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08 Feb 05:45 • Joe Crawford

15 seconds.

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...

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06 Feb 17:39 • Joe Crawford

HWC Loops! (San Diego Edition)

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...

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06 Feb 16:33 • Joe Crawford

Friday Music

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....

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05 Feb 04:45 • Joe Crawford

Warm today. Swell diminishing.

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04 Feb 05:12 • Joe Crawford

Waves were hitting the bottom of the pier this morning. Fun to be among giants.

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04 Feb 03:27 • Joe Crawford

Homebrew San Diego 2026

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...

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03 Feb 04:24 • Joe Crawford

Right over the berm, great big waves I played in.

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02 Feb 05:15 • Joe Crawford

Parking was a problem today OB. Lots of people. Lots of happy beach goers. Lots of people on the streets. I found parking up on the hill to the south of the pier. I’ve never parked here. The views are nice.

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01 Feb 19:00 • Joe Crawford

a low boil

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...

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01 Feb 05:54 • Joe Crawford

Accidental Summer day in January.

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31 Jan 05:45 • Joe Crawford

Burning Friday Sun in the water

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30 Jan 04:12 • Joe Crawford

a productive day capped by a nice session

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29 Jan 05:51 • Joe Crawford

Yesterday I went to the shore but conditions were not quite right. So I punted. It was the right decision. Today: I went to the shore and I went in. It was slight, but satisfying.

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27 Jan 05:27 • Joe Crawford

Virginia Hats

Last week the weather was mild. It’s almost always mild here in San Diego. We were walking to the beach: Pacific Beach. We were headed to the spot on the south side of Crystal Pier. It was Sunday: game day. All the sports bars in San Diego are active that day. And it was MLK...

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26 Jan 06:42 • Joe Crawford

PB Today

Panorama From today at Pacific Beach It was a quiet weekend. But a positive one. I have some interesting things coming up this week. I’m hoping for the best. The world… is frustrating. I keep adding new videos of me riding waves at /videos. They’re mostly for me. I can see some progress but mostly...

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25 Jan 03:54 • Joe Crawford

Mission Beach today.

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24 Jan 20:00 • Joe Crawford

Good lord, also QOTD

Another person was killed today in Minneapolis by agents of the United States government. As an older person I have a hard time with blanket slogans. But the thing we call “ICE:” United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement not doing a good job: it kills people and kidnaps. Started in 2003. End it NOW. Tell...

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24 Jan 16:57 • Joe Crawford

Started the day with a Balboa Park walk and later an OB session (windy)

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23 Jan 19:12 • Joe Crawford

San Diego, let’s website together! HWC 3 Feb 2026

HELLO SAN DIEGO WWW FOLKS! On February 3, 2026 at LeStat’s on Park will be the triumphant and yet very low-key return of in-person Homebrew Website Club. Information is on the event page: events.indieweb.org. What will happen? Well, this is an IndieWeb thing where we get together and work on our websites and talk about...

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22 Jan 05:18 • Joe Crawford

Even closeouts can be fun.

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18 Jan 05:18 • Joe Crawford

Low tide fiery sunset.

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17 Jan 16:27 • Joe Crawford

Senior Yearbook Photo

Take a look at this. The text is purposefully opaque. Don’t try too hard to read it. That’s my senior photo. I went to University of San Diego High School. It’s does not exist today. Condos replaced the campus a few decades ago. It’s an incoherent juxtaposition of photo and text. I wish 16-year old...

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16 Jan 05:03 • Joe Crawford

Fog encroached on the beach as sunset neared. I called out “MARCO!” as a joke and got a chuckle from a fellow waverider.

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15 Jan 04:18 • Joe Crawford

“WELCOME BACK / DO NOT BEND” (seen on a piece of paper mail, but I’m over-interpreting it as positive coping advice)

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13 Jan 06:03 • Joe Crawford

At least the sunset was nice.

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11 Jan 04:18 • Joe Crawford

I look at waves sidelong and sometimes after they break there’s a rainfall, complete with rainbow. It lasts for a second or so. It’s an excellent consolation prize for failing to ride the wave.

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09 Jan 15:31 • Joe Crawford

Waveride

This morning, at Ocean Beach My wave-riding is improving. I try to ride the leading edge of breaking waves. Most waves break so fast there’s little leading edge to ride. It feels good that I am made to feel welcome in the water by “surfers.” You will likely know what I mean by the term...

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07 Jan 05:27 • Joe Crawford

The world continues to be a mess. Bad leaders in America doing bad and illegal things. Beach is a respite.

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05 Jan 04:24 • Joe Crawford

Life and death at the ocean

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03 Jan 16:06 • Joe Crawford

New Year; New Site; New Finger

One never steps into the same river twice. The natural world is dynamic. The molecules in our human bodies–presumably you’re a human being if you are reading this–get replaced. I suppose that’s a “Ship of Theseus” thing. Anyway, this website you’re reading this on, or the feed you’re reading it on, is continually changing. And...