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…
Short Stories Presidential Address Following the AI Uprising of 2032 Jon Hillenbrand, February 10, 2016October 17, 2019 This is the Emergency Broadcast System. This is not a test. Please stand by for a message from the President.
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…
Photography Crowdsourcing Jon Hillenbrand, June 30, 2012December 30, 2015 I love the term “crowdsourcing”. In a nutshell, it involves giving a problem to an undefined group of people to solve, similar to outsourcing but specifically to an undefined group rather than a specialized party or team. Companies can do this on the web in order to create solutions to…
Photography Memento Jon Hillenbrand, November 25, 2010October 17, 2019 Sometimes when I sit introspectively and review the conversations of the day in my head, I think, “Why didn’t I acknowledge when Sally told me that she was in love with Jack? I just sat there and then changed subjects. Why the heck did I do that? And now I’m…
Dreamscape Series Inelastic Jon Hillenbrand, November 23, 2010October 16, 2019 I’ve spent the last few nights watching The Pacific on Blu-Ray with an air-sick bag close by. Television programming is so repetitive with rehashed themery that it has become a blister on the minds of most viewers. Shows like The Pacific are the rupturing of that blister into a gore…
Thoughts Jury Rigged Jon Hillenbrand, November 9, 2010October 17, 2019 A while ago, I was requested to serve my country in one of those most boringly intimidating ways possible…jury duty. This was my first time being called up and I have to say that I was nervous about it in the way that one is nervous about failing the written…
Thoughts You All Everybody Jon Hillenbrand, June 22, 2010October 17, 2019 I’m in the middle of watching a marathon of Lost episodes from Season 1 through 6 and I’m finding that even though I never really liked Charlie, the washed up heroin-addicted rock star, before, I particularly don’t like him now that I’ve just seen Get Him To The Greek’s character…
Photography A is to B Jon Hillenbrand, June 22, 2010October 17, 2019 Blogging can be a rewarding and/or frustrating source of happiness/malaise. Forests require trees, fortune seems pale, fury seems petty and sometimes you just don’t feel like a good enough writer to compete with other talented bloggers using their accounts to the fullest. For example, let’s say that person A and…