Utah’s So-So Salt Lake

True, it once was known as The Great Salt Lake, But now it’s just ‘okay’ or ‘so-so’ or ‘meh’. And with Trump’s petty penchant for trying to cram new, if hokey and unimaginative, geographic nomenclature down our economically thirsty throats, maybe this once spectacular inland sea has outlived, barely, its moniker. The following Google AI dialog highlights why…


Will the real Great Salt Lake please stand up?

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Tell Me the Secret of Wampum

Other night I decided to mess with an AI research agent to see what kind of details it could point me towards concerning wampum, a goofy-corny childhood play term we used to use. Actually, it was a reverential term in the native American language of the tribes local to my formative region, coastal and inland New Jersey. These people called themselves “Lenapi”.

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A Dream (2026/08/02)

True account to the best of my recall. (Because the memory function rapidly deteriorates immediately upon crossing the membrane from sleeping to waking — the sudden influx of sensory inputs taxes one’s will in an overpowering way.) Note: look here to see other dream narrations within this series.

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