While I've always suspected it was so, last night I probed Gemini a bit to see if any of my writing has been used to train LLMs. The las...

♝ I accidentally discovered I can insert special characters into my blog posts. This sentence follows a pope hat.   Pope hat Pope hat Roly p...

Every once in a while, I search "Earl J. Woods" on the Internet to gauge my level of infamy. Fortunately, my infamy remains low, b...

More organized than usual.   

In 2014, we went back to Flin Flon and shot a photo of our old house.  A few years ago, not long after Dad died, I asked Mom if she remember...

Here I am with Mom sometime in the early 1970s. Green short pants and a yellow shirt--a juvenile supervillain in the making.   

  A little over 40 years ago, I co-hosted  If Your Parents Split . It's a half-hour show about children impacted by the divorce of their...

I picked up this wall-hanger thing for sixteen bucks and used it to display about 75% of my collection of buttons and pins dating from the 1...

 

Today Sylvia and I went to Leduc to check on Mom's house and take care of some estate matters. On the way home, perhaps because my mind ...

Note for readers: I have updated the "Most Popular," "Book, Film, Television, Food, and Concert Reviews" and "Short...

It was a windy day in Edmonton today, and while out on errands I spotted this precariously positioned streetlight right on our street. I cal...

For my 55th birthday, Bing showed me this vision of the future: a snapshot of my 551st birthday taken (or will be taken) on February 25, 252...

Left Sylvia's food at the drive-through after paying for it, got high-centred and stuck in the snow just before getting home (some folks...

For reasons unknown, my domain name somehow wasn't connecting to the actual address of my blog, so anyone who's tried to visit for t...

 I am writing today's post from an unusual angle. Normally I visit earljwoods.com to fashion each day's post, but today I get a ...

 Today, for the first time in years, I explored Blogger's back end and found a moderation tab. Curious, I opened it to find several comm...

 This afternoon and evening I filled a garbage bag full of junk, emptied a filing cabinet to create space for good stuff that's lying ar...

I haven't looked at the analytics of this blog for a long time. Google changed something so that they now pop up right away when I st...