“Not in my back yard!” are the words Vic saying to the GenZers at the conference table. Holly looked concerned and had the ArlNOW paper on the table with bold type “NIMBYs fight YIMBYs!” on the banner headline. “I think the middle is missing.” Miles was getting is second cup of coffee and sat down […]

The conference room was still empty when AJ came by with the morning bagels. He had not stayed up last night to see the United States Government burp and decide to resume the simulation of constructive activity. Paid activity. That is the aspect that interests the bakery, which has been reduced to a plaintive request […]

Created by W.E. Socotra, 1903 Edited by Vic Socotra, 2025 Photo enhanced with ChatGPT 5.0 & Google Gemini Editor’s Note: There was something a little hung-over the morning after the Veteran’s Holiday, and this is the first experiment in turning actual cognitive human thought over to two AI computer programs and a record compiled 122 […]

In 1918 — 107 years ago today — at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, fighting between the Allied Forces and Germany stopped, ending World War I. The date was originally commemorated with the intent of celebrating peace. In 1954, Armistice Day was changed to the more inclusive Veterans Day, […]

Vic was sort of out of sorts with his experiment. The only way he had known his grandfathers were in musty, faded images in black and white that had faded into a sort of sepia. He had started with the direction from Section Leader Miles to see if he could generate a complete new manuscript […]

Moon Rise over The Rotonda at Tysons, VA, 06 November 2025 So there is something natural to celebrate this morning as opposed to the election news. The Creative Section continued Happy Hour through a little after six when Vapor announced he could see the moon rise, which was actually sort of a diagonal appearance from […]

This was the picture of Vic’s Grandfather that started the current furor in the Creative Section. Vic never met him, and this is the only close-up picture that was passed down. Vic was waving around something new he had composed with the aid of the AI program to see if there is value-added in artificial […]

Well, we started the big labor-saving Artificial Intelligence experiment a week ago today. You may have observed that the task has destoryed ordinary regular production in a sea of news, current affairs and political mayhem. We have generated about zip-squat on anything publishable. Well, except for some rough outlines, which is impressive for a machine, […]

We normally try to honor special American holidays at Socotra House and yesterday was no exception. Mayny of us had colorful costumes at the mornin meeting, and we successfully crashed the excellent festive holiday table at the old folks end of the assited living wing at the Trillium You can see the vibrancy. Coming back […]

(This is the smile Miles had when the manuscript of the new book was retrieved from digital oblivion). So, the manuscript based on research by Vic and some of the Boomers may have showed up after Splash leaned over the TAHE box at the end of tte table. The controversy had been about where the […]