Brooks Groves
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Memoir & Essaysmemoir.brooksgroves.com
Memoir · Lower Haight · Early 1990s · ~1,200 words · memoir.brooksgroves.com

The Midtown

A dark bar in the Lower Haight, a best friend from Groveland, cheap beer, the guy from Lucasfilm who drew the cantina aliens, and the most unresolvable argument in the galaxy.

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Memoir · Concert · New Year's Eve 1991 · ~12 min read · memoir.brooksgroves.com

The Night the Cow Palace Changed Everything

New Year's Eve, 1991. Four guys drove over Donner Pass in a snowstorm to see the Chili Peppers. Pearl Jam and Nirvana were opening. Nobody knew it yet, but the world was about to change.

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Book Review · Cartographic Perspectives No. 105 · ~8 min read

A Draught of the South Land

Paul Moon's meticulous account of how cartography shaped New Zealand's encounter with European powers — from the VOC's strategic maps to Cook's empirical surveys and the enduring legacy of both on modern land rights.

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Memoir · Hotel Life · 1997–2018 · 11 stories · 🔒 westin.brooksgroves.com

🏨 Stories from the Westin Seattle

Nine hundred rooms breathing. Elevators humming like they've got secrets. 21 years as bell captain — Saudi royals, live animals in freight elevators, wrestling in the cantina, and the sound the building made at 2:17 AM when the lobby went quiet and the Modest Mouse started.

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Field Notes & Journal
Field Notes · Oregon Coast · March 2026 · ~10 min read

Cannon Beach — Tide Pools, Dogs, and the Goonies Coast

Haystack Rock at low tide. Mussels older than comprehension. A disco dog with a green light. Fort George beers in Astoria. Sitting somewhere between the tide and a new website.

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Technical Blog
Blog · Data Engineering · GIS · Python · 12 posts

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Terrain rendering with forge3d, Python environments with pixi, Sierra streamflow dashboards, COBOL in 2026, live Kīlauea eruption tracking, archaeoastronomy at Chaco Canyon, and more.

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