2022: 211 posts.

• 01-Jan-2022
  Every day is unique
• 02-Jan-2022
  It’s time for the ornaments—nerdy and otherwise—to get packed up for the year.
• 03-Jan-2022
  How did I not notice Scarlett Johansson played mermaids at least twice?

  I saw The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in the theaters in 2004 and I saw Hail, Ceasar! in the theaters in 2016 and several times streaming since then. While watching Hail, Ceasar! last night it suddenly occurred to me Ms. Johansson played a mermaid in both. Now, why is it that my brain never has noticed…

• 03-Jan-2022
  San Diego City Christmas Tree Recycling 2022

  Source: San Diego City – Christmas Tree Recycling

• 03-Jan-2022
  Bumpin’ Morton Subotnick

  Double Naught Spy Car from Panorama City is moorpark a boulevard? or avenue? you know boulevard? is it boulevard? is it boulevard boulevard? cruising moorpark! i’m looking for a hot chick in a ’79 pacer i’m bumpin Morton Subotnick don’t tell me it’s the wrong approach i’m morgan freeman and you’re the acting coach hitch…

• 03-Jan-2022
  Tide receding. Lovely session.
• 04-Jan-2022
  web3

  tante‘s The Third Web essay is a fine, detailed history and condemnation of the ideas of web3. I wish I could find more to take issue with, alas, the ideas of blockchain and cryptocurrency seem to be things that excite people without regard to their political, social, and energy effects.

• 04-Jan-2022
  Me at @lastbookstorela in 2014. Photo by the remarkable and incredible @leahblooms from whom I was divorced on this day in 2020. A fine 15 year run of learning and partnership!
• 04-Jan-2022
  Paolo Soleri Presentation, 1988

  I asked my pal Chris the following in May 2020: We attended a presentation by Soleri and a few other folks at the RH Fleet Space Museum in the mid to late 80s. Any idea what year? And do you remember any details of who or what entities were presenting? Was it just Soleri and…

• 04-Jan-2022
  Bodysurfing Ultimate Media Guide by Spencer Dunlap

  THE BODYSURFER’S ULTIMATE MEDIA GUIDE BY SPENCER DUNLAP MARCH 10, 2021 originally on shapedbywater.blog, archived. reposting here for my own personal use. perhaps you will find it useful too! I thoroughly enjoy writing about bodysurfing. Why? Not only do I love bodysurfing and hope to share my stoke with as many people as possible, but…

• 04-Jan-2022
  New Bot Day! DaiDenzin (ダイデンジン or “Giant Electric Man” is from 1980 Super Sentai show Denshi Sentai Denjiman. It transforms from an airship into this terrific mecha. My first new robot for 2022! Happy New Year!
• 05-Jan-2022
  Thundarr

  Maybe you’d like to read about Thundarr the Barbarian — one of my favorite cartoons when I was a kid. Deeply weird and VERY JACK KIRBY. I only learned that part years later. Also I am a fan of Mark Evanier. I learned his name in his comic DNAgents. I was buying them in 1983.

• 05-Jan-2022
  Cold and not for the skittish. It’s fun to swim a maelstrom sometimes.
• 06-Jan-2022
  Hidden Zines!

  This story is super-charming: Inside a hollow library book, a secret library By Tori Marlan. It’s about this art project: Decentralized Zine Library Project. As I’ve now been *in* some publications that were anthology zines (see: #burn_all_books) it has a special meaning for me. Make more art and put it in the world!

• 07-Jan-2022
  That time my Halloween costume was an app

  In 2016 I went as the Slacker App as my Halloween costume. I have a lot of affection for this costume! I would do it much better and slicker now that I have my very own paper cutter and a drawing desk!

• 07-Jan-2022
  Prodigy Burnout: OMNI

  He was a young violinist on his way to a brilliant career. Then one day he quit—-put down his violin and never picked it up again. He’s a high achiever in medical school now, but he nurses a sense of failure that may haunt him for life. What stopped him from becoming a Perlman or…

• 07-Jan-2022
  Yes, dolphins in the lineup.
• 09-Jan-2022
  Things also look very nice from the water
• 10-Jan-2022
  Morning office for a few hours
• 10-Jan-2022
  Finding earworms in last.fm data with PHP

  Over the weekend I was prompted to think about the idea of an “earworm” — a song or piece of music that gets stuck in your mind. Some people find such “earworms” to be highly irritating. The idiom implies an actual worm in your actual ear which sounds positively *horrifying* to me. For me, an…

• 11-Jan-2022
  I don’t know why the rescue boat was patrolling. Snagged a selfie while it was there. #stoke
• 13-Jan-2022
  Sparklines in Excel courtesy seminar by Jordan Goldmeier

  I attended Jordan Goldmeier’s (advancedxl.com) seminar on data visualization in Excel via one of Creative Morning‘s Field Trips. It is far easier to do cool stuff in Excel than I remember. Behold a sparkline bar graph of my ArtLung blog post counts by month since 2001.

