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.

Yet More “To Be” Jokes

August 16, 2026

Obscure, but funny to the few

Less Obscure

There are more such memes, but I am too cheap to buy them.

Can I possibly be the first person to think of this meme, or am I just lousy at searching the Internet? No LLM Tokens were killed during construction of this image. I did not even have to tear down the East Wing of my house. Raise your hand if you recognize a fifth-grade level of Photoshop Skills.

This meme was made by hand/Photoshop, using royalty-free artwork. Could an LLM do a better job of creating a pastiche of stolen ideas from others? Certainly. I just don’t want to say I did nothing when, 20 years from now, LLM has nothing to train on but its own trash, and commercial art becomes a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy (aka generation loss), leaving us with something like this:

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