Muir Woods National Monument
Muir Woods, home to the coastal redwoods (the “tallest of all living things”) is just north of San Francisco, across the Golden Gate bridge and near Sausalito. Earlier this year, the park implemented a...
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Twilio SIGNAL 2018 (Twilio Developer and Partner Conference)
Because one of my developers could not go at the last minute I attended the Twilio Signal conference held October 16-18, 2018 at the Bill Graham Auditorium near City Hall in downtown San Francisco....
Film notes – 93Queen (documentary)
My wife and I were lucky enough to catch the last showing of the documentary 93Queen at the IFC Theater in New York City, and doubly privileged to see it with our good friend...
Publishing, reputation and the blockchain
Since this post in May of this year, I’ve been experimenting with publishing on the blockchain with a plug-in from a blockchain company called po.et. The concept of po.et is quite simple: utilize a...
Bonaventure Cemetery – Savannah, Georgia
Bonaventure Cemetery is a ten minute drive or ride from the Savannah Historic District. The carved gravestones, sculptures and preponderance of Spanish Moss give this place a classic cemetery look. The cemetery is open...
iTunes shuffle – how to fix stuck on shuffle
This is a note to myself on iTunes shuffle. I can never remember how to find the hidden button when an album seems to be stuck on shuffle in iTunes. And as much as...
TSHA’s Texas Almanac – historical data science analysis
The data scientists in my company Media Sourcery have been using Tableau to analyze various types of data from our products and our customers. In recent projects with the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA),...
Iceland – Vestmannaeyjar (Western Islands), Heimaey and Eldheimar Museum
The day after our visit to Jökulsárlón, our main goal for our penultimate day in Iceland was to get over to Vestmannaeyjar and visit the Eldheimar Museum. Vik Vik is a very small town...
Iceland – Jökulsárlón (Glacier Lake)
We awoke determined to get to Jökulsárlón, the Glacier lake in southeast Iceland near Vatnajökull National Park and back to our guesthouse. Our Golden Circle guide Olaf had convinced me it was reachable, and with the...
Iceland – Bobby Fischer
As we were starting our journey to Iceland, my lovely wife and I were in an Uber, leaving RWDevCon in Alexandria, VA and heading to Dulles Airport for our flight to Reykjavik. The driver...