Michael T. Starks

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  • The Sad Cafe

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    I’ve liked The Eagles for a long time. I listened to Their Greatest Hits over and over as a kid. It wasn’t until a bit later that I got The Long Run album. This is when I first listened to The Sad Cafe, a beautiful song that never became one of my favorites. Until now.…

  • Trying to Reason…

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    Jimmy Buffett is one of my favorite songwriters. Here’s one of my attempts to sing his wonderful song “Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season”. Enjoy!

  • A.I. Writing

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    It’s easy to imagine a world where Artificial Intelligence does most of the work that humans used to do. It’s already happening. A.I. can do a lot! Forbes recognizes The Advantages of Artificial Intelligence in 2024. It’s in our best interest to understand how A.I. is being used and how we can personally use A.I.…

  • Fingernails and Toenails

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    Imperfections make life beautiful. Yesterday, I lifted a large box without being quite careful enough. One of my fingernails got torn. It wasn’t a big deal. This morning, the torn nail got caught in some fabric and ripped apart a bit more. So, I grabbed a fingernail clipper and clipped the nail as close to…

  • Visiting Venice

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    I like that we can tell stories about some of our best and worst experiences. It’s a way to share something about who we are. I remember the time I got to visit Venice. I met up with a couple of young women who were also visiting Venice for a day or two. Although we…

  • Priorities

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    I think it’s natural for our priorities to change over time. This means that we may be changing our direction when others don’t expect us to change. That’s OK. That’s part of what it means to be human. It’s important to continually ask ourselves what’s important. External events happen. Do any of these events require…

  • My LinkedIn Articles

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    Between 2014 and 2017, I wrote a series of articles on the LinkedIn platform. Here are the direct links to those articles. I spent a bit more time writing these than I typically spend writing a blog post, so I would like to think that the quality is a bit higher (for the most part).…

  • Writing Software

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    Humans have not been writing software for very long. We’ve been writing algorithms and mathematical procedures for over two thousand years, but this isn’t quite the same thing as using a modern computer programming language to solve problems. The Fortran language was developed starting in 1954. The C language was developed in the 1970’s, and…

  • SEP Song

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    OK, here’s the song I wrote when I was about twenty years old that I promised to share. As I’ve played it during the years since then, I’ve come up with some slight variations, but this captures the gist of it. Enjoy!

  • Free Play

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    There are many trends in our society that I find disturbing. I am horrified by the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. I am also very concerned by the extent to which ideological differences seem to be preventing real conversations between people. I’m sure that I’m going to be writing more about each of…