Author Archives: Granger Meador
Resisting AI Slop & Brainrot
Long vacations are opportunities to engage in brainrot content, especially when the weather outside is frightful. I find myself having to consciously avoid compulsive, nonsensical, low-quality content that corrodes my mental or intellectual state, including doomscrolling political outrage. A more … Continue reading
2025 Book Report
The approaching end of the calendar year led me to compose my fourth annual book report. I read 30 books this year, the total reduced a bit by my autumn and winter walks having been impeded by lousy weather on … Continue reading
A Return to Meador Manor
Back in 1982, my first personal computer was equipped with a 300 baud modem, and I was a high school student who was also a subscriber to the online services CompuServe and Dow Jones News/Retrieval. I also discovered bulletin board … Continue reading
Avoiding the Nostalgia Trap
This week they really got going on destroying the old convention center in Oklahoma City. There was a dramatic photograph showing the arena bowl half destroyed, and then they brought the remaining roof down. At the start of 2025, I … Continue reading
A Quixotic Baptist
In 1930, Thornton Wilder jotted down, “Ideas for Novels or Novellas — Picaresque: Baptist ‘Don Quixote.’ Selling educational textbooks through Texas, Oklahoma.” The result was his 1934 comic novel Heaven’s My Destination. He began serious work on it at the … Continue reading
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