TSHA Annual Meeting 2019
The 123rd annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) was held in Corpus Christi from February 28 – March 2, 2019. I’ve previously attended parts of several annual meetings, but this is...
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SXSW 2019 Day 2 – This is Why We Like It
SXSW is diverse. An attendee can fill their brain to capacity by choosing diverse sessions, and let your mind work to connect the dots. I attended five sessions/movies today, March 9, 2019. By far...
book notes – Failure Is Not An Option by Gene Kranz
For about four years (before I was in kindergarten until the 2nd grade) my family and I lived in Indian Harbor Beach, Florida, which is just a few miles from Cape Kennedy. The first...
concert notes: Steven Wilson – The Ritz, Ybor City, FL, December 13, 2018
Steven Wilson is an artist so prolific his discography (put together by a German fan, downloadable here) is over 500 pages long. Between his solo music, Porcupine Tree, No-Man, Blackfield, I.E.M., Bass Communion and...
Last Day Hike 2018 – Pedernales Falls State Park
What did you do to celebrate New Year’s Eve 2018? My lovely wife found a hike for us to do: the “last day hike 2018″ at Pedernales Falls State Park. It was a 2.5...
Po.et on Mainnet – Testing po.et beta plug-in
Some of you may have noticed the po.et badge on my blogs posts; if all goes well with the beta testing described in this post, you can scroll down to the bottom to see...
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...
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...