Artificial Intelligence VS. Natural Stupidity...

 "When you make something idiot-proof, they will just make better idiots..." -- Stephen Hawking

Parasites...

 "But was there ever a dog that praised his fleas?" - William Butler Yeats

Farewell to Babylon...

 "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man..." -- Heraclitus

Galactic Housekeeping (# 21 -- Gratitude and Greener Pastures...)

Author's Note and Gratitude: About the middle of the month, the Overlord may be incommunicado, as he is about to take a new position with IBM in the somewhat more-civilized state of North Carolina (and I say that tongue-in-cheek, for having lived there once before, two-steps-beyond-Petticoat-Junction -- only with Wal-Mart -- is hardly 'civilized').