• 13-Jan-2022
  New Bot Day! “Blaster T-1000” is merchandise based on Terminator 2: Judgement Day. His whole torso can hinge forward to fire a missile? This 1991 toy robot makes no sense but is a great villain in an “all cops are bastards” way.
• 13-Jan-2022
  Spielberg’s Films by year of release vs year set

  The other day, over on twitter, Todd Vaziri sent a lazyweb request that piqued my interest: free cinema chart idea chart the films of steven spielberg and graph the release date minus the year the film takes place you know, for fun How does one do timelines these days anyway? I had a vague memory…

• 13-Jan-2022
  It’s an honor to get to play in huge surf. Bracing, beautiful afternoon at the tail of a nice swell.
• 14-Jan-2022
  VHS stands for “Video Home System”—shoutout to Zappa, #HHGTG, Star Wars Holiday Special, animation and “Voltus[sic] 5” #VoltesV plus the movie I appear in, Up From The Depths.
• 14-Jan-2022
  Drawing with CSS: Cube Cat

  I have seen extraordinary things made with HTML and CSS. I remember in 2003 seeing the CSS Zen Garden (though it was hosted on mezzoblue at the time). Nearly 20 years later and CSS remains an incredible tool, only more extraordinarily powerful with each passing week, each new spec, each new browser release. For several…

• 15-Jan-2022
  As your attorney I must advise you to slice beets, steam em up, and eat as directed by your physician. Bon appétit!
• 16-Jan-2022
  I’ve cosplayed Dr. Hank McCoy twice. The first time it was great, the second just okay. The next time, it’ll be best yet. These were light gray thumbless gloves meant to be some other creature. I dyed them over Christmas and will deploy them next time I cosplay. #beastcosplay #cosplay
• 16-Jan-2022
  I fought my way past the breakers. Big current today, one day post Tonga. Part of any physical hobby is knowing when to stop. Life is so rich.
• 17-Jan-2022
  I took this in 2019, breezing by on a bike around the Tidal Basin in DC. Dr. King was mostly hated in his lifetime. Think about how pretty we talk about people once they get killed and try to change that. Beware of people quoting MLK without the context of how much he was hated. Changing society takes work. Justice is hard. War is wrong. Poverty is wrong. Race discrimination is wrong. Education must be free to all. We must have equal opportunity. We must change the structure of our society. We can do it.
• 18-Jan-2022
  Quote of the Day, on Martin Luther King

  from Tony Pierce mlk makes me think you can do everything you can and it still wont change some people. which is a good thing to realize quickly. that way you dont waste your time doing things to change people. instead you should do things because theyre awesome, and maybe youre the best person to…

• 20-Jan-2022
  Weather and professional responsibilities kept me out of the water for four days. Back this morning. Terrific.
• 21-Jan-2022
  “Some people say / this town don’t look good in snow”
• 22-Jan-2022
  Briefly passing through LAX.
• 22-Jan-2022
  Palæontology Practice with nephew F.! He knows more about dinosaurs than me.
• 22-Jan-2022
  This morning I connected to my cross country flight to Virginia via LAX. I saw the dawn. I saw places that mean a lot to me. There’s my apartment! On the hill behind it was where my high school once stood, now replaced by condos. There’s Mission Bay where I’ve swum and kayaked and not-successfully windsurfed and jet ski’d. Beyond: Navy housing we lived in when I was a teenager. Had I been on the left side of the plane I’d have seen my favorite spot: Mission Beach Jetty. But take a beat on my right is former favorite swim spot La Jolla Cove. Shores. Del Mar. Solana Beach where I worked at failed dot com EduPoint. Orange County. Los Angeles County. Beaches, apartments; jobs and job interviews; car accidents, fights, train rides, romance and catastrophe. Southern California is my home; imbued with meaning. Onward.
• 23-Jan-2022
  Quote of the Week

  This post: Only Scale, from Dubious Quality (who I’ve been reading for a decade or more): Morality is never rewarded in this country, only scale. Just think about that for a moment. Is doing the right thing ever even discussed? Not really. How often do you see a CEO get rewarded for taking a moral…

