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11-Oct-2024

Ride Waves, it’s fun I’ve got a few pairs of Yucca Fins and a few DaFin fins. I’m on a run of wearing the DaFins, mostly. But I keep a close eye on Yucca Fins. They make killer bodysurfing fins. They recently released a video with some folks wearing their fins riding in a Palm Springs wave pool. Some...

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26-Jun-2024

Professional Space / Personal Space It’s not either or, professionalism and personal life. They don’t cleanly demarcate. There’s a tv show called Severance whose conceit is that one can have a personal life that stays personal, and then when a person goes to work–that life is utterly different–in fact, one forgets entirely about their other life and starts fresh. In...

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22-May-2024

Joe Project Updates It’s fun to see the last 30 days and the last 23 years side by side. See #3 below: GitHub.com/artlung was updated to include a README file. I updated by Tilde Club site: tilde.club/~artlung/ The landing page of the site is no longer the blog. Instead, it’s an overview with various pages and projects. See:...

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04-Mar-2024

Misc Loquacious Linquacious Cascade It’s rare for me not to sleep great. And… I’ve not slept great the last few days. The rain prevented watergoing for a few days. And now it’s persistent wind preventing ocean swimming and bodysurfing. Yes, I need the water. I mentioned The Magic Mike wetsuit in April last year and now that my prior...

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08-Feb-2024

Golf Book vs. Golf Clubs Al, in his latest post (Kudos Al!): Learn by doing. You’re not going to climb a mountain just by reading about Everest. I think I was 12 years old and my uncle – also called “Joe Crawford” by the way. posed this hypothetical: Imagine two people on two deserted islands. To one you give the...

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02-Feb-2024

Kudos to you for hitting publish. I love this quote. It’s a great thing to see first as I start my day reading the internet. Also, At its most basic, making art is about following what’s luminous to you and putting it in a jar, to share with others. —Ben Folds, A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and...

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24-Jan-2024

Al & my Friendship-as-Garden theory Here’s Al Abut looking through a lens: This is not a recent photo. It’s a blurry photo I played around with this morning. I like the playfulness of it. Adriano Santi took this photo (more or less) of Al in Seattle in 2007. I emailed Adriano and he tells me “I think Pinguino took that...

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23-Jan-2024

Some Bodysurfing Ephemera It rained something awful over the last 2 days in San Diego. That makes the water quality crap due to crap runoff. So while I’m prevented from going in the ocean, I’ll disgorge a few things about bodysurfing I’ve been meaning to read and write about my favorite pastime. First, here’s a quote I’ve been...

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24-Dec-2023

My friend Al asked me to let him know when I hit the water again so he could practice his action photography and WOW @alabut pulled off this terrific shot from Crystal Pier! Every session is practice. Life is practice. #bodysurfing #stoke

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22-Feb-2010

San Francisco, BlogHer, and Me Sometimes, drafts of posts sit in “draft” mode for a long time. I drafted this in August of 2008, a year and a half ago. I’m updating it as best I can and pushing it out into the world. For the past two years, my wife Leah has attended the main BlogHer Conference. The first...

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