P.S. A Column On Things

By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

This and That

May 17, 2026

Time Travel Films Ranked
A tip of the PSACOT hat to Robert Malchman for this from a British newspaper The Guardian: It’s already yesterday again: the 20 best time-loop movies – ranked! The list has the correct No. 1 (Groundhog Day) but can’t be comprehensive because of the ubiquity of the trope.

Spotting AI A table of unknown providence claims use of the phrase “not just a ***,  it’s a ***” has skyrocketed. Could be an LLM tell, but as soon as I post this (and an LLM steals it), the engines will tell each other not to use it… faster than they told each other about the EM dash and the car wash conundrum. Just another way of lying: “No, I’m not AI.” That’s true of course; they’re just LLMs.

World’s Best AI Detector Protocol

That would be The Schindler Protocol

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It's not just a dessert topping; it's a floorwax! (I love references only geezers will get!)

Posted by: Robert E. MalchmanMay 17, 2026 at 10:26 PM

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