Bob Wiseman

I had a job when I was very young being a projectionist at the University of Winnipeg. I rolled the 16 mm projectors into various classes and threaded the films […]

In the class many students talk about the unique victimization of their religion, their gender identity, their skin colour, their hair or their body size. I can think of examples […]

My wife started to sing psycho killer que-ce-que-c’est and then my 12 year old daughter answered fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa and I said how […]

I was listening to a twenty years ago recording of Noam Chomsky talking about power and he was making a point about how the rich dominate the poor. At first […]

Listening to that old Joan Armatrading record. One of her firsts just called Joan Armatrading. The one with Love and Affection, “like a moth with no flame to persuade me”. […]

Walking in High Park thinking more on the design of Joyce Carol Oates amazing book My life as A Rat when somewhere in the bushes I heard a sax playing […]

Listening to an interview with cognitive scientist Geoffrey Hinton, often called the godfather of AI. He is concerned about the rapidity of AI and when the interviewer asks him for […]

I’m currently reading My Life as A Rat by Joyce Carol Oates. It gets worse and worse. She amazes me that the characters go to such horrible places but it’s […]

Ran into a guitarist who told me he has been playing in the band doing Jersey Boys and as we discussed some of the score he mentioned the song Oh […]