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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...