Josh Williams

After six years in the District of Columbia, I’m packing my bags for a job in Las Vegas.

The Census Bureau is a treasure trove of information about communities. But sometimes getting to the data and making sense of it takes a bit of work. It can be hard to find the data and even harder to wade through it. I wrote a little script to help automatically retrieve the data and graph it.

I spent a few weeks out West, and I took some photos.

The inaptly named Four Mile trail in Yosemite Valley is, in fact, just over four and half miles each direction. The Yosemite National Park Web site list the trail as “strenuous,” but it wasn’t incredibly taxing for the distance. Besides, the trail terminates at Glacier Point where, unknown to us, there was a bus stop, [...]

Everything Is Bigger In Sequoia

From Zion, we stopped outside Sequoia National Park for a night and spent the following morning playing in the Giant Sequoia forest in the park, which is only a small part of the very large Sequoia National Park / Kings Canyon National Park complex.

Group Hug

The forest is exactly what you’d [...]