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Geddy Lee – book signing and notes on The Big Beautiful Book of Bass

Originally the title of this article was to be “Geddy Lee came to town and fist bumped me”. And that did happen (photographic evidence can be seen on this page). I hadn’t planned on...

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Texas Capitol Monuments and Markers

Living downtown in Austin means that we see the Texas Capitol at the north end of Congress Avenue almost everyday. During the pandemic we had to walk up to get mail at our office...

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Fabergé Eggs and the Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Of the 50 Fabergé Imperial Easter eggs, 44 have survived. On our trip to Russia, we saw nineteen of the forty-four. We saw ten of them when in the Kremlin Armory in Moscow (where...

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White Clueless

Though my heritage is a good portion Native American, no one would take me for anything other than white. Both of my parents grew up close to dirt poor in Oklahoma (formerly known as...

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Blockstack 2.0 testnet – neon

Introduction I’ve participated in several testnet blockchains by setting up nodes or doing smart contract test development. We used to call this alpha or beta testing back in the day (I could date myself...

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Map Translation – the Central Museum of the Patriotic War (ЦЕНТРАЛЬНЫЙ МУЗЕЙ ВЕЛИКОЙ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ)

The previous article on our series about Russia contains the translation from Russian to English of the main guide I got from our visit to the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in...

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Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War (ЦЕНТРАЛЬНЫЙ МУЗЕЙ ВЕЛИКОЙ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ) Map-Guide Translation from Russian to English

In July 2019 I had the privilege to visit Victory Park and the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, Russia. Like many of the places in Russia there was little English translation;...

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U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds flight over downtown Austin

As part of the celebration of #HealthcareHeroes the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds flew over Austin and the surrounding area May 13th. The flight was supposed to be the day before and an hour earlier,...