• 24-Jan-2022
  Any water left unattended out-of-doors here in Northern Virginia—freezes.
• 24-Jan-2022
  Caught nephew A. in mid-grin, Lego-ing.
• 24-Jan-2022
  Paleontology prep
• 24-Jan-2022
  Birthday boy ❤️
• 25-Jan-2022
  HAM HOCK / one of my mom Phyllis Crawford’s recipes. A family favorite we acquired in New Orleans. First time I had red beans and rice? We visited Buster Holmes’ for the first time. I knew it because in 1977 I’d seen his place featured on SNL.
• 25-Jan-2022
  Your Driver: The Rock

  There was a tweet saying that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is going to be in another movie based on a videogame. Which of course is an explicit allusion to the incredible video game Desert Bus by Penn & Teller! The bus contains no passengers, there is little scenery aside from an occasional rock or bus…

• 26-Jan-2022
  Diving into a family photo scanning project. Utterly charming. Unsigned artwork.
• 26-Jan-2022
  Three Zero. Oi.
• 26-Jan-2022
  Cousins and TI-99/4a

  That’s me and my cousins. I was quite proud to show off my TI-99/4a computer. 4 MHz processor and less RAM than pretty much any photo posted to any social media service you use daily. I did my first graphics programming on that computer. You can also see the tape recorder/radio I saved programs onto….

• 27-Jan-2022
  My sister and I in a balloon a while back.
• 27-Jan-2022
  My grandmother Jean Crawford riding a wave in the mid 70s. No bodyboards invented yet, that’s a classic inflatable rubber mat. #stoke #pacificbeachsd
• 27-Jan-2022
  Bright fashions
• 27-Jan-2022
  It’s been six days since I was in the ocean so here’s a photo of me at Mission Bay as a kid. We lived in Los Angeles at the time but even then I loved water.
• 28-Jan-2022
  I’m calling this meeting to order…
• 29-Jan-2022
  “How am I not myself?” — Bernard & Vivian Jaffe
• 29-Jan-2022
  The white part of the UVA Medical Center was there when I worked there a couple three decades ago. Hello Charlottesville, just passing through. #cville #amtrak #traintravel
• 29-Jan-2022
  Not every day I get looked at askance by a fox. 🦊 ❄️
• 30-Jan-2022
  First light from Terminal B at Reagan National. This photo is not capturing the crescent moon but it’s lovely. I had a great trip back east. Made concrete headway on family photo scanning project. Wonderful food and conversations and feelings and what my second mother-in-law called “Visiting.” Time to go home.
• 30-Jan-2022
  “Pilot’s Glory” is what this round rainbow tinged plane shadow Is called. Optics are cool. Seen during approach to Minneapolis.
• 31-Jan-2022
  Dad’s words about Mom

  My father says of himself and my later mother: “We majored in each other in college.” Some fun facts about them: He proposed to her during the movie Goldfinger at the drive-in. It was bold of her to visit him in Canada when she’d never been anywhere but Pasadena. He remembers movies they went to….

• 31-Jan-2022
  Last week in Virginia I vetted and organized—roughly—8400 photos—64 pounds’ worth—into transit for scanning. This week I’m in California where there’s ocean and job interviews.
• 01-Feb-2022
  my house
• 01-Feb-2022
  Don’t leave me hanging on the telephone
• 02-Feb-2022
  Temperature perception in human being: air (50F) colder than water (58F) makes the water seem warm. It felt great. Wetsuit important too. #stoke
• 02-Feb-2022
  I am indeed a “Large Adult”
• 03-Feb-2022
  Waves were fine, but the sand dollar haul was stellar
• 05-Feb-2022
  Sand dollar (alive) seen at Del Mar’s Dog Beach
• 06-Feb-2022
  Today, February 6, 2021 is the centennial of the birth of Jesus “Art” Silva, born in San Diego when it had about 80 thousand people in it. 100 years is not that long, really. He died January 8, 1988, depriving us of his hard work, thoughtfulness, puzzle solving, rubber band guns, bowling talent, poker playing, deep curiosity and love. This photo is not great but it’s from a birthday for him, surrounded by family. Art Silva was not wealthy but gave of his time and talent to others. He is missed.
• 08-Feb-2022
  I start a new job on the 21st. Checking out the local spots for pre-work, post work, and intra-work beach time.
• 09-Feb-2022
  New Bot Day! A37 is from the show Eden (2021). A37 was designed as a farming robot on the far-future Earth. A37 ends up secretly raising Sara, a mysterious human child they awaken from stasis at a time when humans are thought to be a myth.
• 09-Feb-2022
  Water indescribably beautiful and clear #stoke
• 09-Feb-2022
  Me and my cousin Michael a few years back. At a Tweety Bird-themed party maybe.
• 10-Feb-2022
  If it’s going to be 90F I’m doing bathymetry.
• 11-Feb-2022
  Minor brush with sealife as I was getting out of the water today. Right ankle. Lifeguards are the best. Currents pushed me and some small buddies to the same spot I think. #sandiego #stingrays #stoke
• 13-Feb-2022
  Paragraph of the Day

