I wish I could remember who recommended this book to me. This is actually the second Dennis Taylor book that I added to my Goodreads queue by recommendation. I have not yet read
The Singularity Trap. I have a new favorite author to follow.…
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M. Knight Shyamalan’s new movie is out and I waited until $5 Tuesday to catch a showing. As the trailers started the theater was still mostly empty. By the time the Universal logo appeared on the screen more than half the seats were taken.…
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Just north of downtown Fort Worth is a place where five bridges cross the Trinity River together. Four of those bridges are for trains. Three of them are old iron train trestles. I thought it would make for an interesting subject.…
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Cape Canaveral
While in Florida for a conference, I noticed that there was going to be a launch that week. The launch was scheduled for 12:15 on Launch Complex LC-41 which is located on the far east side of the Cape.…
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Thursday night I went with my family to see the premier of Venom at the local AMC Theatre. We drive an extra ten miles to this theater because it is not in the mall and they have the big comfy reclining seats. …
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When I first saw Robert Rodriguez’s 2010 film ‘Predators’, I knew that it had been mostly filmed on location around Austin. Robert is from San Antonio and his Troublemaker Studios have several movies in Texas, taking advantage of the diverse terrains around the Hill Country area.…
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On a rainy morning you can see the building is getting so close to be finished.
This is the 8th video in the series. You can see that most of the glass is in. Things are starting to look more finished.
Sold: MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011), 16GB RAM, 500GB 5400-rpm SATA Hard Drive, 8x Slot-loading SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW), Intel Core i7 (“Sandy Bridge”) 2.2GHz processor with extra power supply in original box.
Over in Grand Prairie is a Cricket field. I’ve seen people out there playing before. I was in the park with my drone and flew over to get some interesting shots. The early afternoon winter shadows contain remarkable detail. Watch the video below.
This month there is more glass. The eastern wing is now enclosed. The video also includes spring flora along Cooper Street and the new north side construction projects. Music is Apache by the Incredible Bongo Band used without any permission because it sounds cool.
For the March 2018 Meetup of the North Texas Drone Users Group, the guest was Officer Adkins of the Arlington Police Department’s Drone-based search and rescue team. APD has 9 officers in 6 units trained to use drones in their police service.…
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In a world where cross-site scripting and third-party cookies are known security risks, I boggles the mind how Balkanized the infrastructure of Microsoft is. By using a favorite program on the Mac called Little Snitch by Objective Development, you can see when your software is phoning home to connecting to other computers on the net.…
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