http://www.ttscp.com/chronological.html New essays at ttscp en-us Copyright 2006-24 by Truck Smith editor@ttscp.com webmaster@ttscp.com http://www.ttscp.com/ttscp.gif http://www.ttscp.com 144 60 A thicket of twisty little essays all alike. http://www.ttscp.com/mayfourth26.html How many Star Wars fans does it take to celebrate a day in May? truck@ttscp.com 4 May 2026 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/inmemoriam.html Important not Urgent truck@ttscp.com 18 Mar 2026 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/ClaudePi.html In which Cam and Lorrie investigate Claude truck@ttscp.com 14 Mar 2026 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/NewYear2026.html Mathematically grumpy truck@ttscp.com 1 Jan 2026 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/christmasevehomeless.html A moment of brotherhood truck@ttscp.com 24 Dec 2025 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/spiralpi.html In which an innocent conversation spirals out of control truck@ttscp.com 14 Mar 2025 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/inthemiddle.html It's wise to remember that in real life you are always in the middle truck@ttscp.com 7 Nov 2024 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/moved.html When the ending is not happy or sad, but cuts off. truck@ttscp.com 16 Sep 2024 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/elfin.html Maybe it was just the wind truck@ttscp.com 15 Sep 2024 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/ernieandbert.html Waging peace one person at a time. truck@ttscp.com 20 May 2024 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/kindolypse.html We're nicer than I think. truck@ttscp.com 9 May 2024 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/mayfourth24.html It's not the same bar as last year, honest. Note: spoilers. truck@ttscp.com 4 May 2024 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/doubleyou.html It's the first letter of we. truck@ttscp.com 11 Apr 2024 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/aprilfool24.html When your email client does everything... truck@ttscp.com 1 Apr 2024 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/coyotestemple.html When you build a monument, make sure it's really what they want. truck@ttscp.com 19 Feb 2024 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/wintersolstice2e.html The sun will return to our days truck@ttscp.com 21 Dec 2023 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/apexelephant.html Even the hungriest predator might hesitate to confront a grumpy elephant. truck@ttscp.com 24 Jul 2023 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/mayfourth23.html The aftermath of a domestic squabble. truck@ttscp.com 4 May 2023 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/ron.html In which two old guys foil the invasion of the wasp people. truck@ttscp.com 21 Apr 2023 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/doingnothing.html Just sit for a while truck@ttscp.com 17 Apr 2023 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/Tikopia2.html Part II - in which the bureaucrat finds her wedge truck@ttscp.com 3 Apr 2023 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/FourBalloons.html Easter Island Strikes Back! truck@ttscp.com 12 Feb 2023 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/eons.html Hang on for a long ride. truck@ttscp.com 10 Aug 2022 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/antnests.html Humans do too; we call them cities. truck@ttscp.com 12 Jul 2022 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/donotdisturb.html The IQ of a Rock truck@ttscp.com 15 Jun 2022 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/knowbetter.html Or we think we do; why I cry at Disney animated films. truck@ttscp.com 25 May 2022 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/backcover.html A reason for Ragnorak truck@ttscp.com 11 May 2022 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/lifegoeson.html A man and a cockroach truck@ttscp.com 5 May 2022 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/MidwinterEncounter.html He had not yet reached the state of paranoid delusion that would cut him off from humanity. truck@ttscp.com 18 Jan 2020 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/BesideHisDaughter.html The shots are still echoing. truck@ttscp.com 27 Mar 2019 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/AmandaAndHerToaster.html Free Run truck@ttscp.com 12 Jun 2018 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/eclipsestander.html Or a romantic machination truck@ttscp.com 25 Aug 2017 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/handwringing.html The Democrats aren't the ones with problems truck@ttscp.com 15 Dec 2016 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/tomorrow.html It's the biggest excuse in the world. truck@ttscp.com 2 Dec 2016 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/nobodyshouldstarve.html It isn't charity, it is self preservation truck@ttscp.com 22 Nov 2015 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/wewillhavelost.html The price of engagement truck@ttscp.com 20 Nov 2015 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/unintended.html If you try, sometimes, you get what you need truck@ttscp.com 16 Jul 2015 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/decisions.html Who gets to decide? truck@ttscp.com 10 Mar 2015 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/tikopia.html Part I - in which a small pebble irritates a bureaucrat. truck@ttscp.com 6 Mar 2015 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/inthemachine.html The government makes me say that; nobody knows for sure. truck@ttscp.com 23 Dec 2014 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/albert.html The quantum of infinity truck@ttscp.com 13 Nov 2014 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/prejudice.html ...I may have unconscious attitudes truck@ttscp.com 23 Oct 2014 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/duality.html We are science plus spirit down to our bones truck@ttscp.com 4 Oct 2014 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/twentyhourssociety.html The supply is limited, but we'll use up what we have truck@ttscp.com 30 Sep 2014 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/lookingdown.html ... you might gain some perspective truck@ttscp.com 20 Sep 2014 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/football.html It's never that black and white truck@ttscp.com 12 Sep 2014 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/rug.html Above the fairyland of lights, warm air brushing their cheeks, they glide. truck@ttscp.com 1 Sep 2014 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/imaginedsky.html How do you come to an understanding of something outside your experience? truck@ttscp.com 8 Feb 2014 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/stariq.html The alien intelligence in our solar system truck@ttscp.com 1 Feb 2014 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/mary.html There is something wrong in our house. truck@ttscp.com 15 Jan 2014 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/dino.html Just don't cross the red line. truck@ttscp.com 11 Jan 2014 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/wateriq.html Put a bunch of human beings in cars, put them on the road and what do you get? truck@ttscp.com 10 Jan 2014 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/iron.html A modest proposal: the next technological challenge for Google truck@ttscp.com 29 Dec 2013 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/muyfrijo.html Of Language, Sprites, and Holidays truck@ttscp.com 20 Dec 2013 