Here's a rare technical post for the blog. I've been having issues not seeing the traffic generated from IRLXD.com to EurekaRoom.com in Google Analytics GA4. I see a lot of traffic the "(direct)" bucket, and assume most of that is irlxd.com. But why is this happening? After a lot of digging and goog...

The places you are taught to focus on the "now" are usually limited. Maybe it's reading a book. Maybe it's in a meditation or yoga class. But those environments are almost always still, quiet, and not very representative of the situations in life that you really need to be here now. So this museum g...

I've managed to keep the blog posting streak alive for the last 2.5 years, but almost slipped today. I really miss the part of the pandemic where I would wake up every day, meditate, read, and write. I hope things will settle down a bit more for me once I hire people to help run the shows at The Eur...

Note: I discovered additional issues in 2023. It turns out that you can not have the booking page hosted on bookeo.com AND use GA. You must host the booking on your own site. I show you how to set that up in this post. About My Setup and Bookeo For The Eureka Room, I use the booking software Bookeo....

I finally got a day off yesterday and used it to not think about any Eureka Room stuff. That helps me so much because I can come back not just with a rested mind but it also allows some kind of subconcious processing of my to-do list. It just seems much clearer what to do when I don't think about wh...

Lots happening in the last few weeks. Here's a few highlights. Attendance has steadily increased. This might be from better use of google ads and a couple other channels, but it seems like mainly it's word of mouth - which is the best way for many reasons. This week looks to almost certainly break t...

This is a continuation of my #post Limited Social Networks Let the AI Help You Post When companies talk about using AI, it's usually regarding finding good content to show or censoring content that is offensive or tracking visitors. But why not get AI more involved in the conversation? Perhaps the s...

Note: While this site is, by definition, about things in real life, I occasionally post ideas for online experiences. Here's one of those. It's an idea for what I call a limited social network. Unless I specify otherwise, assume that the social networks I propose here work like Twitter or Facebook,...

It's taken me a long while, but I finally made it down to Curia Arcanum in south Austin. It's part museum, part gift shop, and all very curious and interesting. More than just an oddities shop it offers "rare and strange items, artisan designed and antique jewelry, wet specimens, books, magical tool...

Journaling Gratitude I find my gratitude exercise very uplifting for such a little amount of work. I also find my grateful thoughts wandering all over the place. They aren't just limited to the obvious subjects of gratitude like friends, health, job, etc. I'll quickly go down paths of thought and fi...