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Although this website focuses on Digital Art, expect to see other informative and entertaining content.
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MOST RECENT POSTS 2025 -- 2026
MOST RECENT POSTS 2025 -- 2026
↓ Home -- March 11, March 17, March 29. April 5, April 11, May 10, May 16, May 25, June 1
← CHAT BOX -- September 11, October 5
← Artificial Intelligence --September 11, 2025 (Concluded).
← Digital Art -- (Concluded--but still here). Some old 2016 images are also on Flickr.Com
← Food -- January 13, April 9, April 17, April 28, May 7, May 9, May 23, May 24
← Miscellaneous -- February 1, February 14, March 1, April 1, May 1, May 18, June 1
← More Odds and Ends -- November 20, November 26, December 4
← More . . . Continued -- May 19, May 27, May 30, May 31, June 1, June 2, June 3, June 4
← My YouTube Channel -- March 5 (2025)
← Photography -- (Concluded but still here)
← Sheet Music and Audio -- November 2, November 4, November 5
← SketchUp Projects V -- April 3, April 8, April 28, April 29, May 1, May 9, May 11
← SketchUp Projects IV -- October 4, October 6, 2025, (Concluded but still here)
← SketchUp Projects III -- January 11, January 14, 2025,(Concluded but still here)
← SketchUp Projects II -- August 21, 2023--July 29, 2024, (Concluded but still here)
← SketchUp Projects I -- November 4, 2022-- July 30, 2023, (Concluded but still here)
← Web Page Development -- November 21, November 23, December 8, January 1
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Updated: 06-04-2026, 06-03-2026, 06-02-2026, 06-01-2026.
ThoughtsOfThomasNotNostradamus
Representing Inquiry, Not Opinion
May 25, 2026 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Memorial Day 2026 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Every year at this time we gather to honor those who have defended and died for our country.
ThoughtsOfThomasNotNostradamus
Representing Inquiry, Not Opinion
May 16, 2026 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Armed Forces Day ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ -- Patriotic Music
Today's post features the National Anthem and two time-tested favorite Marches. United States Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus performs The Star-Spangled Banner (YouTube).
The Star-Spangled Banner has additional verses (stanzas) that are seldom heard. The Attached Document provides related information about its creation and current form. The four-verse lyrics have undergone only minor changes since it was written in 1814 (PDF file, 932 words, 3 pages).
Lastly, click below for two Sousa Marches performed by the United State Marine Band:
El Captain (YouTube)
The Stars and Stripes Forever (YouTube)
ThoughtsOfThomasNotNostradamus
Representing Inquiry, Not Opinion
May 10, 2026 Happy Mother's Day !
Image Source: Gemini AI, Edited with GIMP
May 1, 2026 May Day -- Also, May 1st is Desginated as International Workers' Day
Updated: 05-31-2026, 05-30-2026, 05-27-2026, 05-25-2026, 05-24-2926, 05-23-2026, 05-19-2026, 05-18-2026, 05-17-20266, 05-14-2026, 05-11-2026, 05-10-2026, 05-09-2026, 05-07-2026, 05-03-2026, 05-01-2026.
April 5, 2026 Happy Easter !
Image Source: Google ImageFX
April 1, 2026
It's April Fools Day!
Updated: 04-30-2026, 04-29-2026, 04-28-2026, 04-25-2026, 04-23-2026, 04-23-2026, 04-22-2026, 04-21-2026, 04-17-2026, 04-15-2026, 04-14-2026, 04-13-2026, 04--11-2026, 04-10-2026, April 9, 04-08-2026, 04-05-2026, 04-03-2026, 04-02-2026, 04-01-2026.
March 29, 2026 Spring Migration -- Images Created with Gemini AI
Prompt #1
Create an extreme close up of a robin viewed from ground level as it stands in a grassy lawn with its head tilted as it listens and looks downward at the ground. In the background is a tree trunk and a lower portion of a house with an outside faucet with a green garden hose attached.
Prompt #2
Create an identical image but have the robin poised with a slightly more erect stance.
March 17, 2026
☘️ ☘️ ☘️ Happy St. Patrick's Day ☘️ ☘️ ☘️
March 11, 2026 Ballroom Dancing -- Alternate Reality
ImageFX Prompt: "Create Photorealistic surreal images of an elegant ballroom with a large stage band in the background. On the dance floor are many couples dressed in flamboyant Steampunk Couture engaged in ballroom dancing."
Gemini Prompt: "Compose a waltz that is written for steampunk ballroom dancing in an alternate reality."
