Winged Migration is a lovely film that on its surface seems like innocuous footage of birds in their habitats. But look closer and it’s a life or death adventure and dramatization of what it means to live on planet earth. I found it profoundly moving. There are scenes that made me gasp. A shot of...

Triple feature of the day— Weather Underground (2002) One Battle After Another (2025) Running on Empty (1988) Previously: Running On Empty, Movies Owned Which Can Predictably Induce Crying

I’ve had an Amazon wishlist linked from my website for years. Many years. I had a few folks who I helped out with website help or other kinds of technical help buy me stuff from my Amazon Wishlist. It’s been a while, but up until today it’s been linked from my site for decades. Part...

From my friend Zachary Kai: IndieWeb Carnival: Feb 2026 For this month’s carnival, write about where your interests intersect. That might be a single unexpected overlap, a whole ecosystem, or the thread that ties parts of your life together. I think my whole life has been unexpected overlaps. My parents met as an unexpected overlap:...

It’s been a week and all my gear dried out. Rain and wet forced me out of the water. I broke out the sewing machine and fixed my wetsuit bag. Today I got back in. The berms are coming down and Spring is coming away. The inexorable march of time continues. My blog turned 25...

Showing art and giving away beach toys and and trading art sharing affirmations at @_woca_ and hanging out with pals like @chrisgreazel and @northone_art and new friends too. Much love to @radiantbeerco for hosting on this chilly night. (–IG) I had fun. Kelly came with me. Typically when I’ve gone up to WOCA I will...

I’m not really a theist. Like, there’s no fella with a beard. That dude is only in single panel cartoons. But I vibe with the notion of humility before the universe. One can’t help but know that there are forces greater than oneself. If you’ve been a debtor you know this. If you’ve been to...

I am trading blog post titles with James. He gave me a few suggestions for what to write about. I chose the title “A memory from a San Diego sunrise”. My itinerary for October 30, 2020. 9:45pm to 5:45am: Pre-Dawn Patrol Sleep 6:00am to 7:00am Drive to Trestles 7:08am to 7:10am Trestles Sunrise 8:30am to...

Happy Birthday, ArtLungBlog. Here’s the contents of my first post, which did not have a title. The integer value for the post is a rather short 2448604. It’s archived here, and it says: It occurs to me that this Blogger stuff may be dull. Still, the prospect of keeping a journal is kind of a...

I am in complete accord with Jeremy Keith’s post Magic. It goes perfectly well with my own post from 2024 Mistrust-Based Technology Choices But I still draw a line. When it comes to front-end development, that line is for me to stay as close as I can to raw HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. After all,...

In the California Primary on June 7, 1988 I cast my ballot for Jesse Jackson. Reverend Jackson got 1.1 million votes; Michael Dukakis: 1.9 million votes in California (source). A good showing. I woke up to the news that Jesse Jackson died this morning. I mourn him. I’ll quote just a short section of it...

We are all a bit poor–those of us who are not rich–these days. We dream of making things and monetizing. What do kids want to do when they grow up? They want to be streamers and YouTubers. That’s the visible way to make money. 25 years ago the culture derided women who appeared in video...

bluesky-map.theo.io is a map of Bluesky. The creator, Theo Sanderson, posted this: I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users – see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I’ve seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail My handle is my website, verified with a DNS...

Reading, as I do, a lot of blogs and ingesting “the web as she as spoke” as much as possible, I come across lots of jargon. Much of it is narrowly helpful, but ultimately, optional. But just a few minutes ago I came across Larry Garfield’s post Mild Dynamic Websites Are Back which led me...

James mentioned the other day on his website a conversation we had during a Co-Unworking Zoom. To whit: It is perhaps because of this that, when I asked Joe yesterday “How can we achieve a web renaissance?”, he replied “I think we’re already in it.” Renaissance means “rebirth.” It’s not a quantifiable term. It’s a...

Before the session. Today I took off on a wave and after it broke I ended up underneath it for 21 seconds. I think it’s accurate to say that I was “held down” for 15 seconds of that time. I did not like that. There’s a sign in the window of a lifeguard tower that...

In 2024 I wrote about loathing and fearing web video (Unfrozen Caveman Web Video). And while video does often cause me unhappiness, I do enjoy playing with it. I’ve got videos of bodysurfing and my reels. It’s got me using stuff like ffmpeg and Procreate Dreams to do fun stuff. This short animated AVIF file...

And the end of this video of the band Blusher coverings Kesha’s “Your Love is my Drug” they start to cover ABBA’s “S.O.S.” and I find myself really wanting to hear more of that. I’ll be seeking out other work by Blusher. Triple J is Australian public radio of a sort and does fine work....

I am sitting in LeStat’s on Park in San Diego drinking an iced Vietnamese coffee. It’s delicious. At one time I ran a mailing list called WebSanDiego. It was a OneList list, then it was an eGroups list, then it was a Yahoo!Groups list. But it was always a mailing list. It was what passed...

Yesterday I took the castoff carcasses of chickens past and boiled them. I added carrots, celery, onion, salt, whole peppercorns, apple cider vinegar, and a bay leaf. I boiled it over the course of a quarter-day into a rich, flavorful bone broth. When it was done, I filtered it several times and poured it into...