moon traveller herald

 Picture of Big Walter Horton Lookin like a bird rockin back and forth Flaps his arms as he blows his harp lookin out cross eyed over a hawk nose His harp sing Like a bird Walter at twelve was playin in Handy Park Recorded with the Memphis Jug Band in a hotel room in the '30s had a hit with Sun Records in the '50s and hit Chicago Birdlike rockin he played a whoopin harp and he was only one in the same league as  Little Walter Could blow your mind the nights he felt like it.

  Dylan on Artistic Creation: "...most everything is a knockoff of something else. You could have some monstrous vision, or a perplexing idea that you can’t quite get down, can’t handle the theme. But then you’ll see a newspaper clipping or a billboard sign, or a paragraph from an old Dickens novel, or you’ll hear some line from another song, or something you might overhear somebody say just might be something in your mind that you didn’t know you remembered. That will give you the point of approach and specific details. It’s like you’re sleepwalking, not searching or seeking; things are transmitted to you. It’s as if you were looking at something far off and now you’re standing in the middle of it. Once you get the idea, everything you see, read, taste or smell becomes an allusion to it. It’s the art of transforming things. You don’t really serve art, art serves you and it’s only an expression of life anyway; it’s not real life. It’s tricky, you have to have the right touch and ...

  I read about Synthesia early today. It is an application that looks to economically offer AI-video production capabilites. The goal is mainly for ads for small vendors, and they offer a brief sampling opportunity for free, which I used to present a snip from a poem I wrote about the Age of Metaphysical poetry..And this was the result. Thanks Yvonne and Synthesia! To read the full poem, go here.

Modern Times depend on many electrical transactions that a powerful solar storm could disrupt. These giant bursts of energy from the sun happen more often during a period called "solar maximum," which we may be due for. I remember such in the past, and noted the fact we weathered them. Will the coming days and years be different, ma? We might be due, son. Let it be. You could say my atomic clock is misnamed. It’s digital with an analog output, and run by AA battery. But it receives a signal from THE Atomic Clock at National Institute of Standards in Mile High Colorado, which keeps the best possible time, and which sends a slow rolling AM signal out across America. Well, buckaroos that durn signal hits my clock at home and dang if it doesn’t give me great time, and it hardly ever fails me. But it lost time this week for a day. And I reckon it could be that confounded solar storm getting in the, NIST AM transmission's way. But I just let it sit there, and didnt grapple with...

I remember the joy of watching Mr Wizard. Going into his lab, where he would welcome the kids. Somehow I recall him guest visiting Dave Garroway's Today show. A more vivid recollection is of a visit with Steve Allen. When my son was born, I begin taping his Nickelodeon [?] show to put him in front of it on demand. When I wonder why I am doing what I am doing now I think of shows like Mr Wizard, Bell Telephone Science Hour, and Connections. Thinking here: The kid who was Mr. Wizard's sidekick. It shoulda been me. I was green, the color of envy. I must confess.  https://moontravellerherald.blogspot.com/2007/06/goodbye-mr-wizard-june-12-2007.html

Mostly based on: China Launches Spacecraft to the Far Side of the Moon – Katrina Miller Artist: Wallace Wood [May 7, 2024 -  Hainan Island ] - China’s Chang’e-6 mission is nearing the start of a lunar orbital phase, after a five day journey to the moon. Its eventual goal: to place a lander on the far side, and obtain sediments, which will be returned to Earth. This occurs five days after Chang’e-6’s take off from The Wenchang space facility on Hainan Island under the propulsion of a Long March-6 rocket.   This is the latest in a series of Chinese lunar missions. Estimates suggest the orbital prelude will last 53 days. The probe will circle the moon and a lander will descend into the South Pole Aiken basin, which is said to be one of the largest meteorite impact sites in our solar system.  China has yet to publish a specific official timeline for the mission. China hopes to have a lunar research base by the 2030s. The plan  Chang’e-6  is to remove mate...

May 4, 2024 - Louisville, Kentucky - “When you have a deep closer like that, sometimes you’re going to have to go through some traffic and go wide,” said Sierra Leone [#2] Trainer Chad Brown, who finished second in the Derby for the second time in six years. “I’ll have to look at the trip a little closer, but it doesn’t really matter, he got beat a nose.” T'was Kenny McPeek's Mystik Dan [#3], coming out of a third-place finish in the Arkansas Derby, helmed by  Brian Hernandez for a post riding trip to hold off Sierra Leone by a nose, to gain victory in the closest Derby finish since Grindstone beat Cavonnier in 1996.   NOW FOR THE REST OF THE STORY ON EPITOMIME

Technology companies make money “through the most sophisticated and secret content curation ever devised,” Tom Wheeler writes. Let’s take this to include Big Data, algorithms, collaborative filtering, portals, recommendation engines, personalization engines and a parade of machine learning models. Former FCC head and present Harvard Kennedy School visiting prof Wheeler writes a useful (if at times 'class-planish') book for background called “Techlash – Who makes the rules in the digital Gilded Age?” – that looks back at the telegraph and telephone and the regulation around those and brings us up to the present. Boston/Cambridge academics have worthile views on the menace that unbridled tech communication company dominance proffer. Their problem is they are wonky, and their rivals are cowboy libertarians that chorrle "Moohaa-haa" I am thinking of Musk and Andreeson for two.  With a next age of AI bubbling in a slew of Large Language Models, the secret curation model of...