Dead Horton’s Tour ’25
Clan Tubridy gathers in Virginia to vist four generations of Horton Grandparents.
This is the home of tubridy.net and my blog
Online since 1998 – a record of my life experiences with my dog, Jake:
Two pattern-seeking animals π΅ πΆ resonating in syncopation π₯ to the increasing entropy β of the space-time continuum β±οΈ.
Eddie ~ Just This Guy ~ You Know?
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An Excellent Adventure…
We started traveling in our RV, the Starship Excellent Adventure, in 2021. So far, we have traveled over 30,000 miles and spent about seven months on the road. We have visited national parks and other scenic locations on the West Coast, Rockies, Southwest, Appalachians, New England, and America’s Heartland. On our latest trip, we are visiting the East Coast and the Appalachians.
Most Excellent!
Life, The Universe and Everything
I developed an interest in photography in college. Since then, I have always traveled with a camera and tried to capture the views in my mind’s eye ποΈ. Technology has greatly aided me these days, allowing me to enhance some of the slides I shot up until the 2010s.
I’ve visited 39 countries and all 50 states! I especially love the National Parks.
Underwater photos in the Caribbean, Central America, and the Pacific.
YouTube videos starting in the late 2000s…
I have had a lifelong passion for music. I was beating on the pots and pans as a kid!
I made my first project in 8th-grade shop class! I’ve made a lot of sawdust since then!
I aspire to be the person my dog thinks I am.
I live in a little beach shack, Valhalla, near the elementary school I went to. I’ve watched them launch rockets into space for over 65 years now!
I’ve continued the work started by my Dad in discovering our roots.
My (mostly red π€©) rides through the years started with the VW Beetle – which I learned to drive on – to the Starship Excellent Adventure!
Snarky Social Commentary
Tubridy.net
Version 1 of tubridy.net started as a hobby using the notorious Microsoft FrontPage in the late 1990s. I secured the domain with Yahoo’s hosting service. I had built a site as a business partner portal in my role as a high-tech marketing dweeb.
After I lost my job the third time, I studied web design at Emory in the late 2000s and became proficient in web programming and graphic skills. I used Dreamweaver to create and manage a full-tilt site with HTML and CSS. This was V2.
I eventually did it full-time when I contracted for IBM in the 2010s. I did a lot of prototyping using HTML, then moved to a Mac-only layout package SketchUp, and finally used Drupal with WordPress-like functionality at the end of my career. When I moved to Valhalla in 2014, I created V3 using WordPress.
I retired at the end of 2019 as a User Experience Designer who spent over 40 years working in high tech.
I switched hosting services to GoDaddy after I retired and started traveling in the Excellent Adventure. This became V4 of the site. I dig blogging when I am traveling. It helps me capture my experiences in context.
This is a hobby for me now. I view it as my legacy since I leave no one behind at the end of the day. You can find other stuff I am interested in or places I have traveled on this site. I will continue to add more until I can’t do it anymore.
Cheers, Jake and Eddie
Riding the wave of increasing entropy in the space-time continuum
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