Law firms were wrong to make deals with Trump

Trump doesn’t keep his word. Law firms were foolish and wrong to make a deal with him.

Instagram post on drunkest NFL fan bases

I’ve seen lots of people drinking at Ravens games. I would hate to imagine even drunker fan bases. I recall sitting next to a guy who went down to the concessions and came back with a beer. He still had a mostly full beer under his seat.

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More on AI hallucinations

Here’s an example of an AI hallucination. I tried to find a reference to the line about the “far-flung Isles of Langerhans” in the Firesign Theatre’s How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All, AI invented an album Isles of Langerhan. Langerhans really ends with an “s”.

See page 13 in this file for the reference:

EL310 Satire – Firesign Theatre Download

Instagram posts on Sparrows Point

When I moved to Baltimore in 1976, the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard located near the city was possibly the largest private employer in the area. It was eventually demolished.

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I worked in a local Social Security Office and interviewed many people who were retiring from Sparrows Point. Many of them didn’t have much education but clearly had worked hard and made a good living. They were making more than twice what I did at the time.

The guys who were born in rural parts of the South generally didn’t have birth certificates. We used Census records to establish their age. Their memories were very good. They could tell you where they had grown up and how far it was from the nearest town.

I remember one man who said he was born in 1914. I got the 1920 Census which showed he was 11. I had to get the 1910 Census and he was on it – one year old. I was sure he was born in 1909 and somehow had lost track of five years. He was 70 and doing physical labor at Sparrows Point. When I told him, his biggest concern was if it would affect his pension since they had a mandatory retirement age. I didn’t think so since he genuinely thought he was 65.