The George W. Bush Presidential Library is located on the campus of SMU. You pay $7 to park and $16 to get in. Get there early as parking can be tricky. The museum starts with an introduction to his childhood and proceeds through his live to his two terms in office.…
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My aunt sent me an album of old family pictures. I like looking at old pictures to see the details in the background. Like a picture of my grandmother from 1912 shows a stack of newspapers. When you zoom in on the papers you can see headlines from the first Balkan War Turkish defeat in Greece.…
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The Mythbusters Exhibit is in its last week at the
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History so I thought I would take a look. The exhibit features artifacts from the show starting with the JATO rocket tubes from the very first episode and a Citroën turned motorcycle from the 2015 season. …
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I’ve always had an affinity for dinosaurs, megafauna, and
kaiju. At the
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History they have a life-size Allosaurus outside the building. The guy has been there for at least 20 years that I know of.…
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I was very slow to move from film photography to digital photography. I wasn’t willing to buy into DSLR photography until I felt the quality caught up. Arguably digital photography still lacks something when compared to film but the cost, immediacy and flexibility made it easy for me to switch and not look back.…
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We just had an earthquake with the epicenter just nine miles to the southeast. USGS rated it as a magnitude 3.4 and a depth of 1.7 miles.
John Stewart makes his first movie and it’s really good. It’s the true story of a Newsweek journalist that was arrested in Iran after the 2009 election. Stewart takes a very compelling story written by Maziar Bahari after spending over 100 days in solitary confinement and presents it in a beautiful and compelling film.…
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Keneau Reeves is back with a movie that could be a worthy sequel to
The Matrix. It is the perfect antedote to
Interstellar. The plot is simple: They kicked his dog, now he must kill them. That’s it. Nothing too deep about it.…
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The new movie
Interstellar starring Matthew McConaughey and directed by Christopher Nolan is destined to become a science fiction classic like 2001 but I don’t think it will be appreciated in our time. At three hours long I think some audiences will have a hard time staying engaged.…
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I’ve been using my iPhone 6 Plus for a month now. I thought it was time to gather my thoughts about my experience with the new, larger phone. Prior to getting the new phone I was carrying an iPhone 5s and an iPad Mini (2nd Generation with Wifi).…
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A few years ago we went to go see the Titanic Exhibit at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. The exhibit featured actual relics from the ship and props from the movie. It was tastefully done. This year in the same place we have an Indiana Jones exhibit on the
Adventure of Archeology.…
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I finally broke away to see the Ansel Adams Exhibit at the Arlington Museum. The exhibit closes tomorrow. Nothing like waiting to the last minute. I’m familiar with Adams’ canonical Yosemite work. I was hoping the exhibit would expand my knowledge of the artist.…
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I had a funny experience last week. I drove up to Whistler Mountain, the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The weather was cold. I was told it was about 5ºC. I was looking out over the valley and taking some pictures.…
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