  “I’m a big believer in Bill Joy’s Law of Startups, “success is inversely proportional to the amount of money you have”. For $2.5M we got Nvidia to working silicon that was revolutionary in two different respects. Right now, there is way too much money. If a system is to be decentralized, it has to have…

• 13-Feb-2022
  New Bot Day! Welcome E92 (flanked by A37), who surpass their farm robot programming to become surrogate parents to mysterious human Sara in 2021’s Eden anime.
• 13-Feb-2022
  It’s a beach day. #dogbeach #corgi
• 13-Feb-2022
  Pre-Valentine’s with Kelly at the Botanic Garden was awesome. ❤️ you @hellokellykuhl — Happy Valentine’s Day!
• 16-Feb-2022
  Crypto and NFTs

  There’s a lot of writing and thinking about what people now call “crypto” going on. The other day I linked to DSHR’s Blog: EE380 Talk (a talk on “blockchain” technology in my post Paragraph of the Day. There’s a nice summation of that more technical talk by Cory Doctorow: Pluralistic: 13 Feb 2022: Externalities. Particularly…

• 17-Feb-2022
  Hard Drive Cleaning: C++ Programming ’04

  In 2004 I took a course at City College in C++ Programming. As I wait for my new job to start next week I’ve been doing a bunch of maintenance. I found an old backup hard drive and found a folder called cpp from an old Windows machine I had. I think it was running…

• 18-Feb-2022
  Science! Drilled a hole, added a leash to excellent @catchsurf WHOMPER and caught some waves with it. More experiments needed. #stoke 🧪🧬🌊
• 18-Feb-2022
  I bought some cheap rusty tools and cleaned up the rust with distilled vinegar.
• 19-Feb-2022
  It was 21 years ago today… (happy birthday blog)

  It was 21 years ago today that I started blogging. Here’s what I had to say back then: It occurs to me that this Blogger stuff may be dull. Still, the prospect of keeping a journal is kind of a neat one. Of course, I’ll have to keep it up. Let’s see if I can…

• 19-Feb-2022
  It was 21 years ago today that I started blogging on artlung.com. Here’s what I had to say back then: “It occurs to me that this Blogger stuff may be dull. Still, the prospect of keeping a journal is kind of a neat one. Of course, I’ll have to keep it up. Let’s see if I can do that.” I was on blogger dot com back then. I would write on that site, and files would get published via FTP (before we all understood how fundamentally insecure FTP without a security layer was). Those files were included as Server-Side-Includes, and later as files included via PHP. I migrated to WordPress in 2004 18 years ago and never looked back. I considered MovableType. I considered TextPattern. Used all the candidates on other projects but landed on WordPress and have been happy with that choice since then. If you’re reading the blog? Thanks for reading.
• 20-Feb-2022
  both sides now
• 22-Feb-2022
  Started a new job today. Took a lotta notes. It’s a good day.
• 23-Feb-2022
  Lunch in a weird chilly park with a handful of ducks
• 25-Feb-2022
  JOE C. WS-D17. (And mango chunks)
• 26-Feb-2022
  Back to it after a too-long respite
• 26-Feb-2022
  IN LOVING MEMORY. Found this stuck in with my Confirmation shawl. Big fan of retaining paper for decades, me. On accident or on purpose. RIP Tata.
• 28-Feb-2022
  South Carlsbad near Sunset
• 02-Mar-2022
  Extreme womp here this evening. Too rich for my blood. But beautiful. #MoonlightBeach #Encinitas
• 02-Mar-2022
  postcard picture generator
• 05-Mar-2022
  Recipes. Side of fridge.
• 05-Mar-2022
  Poly Styrene documentary is available free on Kanopy with a public library account. “I Am a Cliché” it’s called. Learn about her. She was so beautiful and extraordinary.
• 06-Mar-2022
  We stumbled on the Old Globe in an intermission and I got not a single photo in focus and got caught in a downpour and my town is perfectly magical.
• 06-Mar-2022
  Conditions were all wrong and I had a transcendent time anyway.
• 11-Mar-2022
  Back. #stoke
• 14-Mar-2022
  Any day is improved by water.
• 15-Mar-2022
  Sometimes the session comes with a bonus sunset
• 16-Mar-2022
  you might still see it in the desert
• 17-Mar-2022
  (breaking)
• 20-Mar-2022
  My birthday is a fine occasion to clean off the art table and toss out some used palettes. But first a photo!
• 21-Mar-2022
  Chilly this evening but fun.
• 23-Mar-2022
  Summer before senior year in high school. Age 16. The photo they didn’t use in the yearbook. Blemishes unairbrushed.
• 26-Mar-2022
  I said “hi” — no response back. #stoke #californiasealion
• 27-Mar-2022
  Peppers for salsa
• 27-Mar-2022
  Birthday whale-watching got delayed one week and it was wonderful to be with people I love. Also wonderful—coming into the south mission jetty from the other side.
• 01-Apr-2022
  When beep and flash Please take the meal (howdy Anaheim)
• 02-Apr-2022
  Before Minnie ears were acquired
• 02-Apr-2022
  “Here’s some money—go see a star war”
• 03-Apr-2022
  Jungle Cruise is her favorite. Yesterday was great. Happy Birthday Kelly!
• 04-Apr-2022
  Rick: “I came for the waters.”
• 07-Apr-2022
  LEGOs galore

