Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.1.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Jeff's Place Everybody needs a home! ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://jeffnewbold.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Meet Cranky: The Real Turtle Behind Cranky’s Game](https://jeffnewbold.com/2026/09/07/meet-cranky-the-real-turtle-behind-crankys-game/) - Meet Cranky, the real three-legged turtle behind Cranky’s Game: a backyard rescue, a love of pears, and a gentle presence our family will always remember. - [How a Sweet Three-Legged Turtle Became Cranky’s Game](https://jeffnewbold.com/2026/09/01/how-a-sweet-three-legged-turtle-became-crankys-game/) - There are a lot of ways to start a game project. Mine started because my daughter wanted a turtle game that didn’t exist. My daughter especially missed Cranky and kept talking about how she wished there were a game where she could take care of him in a safe place. My son missed him too. - [Building Cranky’s Game: A Family-Friendly Online Game Built With Parents in the Loop](https://jeffnewbold.com/2026/08/29/building-crankys-game-a-family-friendly-online-game-built-with-parents-in-the-loop/) - Some of you who know me probably won’t be terribly surprised to learn that somewhere between work, family, technology, AI, projects, Home Assistant, and everything else I somehow decided I needed another project. 😄 That project is Cranky’s Game. Cranky’s Game is a family-friendly online game that I’ve been actively developing around a pretty simple - [Jeff's Place v3.0! Now with more Cranky!](https://jeffnewbold.com/2026/08/29/jeffs-place-v3-0-now-with-more-cranky/) - Some of you may have noticed that Jeff’s Place looks a little different lately. Okay… a lot different. 😄 After years of periodically breaking, rebuilding, neglecting (LOTS of this, just look at the dates!), resurrecting several times and neglecting yet again, and otherwise tinkering with this site, I decided it was time for another rebuild. - [Happy Holidays!](https://jeffnewbold.com/2016/12/17/happy-holidays/) - Just wanting to get a post out here so that I can look at how I want to set my jeffnewbold.com site up! - [Finally Have My Site Back Up](https://jeffnewbold.com/2016/12/17/finally-have-my-site-back-up/) - Just wanting to let everyone know that my blog about Emergency Management Technology and those sorts of things is back up. Long story short, had a nice conflict within the database stemming from importing many many moons ago that precluded an easy fix when I added a couple of cool plugins back in September. Ended - [Has it been this long?](https://jeffnewbold.com/2019/07/08/has-it-been-this-long/) - Man ... I didn't realize I had been so busy until I looked and saw that my last post was for TEMC 2018. Since then a ton has changed. TDEM is becoming an agency under the TAMUS umbrella Sept 1st 2019 officially, and the move that such a split from a great organization like Texas - [Hurricane Harvey and Emergency Technology Ops in 2017](https://jeffnewbold.com/2018/04/07/hurricane-harvey-and-emergency-technology-ops-in-2017/) - DISCLAIMER: The comments, suggestions, and viewpoints on the following post are my own and do not reflect the viewpoints of my agency nor of the state of Texas. Although I strive for accuracy above all else, I would be remiss if I did not mention that some items discussed may be limited to my point - [Emergency Management A.I. is coming](https://jeffnewbold.com/2023/07/02/200/) - Why Emergency Management Technology is a Different Genre Entirely ... and is also still evolving thanks to A.I. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized numerous industries, and crisis management software is no exception. With the ability to analyze vast amounts of data, make predictions, and automate processes, AI has the potential to transform the way we - [So much this...](https://jeffnewbold.com/2020/02/27/so-much-this/) - [and now back to the regularly scheduled blog ...](https://jeffnewbold.com/2016/12/17/back/) - After starting my site back in 1998, my wonderful database of older posts had bad messages that I didn't think about when upgrading that database since I had migrated to wordpress years ago. Yeah, big mistake. Indeed, Smithers, it mucked things up I am too lazy to fix it. So as it stands, you get ## Posts - [Attribution](https://jeffnewbold.com/attribution/) - This site has been created with the help of many different people and companies. In particular, a special thanks goes to the following for content running on this site: Author: frozenchipmunkLicense: In addition, this site was built on a powerful, Inspirations based web builder called BoldGrid. 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