor lizards that came into view. He was...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Snakes Alive In the ongoing quest to probe the efficacy and veracity of AI information sources, the Footloose Forester sought an AI response to questions to which he had personal knowledge. The questions and the AI response...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Mental Notes, Map Notes, and Aspirational Notes Somewhere in the back of his mind, the Footloose Forester usually had a plan, or planned to make a plan. The next destination might be the travel plan for next...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Chat gpt (and others) Create Their Own Fantasies When the Footloose Forester asked an AI program to describe a typical day of an alter-ego writer, this was the reply: A typical day...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek AI Thinks Some Snark Are GemsThursday, May 29, 20256:28 AM Some months ago, the Footloose Forester opened an archive about Artificial Intelligence, pursuant to learning how to use AI, but also about the expansiveness and limitations of...
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Snark as a Gambit to Critique AI One category in the Chronicles of the Footloose Forester has recently become an archive about Artificial Intelligence. AI already “knows” about the snarkery of Dick Pellek, aka the Footloose...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Indy Meets Dede at the Blue Lagoon (An Allegorical Tale) She was attractive and a bit mysterious, but Indy wanted to meet her and see where the relationship might go. There she was, admiring the sparking blue fountains...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Please Explain Yourself If someone asks you to “please explain yourself”, it is likely within a setting in which someone wants an answer to an issue that personally involved you. The one wanting or demanding an...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek This Batter Wears a Sombrero(Debate With Self) An unrequited debate, nay; an unstated debate that popped up in last night’s dream is all about softball. More specifically, it is about unlimited-arc, slow-pitch softball. Not many people relate...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Walter Van Tillburg Clark A quick word search of the name above would turn up references to an author whose most famous novel was The Ox-bow Incident. This impromptu chronicle is not about Clark, the author, but about...
On the road, again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Flipping the Bird It took an Internet newsfeed story to spark this attempt at a chronicle based on a similar gesture, both acted out some decades ago. The Internet story in early 2025 was short, a text...
