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"Help... help... I can't breathe," are the words we heard George Floyd mutter. I know he was terrified and confused; wondering why this was happening to him. I think he must have also wondered why no one was helping him. I imagine he was hoping to God that one of his pleas would be responded to; someone would provide relief from the pressure of the officers holding him down and constricting his breath. Unfortunately, as we all know, when the pressure was released, it was too

As to summit a mired peak Then descend on heavy thoughts Set leg upon fabled shore For somber retreat towards home Land a beast so many scorn To bleed all life blood out What time is spent in vain attempt As reckless woes turn to vice Heroes fall on self-named blade For false gods named re-miss Ends meet in destined tides When love lost, twice tossed aside We all stumble a fractured fate Chasing shadowed grips dire slips Until, in light, we feel th

How is technology affecting us in Galveston and in Texas? That is the question that our gracious editor presented us with to ruminate on. Zeros and ones. That’s what we are to the machine. We are digits of information feeding it, so it can grow stronger and bigger than we have ever dreamed of. It really doesn’t matter where we are anymore, Galveston, New York, Paris, Manaus, Mozambique, it is all becoming the same. The deeper we get into this technological realm, the more ins

So, here is the thing about technology – it is awesome for some things, and a gigantic pain in the ass for others. When we think about what technology means for someplace like Galveston, we must ask ourselves, does the island want to be connected with a wallet tap on every register? A few might say yes, but take it from me, living in a tech wonderland has its downsides, too. I live in Austin. Tech drives everything here. I know when a band is playing six months out. I also k

As cryptocurrency sours to new heights, so does the regulations and restrictions that have begun to arise. When looking back over the past 3 years a lot has happened in the world of cryptocurrency, some good and some bad. There have been many new players entering into the market including huge investment firms, large corporations, and people like you and me. Even Hollyweird and the uber rich have decided that if it is good enough for Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, then it mus

When I first moved to Galveston in 1990, my social circle was very small. In fact, it was Curtis O’Neal. We were the two people we knew who played Axis & Allies, D&D, and, wait for it, computer games. Not Atari or Nintendo or Odyssey (all console games) but PC games. New on the home front was a fast action flight simulator, Jetfighter. For those of you who do not remember, there were some weird security features in PC games back in the day. The most annoying was the need to k