Our technology, our machines, are part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time.

I feel most deeply that this whole question of creation is too profound for human intellect. Let each man hope and believe what he can.

Scientists Fired Lasers at Charles Darwin's Priceless Specimens To Get A Look At What Was Inside.   Science Alert - February 9, 2026

Tuesday February 10, 2026 - Everything about this speaks to me about a local event by someone Nancy Guthrie casually knew or had seen in passing - perhaps someone who had done some work in her house, someone she knew from a local store, or medical office. The kidnapping evolved as not a very well thought out plan by amateurs - and hasn't made sense since the beginning.

I originally thought there were two people involved, but maybe I was seeing the kidnapper and Nancy because the video only shows one man. I've been writing small posts about this over the past week because I haven't had a good feeling since the beginning and I didn't want to put negative energy out there - but as I said it would be extremely unlikely for an 84 year old woman to go through such an ordeal with her health issues and still be alive. I hope I'm wrong, but we will soon find out.

The sun set this evening in an endless kaleidoscope of colors that just kept changing. It all started with this video, which looked like a basic sunset with remnants of the ice storm floating beneath the bridge and waterway that leads to Manhattan or out into the Atlantic Ocean.