Gemini Said: That sounds like a grand setting! I've composed a steampunk waltz titled "The Clockwork Cavalcade" for your alternate-reality ballroom. It features a traditional orchestral foundation of sweeping strings and triumphant brass, but I've woven in the rhythmic ticking of clockwork and the rhythmic hiss of steam valves to capture that mechanical, industrial elegance. The track is ready for you to listen to right here. Enjoy the dance! Click Here: "The Clockwork Cavalcade" (Mp4 file).
Mureka ai: "Compose a waltz and a foxtrot that are written for steampunk ballroom dancing , dark."
Demos below (Mp3 files) . . . What if:
Waltzing with Steam.mp3Foxtrotting with Steam.mp3
March 6, 2026 Barber Shop Visit
Image Source: ChatGPT, Edited with GIMP
March 1, 2026 Spring is just around the corner!
Image Source: Google ImagFX and GIMP
Updated: 03-30-2026, 03-29-2026, 03-27-2026, 03-26-2026, 03-23-2026, 03-20-2026, 03-17-2026, 03-11-2026, 03-06-2026, 03-01-2026.
February 28, 2026 Coming Soon! Pick'n and Grin'n 2026
EasyMusic.ai (free version) generated instrumental and Vocal music based on my input regarding title, genre, tempo, mood, instruments (banjo, guitar, fiddle, string bass, mandolin, drums), and a vocalist, along with a brief description. EasyMusic then created a "Style" followed by four versions of the song. EasyMusic provided its own lyrics.
EasyMusic's Style: "This 1970s bluegrass country tune bursts open with breakneck flatpicked guitar and sharp banjo rolls in locked syncopation. A doghouse bass keeps the rhythm taut and pulsing, while crisp mandolin chords punch through the verses. Fiddle licks add bite between energetic breaks."
Vocal segments of each song were deleted with Audacity--the remainder was saved in its original Mp3 format. All versions have been substantially shortened. Here are the instrumental demos:
Image Source: Gemini, SketchUp, and GIMP
Version 1
Version 2
Version 3
Version 4
Pick'n and Grin'n v1 Instrumental.mp3Pick'n and Grin'n v2 Instrumental.mp3Pick'n and Grin'n v3 -- Instrumental.mp3Pick'n and Grin'n v4 -- Instrumental.mp3February 17, 2026 Celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year 4724 -- Year of the Fire Horse (Image Source: Google ImageFX)
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⭐ February 16, 2026 ⭐
⭐ Presidents' Day ⭐
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❤️ February 14, 2026 ❤️
❤️ Happy Valentine's Day ❤️
Image Source: Googe ImageFX and GIMP
Those Good Old Days -- Waking up to the smell of burning garbage.
Image Source: Googe ImageFX and GIMP
Smog -- Where did it come from?
Image Source: Googe ImageFX and GIMP
No More Clean Air -- Anywhere
February 11, 2026 Conversation With Elfsight Virtual Assistant – Verifying Today’s Retraining Session
Retraining Elfsight's AI Virtual Assistant manually to reflect recent updates posted to this website requires only a few minutes. It includes Logging into Elfsight, Individually selecting pages that have been updated, clicking the retrain option, and waiting for each page retraining to be completed (usually less than a minute each), and then logging out.
Retraining was performed for only four page-links today (Home, Food, Miscellaneous, and More . . .). The content of this website is not time sensitive--it is updated monthly at least once so that Virtual Assistant responses remain current.
The following is a quick check of today's retraining session:
I asked:
"Are there any posts or PDF file links on the subject of Inflation? If so, please describe."
3:38 PM
Thinking...
Virtual Assistant said:
Yes — There is one inflation post / PDF link
September 11, 2024 — "Inflation in America" (PDF). A ChatGPT‑generated response addressing four questions about inflation in the U.S.; linked from the Artificial Intelligence section.
If you’d like, I can open the PDF and provide a longer summary or extract specific sections.
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Comment:
Other key words to investigate: SketchUp, Humor, Nostalgia, and Recipes, for example. Many are included within PDF file link names or in titles of posts.
ThoughtsOfThomasNotNostradamus
Representing Inquiry, Not Opinion
Image Source: Google ImageFX
Inflation as We Know It
February 2, 2026 Groundhogs Day -- The Report: "Six more Weeks of Winter"
February 1, 2026 The Joy of Reading (and writing) -- Comments about Interactive Advantages of AI
I experienced the transition from radio to television as a child and never fully appreciated reading stories, magazines . . . (Continue reading Click Here (PDF file, 803 words, 2 pages).
ThoughtsOfThomasNotNostradamus
Updated: 02-28-2026, 02-19-2026, 02-17-2026, 02-16-2026, 02-14-2026, 02-11-2026, 02-02-2026, 02-01-2026.
