If you know anything about the history of Stevensville you are probably familiar with the place of the Stevensville Planing Mill in that history. The Stevensville Planing Mill was originally operating as early as 1898 in the location on the bank of Black Creek opposite Coral Avenue. But there were other mills of various kinds

There’s no doubt that an AI program like ChatGPT can save you a ton of time. A few days ago I was working on a web page that included a list of 30 Songs. These were part of a course I was working on for new Ukulele players. I decided I wanted to modify the

This is the opening page of the document I refer to in the article below. The book where it is reproduced is called “Our Town Stevensville…then & now” compiled by Elaine Winger and her Grade 3 and 4 class in 1984. As you can see it was reprinted in the book on page 55 and

I happened to take this image of a circle of empty chairs a group of us were sitting around in at a recent family get-together. This is an actual image, not an AI creation. I thought it would be interesting to see what ChatGPT could do if I asked it to put people in the

This picture is of the Hendershot House as it was in 1950. This was the house that the Crosby Hendershot family lived in until his health failed and he moved to live with Laura, his daughter and her husband Jim, in roughly 2005. Crosby died in 2009. According to a conversation Crosby had with Laura

Here’s a rendition of the Stevensville Cider Mill as I, more or less, remember it. This image was produced by ChatGPT after many edits and modifications. In another post I comment on the difficulty of coaxing an AI program to give you just what you want. For example, the Creek directly behind the Mill was

As you can see from other posts on this blog I have been studying and commenting on the history of Stevensville, my home town. Among other things this involves looking at old documents collected and saved by friends and family members. In some cases this can be tedious and time consuming. The type of documents

I just happen to be one of the last kids to go through good old SS#9 on Airline St. Back then, in the 50’s, we started Grade 1 in the little one room school house on the north corner of the school property (out by the road). Both grades 1 and 2 were handled in

One of the things I’ve always found interesting is how various stretches of land in the Stevensville area have been used, developed, and re-organized over the years, and especially since my childhood. From my pre-1970 perspective these areas include: The Creek (Black Creek) The Grove (which is now known as the “United Empire Loyalist Park”)

This series on AI is interesting, but I’m confusing myself. Should these posts be in the music blog (Good Vibrations) or in my more general blog (The View from Conestogo)? I’ve decided to do it this way: – Posts as they relate to the role of AI in music and the promotion of Muzictrain/Uke Crew

I wanted to move on to creating a “reel” for posting to both Instagram and TikTok. The variables here are pretty confusing, but I at least wanted to create a short lip-synched video, put some type on it, and try to get the “Comment ‘Yes” and I’ll send you blah, blah, blah.” This is more

Memories of the Village I Knew Whenever I return to Stevensville – the small town where I grew up – I am struck by the changes. My memories of the town are of people and places as they were in the 1960s. I moved away after getting married in 1968 and left most of those

My experiments with AI programs made me realize that having a group of “characters” is important. By “characters” I mean images of people who can serve as my “subjects” in posts, ads, and videos used in various media. For example, in this video I wanted a “little girl playing a ukulele”. So my first job

My recent attempt to rejuvenate Muzictrain by moving our meetings to Elmira, developing the “Jam Nite” concept and introducing “Uke Crew” has meant developing quite a bit of new material. This included program ideas, program names and accompanying logos. One of the first ones was a redo of the Muzictrain identity. This was not meant

This series of posts will focus on my developing use of AI for various purposes. One specific use will be for creating, developing and organizing products and programs for Muzictrain. These will include things like developing training courses and using various ways of promoting these programs. A good example right now is the development of

To see the reviews of a specific book on Amazon go to the book’s product page. You could also search by author, or topic. Scroll down to the Reviews section below the Author information. You should see “Write a customer review”. A review that is marked “verified purchase” has more weight than a non-verified purchase

In my previous post about Free Will I discussed why author Sam Harris calls Free Will an illusion. I suggested that there is a difference between Free Will (Big F) and free will (little f), and that is is Free Will (Big F) that Harris talking about. According to Harris and many others there is

The recent Trump-inspired uproar about Canada’s relationship with the United States has several dimensions: economic, cultural, political. All of these focus on the heightened importance of reducing our dependence on U.S. trade, diversifying our relations with other trading partners, reducing internal trade barriers between provinces, and taking better advantage of our abundant natural resources. One

We’ve decided to visit some small towns in our area of Ontario this summer. The first one was a week or so ago – a visit to Floradale, just a few km outside of Elmira. This has been a small community with many Mennonite families, but as one long time resident told me, it is