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Zu @ Soft Spot, 2025-03-27

Starbucks is running a promotion for their spring lavender coffee drinks. Earlier this week, I was in a Starbucks that had lavender plants resting in a glass pot with coffee beans at the base of the pot. I’m not sure what to say exactly about this, but it did make me smile so I thought I should share it on my blog. Lavender flowers in a glass pot with coffee beans at the base. The glass pot is at the counter in the Starbucks. P.S. I always get confused spelling lavender. I sometimes write lavendar with an “a”. P.P.S. Somewhat unrelated, but “Lavender Haze” is a great Taylor Swift song.

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I hit the beach late. When I was walking into the water a stray surfboard was tumbling toward the shore. Sure enough, there was a surfer working his way in, chasing his stray board. I stopped it. That’s me, handing it off to the surfer. “I guess the session is over!” the young man quipped,...

I keep adding ride videos as I get them. None I’m really very pleased with but I can see progress occurring. Maybe more importantly, I can feel progress occurring. I am seeing INTO THE BARREL of waves periodically. Before they collapse and leave me in whitewater. And I know my limits. I was north of...

recursive feelings

How it started, how it’s going. Constancy The other day I found a turban shell in the sand. I’ve found a few before. That day I set it to soak in a mild bleach solution. I check it periodically. At least daily. I have a sort of constancy about it. It’s not gardening. (as in...

I never listened to Destruction all that much. But I had a great evening at this premier at the cinema with friends, the film crew and a few beers (and a whole bunch of other metalheads). Entertaining movie about a sympathetic band and how difficult it was during the pandemic for a band that usually plays around 150 gigs per year.

But know everything lost will be recovered When you drift into the arms of the undiscovered That’s from a Monkees song that’s so beautiful I cry every time I hear it. It’s called Me and Magdalena. Which I thought of because Tantek mentioned a song he remembered a song by Book of Love called Magdalena....

I often subscribe to blogs I like after reading one or two of their blog posts. When I see the blog in my web reader, it sometimes takes a second for me to remember what posts inspired me to subscribe to the website. Artemis has a bookmarklet that, when clicked, takes you to...

I think the term “RSS reader” needs revisiting. I much prefer “web reader.” The term “RSS reader” is protocol-first — RSS — rather than use case first. To understand what “RSS reader” means, you need to know what RSS is and why it matters. Designing tools for everyone, not j...

I’m hungry like a wolf, but that doesn’t make me a wolf. Things take time, and life takes time.

More tomorrow.

“Tell me, what are words for?” They are for blogging!Earlier today during an informal espresso live stream in the #indieweb cafe, Spotify was playing an auto-generated daylist, something like “romantic 80s tuesday morning”, and the 1982 song “Words”¹ by the band Missing Perso...

It’s my birthday week. We had coffees and hung out in Bird Rock this morning. It was a lovely and also productive morning. We were at Starbucks and I got my regular coffee order, the Caffè Misto. And yes, I documented that as a new page using my new lightweight pages at /starbucks. And I...