Know Thyself….Or Not

I was recently looking for contact information for a newly opened pub in my town. The Freeps had run an article saying it would open on April 17, and I wanted to call them to insure that it would be open for lunch on the following Friday so that my hiking group could try it out after our walkabout. Alternatively, a website giving opening hours would do.

Well, you can find anything on the internet, right? So, I typed the name of the pub in from the article, and found – nothing. No website, no phone number, nothing to help me in my quest.

What I did find was a site announcing the Grand Opening of the place, but that site gave only a street address for it. No phone number to call, no website info. Not helpful. What I also found on the site, whose only purpose was to publicize the already-past Grand Opening Event, is what I have screenshotted below, from the very bottom of the page:

AI is gonna be so cool. We won’t need to know anything about ourselves – that’s always such a bother, isn’t it?

We can just ask Claude or Perplexity (Perplexity? Really?) if any particular event or pub or food or person or occupation or color suits us. AI knows all, after all.