Machines Are The Fantasy Of The Mind

The man responsible for my blog writing is named Marty Nemko a radio host who worked for a news station in the San Francisco area.  As one of callers interested in finding a possible career I called up his show and he advised me look into writing a blog since journal writing or diary writing had been a hobby of mine for decades and I have been an occasional caller to the news talk show on the radio news shows.  Hobbies tend to take people to very strange  places in many strange  ways.  But note  how some of these ancient old hobbies are changing pace in a very accelerating manner for instance my blog on chess has been drastically changed by the Internet  where a human legendary chess champion is no longer the reigning player any more but instead a machine playing chess machine.  My blog or this blog covers much more than chess but various aspects of the news as I have witnessed it and one of  the aspects of the news is the music world.  In my next sentence I will go right to the point.  Can machines replace the human rock stars or the human music entertainer?

Having been raised and home grown in Oakland California I had become familiar with the sounds of the 70's where boom boxes ruled and the bigger the box the bigger the boom.  But today I carry a small box the size of a lighter in my small vest pocket to play tunes  that I have played on my own musical synthesizer with the tunes I have come to know and love the best.  In this case the sound of a trumpet is my favorite musical sound although it isn't as popular as before.  At first I didn't like it as it sounded too tinny and toy like just plain artificial.  But now the sound has become reliable and dependable and is the most powerful selection on my synthesizer with the sound being projected as far as a block away on a tiny voice recorder this selected sound of the trumpet.  The sound coming from this tiny box penetrates the air with an impact far greater than what any boom box can do.  If the sound were turned up high in public the user of this device could be held liable maybe a block party would be more suitable.  Some of us might remember the famed piano star Liberace.  My prediction is that a team of dexterous piano operators just might likely outperform a human music talent or star just as we saw when a chess playing machine called Deep Blue outperformed a human  grandmaster ranked number one at one time in a match the world looked on at in wonder.  Take a look at some of these sophisticated synthesizers out on the market can they outperform some of the best human musicians?  Some of the best vocalists are the ones who can instill emotion into their act but can an electronic piano keyboard or a synthesizer display emotion at the right precise time in a tune?   By the way a very young fellow by the name of Magnus Carlsen is the reigning chess champion ranked number one and I favor him over any chess playing computer no matter how skilled and proficient the computer/machine may be.    Magnus Carlsen learned through using computers and would one not think that computers will continue to teach us something worthwhile?

Webcam video from March 25, 2013 5:59 PM

Launch A Kite

When I was a child flying kites I never heard of a kite launcher not even on television.  But that soon changed when I found that running with the kite was and is not now my special talent or gift now that I have Parkinson's and cannot run with the speed and agility of a rated and ranked tennis player in the small local tennis tournaments.  But I can still fly kites and enjoy it as much as when I was a young boy running about  the fields like a jack rabbit.  With the way I rigged up a kite launcher in my backyard not  knowing if such a rig or device existed since I googled for one at the time but found none I proceeded to design and make my own essentially a twenty foot tall flag pole but with a kite instead of a fly with the attached line for string or rope depending on the size of the kite.  Large kites pull so hard a rope is more desired for gripping.  Such a kite launcher already was invented not by me as the configurations for the information as I was told had not been worked out exactly.   But use a kite launcher if you can't run anymore and be happy observing all the safely rules avoiding  power lines and mean old neighbors who don't want you trespassing on their property trying to retrieve down kites.  In my other blog It Never Takes A Genius I drew an illustration of a Harrier Jet and showed a bomber could be outfitted with the jet propulsion thrusters turned in the same way a Harrier jet has their jet thrusters positioned.  The ideal is to get a bomber off the ground without the need for a runway much in the same fashion a Harrier jet takes off from the ground like a helicopter.  Now go  ahead launch a bomber with a jet launcher and be happy but  watch for enemy  incoming craft and missiles waiting to take you down.  But  don't do this home alone the military branches of the United States of America are equipped to do this.

As for cars that will fly when and where I   have no ideal.  But they will fly it is just right  now such news isn't big news not just yet.  I already discussed this flight of cars on the air with Dr. Bill Wattenberg a   former physics professor at UC Berkeley and this was not a joke.  Yes I  can write about science fiction I am not the first to do so tell me about the movie "Back To Future" starring Michael J. Fox  and that was a long time ago.  It is time we start thinking again and get our vehicles out of the rut and into the sky just anywhere but the ditches!  Are the inventors and designers of such craft listening?

When We Fly

I doubt the Wright Brothers ever used a hang glider but I did read that they flew kites.  I may have to take this video down writing blogs requires a continuous learning but I'd rather not have to learn the hard way.  Abiding the terms and conditions is important to me and any violations of the copyright rules and regulations will be corrected I make no profit by writing this blog and do not make an income by writing this.  I wish the creator of this posted video an enhancement and pride in this creation of this video and all credit due him.  Flying in a hang glider is not a dream of mine but  more of a wild eyed dream I have not the wherewithal  nor the courage to take off in such a wing craft only to control a kite sometimes mistaken by the unknowing for a hang glider as one of my kites is one of the larger  kind and I use a  rope rather than a string to control it.  A simple thing like a kite in flight and launching it from a kite launcher in a small area where a large runway is not practical is enough to  capture my inspiration and imagination as I admire the beautiful blue skies and the birds which soar up above into the clouds and over the rainbow.   I predict cars will fly as we approach consumer demand for such vehicles and this is more than science fiction now.  There are already prototypes of cars which do fly and as many of us can see it is only inevitable that cars will fly in mass numbers with air traffic control doing more than directing airplanes.

Dream flight high in the mountains in spring