The Lone Prairie Blog

I’ve had my share of lovely, soft thoughts. Often, they occur while out for a summer walk. Rarely do they occur while driving. Sometimes...

East Jesus, California desert. Image © Julie R. Neidlinger. For funsies, I went over to Grok and asked it who I was. One should never get their identity from AI, but if you must, it ought to be one that uses current and real-time information and is not prone to BS and ideology. 1 Asking AI who you are is probably the current form of ego-surfing, that oddly uncomfortable act of doing internet searches on your name to see what comes up and discover what others have said or lea

While at a conference with a friend, we discussed some of the talk about DEI that we'd been overhearing. Much of it started off with...

Scrapbook of ham radio communications. Image © Julie R. Neidlinger. All rights reserved. The Book: 101 Science Fiction Stories , edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, and Jenny-Lynn Waugh with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. Published by Avenel Books, New York, 1986. Story #1: “Cinderella, Inc.” by Christopher Anvil (page 61) In some future age, people pay thousands of dollars to Cinderella, Inc., a company with a secretive medical procedure that turns you into so

When I was a high school senior we were allowed to have a school dance at the gym but because there was no budget for a DJ our principal,...

Insurance companies are requiring people to use Omada in order to get their GLP-1 prescriptions filled. Is that appropriate?