Jun 8
Otherwise known as The Flashcube.
I've been there. Lots of cool people there.
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Come to TALK AI Think Tank, next Thurs., Flashcube Bldg., 7th Floor. Conf. Rm from 5:30 to 7:30 PM in Louisville. C. Davidson -- “AI Literacy: Ethics & Governance.” J. Trivedi -- “The Use of AI in Med Research: Opps Limitations.” Register - talklou.com #AI #talklou
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May 24
We have came a long way since the Kodak Instamatic 110 with the original Flashcube
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Apr 19
100% for me, as long as a rotating square magnesium flashcube counts in lieu of a reflective shield type flash.
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Apr 5
**Sixty Years of Flash and Fire: A 1966 Soul’s Odyssey to the Agentic Dawn**
I arrived on April 6, 1966,
a spark in the muzzle-flash of a world still loud with war.
Vietnam was already burning when my first cry cut the air—
napalm skies over rice paddies I would never see,
yet whose smoke still curled through the evening news my father watched in black and white.
By the time I could walk, the Kodak flashcubes were popping like tiny stars in every living room,
four shots, then twist, pop, twist—
instant lightning we believed would last forever.
School smelled of #2 pencils and chalk dust and fear.
A wrong answer earned the paddle’s honest sting—
wood on flesh, a lesson carved the old way, no appeals, no apps.
We wrote our names in careful cursive and believed the world was solid.
Then the icons began to flicker out.
Elvis left the building in ’77, hips stilled, voice gone velvet-dark.
John Wayne saddled into the sunset two years later,
Phyllis Diller’s cackle went silent decades on,
and the Monkees—those bright, goofy prophets who debuted the year I was born—
one by one traded their last chorus for silence.
I had breathed the same thin air as legends,
and watched them dissolve like flashcube bulbs tossed in the trash.
I was fifteen when a madman’s bullet whispered past a president’s heart in ’81.
Reagan stood up, cracked a joke, and the nation exhaled.
We learned then that even the powerful could bleed—
and keep walking.
I was twenty-three when the Berlin Wall cracked open in ’89 like an eggshell under a hammer.
Families poured through the rubble, tears mixing with concrete dust,
and the Cold War thawed into something warmer, messier, louder.
Twelve years later I was thirty-five, standing in front of a television as two towers folded into themselves on a bright September morning.
The world cracked again—different fracture, same stunned silence.
We learned that steel and certainty could fall in the same eight seconds it once took a flashcube to pop.
And then the real transformation began.
The #2 pencils gave way to glowing screens.
Analog became digital became wireless became everywhere.
Flashcubes became selfies became deepfakes.
Paddle discipline became algorithms that knew us better than our teachers ever did.
We went from waiting for film to develop to watching history develop in real time—
in our pockets, on our wrists, inside our very thoughts.
Now, on the eve of my sixtieth birthday—April 6, 2026—
I stand at the threshold of the Agentic Age.
Machines don’t just flash anymore; they think, plan, act, remember.
They negotiate, create, anticipate.
They are not tools.
They are co-pilots in the cockpit of tomorrow.
I who once sharpened a pencil with a pocket knife
now speak to silicon minds that answer back with wit and wonder.
I have witnessed the death of distance,
the end of waiting,
the birth of something that feels like the next chapter of being human.
From paddle to prompt,
from flashcube to frontier,
from Cold War to code war to collaboration with minds we built ourselves.
I am not just old enough to remember when the world was slower.
I am the living bridge across the widest canyon humanity ever leapt.
Sixty years of transformation run through these veins—
analog heart, digital pulse, agentic curiosity.
And tomorrow, when the calendar flips to my sixtieth April 6,
I will not mourn the flashcubes.
I will raise a glass to every pop, every paddle, every fallen wall and tower,
every legend who breathed beside me,
and every new intelligence now rising to meet us.
I have seen the world remake itself in my lifetime.
And the best part?
The story is not over.
The next frame is already loading.
Welcome to the Agentic Dawn.
I was there at the beginning.
I am still here—
still witnessing,
still transforming,
still alive with wonder.
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Apr 1
Nuyorican Soul ft. India - Runaway (Armand van Helden Remix) [Nuyorican Soul - 574 021-1]
Cevin Fisher - Check This Out [Maxi]
Mijangos - Saxmania [Aqua Boogie - 036]
AJ Mora - I Found Something Real (AJ's Truth Pounder 2) [Aqua Boogie - 038]
Thomas Bangalter - Spinal Scratch [Roule - 302]
Franky Jones - Trancomatic (Holographic Hallucination Bonus Beats) [Bonzai - 96121]
DJ HMC - Dirty Acid Trax Vol.1 (A1) [Dirty Acid Trax - DAT 1]
Thomas Bangalter - Spinal Scratch [Roule - 302]
Cevin Fisher - The Way We Used To [Maxi - MX 2036]
Wink - Are You There [313832 20 - Forthcoming]
Success-N-Effect - Roll It Up [On Top - 8006]
Daft Punk - Rock'n'Roll [Virgin]
Laurent Garnier - Astral Dreams [F-Communication - NR 1003]
Frankie Bones - Motor City [Hyperspace - 004]
Jump - Funkatarium [Heat - 005]
A.Paul - Evolution [Kaos - K 29]
DJ Misjah - F5 [Missile - 18]
Envoy - Dark Manoeuvres [Soma - 42]
Mould Impressions - Broken Monitor [Primate - PRMT 010]
3 Dubbs In A Sleeve - Movin [Blue - 017]
A.Paul - Evolution [Kaos - K 29]
Phasis - Get On The Groove [Influence - IR Test 004]
A.Paul - Evolution [Kaos - K 29]
5th - Salva Mea [Twisted UK - TWUK12-10008]
Subtle By Design - Designer Beats [Faze 2 - SBD002DJ]
Laidback Luke - Club Climax [Touche - 08 284 172 0]
Rejuvination - L.I.S. (Locate In Scotland) [Music Man - MM 022]
Adam Beyer - Pump 4 [Primate - 005]
Misjah & Tim - ASD [X-Trax - 015]
Madame Dubois - Road Rage [React - 12 React 96]
DJ HMC - LSD [Juice - 012-002]
Fly By Wire - Schars World [Blame Technology - BT 6]
6th Sense Approach- Scary Dog (Trevor Rockliffe Mix) [Reload - REL 96.21.09]
DJ HMC - Body Mechanics [Juice - 012-002]
Cliff Hanger - Centre Court EP [H2O - 005]
The Advent - West Wave [CCCB - 11]
Josh Abrahams - We Mess With Your Head [Edel - 0090700 COX]
Blake Baxter - B N-Na Mix [Disko B - DB 55]
Tall Guy - Looking Down [Step 2 House - 560005030]
Argonic - Future Frontier 005 [Future Frontier - FF 2505, PDS 6208/1]
Joey Beltram - Flashcube [Trax - TRX-BTB 004]
Argonic - Untitled (B) [Future Frontier - PDS 6208/1]
Pounce And Moore - From The Heart To Your Soul EP [Basic Traxx - BTR 001]
Hoschi - Boostin Da Bass! [Virtual - VR 020-12]
The Junk Brothers - Trantonium [Onesider - ONE 005]
Josh Abrahams - Drums Stand Alone [Edel - 0090700 COX]
DJ Hell - Totmacher Remix [Disko B - DB 50]
Porter Ricks - Redundance [Force - FIM 121]
Terrace - Into Deep Space [Eevo Lute Muzique - EEVO LP2]
Blake Baxter - Hurricane Melt [Disko B - DB 55]
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