Liner Notes – pd bedard’s three border stories
three border stories is aptly named – three stories taking place near the US/Canadian, US/Mexico, and the Laos/Thailand/Myanmar borders. Click here for the full article
Category Archives: Writing Samples
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Below, you’ll find a swath of content – from translations, legal treatises, short stories, and written paeans to some heroes.
To catch a knuckleballer: Jim Bouton, Ball Four, and the Seattle Pilots
I’ve worked with Steve Jobs, met Cesar Chavez, and asked Kurt Vonnegut a question. Compared to seeing Wilhelm and Bouton pitch on the same day? Boring . . . Click here for the full article
the oracle job
At the end of the day, you are just headcount. Stop thinking otherwise 🦖👶, and grab some pine. It’s over. Click here for the full article
A Cantic Christmas
This is a story about Nicolas Leblanc, a transient who, on Christmas morning, 1953, decides to cross into Canada. Click here for the full article
the nurse & the virus
This is a story about my mother, a nurse and a virus. Hepatitis B and COVID-19 are out there. Every day, every minute, every second, a Nurse puts it out there, risking herself and her family. Click here for the full article
AT&T, Google, and Facebook – time for another consent decree
This paper, written in 2008, foreshadows some topics in today’s current events, specifically the importance of algorithms to Big Tech. Algorithms are the world’s transistors, and this asks the question, should we be dealing with Big Tech like we dealt with AT&T and the Bells. Click here for the full article
