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I Said I Could Do It! 3-year Genealogy project accomplished + Skills learned
I finally put all the pieces together for this genealogy research project. And I am really happy to say: Mission Accomplished! My in-laws had a lifelong mystery about their family. Their paternal grandfather was adopted, and there was nearly no information available to determine who he was. All they had was a loose story about […]
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LetsEncrypt change breaks the internet: Quick fix is available for web servers (not obvious, though — cert.pem vs. fullchain.pem)
Something weird happened on the internet on Wednesday afternoon. Millions of people found out that their devices and websites were being affected by security problems. A company called LetsEncrypt seems to be the world’s largest provider of SSL security certificates. And for some reason, they allowed one of their main certificates to expire. I won’t […]
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Deer Proof Flower Garden
My mom kept suggesting that she wanted to turn part of the grass in her modestly sized yard into a new flower garden. She wanted it to be surrounded by bricks and to mirror another garden she had that was under a tree and not doing all that well. So, we got to digging, and […]
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I Got My Covid-19 Vaccine Today: Side effects, and reflecting on this crazy year
Moderna is the name. A company I’d never heard of till about 10 months or so ago. It’s a company that created a vaccine for the coronavirus pandemic. The second to do so after Pfizer did it first a couple of weeks prior. It is an mRNA vaccine — get it “ModeRNA.” Both of these […]
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In Memoriam: A childhood memory to let go
When I was very young — probably not yet seven years of age — I had one of those lifelong memories emotionally glued to my soul forever. We lived on a suburban block outside of Baltimore in a neighborhood that was a few blocks from the local elementary school. It was a neighborhood that had […]
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Wonder Woman 1984: Retro theme brings back 80’s-style goofy story telling, too
Wonder Woman 1984 (WW84) has some really fun parts and some very good effects. It also has a lot of parts that don’t make sense. Now, to say that you would have to suspend belief for a superhero movie is redundant, so I don’t know why many people have harsh opinions of this rather silly […]
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Watch: Huge party erupts outside White House after Joe Biden elected new President of U.S.
Thousands gathered in DC in front of the White House, along 16th Street NW and at BLM Plaza, to celebrate their joy at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris being elected to be the next President and Vice President of the USA. Cars and people poured out onto the Capital City’s streets — in every neighborhood, […]
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Limited palettes ?: Restriction is a good thing
I’m experimenting with colors in ways that I really haven’t before. I had lots of classes in the past years of school oh so long ago. So, the idea of limiting a color palette or monochrome is not new to me. I just never really dove into it before. A couple of experiments here using […]
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Creativity Rekindled: Learning to Draw Again
Most of my friends consider me to be artistic or even” an artist,” but, I say: “You have to make art to be an artist.” Smart aleck response, but I mean it. You use it or lose it. Don’t get buried with your ideas. Don’t let life get in the way of your interests. And […]
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1,000 Subscribers on YouTube — Thanks everybody!
I met my goal of 1,000+ subscribers by the end of this month. Made this little animation to celebrate. (6 seconds = 4 hours of FlipaClip) YouTube sent me a notice saying they were going to cancel all existing monetization contracts that hadn’t yet met their requirements. I already had 950+ subscribers from the years […]