  This post 52: A Crazy LEGO Journey is wonderful and inspirational. Who doesn’t love LEGO bricks?

• 07-Apr-2022
  Slacker Radio to LiveXLive to LiveOne

  Hey, the great company I worked for for a long time changed their name. slacker.com became livexlive.com became liveone.com. Today I’m catching up on email. Introducing LiveOne We’re excited to announce that LiveXLive is becoming LiveOne! In the coming weeks, look for new branding on our website, and in our mobile and TV apps, including…

• 07-Apr-2022
  How many quotes of the day are enough: Clay Shirky

  Transformation of Higher Ed: Great Books and American Diversity by Clay Shirky. Seriously, read it. Some of the quotes which made me laugh and think include: You will never guess where the deepest questions were asked and the greatest texts written, and since you won’t be able to guess, I’ll just tell you: It was…

• 07-Apr-2022
  Camp Kearney panoramas in the Library of Congress

  See Camp Kearney panoramas in the Library of Congress. Found out about this via this PDF that’s a history of Miramar. One fun fact is that the boundaries of Linda Vista in the 19th and early 20th century were way different than what we call Linda Vista now. Here’s a factlet that’s fascinating: In October…

• 07-Apr-2022
  YOU ONLY LIVE EVERY DAY

  From Stardust Coyote Gazette, a newsletter you ought to subscribe to by Stardust Coyote: YOLO and YOLED are both self care, a whole yin yang approach. If this concept resonates with you, journal about it a bit this month. Experiment with where you can YOLED more in your life, what that looks like on a…

• 08-Apr-2022
  Quote of the Day from Prof Galloway

  From his post @elon: in which Galloway says what free speech actually is and how it applies to Twitter. …Some basic law: Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy, but free speech is a protection from government limits on speech. Free speech doesn’t limit Twitter … it protects Twitter. Rigorous adherence to the principle…

• 08-Apr-2022
  As a kid I busted open the bridge of my nose falling off a swingset. Big bandage there. And my dad in shades. Also I have a miserable cold right now. Also it takes a long time to copy 9500 photos to… any cloud service or usb drive.
• 09-Apr-2022
  My grandparents Joe & Jean, and their dog Kimba, all chilling. 1970s.
• 10-Apr-2022
  New Blog Read: 23 Breaths

  Any blog that has a post about the wonder of surf mats (rubber things you can ride in waves) is an instant read for me. Go 23 Breaths Go! … and again, surf mats

