artlung.
Not precisely younger teenage me but not precisely not me either. I do so love @sketchpartysd #SketchPartySD
It’s new bot Wednesday! Welcome Robot Spirits RX-75-4 Guntank! This fellow was a gift from my friend @hellokellykuhl from WonderCon and it’s a beaut!
Kelly’s Gwen | Erin’s Lucy. I have pets by proxy.
Latest sticker for my iPad—#wcsd has been great learning experience particularly around changes in WordPress around #gutenberg
Wow but I love Chuck Close’s paintings. (From this past weekend).
San Francisco is terrific.
Not precisely sacrilegious, but not exactly secular either. I like it. (From last night at Amoeba)
Gated community.
PERSIA 🍂
In Loving Memory ❤️ Rest In Peace
Native Californians in the pool despite the weather; Part 2.
Native Californians in the pool despite the weather.
My grandpa Art Silva and his oldest daughter Phyllis. My Mom. Photo a bit damaged but wonderful shot nonetheless. Might retouch it at some point.
Stepdog yawns.
“When your mind is going hither and thither, discrimination will never be as cool as Bootsy Collins.”—@bloggingbot
L & M. From the other day. Dog Beach where we came, uncharacteristically without dogs.
Tonight @helenprejean inspired the crowd @cchsdons tonight. She says like Elie Wiesel she was called to share what she has witnessed. Passionate powerful speaker!
Leah is cool.
So I wrote a bot this past week. It’s a twitter bot (@BloggingBot) & based on my 17 years blogging it makes sentences based on my words. It is surreal to see what it has generated. Because some of them sound like things I might have written. #markovchain #programming #twitterbot
This guy—Billet(I can’t remember if that makes right)—is being fostered by my aunt & uncle. He’s nice.
Limones 🍋
Love 🌷(last week)
Corgi\Gwen\Del Mar Dog Beach
Self.
15 years together and 13 years married and continuing to navigate the shoals and complexities of love. It’s a big beautiful world! Happy Valentine’s Day to Leah and everyone! ❤️
This weekend I’m spending with code but last weekend I went kayaking with my friend Kelly and it was AMAZING. Turtles and Garibaldi and seals and dolphins. Must do again soon!
Me & Crystal. 1982?
Chris & Sharon. Human Powered Vehicle Race @ Cal State Fullerton, 1989.
NORTH PARK
Zine by @miamigardenclub arrived last week and it’s awesome. Particularly liked hypochondria flowchart. Oh and you should get Miami Garden Club.
San Diego is not supposed to have sea turtles and yet here one is. Climate change brings a shelled friend on a kayak tour with the excellent @everydaycalifornia in La Jolla. First time going out with them. Will definitely return.
THIS IS THAT
Day 2 of #lightningnow learning about Kanban view inside @Salesforce + bonus t-shirt! Remain impressed by quality of Trailhead exercises for a novice like me. I also like that it’s kind of Shazam!/Mage/Captain Marvel.
Cutest stickers at @salesforce #lightningnow seminar here in San Diego. Added to my iPad though I took my notes on paper today.
Neko & Me earlier in the month.
Ursula K. Le Guin • 1929-2018 Display by Erin and Buffy.
Last week Sumi was very ready to “help” with laundry.
Last week Fletcher was pretty sick, though he still had energy enough to ride his scooter!
Corgi @ maximum speed!
Me, Kelly, and a stuffed shark. Because I loved Jaws and my newborn sister?!
Mom and her Dad.
Drowsy kitty.
Nephew Fletcher is not at 100% strength today.
Cats (Neko & Sumi) last night: “this is our couch.”
New sticker for my iPad! #uxcampdc
My first (and not my last!) passport photo was a group shot. Me, 7, my sister, under 1, Mom, 30.
my sister and my mom — I wish I knew the context for this one — look how happy they are!
[ KNOWLEDGE IS POWER ] Jefferson Building is covered in aphorisms, sayings, tile work, sculpture. It’s a temple to knowledge. My favorite aphorism so far is “there is no work of genius which has not been in the delight of man.” Lots of references to GOD but also ones like this: “there is one only good namely knowledge and one only evil namely ignorance.”
In transit.
Jim Crawford. My Dad. ‘64. ‘64. ‘68. He’s led an extraordinary life. He’s led a life to be proud of, I’m proud of and thankful to him.
Crawfords, 1968. Before my father went to Vietnam.
Mom. June 1978. Possibly in Hong Kong.
My grandparents Art & Phyllis Silva. Looking stylish.
My sister.
Blue Ridge. Another one of my homes.
Prosaic symmetry beautiful nonetheless.
I never really got the hang of hats. 1977.
Daniel: “does a T-Rex eat meat?” Fletcher; “Yes”
Bat-Fletcher
Sumi has no respect for me watching Alec Baldwin.
Fourteen degrees Fahrenheit.
Neko looks great. 6 months old.
Family conference at the deli
I like visiting family and friends. If they have pets, that’s a bonus.
Virginia is filled with history.
Countryside 11am.
haircut and sky
Mom’s tennis trophies. She started playing in her 40s and loved it. Never too late to start ANYTHING.
McLean House, site of Lee’s surrender at the end of the Civil War on Palm Sunday, 1865. That’s me and my Pop.
Illinois is covered by snow.
Bodies of water light up the Kansas landscape below like an illuminated manuscript.
Yesterday’s Sunset / Southern Utah
The imagery of the sacred heart, the suffering heart, the thorns, the flames, has always moved me, primally. I can blame and thank my latent Catholicism. I find it so beautiful. A perfect bittersweetness that represents life so well.
I like this Carlos Monsiváis mural in Tijuana. I had not heard of him and didn’t recognize him. It’s worthwhile to learn about unfamiliar heroes.
Tijuana wax museum has not yet received the memo about Cos, regrettably. Whoopi looks great though!
NON FECIT TALITER OMNI NATIONI
Side streets.
Boats out there. Dana Point. Clouds.
Dana Point Dolphin (a duo headed south the other morning)
Robot Music Box Anniversary/Christmas gift from Leah. Very intricate assembly. Lots of pieces. 20 solid hours effort. Two major backtracking to correct errors of building. Thank you Leah!
🐻 🎅🏽
I really should go to Christmas Card Lane every year.
LISTEN HERE ⬇️ (from a few weeks ago)
Christmastime at Fort Rosecrans. Bittersweet but undeniably beautiful to think of my grandparents Chief Joe Crawford and Jean Crawford who are interred here. So many wonderful memories of holiday times with them.
Saving a place.
Flarey tooty fresh and rooty.
takeoff.
Domed conic sections.
Yellow Rose is yellow and beautiful.
Coffee: last week. Hammerhead, specifically.
So… okay these are my #2017bestnine according to the idea that “best” is a measure of the most likes. Excuse me that’s horse puckey but you can’t automate human curation.
Neon/Pilot/Leah
KEEP OFF TORREY
Playa+Shoes
I love this shot of Leah getting her hair-trim.
WE WERE STRANGERS ONCe TOO ⭐️
