Use your freedom of choice
The Perfecting Equilibrium Digest, April 24-30, 2024
Don't be tricked by what you see
You got two ways to go
I'll say it again, in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice
Freedom of choice
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom of choice
In ancient Rome, there was a poem
About a dog who found two bones
He picked at one, he licked the other
He went in circles, he dropped dead
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
PE Story Updates
An update to Commercial Real Estate Apocalypto:
A long-vacant, 44-story office tower in St. Louis sold last week for $3.6 million, a 98% plunge from when it changed hands for $205 million in 2006. The cratering value of the former One AT&T Center is the latest example of how commercial real estate in the Midwest has been ravaged by remote work.
Comments of the Week
By Jack Baruth on The Devolution of the United States
Thoughtfully said. Let's hope you're right, as this outcome is the least bloody of most possible ones.
By Lynn W Gardner on The Devolution of the United States
Excellent excellent article Christopher, you have added to your expertise by adding writer to photojournalist….
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Pentax Releases K-3 III Monochrome with 20-40mm F2.8 Limited bundle
New Limited Lens Kit available immediately
By cjfeola in Pentax Announcements on Apr 26, 2024
Pentax announced the immediate availablity of the new K-3 Mark III Monochrome limited lens kit on its Japanese Instagram account. The kit matches the Monochrome with the HD PENTAX-DA 20-40mm F2.8-4 ED Limited DC WR lens.
Pentax Limited Lens Referral Giveaway
Win a Pentax Limited lens of your choice, photo software, and more!
By cjfeola in Giveaways and Events on Apr 24, 2024
It's time for another Pentax Limited lens giveaway!
Refer new members to the forum and invite your friends to subscribe to the Best of Pentax Forums Newsletter to earn raffle entries in our next big giveaway of Pentax gear and more.
Grand prize (one winner): your choice of any Pentax FA or DA Limited lens
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Easter Eggs
My brain is a peculiar place; it likes to play word association, and then play back songs with those words. Here are the songs playing in my mind as I wrote these articles.
Next on Perfecting Equilibrium
Thursday May 2nd - The PE Vlog: We’re continuing to build Virtual Grad Student, a Large Language Models — AI — running locally on our own curated data to form a virtual writer’s assistant. For example, to pull together a few paragraphs of background on Roman aqueduct architecture. This week we’re organizing data for our h2oGPT Large Language Model.
Friday May 3rd - Foto.Feola.Friday
Sunday May 5th — About that time I lost an argument with an article I’d written the previous week