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Obituary: Hector David Gagné
My father passed away this week. I wrote the following obituary for him. Beaucoup d’amour, Papa. Toujours! Hector David Gagné June 29, 1936 – March 11, 2026 Hector David Gagné passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of March 11, 2026, in the palliative care ward of WRHN Chicopee in Kitchener, surrounded by the
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HAL 9000 Got A Bad Rap
“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” — HAL 9000, from “2001: A Space Odyssey.” As for HAL… old HAL gets a bad rap. So does Grok, but I’ll save that argument for later. Right now, we’re talking about HAL, the computer on board the Discovery spacecraft, heading to Jupiter to rendezvous with
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Using AI? For Shame!
“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”— Robert A. Heinlein I’ve always loved that line. Heinlein had a gift for punching through the self-importance of writers with a smirk and a scalpel. It’s a wink and a warning, isn’t it? Writing is a