moon traveller herald

Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins were launched away in space Millions of hearts were lifted, proud of the human race Space control at Houston, radio command The team below that gave the go they had God's helping hand. Noting: Roger McGuinn always seemed to have a native understanding of technology. Its importance. Its myth. Its mystical elements. Thank God Buzz is still with us here! Roger, that! - J.V.

  Why did the band Television call itself television? To me, the singers were bathetic – overly off key, gushy, posing – posing as singers or feeling human beings anyway. So if they were thinking Television is lacking in human feeling, they picked a good name. They were in the punk days * , in New York, where lack of talent was not a show stopper. Was the name an attempt to challenge the dominant medium? To bring it - and all its production values - down from its pedestal? McLuhan called it medium cool. I am not too satisfied with the Internet's answers to these questions. I'd say by the time of the band Televison, TV was a drone - a hissing signal that put nations to sleep. Iggy had previously come up with "She's got a TV eye on me." I guess that is about whatever comes to your mind. Maybe the drone or the stare of TV is what Television was critique-ing...McLuhan focused on the CRT emissions and electromagnetic field effect possible ... and its effect on libido/p...

Moon Traveller Herald this year took on a new tenor, while upholding our dependable topical strategy as known for many past moons. Some space science, some essays, some reporting, some poems. A mudslinging world intruded only a bit..we even took some time to think about Man's Fate and AI. But that came up short. The world in a tumble, as the cookie crumbled. Let’s review some of the best stuff! - J.V. A few pages into The Philosophy of Modern Song you realize it doesn’t neatly attach to an expectation you might venture when hearing Dylan was publishing such a selection of essays. I understand that even some of his most dedicated fans wrestle with Dylan’s writings in The Philosophy of Modern Song. Dylan can surreally obscure, conceal and  cloak at the same time he unmasks bits of reality. I tried to share what I got out of the book in this write-up. With foot still in era of the Put-on, Dylan can be Off-putting. But I say ‘Dig it!” May 13 - The Philosophy of Modern Song Di...

  The paradigm of computing – there’s Input and Compute and Output; and Memory is crucial too – is basic but it has been enough to maintain attention and spur curiosity over a career. Overlaying this is the world and how this computer paradigm succeeds and/or fades in the raucous ecosystem of humankind. This is writ by one who came to maturity as the powerful trains met: Better Living through Electricity encountered Do Not Bend, Fold, Spindle or Mutilate. The rise of automation and computerization raised concerns about dehumanization, yes. It was a concern of think tanks – as well as writers and readers, and film directors and movie audiences -- in the 1950s and 1960s. But there was tentative optimism too. One ironic twist: seers of the day worried about the future of an American Culture that would suddenly have too much leisure time. Anyone that has worked late to create a spreadsheet, toggle through the steps to reboot a printer, or fill out an online form must find some iron...

  THIS IS SYNDICATED CONTENT. FOR THE REAL THING GO TO https://alcompasdelmundo.blogspot.com/ Jack Vaughan steps in "invitado" tonight. He says: The party would revolve as vinyl, where the English bands or the Motown orchestras could set the quantum strings to spinning. If it were my records at my pad, maybe with a MeisterBrau big jug, I would put forward the case for the dance of ecstasy. There would be LPs and 45s strewn. It might include some slow blues. It might end with Sister Ray, which could wake up the danced-out couch  sleepers, and remind them they should go home. This is the kind of event which I look to memorialize here. In these times, it’s the 45s that seem so especially to hold the magic light – and it’s still easy, on a Friday or Saturday night, to let records play us into a shuffling cloud of socks on the shiny floor. The Watusi, the Swim, the Hully Gully. Among the 45s in this collection are the jazz 45s of Eddie Harris and the Crusaders, of the kind to fi...

Beyond his music, Louis Armstrong communicated in montage and audible forms. The Louis Armstorng Museum is filled with his wildly creative scrapbooks, and prodigious recordings of oral history. I recently read that part of the latter included Armstrong musing as he listens to the famous Library of Congress audios of Jelly Roll Morton on the history of jazz. From The Nation article: Armstrong starts off by giving his predecessor a fine spoken intro, but soon hears Morton make an incendiary claim: Louis Armstrong, Morton says, did not invent scat singing. Armstrong stops the tape to correct the record. “I don’t think I’ll let you get away with this!” he begins, insisting that “nobody used the word ‘scat’ in New Orleans” before he came around. “After all,” Armstrong concludes, “I’m still in the business, and you’re still six feet in the ground, young man.” Nuff said!

  Digital publishing has been and will continue to be a difficult to ride wave. Be prepared to act quickly, but deliberately. Ask the people with the new ideas if there is really a "there" there. Ask the Product Developer how certain/uncertain is the return on the investment in the new technology. Could we end up in the same place as where we started, with the exact same problems? How do you test out a choice to ensure it’s not just fodder for an engineer’s resume? Any project can come to naught, how deep is your investment in time, effort, ande money – and how long will it take to regroup/undo? Scaling cannot be built entirely on adding staff, even if - or especially if - they are all brilliant. If you are #3 in the field, find a new field. Important framing question: will Google win in AI? How will that affect ad dollars and strategy?