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Working with MuseScore 4 and FL Studio
Feb 27, 2024
Working with MuseScore 4 and FL Studio
Feb 27, 2024

I love MuseScore 4. It’s great for laying things out and overall balance, and their free Muse Sounds are fantastic. For the past three tracks I’ve completed, 75 percent of the work has been in MS4.

Feb 27, 2024
Our trip to London
Sep 30, 2022
Our trip to London
Sep 30, 2022

I found fewer photo opportunities in London and England than in Iceland, but it was a memorable trip nonetheless.

Sep 30, 2022
Managing homework on a game board
Aug 19, 2020
Managing homework on a game board
Aug 19, 2020

It was no surprise to me when remote learning hit our house in March and our oldest viewed due dates as the day he needed to start working on the assignment. I had to get creative to change that viewpoint.

Aug 19, 2020
How to Train Your Dragon: Ten years later
Mar 26, 2020
How to Train Your Dragon: Ten years later
Mar 26, 2020

I lost track of how many times my son watched the original How To Train Your Dragon movie. What surprised me was that I was right there next to him for nearly every showing, and nearly all of those viewings were voluntary.

Mar 26, 2020
Our trip to Iceland
Aug 28, 2019
Our trip to Iceland
Aug 28, 2019

I took and embarrassing amount of photos during our week in Iceland, but nobody who has visited the island will blame me.

Aug 28, 2019
Lessons learned photographing Iceland
Aug 7, 2019
Lessons learned photographing Iceland
Aug 7, 2019

Here are some supplemental lessons I learned, and by “lessons,” I usually mean ´’mistakes’ or ‘misconceptions’ that tripped me up. None of them are life-changing or groundbreaking, but if even one of these manages to save you a headache, then great.

Aug 7, 2019
Review: Roll For It!
Jul 31, 2019
Review: Roll For It!
Jul 31, 2019

I found our family’s new favorite pick-up-and-play favorite in Calliope Game’s Roll For It!.

Jul 31, 2019
Photos: Our Kentucky trip
Jul 24, 2019
Photos: Our Kentucky trip
Jul 24, 2019

My wife’s family met for a week long vacation in a rural Kentucky house. Heavy rains our first night flooded a nearby stream.

Jul 24, 2019
Photos: Bridal Cave near Lake of the Ozarks
Jun 30, 2019
Photos: Bridal Cave near Lake of the Ozarks
Jun 30, 2019

Photos from Bridal Cave near Camdenton, Missouri in the Lake of the Ozarks region.

Jun 30, 2019
Hollywood blew up my hometown
Jun 14, 2013
Hollywood blew up my hometown
Jun 14, 2013

My hometown of Plano, IL has experienced a lot in the last 20 years. Perhaps the coolest development occurred in the summer of 2011, when Plano doubled as Smallville, Kansas, the fictional hometown of Superman, for the movie Man of Steel.

Jun 14, 2013
Lessons learned photographing Iceland
Photography, Travel Michael Gorman 8/7/19 Photography, Travel Michael Gorman 8/7/19

Lessons learned photographing Iceland

Here are some supplemental lessons I learned, and by “lessons,” I usually mean ´’mistakes’ or ‘misconceptions’ that tripped me up. None of them are life-changing or groundbreaking, but if even one of these manages to save you a headache, then great.

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Photos: Our Kentucky trip
Travel, Photography Michael Gorman 7/24/19 Travel, Photography Michael Gorman 7/24/19

Photos: Our Kentucky trip

My wife’s family met for a week long vacation in a rural Kentucky house. Heavy rains our first night flooded a nearby stream.

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Photos: Bridal Cave near Lake of the Ozarks
Travel, Photography Michael Gorman 6/30/19 Travel, Photography Michael Gorman 6/30/19

Photos: Bridal Cave near Lake of the Ozarks

Photos from Bridal Cave near Camdenton, Missouri in the Lake of the Ozarks region.

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Hollywood blew up my hometown
Movies, Photography Michael Gorman 6/14/13 Movies, Photography Michael Gorman 6/14/13

Hollywood blew up my hometown

My hometown of Plano, IL has experienced a lot in the last 20 years. Perhaps the coolest development occurred in the summer of 2011, when Plano doubled as Smallville, Kansas, the fictional hometown of Superman, for the movie Man of Steel.

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Photos from after the deluge
Weather, Photography Michael Gorman 4/18/13 Weather, Photography Michael Gorman 4/18/13

Photos from after the deluge

After two days of heavy, heavy rain, river levels have risen dramatically. Many area hydrographs show similar data to the ones below, rising from well under flood stage to what is classified as “major” flood levels.

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Summer, Autumn, Winter and Rock River Flooding
Weather, Photography Michael Gorman 4/16/13 Weather, Photography Michael Gorman 4/16/13

Summer, Autumn, Winter and Rock River Flooding

Sure, technically the Rock River isn’t above flood stage right now at its measuring station in Moline, Illinois, but it’s been close enough for long enough this spring.

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