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   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 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 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,...

     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     Copied and Photoshopped Deep Fake Photos    Not that anyone cares, but certain “news” feeds on the Internet continue to mislead readers with clickbait gambits to lure them into informational stories that have nothing to do with...

On the road…again!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Hectarage   The stimulus to attempt another chronicle of the Essays variety owes its impetus to both a previous posting on social media and to a dream about that posting.  Hectarage, as the purported major factor in the...

On the road…again!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek                                                                               ...