June 6, 2026 NV# 201

“It’s weird being the same age as old people. “- Me

FINAL CUT #7

A.I. - LIKE IT OR (LIKE IT)

Just once, I want a username and password prompt to say CLOSE ENOUGH . Anon

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Now, none of that was automatic or real easy. Aside from my writing the text I had to edit it some to try and make it sound as if I was reading it aloud into a recorder. I mention this because the intelligence app I used is not yet smart enough to pick up human (at least my) nuance in speech. It’s that, or I’m just an inept speaker. Neither of us are hardly perfect.

But it’s fairly accurate. (Note that I refer to A.I. as it was another human.)

I suppose we can turn our backs on it; ignore it; hold our hands over our ears and eyes and yell “LA,LA, LA”… But it’s not going to change things or disappear.

This whole thing brings to mind the way a fella in Detroit reacted the first time he saw an automobile (i.e. horseless carriage).  He chuckled and said, “It’s just a passing fad. It’ll never catch on.”

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25 YEARS AGO ("JUST A TASTE")

“Last night the internet stopped working so I spent a few hours with my family. They seem like good people.” -Anon

JUST A TASTE: For reasons unknown to me my late sister Nancy copied and printed almost everything I published in Views for a period of about probably 25 years.

I was always aware of the fact that she did it. But never thought much about it until sometime after her death. Her daughter, Bobbi, called me and asked if I wanted all the things she’s copied.

Initially I declined. (I mean I naturally had all, or most, digitally stored somewhere.) Naturally (or unnaturally) I told her to toss the stuff.

And she did. Or at least she tossed “some” of it.

A few weeks later my niece came across some of our family records that she didn’t want and asked me if I wanted them. I supposed it wouldn’t amount to much, so I acquiesced.

It turned out that I was mistaken about the amount of material my sister had generated. It is sizable. My sis was a meticulous record keeper. It’s hard to describe and / or estimate the size of the work – so I’ll just say this: it might weigh about a ton. (I’m not exaggerating. I am still looking for a good place to store it. Because I can’t bring myself to toss it. It’s too detailed.)

And in this tonnage, I found several large tomes of my work (old issues of Vermilion Views) bound in large white 3-ring binders as well as several boxes of floppy discs and DVDs, ad Infinitum…. (My niece did not toss all the work my sis copied from the net.)

Ergo, I was (and am) flabbergasted.

The little article (pictured above) is just one page (of maybe a thousand) from a past Vermilion Views. Just a taste…

THE VILLAGE OF CASKS

If Adam and Eve were Cajuns they would have eaten the snake instead of the apple and saved us all a lot of trouble. - Anon

This is A VERY SPECIAL NOTE

NEW: I’ve added a “special section” to the “Past 20 Years” part of the page. You will find there nearly (but not all) every video and audio production I’ve published over the last few years. They’re not arranged as nicely as I want them to be. But SOME are there – and I’ll add to them as time passes.

THE LAST DAY

 “There’s a fine line between a numerator and a denominator.  Only a fraction of people will find this funny.”- Anon.

1969 (FOOTAGE COURTESY LATE WAYNE WEISMAN

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VERMILION HISTORY THEATRE:  Due to all the distractions surrounding me lately I neglected to keep the link to the History Audio/ Video Theatre. So – click on the name above and visit.