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Photography Fails
Most people post their photography wins. Today I’ll post a photography fail. I went to Port Canaveral to watch the USSF-52/OTV-7 launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. I had an opportunity to see the first Falcon Heavy launch in 2018: While I’ve seen most of the other SpaceX launches from further away, I wanted to…
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Heroes of the Halcyon Muster Meetup 2
September 30th, 2023. The last day of the 274th and last voyage of the Galactic Starcruiser. The Heroes of the Halcyon podcast organized Muster Meetup 2 at Planet Hollywood in Disney Springs to celebrate. It was a fantastic time meeting former guests, cast, and crew to celebrate the Halcyon. Full image album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/tLqmuh9odZmEZXf9A
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Lightsaber Meetup – August 26 2023
Despite the hot weather, we had another great turnout for the Galaxy’s Edge Discord lightsaber meetup. Link to the main album is below. Image gallery: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ULb1x9b1GZ6oGjmy8
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Lightsaber Meetup – May 4th Galaxy’s Edge WDW
The Lightsaber meetup at Galaxy’s Edge in Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando for May the 4th had a massive turnout. There were so many that there was an organic meetup that happened at the Falcon hours before closing -Many of those people were likely unaware of the regular meetup and just naturally congregated. Our meetups…
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Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 Lightsaber Meetup
Star Wars Celebration was in London this year, and like last year in Anaheim, the Galaxy’s Edge Discord organized another lightsaber meetup Full image gallery
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Ahsoka Tano Day 2023 Lightsaber Meetup
On January 29th, 2008, Ahsoka Tano was introduced into the Star Wars universe in the Clone Wars animated series. Since then, January 29th has unofficially become “Ahsoka Tano Day”. For the past few years, the Galaxy’s Edge Discord team has also organized a lightsaber meetup at Galaxy’s Edge (east/WDW), and Ashley Eckstein, voice actor for…
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EPCOT Guidebook from 1986
I grew up with EPCOT, and I fondly remember 1980s EPCOT. For me, this was peak EPCOT – edutainment mixed with an optimistic future. NASA’s Shuttle program was in full swing, home computers were entering the public consciousness, and all sorts of new technology was there to be explored. I recently bought a 1986 guidebook…
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Enabling AAC and AptX over Bluetooth on MacOS
I recently purchased a pair of Sony MDR-1000X Bluetooth noise-cancelling headphones. Although I usually prefer Sennheiser headphones (my previous pair of NC headphones was the Sennheiser Momentum Wireless 2 (aka HD-1)), I went with the Sony due to their support of the AAC codec, as my primary devices are all Apple. By default on OS…
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Star Wars Headspace and ATTLAS’ “Sunset Over Manaan”
Although it had been released a while earlier, I didn’t notice the Star Wars Headspace album until seeing the vinyl at Star Wars Celebration. It’s an interesting electronic album – it is not remixes of Star Wars music, but new music in a Star Wars theme, with quotes and sound clips from the movies throughout.…
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Command line argument parsing in .NET Core with Microsoft.Extensions.CommandLineUtils
In a recent .NET Standard/Core based library, I found myself needing to include some command line tooling. I never found a command line argument parsing library I really liked for full .NET Framework apps, so I decided to hunt for any new possibilities for a netcoreapp. Happily I found a very nice little utility that’s…
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