January 9, 2026 More Music Video and Audio -- The Cubbarooska
The Cubbarooska Up Tempo Album/Music Video consists of a compilation of four versions of an AI generated song created using an online Lyrics to Music app in addition to Audacity and Movie Maker. Still images were added for the video portion. The Cubbarooska Album contains experimental soundtracks with fluctuations in tempo that were edited with Audacity.
See the Audio and Sheet Music Page linked on the left or above for more information and software reviews. Mp3 Audio singles of Versions 1 -- 4 are also linked at that location. Click Below: (Mp4 file, 16m, 07s)
Up Tempo Cubbarooska Album.mp4
Image Source: Google ImageFX
The Cubbarooska
(Dance of the Black Cat)
January 5, 2026 Music Video -- Click Below: Wild Country 2026 Album (Mp4 file, 08m, 52s)
Wild Country 2026 Album.mp4
Image Source: tboltondigitalart
January 2, 2026 Chrome's AI "Ask about this tab" vs Elfsight's "Virtual Assistant ChatBot" -- Similar Apps
Several months ago, I added "Elfsight's Virtual Assistant ChatBot" to this website. More recently, Google Chrome has included the "Ask about this Tab" feature on the home page of its web browser.
Now, Chrome users can use the AI feature, "Ask about this tab", to further explore a previously visited web page from a prompt--typically to query or summarize similar to Elfsight's ChatBot. That is, it can provide key points in summary format or answer specific questions about the contents. The "Ask about this tab" option can also provide linking information and then follow specific links if asked.
Similar to Chrome's Ask about this tab AI feature, Elfsight's Virtual Assistant ChatBot does not follow external links unless you first request a list of available link(s). Either app will summarize a link's contents if you request it in your prompt (transcript example provided below).
In my experience, Elfsight's Virtual Assistant ChatBot summarization, etc., works well with PDF files that I've personally authored or compiled. When external links outside my storage area are selected from within Elfsight's Virtual Assistant's reply, the user is taken directly to that url upon clicking it--with no summarization capabilities from those sources which are beyond the scope of the app (??? I will need to confirm this--things seem to be rapidly changing).
One advantage with Chrome's Ask about this tab is that its content is more current since Google Chrome and Google Sites operate under the same roof so to speak. Elfisight AI Virtual Assistant Chatbot is manually re-trained with new data (as directed by me) whenever I deem it necessary to do so--usually monthly because content updates and new posts are infrequent.
An advantage of the Elfsight ChatBot is that it allows the viewer to query/peruse my enitre website rather than a single page at a time. To put it another way, Elfsight Virtual Assistant's output is similar but covers everything on this website and is not limited to a single web page.
As with other AI models, Elfsight's Virtual Assistant is very thorough. Here is a transcript of a recent conversation where Elfsight Virtual Assistant has been prompted to search, summarize, and then follow a related link contained within the reply and provide additional feedback concerning the linked file's contents: Elfsight ChatBox Conversation (PDF file, 427 words, 2 pages).
"Ask about this tab" now appears on Google Search Page
Entry point (snippet) for "Elfsight Virtual Assistant Chatbot"
January 2, 2026 Something Fun to Try -- AI Music Generation Apps (November 2, 2025 Post)
Unfortunately, everything can't remain front and center on the Home Page for very long. Here's something that was immediately buried on the Sheet Music and Audio subpage ever since it was posted on November 2, 2025. For me, this activity is solely for experimentation, but there are others who may find that these apps have greater utility than merely for personal entertainment.
Links to Tom’s AI Country andCountry Western Music listed by genre, title, and file format—click to play: Country: Old Bill v1 mp3| Sober Up Sam v1 mp3 | Sober Up Sam v2 mp3 (another vocalist with a bit more twang), and |Country Western: Robot Cowboy v2 mp3
Background Info: AI music generation apps—where the user furnishes the lyrics, genre, mood, and a brief description. The AI app(s) will then generate several versions within a few seconds. These are unique, one of a kind productions where the user is the lyricist and the melody, instrumentation, and vocalist(s) are AI generated.
Image Generated with Gemini
January 1, 2026 Happy New Year!
Images Generated with Gemini
Edited with GIMP
January 1, 2026 Seasons Greetings -- A New Beginning
It is time to do some housecleaning here on this website's Home Page. Previous content has been moved to a new page and can be accessed through this link: Oldies But Goodies.
Lastly, the links that remain at the top of this page and in the left sidebar will reflect similar updates whenever it becomes necessary to make the website more convenient to navigate.
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Backyard Photo 12-27-2025
Frosty Treetops
Updated: 01-19-2026, 01-13-2026, 01-09-2026, 01-05-2026, 01-02-2026, 01-01-2026.
Image Source: Google ImageFX
Edited with Gemini and GIMP
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