The Wizard of iPhone Speaks (20-22‪)‬ John MaGuirk

Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Hello DollyToday's avatar shows drivers ignoring demand mats built into Nashville city streetsAI and Instant Coffee Share a Common Trait Neither of Them Leaves you Wanting More  It's incomprehensible to me how users can spend so much money on a product to produce specious content like “generative AI”. Then I remembered the words of Fred Friendly 📺 executive who said; “No one ever went broke under estimating the  …American public.” Consider today's avatar and headline from weekend WSJ ( a paper that routinely publishes numerical data)Hack #1 of The Five Hacks of Chat/WTFCreate a Dramatic Cridis Headline That Doesn't Deliver Our death spiral of Content Creation began with Pagination. Tech Gurus called USA This Day  “the McPaper”. So now we have a “quartet” of I don't care what you want it's my way or the highway. 

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian ChurchAs AL Smith said -- Let's look at the record.

Music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian ChurchAccording to Accidential President Vice President Harry Truman was summoned to the White House by press secretary Steve Early at telephone at 5:25 EST on April 15. Elenore Roosevelt (then the first lady) informed VP Truman….“Harry, she said The President is dead!”What follows is from Upstairs At The White House JB West with Mary Lynn Kotz (Open Road New York)They were searching for a bible to swear in Vice President Truman.

Music courtesy of Nashville Pipes & Drums, used with permission Opening Highland Cathedral -- Closing Amazing Grace & Scotland The Brave recorded live at the 20-24 event via iPhone 

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, Freddie O'Connell is doing what our leadership does best — “if you can’t solve the problem — Change the Narrative — Our “unhoused” are not the same as homeless! We say there are fewer “unhoused” we have succeeded.FYI/ the words finite and opportunity do not belong in the same sentence with "federal funding" -- they are not synonyms -- Here’s the offending line —-“An all-access pass to sidewalks, signals, service and safety…..”Translation — everywhere you go, metro will have its hand in your pocket — You must pay to walk the streets, and drive your car — A surcharge may be made for safe driving!

Opening & closing piano music courtesy of Harpeth PresbyterianNot long ago I was reading a blog, about our power-grid, those new photo-electric cars (The Hybrids), this writer suggested that “power would be returned” to the grid when the “cars were fully charged”….Yes, it’s true that if you have a “home generation system”, like a windmill your excess capacity may find it’s way into the power grid, but not from your Prius…Here’s The 411/The current coming into your home is “alternating current” (a gift Nicla Tesla) a storage battery is “direct current”, in other words the current is consumed in order to “charging the battery’.There’s no “two way flow” of “opposing currents”….Thomas Edision’s original generating plant is still in use, and one neighborhood of the big Apricot (Thank You Superman The Movie), consumes direct current.We can thank Nicla Testla, and George Westinghouse for the development of “high voltage transmission”, and alternating current, which made “wiring the world feasible”.