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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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• 13-Feb-2024
  Items You May or May Not Wish To Read and Look At How Latin America Revolutionized Baseball: Some Latinos were able to bend the rules because of their skin color, but they were never considered “superstars” by the general public or media before 1947—except for one. His name was Adolfo Lugue from Havana Cuba, and he was considered a “white-Cuban.” In 1923, Adolfo won 27 games for...

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• 07-Feb-2024

  
  Zero Theme Link-o-rama Being a post on the many things I’ve read, half-read, meant to read. But first, here’s Joe with a San Diego weather follow-up: The Jan. 22 Floods Displaced More Than 1,000 San Diegans from Their Homes. The Bruce Sterling prediction for the future from back when he was doing Viridian remains as true as ever:...

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• 22-Jan-2024
  Monday Misk-ell-eh-knee-us. Jerry Beck is my favorite animation historian, his post What did Disney ever do? is perfect. It has become the habit of the world to disdain anything seemingly-well-known. Nothing is important. And that’s simply not so. You may not like where the world is but that doesn’t mean that it’s improved over time. The world...

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• 13-Jan-2024

  
  Galactic Notes from The IndieWeb James was good enough to provide this feedback during this morning’s IndieWeb online meeting: I see this when subscribing to your homepage microformats feed in Monocle: I don’t use Monocle but figured immediately what the issue might be, I had prioritized markup for myself generally, and for individual posts, but not for the main page...

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• 11-Jan-2024

  
  Thursday My bodysurfing is improving. My internal monologue when riding waves sometimes results in commentary to myself like “not bad.” This morning I made some git commits to the blog. simplifying markup inside the footer altering how the css for the footer works adjustments to link page css adjustments to search page language stop using blog-resultset...

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• 22-Mar-2018

  
  Remember when we used to link to things? So here’s a link to Doc Searls: Enough Alreadies, who said about leaving Quora: Even if something gets a lot of notice, the news cycle is hardly longer than Now, and the sense of having done something quickly disappears. The beautiful blog about aging with style Advanced Style posts Volunteer with Meals on Wheels, which sounds...

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• 22-Sep-2016

  
  That’s what the web is to me You may have noticed that the masthead of my website has been updated with a new header. It has a nice background image that looks like this: Or rather, you would have noticed it if you were visiting my site on a regular basis. That’s okay, lately I haven’t visited often either. I do customized...

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• 08-Sep-2016
  Oh look links from 2014 I meant to post but never did! Since it’s 2016 now I don’t even know if all these links will work! No matter, posting anyway. Enjoy! What to Do When Your Space Helmet Fills With Water (yikes!) Sarkeesian at XOXO How CalArts Came To Dominate Hollywood’s Animation Industry The Evolution Of Visual Effects Styling And Animating SVGs With CSS This is the...

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• 08-Jan-2015
  “I wonder if anyone is reading this” I have been wondering about my audience for this blog for a long time. As a reminder, I’ve been posting material here since 2001. 2015 marks 14 years of postings. Lately it seems it’s mostly a republishing platform for my Instagram photos because of my distrust of providers of internet services. Here’s a header I...

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