Banff Panoramas
Bow River Athabasca Glacier terminus In the Alpine
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B.C. warned of potential for ‘explosive growth’ as 102 new COVID-19 cases from over the weekend announced
We have to keep social distancing and not interact with people outside our bubble if we want to keep COVID-19 cases down. The virus hasn’t gone away, if we let…
Social Distancing Strategy
If you get hit it’s your own fault!
A survey of music biographies
Over the past 15 years or so, my taste in reading has gravitated heavily toward biographies, and one significant sub-genre of them has been musicians. I’ve read a lot of…
Facebook Corrections Leave Questions
The problem with this Facebook censorship/correction of disinformation is that they’re really bad at censoring. My blog has been blocked for years, and they’ve never responded to my appeal to…
An Accurate Graph of my Response to COVID-19
H/T David Appell
I was featured in Hands on Photography!
Ant Pruitt featured some of my work in the Hands on Photography Podcast! Episode 10
Radio station XEPUR, Cherán, Michoacán
Radio is important in rural and less affluent areas of Mexico. A lot of people don’t have computers, smart phones (a lot of areas don’t have 4G coverage), or televisions.…
A guide to the Parícutin volcano
I first heard of the Parícutin volcano when I was in elementary school, somewhere around 1960. There was a story about it in one of the weekly news magazines handed…
50 Years ago…
via The Onion
A US battle against nature in the Galapagos Islands
An announcement came out on June 12, 2019 that an agreement had been made between the governments of the United States and Ecuador that would allow the US military to…
The Green New Deal
David Appell on the Green New deal: I wish it was only about carbon without the social welfare proposals, such as (G) ensuring that the Green New Deal mobilization creates…
Strong Opinions, Loosely Held
This sums me up pretty well: I do receive feedback that I express strong opinions. Some people even make that sound like a negative thing. In my networking career, my…
Leaving WordPress?
… Maybe I am looking for recommendations on a good WordPress replacement. I am not thrilled with the new post editor and this seems like a good opportunity to learn…
Book Review: Tone, Twang, and Taste: A Guitar Memoir, by Pete Kennedy
I first heard the term “Americana music” about four years ago, and it’s convenient, because it includes a lot of music I like: folk rock, folk, bluegrass, outlaw country, and…
2018 in review
As the year 2018 closes, it’s time for my customary review of what I wrote. It’s also time to thank every reader for participating, for reading my humble musings, for…
PEN International observes Day of the Dead in San MIguel de Allende
I recorded and edited this. Includes Spanish subtitles/subtitulo en español.
Shy Crane
Sandhill Crane at the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary