Mostly my travel photos and descriptions. Random articles on computers, house & garden, and irreverent material.
3 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments kimbriggsdotcom
Martha's Vineyard is an island off the southeast coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. There is some fishing and agricultural industry on the island, but the main business seems to be tourism. Edgartown is a quiet town on the eastern end of the islan...
23 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments kimbriggsdotcom
I've been told Lhasa, Tibet is the "home of Tibetan Buddhism". It is where Potala Palace is, which is where the Dalai Lamas lived for a few hundred years until he was ousted in 1959. Wikipedia lists Potala Palace as a museum now. Back in 2002, whe...
4 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments kimbriggsdotcom
The Wisconsin Dells is a scenic gorge area in the Wisconsin river that has been preserved as a public open space. Most of these photos are from a tour of the "Upper Dells" where the water is so calm that you sit on folding lawn chairs on the boat de...
26 Jul 2020 1 minute read 1 comment kimbriggsdotcom
I was recently able to borrow a hand planer from a friend. It made a huge reduction in the amount of work needed to redo an outdoor cedar table top. I think they run about 50 USD, which would quickly pay for itself if you have a lot of flat surface...
11 May 2020 2 minute read 5 comments kimbriggsdotcom
As of April 2020, there is a new version of Ubuntu Linux out that will be a LTS, or Long Term Support, version. I have been a full-time Linux user since at least 2004 and rarely find a time when I need to use proprietary software. I will describe h...
11 May 2020 1 minute read 5 comments kimbriggsdotcom
I have had a Steemit account along with a lot of other social media sites for some time now. I post almost the same content across the sites, but it is always original material I have spent my time on to develop. I went along with the move from Ste...
21 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments kimbriggsdotcom
I have just completed going over data from the Center for Disease Control’s website. If you would like to check the numbers, here is the link: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html The graph on the page is called “Percentage of all deaths...
16 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment kimbriggsdotcom
Summary: I created some forms to record important information, outside of any electronic devices, as a backup source for myself and also for use by family in case I am incapacitated in any way. The motivation is that the electronic forms contain gen...
14 Mar 2020 1 minute read 2 comments kimbriggsdotcom
Saint Augustine, Florida, is town that is well prepared for tourism and a great stop for food and scenery in north Florida. In addition to normal 'tourist sites', I enjoyed walking the downtown area and taking in the older Spanish-influenced archit...
1 Mar 2020 1 minute read 2 comments kimbriggsdotcom
Yosemite National Park is an ambitious day trip from the San Francisco / San Jose area. The maps programs say it is about a four hour drive from where I left in Mount Diablo. If you'd rather not be in the city, the drive is scenic and the park is b...
