moon traveller herald

About ready to take a summer vacation. Will post a 'greatest hits' of the last 12 months. [Geez, just had a durn podcast blow up in my face [wouldn’t move from one machine to another - it was cool; it was called Experiment in Abstraction - it discussed hillbilly hipsters, the King, and the Kinks. In the meanwhile, I will travel a bit, hike. Will fool around with Facebook . At work asked to ratchet up social mdeia effort so I am a twit on twitter. Might revive RJ-11 science blog for experimental purposes. Service-Oriented Software Architecture - if you didn’t know - is a big part of my time, and this is a good time to focus effort there - while, as I said, doing some vacating. Most key: Have an important electronic music history project that needs fruition. -Jack Vaughan

This week MoonTraveller Herald marks the orbit of the Moon of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) which got there, what, aboutentered orbit around the moon the morning of June 23 after a four-and-a-half day journ 40 years after the first humanoids? In honor we run this YouTube clip ''Dedicatory Piece to the Crew and Passengers of the first Experimental Rocket Express to the Moon'' by Raymond Scott courtesy of the folks at SCLOGSE . ################################################ On American Routes radio , there was a very interesting vignette about Raymond Scott, and enthralling related conversation with Bob Moog – maker of the Moog synthesizer. Scott was a key composer behind some of the looniest Looney Tune music, and a force in electronic music. He had a stint as the orchestra leader for the Lucky Strike Hit Parade, but his very modern sounding music - he was entranced by the sound of the modern, much as one of his influences, Duke Ellington. What I d...