• 10-Apr-2022
  My grandmother sewed me a cape. #Superman #1970s
• 12-Apr-2022
  New Bot Day! This Bumblebee (Nendoroid edition) was a Christmas gift, behind that is a beautiful book on the history of surfing which was a birthday gift! Thank you @hellokellykuhl!
• 13-Apr-2022
  “and I missed you/like the desert missed the rain“
• 14-Apr-2022
  Haute couture
• 16-Apr-2022
  mellow.jpg
• 16-Apr-2022
  ad hoc chalk
• 17-Apr-2022
  Easter so far: coffee, beach, waves, found a shovel, stingray jab, beach bag and keys and and glasses such stolen from beach, hot water bath for foot, lifeguards on my side, cancelled debit cards, Kelly came got me, cancelled other payment cards, listing all the things I need to replace, planning to rekey my locks. Next up: Easter lunch. Life sure is a journey. Hope your Easter includes less impediments than mine.
• 18-Apr-2022
  Day after Easter was a fine day of work interrupted by the news that everything that was taken from the beach that was mine was left at the YMCA close to me. Keys, glasses, cash, everything. They called my emergency contact who picked it up. In return? After work I got to take Daisy to the dog park to give my emergency contact a chance to finish up tax preparation for her clients. My life is filled with improbable unlikely surprising shenanigans. Woof!
• 19-Apr-2022
  New Bot Day! Grace (aka Mom) is the robot mother and caretaker to the superpowered kids of the Umbrella Academy. “Mom” assists their father and taskmaster Sir Reginald Hargreeves in his many mysterious endeavours. First appearing in comics in 2007; she’s a vivid, loving and ultimately tragic character portrayed by Jordan Claire Robbins in the 2019+ Netflix series. I’m looking forward to Season 3 this Summer.
• 20-Apr-2022
  Can’t lose
• 21-Apr-2022
  Good news on the Tijuana River; from Surfrider

  From Surfrider: Clean Border Water Now Lawsuit Settlement: Dangerous pollutants (including sewage, chemicals, heavy metals, physical trash and other contaminants), flow through the Tijuana River Valley and into the Pacific in south San Diego County, forcing closures of local beaches nearly 300 days per year. The lawsuit settlement alongside EPA programs on the border will…

• 21-Apr-2022
  “A short conversation with, and about, a bank” by Dan Hon

  A short conversation with, and about, a bank by Dan Hon is brilliant and hilarious and covers a great deal of what I mean when I say computers are bad and are to be avoided. If you are so inclined, you might enjoy a subscription to his newsletter.

• 21-Apr-2022
  Some weather coming
• 23-Apr-2022
  Water so cold today, I think the weather brought a lot of deep water ashore. Beautiful morning.
• 23-Apr-2022
  Soledad with Kelly (and Gwen, not pictured)
• 24-Apr-2022
  Yesterday I added a sand dollar to my small bucket or sand dollars.
• 24-Apr-2022
  Lifeguards in training out here. Still pretty cold. Waves still pretty big.
• 26-Apr-2022
  Home Sweet Homepage

  I love this so much. It’s my story too, though I was 10 years older. And I remain on the internet with a homepage and everything.

• 26-Apr-2022
  So good to be back at @sketchpartysd #sketchpartysd
• 30-Apr-2022
  Daisy & Gwen
• 30-Apr-2022
  Bouncy castle morning
• 04-May-2022
  MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. 1977. Age 7.
• 05-May-2022
  Saw @waterman_movie last night with Kelly at @lapalomatheatre — terrific documentary on the singular, incredibly important Duke Kahanamoku. Spirit of Aloha indeed. If you ever rode a board or ever rode a wave, Duke had an impact on that experience. #Waterman #dukekahanamoku
• 06-May-2022
  como Dalí pintó
• 07-May-2022
  CORRIDA DE PERROS (fun for dogs and monster closeouts)
• 08-May-2022
  Immersion.
• 08-May-2022
  In service shutdown news, this from Facebook

  Hi Joe, Because you’ve previously used Nearby Friends, Weather alerts, Location History or Background Location, we’re letting you know that these products and features will no longer be available after May 31, 2022. Information you shared that was used for these experiences, including Location History and Background Location, will stop being collected after May 31,…

• 09-May-2022
  I can never remember the name of GitPrime which is now Pluralsight Flow

  I worked for a startup a few years ago and one of the tools that company used to measure developer productivity was GitPrime. The tool tied into the primary code repository in GitHub and made reports on the work done. It measured commits by size and pattern. It was fairly intelligent about attempting to create…

• 09-May-2022
  Mess. Loved it.
• 10-May-2022
  Keming is a real word!

