moon traveller herald

This is a lookback at recent AI activity.  On my technology job site Progressive Gauge.  Based on three years of research but condensed around 2025 stuff.. Gemini concludes Story concludes:  The current state of AI is like a lavish Hollywood movie trailer : while the promotional footage promises a world-changing epic of "civilizational" proportions, the actual production is struggling behind the scenes with a ballooning budget and a script that still has significant holes. [Re pick above [Wet lab feedback loop] - I specially asked "No Teal!"] jv https://progressivegauge.com/2025/12/31/multiglobal-hyperbole-engines-in-2025-pt-1/

 One by one the musicians that defined my generation are passing. I focus here on a few of these spirits that I was lucky enough to see. These are Garth Hudson, David Johansen, Barry Goldberg, Eddie Palmieri, Mark Volman, and Steve Cropper. Let's not be somber. Let's make a Joyful Noise ... I remember ... Lucky Paths Crossed ...  GARTH HUDSON - January 21, 2025 - I borrowed a bicycle to go to the ticket window at Dane County Auditorium to see The Band. They were doing the Stage Fright tour. We had gigantic imaginations in those days and cycled around the Auditorium twice, in case Bob Dylan might be found lurking. At the concert when the lights went out we joined  the crowd that ran for the front and settled in yoga positions on the floor with about a 40 foot distance to the stage. When Garth Hudson played Bach and segued into Phantom of the Opera Scale Chest Fever lead in, one could see the musical waves floating in the rafters. He was the last of The Band. I am so glad...

Christmas 1972 When i lived in new york poor as a mouse door   i would go on fifth avenue shopping the windows   but i  got a white knit hat  for my sister at abraham-strauss   then there at scrbiners or coulda been doubledays and it was on about christmas i saw danny kaye brilliant, welcome, witty, immortal, adored by the store help i crossed ore a portal walter mitty in dream trance in life's dance a corker a short time new yorker.   would catch the train outta there but carry sprite danny sprite danny and the hat for my sister   in  a place in my memory.   until this very moment when here it is look here and you stand in front of me.                                        -JV also at  https://moontravellerherald.blogspot.com/2012/12/christm...

  This was the Buff&Buff Factory site, which was a mesh of apartments/studios and abandoned factory. It was old, down near Stony Brook. The electrical power was shared via belted wheels that ran up on the ceilings. Buff&Buff made surveying equipment. Imaginations could run there. Had good friends there. In this picture [1980s] I am checking up on my sweetie!

 Thanks mostly to Wikipedia… "Another Time, Another Place" was Johnny Bryne’s first original script for the series SPACE 99. That’s the show where Humans have colonized the Moon, in order to bury nuclear waste from Earth, and something nuclear goes wrong, and the Moon leaves its orbit and  then wanders through the Universe for the rest of the Series. There werent any B-17s on this Moon. As the National Enquirer had seen...Anyway... Bryne started with the concept of the worst thing he could imagine happening to the Alphans: hitting a 'mad cloud or particle storm in space' that causes their bodies to separate into duplicates. With that concept forming the episode's hook, he then had to conceive the next four acts of storyline to reach the conclusion of the Alphans coming face-to-face with themselves. The story would highlight the cyclic nature of human experience—the catastrophic failure of the 20th Century 'techno-man' resulting in a new beginning of the pr...