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/unloved.html What you sow... truck@ttscp.com 1 Nov 2013 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/cctv.html CCTV, cell phone cameras and the loss of privacy truck@ttscp.com 10 Sep 2013 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/holocene.html The Holocene is warm and cozy, but nature may pull the quilt. truck@ttscp.com 10 Aug 2013 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/diversity.html Martians and Venusians truck@ttscp.com 5 Aug 2013 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/ruleoflaw.html It takes more time than we want truck@ttscp.com 19 Jul 2013 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/humours.html Magic in the cloud truck@ttscp.com 10 Jul 2013 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/naturenurturefeminism.html Nature, Nurture and Equality truck@ttscp.com 9 Jul 2013 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/squeeze.html Romance without threatening fluffy animals. truck@ttscp.com 25 Aug 2012 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/skirts.html They would return, slightly rumpled but happy truck@ttscp.com 16 Aug 2012 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/conscious.html Hint: it's not that little guy or gal in your head truck@ttscp.com 11 Aug 2012 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/cooperation.html Taking down a wooly mammoth truck@ttscp.com 30 Jul 2012 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/relationships.html Social groupings and the workings of the human mind. truck@ttscp.com 23 Jul 2012 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/leif.html The technical details weren't hard once we saw things Leif's way. truck@ttscp.com 16 Jul 2012 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/asolitaryant.html ...cannot be considered to have much of anything on his mind truck@ttscp.com 10 Jul 2012 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/amazeof.html They must have invented hypertext, with its links and clicks, just to capture the way I think truck@ttscp.com 10 Jul 2012 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/abundance.html What would the world look like if we all knew there was enough for everyone? truck@ttscp.com 8 Jul 2012 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/roberts.html The basic idea is to be fair. truck@ttscp.com 9 Mar 2011 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/toys.html The city resisted the jungle and wept glass tears. truck@ttscp.com 28 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/change.html Initially, change does not ask much of her followers truck@ttscp.com 12 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/illegal.html It's illegal but we do it anyway. truck@ttscp.com 7 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/immunize.html A little kid, a photograph and morality truck@ttscp.com 2 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/measurededucation.html How to annoy the teacher. truck@ttscp.com 20 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/geeseandgrandkids.html Geese can't understand, grandchildren might. truck@ttscp.com 10 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/aplogies.html Communicating across the void truck@ttscp.com 2 Sep 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/machinesbeep.html Beeping machines, artificial life, and talking GPSes truck@ttscp.com 13 Aug 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/marriedmortality.html Acting contrary to all reason and knowledge truck@ttscp.com 27 Jul 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/cardhouse.html I'll huff and I'll puff and blow your argument away. truck@ttscp.com 14 Jul 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/loopholes.html There's always at least one truck@ttscp.com 5 Jul 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/identity.html When is something ever the same. truck@ttscp.com 1 Jul 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/evolutionspiritual4.html How closely related can you be? truck@ttscp.com 30 Jun 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/specialolympics.html It takes a Special Olympics truck@ttscp.com 27 Jun 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/worstform.html Except for everything else truck@ttscp.com 30 May 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/competitivespiral.html Working harder versus smarter isn't the choice we've been given. truck@ttscp.com 8 May 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/evolutionspiritual3.html It takes longer than you think truck@ttscp.com 17 Feb 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/depression.html About the nature of human economics truck@ttscp.com 7 Feb 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/longterm.html Of an economist, an actuary and a weatherman truck@ttscp.com 6 Feb 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/crowds.html We all fall into this fallacy, sooner or later truck@ttscp.com 4 Feb 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/evolutionspiritual2.html All men are brothers truck@ttscp.com 1 Feb 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/evolutionspiritual.html Yes, "Survival of the Fittest" is spiritual. truck@ttscp.com 31 Jan 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/babytalk.html She sits among crying children behind a glass wall. truck@ttscp.com 30 Jan 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/twentyhours.html Are we really sure we've come a long way? truck@ttscp.com 29 Jan 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/inheritedmorality.html Strictly speculation, but then aren't all ethical discussions? truck@ttscp.com 28 Jan 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/caravan.html A Cross Country Daydream truck@ttscp.com 23 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/greatestgeneration.html That word; I do not think it means what you think it means. truck@ttscp.com 9 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/historical.html Poised for Greatness truck@ttscp.com 4 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/lipservice.html They'll do anything for your vote, except talk to you as an intelligent human being. truck@ttscp.com 19 Oct 2008 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/giraffe.html An ordinary guy gets an extraordinary visit. truck@ttscp.com 9 Oct 2008 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/ruleofbalance.html What might be better than the Rule of Law? truck@ttscp.com 11 Jun 2007 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/dancer.html On the edge nobody is much interested in anyone else truck@ttscp.com 1 Jun 2007 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/testingrss.html The code and test method strikes again. truck@ttscp.com 31 May 2007 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/manhood1.html What Decline of Men? truck@ttscp.com 30 May 2007 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/mortality.html Of gas prices, mortality, denial and grief truck@ttscp.com 24 May 2007 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/colors.html Miriam lives at right angles to the rest of the world. truck@ttscp.com 13 May 2007 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/youngandold.html Maybe you just want to help pass love on. truck@ttscp.com 1 May 2007 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/notablog.html This is one work; a set of articles with an overarching direction which connect into a grand unified hypertextual whole. truck@ttscp.com 29 Apr 2007 15:00:00 GMT http://www.ttscp.com/actalways.html Morality from the outside in. truck@ttscp.com 3 Apr 2006 15:00:00 GMT