We have Dad's life-time of hand-written sheet music. He's been writing since he was a teenager, including a composition for piano, voice, and violin that he (piano), Mom (voice), and a violinist played at their high school graduation in 1957.
There are hundreds of compositions.
I bet his entire collection could be scanned, feed into A.I., and transformed into music that can be listened to.
Rest in peace, Dad 💛 March 27, 2025
My brother and I have been discussing softer surfaces for Mom to fall onto.
Wall-to-wall carpet and a rubber-floor bathroom are likely the best options.
But tonight I thought of a 3rd option:
Fill the whole house 1-foot-deep with foam packing peanuts.
A.I. is definitely gonna take your job.
My grandparents were born in 1895, long before indoor plumbing, electricity, and automobiles were commonplace.
Before airplanes.
Before television was invented.
They also saw the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 - on television.
Entire industries were wiped out and others invented. All within their lifetime.
My first real job was doing paste-up for a newspaper.
Someone you know doesn’t even know what paste-up is. Or that paste-up was an entire industry that employed people for decades. It got utterly wiped out by desktop publishing, PageMaker, Photoshop, and flatbed scanners.
Gil Scott-Heron:
The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will be no re-run, brothers. The revolution will be live.
Satoshi Nakamoto:
And it will be orange.