Short Stories The Time Travelers Notebook – MedBotRX Jon Hillenbrand, April 9, 2017October 16, 2019 In 2019, a hospital on the north side of Chicago was instructed by a court ruling to put warning labels on their elevator doors. “This facility is co-run by an Artificial Intelligence. Ride elevators at your own risk.” The origin of this is very interesting. Apparently, around this time, AI was…
Thoughts A Thought of My Own Sourcing Jon Hillenbrand, December 12, 2016October 17, 2019 All original thought is just randomness grabbed from an infinite database in our brains. And it’s all written down already in the Library of Babel. Did we create the language or did the language already exist and we created meaning? If all words and imagery exists independently of meaning, does…
Poetry Girl from the pond – a short story Jon Hillenbrand, July 11, 2012December 30, 2015 There I stood looking upon the pond. And before me arose a mist from the shimmering surface like gold leaf on an Egyptian statue. Across the mist there arose a gentle bird whose wings spread across the water and sent ripples across the pond. The fish rose up to meet…
Poetry Online Dating Girl Jon Hillenbrand, June 21, 2012December 30, 2015 An open poem to the online dating girl You are showered by messages From every perverted minnow Nibbling at your fingers Like sperm at the shell Of an unperturbed egg. I imagine your ten sets of eyes Gazing my way across a library Or bar Or quad Or hiking trip…
Thoughts Subtitled for Success Jon Hillenbrand, July 16, 2010October 17, 2019 Regular readers of my blog already know that I imagine myself to be fluent in several foreign languages including Russian, Spanish, French, Southie, Klingon and of course Huttese. But I use the word fluent to mean, “I know enough to get myself in trouble.” The drawback of my foreign language…
Photography Fortune’s Fool Jon Hillenbrand, May 4, 2010October 17, 2019 Maybe it was the lateness of the hour, but at the end of the work day today, the cleaning woman showed up and started speaking with such prophetic wisdom that I found myself listening intently to every sentence in her half-Haitian-half-English tongue. She’s just like an oracle in the old…