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While optical data communications are well established – think “The Internet” — it’s early going for computing based on light waves. Lightmatter is one of a few that have created photonic arrays capable of computation and matched with layers of digital and analog electronics that take care of much of the activity auxiliary to such computation. I wrote about this recently on the Progressive Gauge site > > > https://progressivegauge.com/2022/02/19/electro-photonic-computing-gets-2-8-m-iarpa-boost/

  You can start the movie (at left) - then start the soundtrack (at right). These windows can spawn to YouTube where you can adjust sound on/off up/down.  And that really is the best way to experience SurrounHoroVision Godzilla, you may recall, lived in a cave at the bottom of the sea. But his ecosystem was disrupted by H-Bomb testing, so he ravaged the Island of Japan. Euro Intellectuals think this whole Godzilla is an invention of inner angst among the Japan human population. How little they know of the wisdom of Long-View Indigenousity. The H-Bomb and Godzilla hovered over my youth. Godzilla went back to the sea, and the H-Bomb went into computer simulation. As Russia masses troops on Ukraine border, Godzilla stirs! - Jack Vaughan

This is a riff on review of Edison by Morris elsewhere on this and my ProgressiveGauge site.   At about the age of 10, Edison goes to the creek with young friend George Lockwood, who disappears in the eddies to drown. Edison observes the creek water for a long time, maybe rapt by the dying Lockwood’s breath bubbles. At last, after the long wait for Lockwood to surface, Edison finally goes home to dinner and to bed without telling anyone about the event. Meanwhile, a party searches for Lockwood – eventually they come to hear Edison’s story of his drowning. Self-taught polymath,  noted as a man of amazing concentration.  He could look intently at what was there and was able to uncover deep first principles  as he tinkered with pieces of  metal, carbon, vulcanite, lamp black  and assorted materials. More than that,  he had a gift for  imaginative re-application of principles  to conjure new products,  and improve on existing successes....

Al Compás del Mundo con Jim Haas #14 - jueves 27 enero 2022

  Jim Haas did a radioactiva broadcast with music from our pool hall days - and a new song arose out of the  signal. Lucky Cue Blues I told you once I told you twice Better take it easy cause the place’s on fire When you’re moving right up close to me You make my heart sing! And I tried and I tried and I tried   Your way on top now get under the covers Your slacks are low And your hips are showing Two big horns and a wooly jaw I hope just once those doors aren’t locked   I was unable to find my way All I have to do is worry I would give the moon if it were mine to give And I’ll cry just a little don’t you know Im human oh your sigh’s very clear knocks upon my door   Every night I still hear No more rain From where we came Im so glad we made it Listen my love And it sounds like this   I want to provide for you And live my life like it just begun I know theres a lot of fish in the see And I tried and...

i. Thinking of early 20th Century poets lately, and the sense of cinema in their composition.  So many poems read for me like films -- ones that zeroed in on a blue mood of suspicious clarity. It's as if I flew on the wings of the camera into the modeled set of Citizen Kane -- the one with the neon blinking lighting on the roof of  the night club and going down a skylight to where the reporter interviews sad and drunken Susan Alexander. Blaise Cendrars, particularly, but also Garcia Lorca, and Guillermo Apollinaire seem influenced by the journalistic dispatch, extreme abstraction, the collage, and the camera eye view. I only discovered Cendrars recently  and was blown away by the mood his poems encompassed, bordering on something like a black&white Warner Bros movie - say,  Across the Pacific .    One poem leads to another when the spirit is right, and Cendrars eventually took me back to My Poetry Bookshelf and a work of Hart Crane.  ii. Both Crane...

Moses Fleetwood Walker We had plans to attend an author’s evening at the Boston Public Library Jan 6. The author was Ted Reinstein, reporter with "Chronicle" on Boston's WCVB-TV, and he’d be discussing his new book Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier (Lyons Press, November 2021). Unfortunately, the Omicron Covid-19 variant is rampant, so the live lecture gave way to (you guessed it) a Zoom meeting. Reinstein is an able, engaging and vivid story teller – wish we could have been at the BPL Rabb Hall, but his passionate interest in history, sport and people came across with still vigorous energy, even tho ‘over the wire’.  Don’t know Ted – except over the Tube on Chronicle, a great TV news magazine that does just that: chronicle the stories of New England history, place and life. -- but I had the good time working with Ted’s brother Bill Reinstein back at the turn of the century on ITworld.com where he was founder and publisher. Trem...