  From Ironic Sans, David Friedman’s newsletter: 60: The Case for Keming. It’s his argument for the inclusion of “keming” in the dictionary. I have been following Ironic Sans a long time. I remember reading his original post, I believe via RSS: Idea: A new typography term in 2008. Sign The Petition

• 13-May-2022
  Pads/Cubs with Kelly! A night at the ballpark always a W!
• 13-May-2022
  Some days it feels like you’ve leveled up. Or rather I’ve leveled up. It’s good.
• 14-May-2022
  0815 is just alright with me
• 14-May-2022
  I do enjoy watching swimmers no matter the species. Zoo was great today.
• 15-May-2022
  Foggy Sunday morning. Nice surf. And as I was getting out, I met the person who accidentally “Beach-Cleanupped” my bag and keys and everything on Easter. Thought my bag was left behind, felt awful when they realized their mistake, took it to YMCA. I live a charmed life. No apology from the stingray who stabbed me on Easter yet. But it could happen.
• 16-May-2022
  sunshine sliver
• 17-May-2022
  I shower here nearly as much as I shower at home.
• 18-May-2022
  From mid 1990s, me in a scrub top with sharks on it and with the long hair and full beard I had for quite few years. Yes, gotta have sharks on a scrub top. I think this was when I was working at UVA.
• 18-May-2022
  Today work wiped me out. Almost didn’t come to the beach. But then I remembered. Take off, eh?
• 19-May-2022
  I have no idea how many times I’ve walked through San Diego’s Santa Fe. Arriving and departing from L.A. as a kid, one time alone, when we lived in Echo Park and Alhambra; as a term, playing hooky; trips to Fullerton to see my pal Chris at ages 17 until now; trips to events: concerts by @stewtnp and the “Live from the Blogosphere” event where @evhead announced Blogger dot com was sold to Google; trips to and from Comic-Con; Little Tokyo; up to Moorpark when I lived there; walking though it many times when arriving by Coaster from Carlsbad where @leohblooms dropped me off, I worked at Emerald Plaza, then; picking up and dropping off more people than I can remember, traveling; once went to a plein air drawing event here; wandering downtown when I worked at the original @sdpubliclibrary Central Branch; and Avencom, and jury duty 2 years ago; which is why I’m here this morning.
• 22-May-2022
  timing is everything #stoke
• 23-May-2022
  Can’t use ya ‘coz ya feets too big #FatsWaller
• 24-May-2022
  New Bot Day! This nameless “Fembot” is from The Bionic Woman (1976-78). The tv show is a spinoff to similar series The Six Million Dollar Man. Lindsay Wagner stars as Jaime Sommers: a smart, beautiful, super-powered cyborg woman who goes on mission for government agency OSI. Fembots are the creation of the evil Dr. Franklin, who once worked for OSI. Jaime defeated many Fembots over the course of the series. This one has had “her” face ripped off, exposing the reality of her robot-ness!
• 25-May-2022
  “long-promised road / flows to the source / gentle force / neverending / neverending”
• 26-May-2022
  better late than never
• 28-May-2022
  Stingray in the water minding their own business. Got this shot on video inadvertently. The fins I bought recently were great. Fine day.
• 29-May-2022
  Some sessions, whoa. Clouds to clear. Sunny and not. Lost my fin, found an orange toy shovel. Got my fin back through the kindness of strangers; gave the toy shovel away. Yesterday posted a photo of a stingray in the water. This morning sighted this unfortunate soul washed up. What a morning!
• 29-May-2022
  Second swim today was mostly hot tub.
• 30-May-2022
  Came out of the water whistling the Hawaii 5-0 theme song. No shots from the water today: forgot the case. Used the hard fins: water too big for the new soft ones. Memorial Day is a peculiar holiday. The history is complicated. For “fun” you can look it up along with Decoration Day, Armed Forces Day, Armistice Day, & Veterans Day. I’m glad to have the day off but it’s certainly a holiday that gives me pause.
• 30-May-2022
  Making a date to have an incredible meal is a luxury for a holiday. Amazing privilege.
• 31-May-2022
  Two giant rides close to the Jetty make goofy smiles.
• 01-Jun-2022
  Every evening different
• 02-Jun-2022
  Dropped off my ballot last night. Our peculiar, partially-democratic system is broken in a lot of ways, but I have to vote. Vote.
• 02-Jun-2022
  “cuz I was a bit too leisurely”
• 03-Jun-2022
  tread
• 04-Jun-2022
  Wetsuit-free and happy as a clam; however happy a clam is
• 04-Jun-2022
