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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 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!!!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...

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     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  On Geezering   Young whippersnappers probably don’t like to be referred to that way, especially by old geezers who defensively show their maturity by the sounds of their creaky bones and by their yellowing teeth.  That is, if they...

On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     An Open Letter to Copilot, With Revisions   My sincere apology to you, Copilot if I have offended your sensibilities.  When in the past I have taken issue with the disadvantages and pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence, I...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek  Chinese Party Balloon  The humor category of Chronicles of a Footloose Forester is pretty skimpy, not that there is no humor in the world. Lest the world forgets, however; more than a few comedians have enough gravitas to make us laugh at ourselves...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Fuzzy Wuzzy Was A Bear   Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy Was he?   2nd Grade Teacher:  “Now children, for your homework I want you to go home and re-construct this...

On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek    Tongue in Cheek, Pen in Hand   For some time now, the Footloose Forester has wanted to add a humorous chronicle to his collection of seminal musings. In the LegacyStories.org website that serves as his preferred archive, his...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Bucket Lists     Oftentimes it takes a trigger for us to reflect on our own views, opinions, and actions.  Forming those views and opinions are the raw ingredients leading to intended actions.  Mostly we keep views to ourselves until...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   The Bug Zapper     Not many people who lived in the valley where the Saó Jorge dos Orgaós research station was located had electric power.  In fact, it would be accurate to say that the only people who had...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek    The Parody Defense   Only once in a while does the forgotten, third-rate would-be crafter of parody who calls himself the Footloose Forester get a response to his missives. He would prefer kudos but, alas, when the infrequent responses come,...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Smoking or Non-Smoking? Many moons have risen and set since the last time that the Footloose Forester was in the mood to write a chronicle that belongs in the Humor genre, with an unstated theme of “you just can’t make...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Fantastic Sale - Moral Compass   Own a piece of history.             Order your very own Moral Compass.                         Designed and field tested in the USA.                                     Made in China by factory representatives of noted fabricators.                                                 Don’t miss out. ...

As a child my family, like most American families at the time, would take a road trip somewhere during our vacation, stopping in various places along the way.  This time my parents took my sister and myself to Canada, with the obligatory stop at Mount Rushmore along the way. Once in...

I've always had a complicated relationship with horses.  I love them but that doesn't mean they necessarily liked me back.  I think they can tell I don't really know what I'm doing.  One time I was on a trail ride.  Mom was paying for horseback riding lessons.  We only went a...