"Round and round it goes, and where it stops nobody knows" -- an interesting phrase sometimes used to describe the uncertainties of life or the seemingly cyclical nature of things. It is also used within the context of gambling -- more specifically in roulette. Spin that wheel...
Was working on an acrostic puzzle the other day when I encountered the clue: "The 'wheel of death' may be part of this act (2 wds., hyph.)" The title of the puzzle is "Lions and Tigers and Bears. Oh my!" So, for some reason, I immediately thought about a circus when, perhaps, I should have been thinking of the Wizard of OZ. Anyway ... this led me to remembering knife-throwing. It fit the puzzle. Now the thing is, I cannot for the life of me wonder why I never thought about how stupid this particular entertainment is. Really. Think about it! Now I am wondering if this is still done in circuses or magic shows anymore. Does a circus still exist anywhere in the world? Hmmm.... Be right back.... Just looked it up. It does -- but with an emphasis shift away from animals to a focus more on humans doing things like acrobatics and aerial acts. Interesting. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey still exist. Nice. Wonder where is the world they are right now?
Back to the knife-throwing wheel of death. As I remember it, some woman who was unfortunate enough to have landed this job, was tied (splayed actually) to a wheel (wrists and ankles). Then ... potential victim securely attached, the wheel was then set in a spinning motion, while a man, most likely blindfolded, threw knives at her. Yikes. Anyway -- it got me to thinking about the stupid and dangerous things that people do, so I asked AI to give me a list. AI found no results. Yes, you read that correctly. No results in a search for stupid and dangerous things that people do. I mean I can think of a dozen things off the top of my head. All this being said...
I don't think I am ready to trust my safety and health to AI yet. Perhaps AI is still too young to have good judgement. Or ... perhaps I didn't ask it correctly. Either way ... I sometimes think I have dealt with enough huge changes in my 3/4 of a century. I am tired of all the adjusting. Changes, like AI -- "round and round it goes, and where it stops nobody knows." It's exhausting to think about and ... perhaps more than a bit of a gamble. Not sure I want to play this game. Too late now. I told the AI on my phone to go away and not come back. It appeared one day -- uninvited. It's still there. It doesn't seem to follow instructions well.
Think I will go water my flowers.
