10/15/23 – There is nothing I can think that others aren’t perfectly capable of thinking.

There is nothing I can do that others aren’t perfectly capable of doing.

But that does not excuse me from thinking and doing.

 

10/16 – Our Flag Too.

 

10/18 – A more practical calendar, one that would remain the same every year, would be based on the numbers 13, 4, and 7.  It would contain 13 months, each with 4 weeks of 7 days, with 1 year-end day between December and January every year, and 1 leap day between June and July every four years.

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2/18/24 - I first published an article on this in 1980, and it has finally been recognized that English needs a gender-neutral pronoun.  Proposals have included “ve”, “xe”, “ze”, “per”, and others.  The most unfortunate term currently being used is “they”.  For example, facebook now reports that “Jane Smith recently updated their profile picture”, and writers stumble over whether “they” as a singular pronoun calls for the singular or plural verb form (“they was” or “they were”).  

 The most elegant and logical choice is “e”.  As cryptographers well know, it is the most frequently used letter in the English alphabet; however, it is not currently used as a word.  It could join the exalted ranks of “a” and “I” in English at the same time that it initiates a profound change in our concept of gender.  The complete declension is “e, er, ers, em”, derived from the third-person plural pronouns “they, their, theirs, them” by removing “th” and “i” or “y”.

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4/26 - I should be willilng to appeal to the same percentage of the population that supports public radio in Wisconsin, 1%.

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