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1917 News article featuring my great-grandfather
My great-grandfather Carl Luetcke was born in Germany in 1874 and moved to the United States in 1902. He retained social ties and sympathies with his birth country through the outbreak of the Great War. Here he is in 1917 being interviewed by the local newspaper in Austin, Texas about his experiences. I posted about…
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Archiving social media
Any social media site could be gone tomorrow. So I’m going to be adding things from social media to this site that I don’t want to lose. I figure 99% of things I’ve added to Facebook or Twitter isn’t really worth keeping around, and of the rest, I might not want to post anything that…
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Moving furniture around
I don’t really know what I’m doing with this whole WordPress thing. Apparently you can’t use plug-ins without a $40/month business account, which is not something I’m ready to sign up for at this point. Apparently you can self-host and then use plug-ins, but I’m not entirely sure that’s the way to go either. I’ll…
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Remember when we had blogs?
I’m sick of social media and the way it manipulates us all as the product sold to advertisers for the benefit of billionaire egos and their Smaugpiles of gold. This is my site and I hope to keep this place going even as the online and real-life world collapses around it. I can always link…
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Vegas, baby
Or not. On the way back from visiting my Dad on Maui, our flight from our connecting city was canceled. That city? Las Vegas. Maybe in different circumstances I would have enjoyed the diversion. But I really just wanted to get home. It was 9:30 and the woo girls wanted me to high-five them, so…
A Place to Call My Own 