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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...

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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...

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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),...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Iceland – Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Vatnshellir Cave and the hunt for Jules Verne

Monday night at the Buubble was awesome. The place we stayed at on Snæfellsnes Peninsula Tuesday night, though it didn’t have a transparent roof, was almost as good. It had a black church and a...

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Iceland – The Golden Circle

Our tour of the Golden Circle in Iceland was included in our stay at the Buubble. Our tour guide Olaf picked us up from our hotel (the very cool Canopy in Reykjavik) in a...

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Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends

Below is a close facsimile of our reaction to the Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends show at the Long Center in Austin Sunday March 18, 2018. “I have this great idea for a...

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Austin paint park – the Hope Outdoor Gallery

Our son turned us on to this massive, ever-changing paint park at 11th and Baylor near downtown Austin, Texas called the Hope Outdoor Gallery (website). Their website says this started in March 2011. There’s...