![]() ![]() Semiotics is pretty much what Louis Armstrong said about jazz, except jazz paid a lot better for him than semiotics does for me. So now I have a large market share of a growing field. ![]() ![]() Atargatis was known to be closely connected to the sky and the sea her. I used to think I was the only paid consulting statistical semiotician for business and industry in the world, but I recently met another one. A mermaid is a mythological creature that is half maiden and half fish or sea. Wish I'd written the book on titmice, though. I am not the British footballer, the Tory MP, the expert on ADA programming, the biographer of Eva Peron, the authority on Dante, the mycologist, the travel writer, the film historian, or that guy that Mom said was my father. Mars, meanwhile, is slowly terraforming, and the human settlers there are still free of One True's control.but they need a pressure suits to survive outside, and it will be a century or more before the planet's fit for terrestrial life. There are also many John Barneses I am not. At the end of the twenty-first century, Earth is under the control of a single intelligence, the apparently benign One True. I got my PhD at Pitt in the early 90s, masters degrees at U of Montana in the mid 80s, bachelors at Washington University in the 70s worked for Middle South Services in New Orleans in the early 80s, so yes, I'm THAT John Barnes. ![]() I used to teach in the Communication and Theatre program at Western State College.
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