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Tacky Light Tours

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 16th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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Chris and Michelle on bus

A while back I wrote that my goal for the future was to do fun things with Michelle and make great memories. Or in those cases where the experience goes sideways, at least get a good story out of it. Well kids, sit back and relax, because it’s story …



Christmas with The Believers

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 15th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This is the best Christmas album you’ve never heard. It’s free. It’s 31 minutes of Christmas jazz perfection. Did I mention it’s free?

This is entry #15 in my attempt at 31 days of blogging for December 2018. I’ve haven’t posted here daily since about 2007, so this should be …



Fun with the command line

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 14th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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A series of blog posts from Jason Baker on opensource.com has motivated me to try to do more on the command line. I’m already keeping a journal using Nano and just saving the updated text file every few days. I’m not trying to work out any serious issues with …



Nobody should have 90 percent of the book market

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 13th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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This tweet, from one of the founders of 37 Signals and Basecamp, is in reference to their new book, It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work.

Those sales numbers are obscene, even for a book whose built in audience is probably slightly more likely to buy from Amazon than …



Nobody should have 90% of the book market

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 13th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Image of tweet from DHH

This tweet, from one of the founders of 37 Signals and Basecamp, is in reference to their new book, It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work.

Those sales numbers are obscene, even for a book whose built in audience is probably slightly more likely to buy from Amazon than …



Where is Chris today

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 12th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Look up. There is a very good chance I’m in the air. My day:(all times EST)

  • 6 AM: Fly to Los Angeles via Atlanta
  • 3 PM: Arrive in LA, rent car and drive 2 hours to client
  • 7 PM: 60 minute meeting with client
  • 8 PM: Drive back to …


State Funded Racism is Alive and Well in 2018

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 11th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Politics

This article about current government expenditures to maintain monuments to racism is remarkable. At a time when basic government functions such as education and public safety are underfunded coast to coast, US government entities are spending millions maintaining pro-Confederate memorials and monuments to racism.

Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library …



Bohemian Rhapsody

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 10th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

One word review: Meh

Short review: Better song than a movie

It’s not a bad movie. I think most people that spend $12 a ticket on it will leave the theater satisfied. Rami Malek should get an Oscar nod for his portayal of Freddie Mercury. But ultimately the move left …



Tattooed Millionaire

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 9th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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Tattooed Millionaire is Bruce Dickinson’s first solo album. In 1990 I was one year out of college and fully immersed in the Atlanta music scene while making an attempt to grow beyond my 80s metal roots. That attempt would not stick and eventually I would fully embrace the fact that …



Amazon Primeless

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 8th, 2018 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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I let my Amazon Prime membership expire in late November. I honestly expected to miss it. I haven’t. It turns out some of the regular health and beauty type stuff we had on auto ship with Prime is actually cheaper from Walmart.com. I managed to complete my Christmas shopping …