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Yesterday morning after finishing my breakfast, I asked my PSW (let's call her Juliet) for some help.
Meanwhile, M was still working on his breakfast while watching tv. He tried to change the channel on the remote control.
"Juliet, please help me stand up," I said.
"I don't think I can help you with that," replied Alexa.
from Literary Rambles, in which Natalie Aguirre interviews debut historical MG author, Darlene P. Compos:
http://www.literaryrambles.com/2025/11/help-im-lost-in-past-how-to-find.html
Winter Scene
snow on hilly road
we watch cars slide back down it --
classic winter fun
Classic Movie
Two For The Road:
driving each other crazy
classic MGA
(Photo c Barbara Etlin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw4Jc1zZTGk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpB-9YB3aOs
daily haiku prompts: road and classic
not just a mirror
moon displays her lovely face
but hides her dark side
she rises to her zenith
a breeze pushes clouds away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbaOsTwTM40
Photo by Michael Starkie on Unsplash
Daily Haiku Prompts: moon, rise, breeze
we came very close
although winning is better
we can still be proud
they had some great players and
we were tough competitors
Found this new (to me) song by Stevie Wonder. He wrote it a year ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKSz3n3qP6g
I don't like statistics.
I dropped it in second year university and (Bell) curved myself into an English major, which was clearly where I belonged.
All's well that ends well.
I've never liked sweeping generalizations, which often seem like stereotyping. M used to say I dealt with everything by exception. Statistics tries to make sweeping generalizations to try to predict the future.
The only concept I mastered in Statistics was
The Gambler's Fallacy.
An example of this is tossing a coin for heads or tails. Most people think that, after a lot of heads tosses, the chances that there will be a tails next is more likely. This is wrong.
Every coin toss has a 50% chance of being heads.
And 50% chance of being tails.
What happened before has no effect on what is going to happen next.
People who gamble, especially in professional sports, want to read the future by looking at the past. It comforts them to see that a horse has good breeding, has won in other races, and so on. Or that a superstar baseball player (although very talented and skilled) will provide the magic fairy dust for a win every time.
But a team is just that: a group of people working together. Using a Psychology term, there are too many uncontrolled variables to predict accurately. Any player can get injured. Any player can drop out because he hasn't recovered fully from a past injury. Something could affect a player's mood. The order of the lineup has to be matched to the other team's. And so on...
It's useless to look backwards to predict the future.
You might as well use a Magic Eight Ball.
https://www.mysticmag.com/magic8ball/
Oh, by the way,
Go Blue Jays!
