2024 Four hundred and sixty-seven posts

• 29-Sep-2024

  
  Power Underneath Despair Content Warning: Discussion of Suicide If you do a Google search for “12 step low point” Google pops up: Call 988 in the United States I was trying to think of the term “rock bottom” but was stopped short because I don’t think I’ve ever done a search that triggers this kind of reminder about...

  depressionindieweb-carnivalmental-health
• 29-Sep-2024

  
  I dreamed karaoke analysis I woke up with this image emblazoned in my head It’s me, with a kind of Terminator heads-up display of analysis of my mouth as I am singing. Singing karaoke. As in “From pubs and clubs, to the great Asian pastime of karaoke!”* What I wrote down in my notebook was: Matches with people you...
• 28-Sep-2024

  
  Top photo credit: Kelly [ @hellokellykuhl ] who got shots of me bodysurfing at Crystal Pier this fine autumn afternoon.

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• 28-Sep-2024

  
  My CSS Battle Plugins I put up the CSS Battle Plugins I use on GitHub: artlung-cssbattle-plugins. I try to play daily. It’s a bit harder on the road, when I only have an iPad but I’ve managed to make it work. I started playing in November last year. As of right this minute I’m ranked number 41 of all...

  cssbattleprogramming
• 28-Sep-2024
  Megalopolis Please take a few minutes to read the review of Megalopolis by Nick Mamatas. It starts with the line “I object to every moment of this film.” and only gets better from there. The trailer is astounding in ways both good and bad. What I’ve found is that when media bridges that gap–between astounding good...

  movies
• 27-Sep-2024

  
  Water’s cold again. I love it.

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• 27-Sep-2024

  
  A person with a website is powerful. Yesterday I learned Ken Klippenstein posted a document on the web. On X, he posted a link to his commentary on his own website. That page also included a link to that document, a dossier on JD Vance. Not soon after, he was suspended from the service X for it. As of this morning, he remains...

  journalismpersonal websitepoliticspublishingus politics
• 26-Sep-2024

  
  Closeout city. Still fun.

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• 24-Sep-2024
  Actually everything is healthcare In theory I write code for a living. But the “lung” from my online handle is the echo of my career in medicine. I practiced Respiratory Therapy for under 10 years but even now I look at things from that perspective. I was reading today’s California Sun and saw that locally a man named Keith...

  healthcaremedicinesan-diego
• 23-Sep-2024

  
  Talking about Writing In my head I have a quote I attribute to Rod Serling: A writer writes. I love The Twilight Zone. I still do. I saw It’s a Good Life at age 11 and was scared as much as I could be scared. Later I acquired a book called The Twilight Zone Companion which featured synopses...

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