  Gave snacks to a camel. Recommended.
• 04-Jun-2022
  (after a long shell hiatus, a fine haul this morning)
• 05-Jun-2022
  Fin savers worked well on my new fins and I’m pretty stoked about it. Also there were waves.
• 06-Jun-2022
  100% sunny yesterday. 100% overcast this afternoon.
• 07-Jun-2022
  Field trip for Daisy & @gwenthegoblin & my lovely and amazing dog expert @hellokellykuhl and me. We walked down to Scripps Pier and all got worn out. A fine evening.
• 08-Jun-2022
  Sometimes there are dolphins in the lineup.
• 10-Jun-2022
  long week winding down
• 11-Jun-2022
  now that spring’s been here a while and summer is coming quick it seems the water provides more glints and glitteriness #stoke
• 12-Jun-2022
  Before the sunshine chomped the overcast
• 12-Jun-2022
  Pre-steam artichoke. I removed the “choke” with my favorite kitchen utensil: “grapefruit spoon!”
• 14-Jun-2022
  I think I’ll just let the mystery be
• 15-Jun-2022
  pretty any which way
• 16-Jun-2022
  NO DUMPING-DRAINS TO OCEAN
• 18-Jun-2022
  sun protection
• 19-Jun-2022
  astoundingly clear water this morning at the Jetty during the low tide
• 19-Jun-2022
  Sidewalk Cap
• 20-Jun-2022
  2018 – 2021 – 2022
• 22-Jun-2022
  Dinner view last night.
• 22-Jun-2022
  Mod 4. Booster 2.
• 22-Jun-2022
  glint
• 23-Jun-2022
  Badged. Ready for the Con.
• 23-Jun-2022
  I started cramping after 15 minutes. Post vaccine fatigue I think. It’s weird to understand my body. Finished after half an hour and one last long ride.
• 25-Jun-2022
  A dogsitting overnight started with a very nice beach walk. Daisy and Gwen may be two of the most different dogs ever.
• 25-Jun-2022
  Daisy at Queen Califa’s.
• 25-Jun-2022
  I like this photo because it’s like “Where’s Gwen?”—missing is a little red and white striped outfit—it was foolhardy to take dogs to Escondido in the heat of the day but it was a fun adventure and we were all exhausted after.
• 26-Jun-2022
  a bit tired. small waves with long waits between sets. mini slash from a stingray to my right ankle. no venom I don’t think. pancakes surely will help me heal. the world is a mess but I am lucky.
• 27-Jun-2022
  My sister refers to me a “scavenger” because when I find things on the beach, on the street, in a dumpster, wherever, I tend to consider keeping them. Plastic toys, a heavy ceramic parrot, an Arabian airlines pencil case, beach toys, whatever. One way I know I am dating the right woman because she found this on the beach late one night and gave it to me for my collection. Thank you @hellokellykuhl!
• 28-Jun-2022
  Waterman roboteering area of the apartment.
• 28-Jun-2022
  zephyr in the sky at night I wonder
• 30-Jun-2022
  “And if you’re partial to the night sky / if you’re vaguely attracted to rooftops …”
• 01-Jul-2022
  Wearing the color off my handplane. #stoke
• 02-Jul-2022
  While I was looking at this with my own eyes I thought it looked fake. The liminal space between cloudy overcast and clear and sunny.
• 02-Jul-2022
  Second day swim: pool
• 03-Jul-2022
  The parking lot at La Jolla Shores filled by 745am. Kelly and I got the last spot I think. Folks galore making their encampments in one of San Diego’s finest parks. In the water everyone was doing everything you can do to enjoy the water. And I mean everything. Surfers surfing on shortboards and fish; foam and fiberglass. Stand-up paddleboarders. Bodyboarders ages 5 to 65 were enjoying the waves. Scuba divers in heavy gear made their way in and out from their dives. Kayakers making their circuit to the caves to the south. Long distance swimmers in bright caps and with trailing safety floats doing even longer distance from along the Shores to the Cove. Waders playing in waves; kids and parents assembling sand castles. And me with my handplane and fins and Kelly on a boogie board. I did not lose sight of how extraordinary it is that I can come play in this wilderness. And it is the wilderness: a few weeks ago a young man was lost helping friends out of a rip current in Mission Beach. The fun must be tempered by vigilance and the water demands respect. A beautiful and sublime morning. #lajolla #stoke #sandiego
• 04-Jul-2022
  Any day or sequence of days is a good time to remember to pace yourself. Independence Day may be the best day of the year to rediscover Frederick Douglass. He knew as many of us do how the United States’ promises exceed our deeds by a country mile. And as they might have said in 1861 or so—“PRESERVE THE UNION / CRUSH THE INSURRECTIONISTS”