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 […]

This has been a tough week for Melissa. It is not her fault that her folks liked a nice feminine name that stoarted with “M,” the 13th letter of the alphabet. we don’t know if that is considered unlucky in placement, but her folks could not have imagined that 58 years later their bouncing baby […]

(This is the Chairman’s 1979 cartoon about sleep aids on the approaches to the Red Sea. He said it was easier than a simple trip to the strip-mall where the nearest ABC store is located. The Trillium will not discuss anti-drone air defenses, but time will tell on that score. It may accommodate the vibrant […]