This post is part of the IndieWeb Carnival for March, 2024 hosted by Pablo. The theme? “self-expression.” Preamble: Mom My mother encouraged me to express myself all the time. I believe she did this because her own expression was mostly suppressed by her parents. Mostly her mother. But parents are a system and both are...

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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...

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...

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....

More tomorrow.

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...

Sunday. Day of rest, in theory. Started the day finishing up work on my new Mixtapes page. Here’s what that looks like right now. Mixtapes have been important for me for a long time. I intend to do more with it. I am thinking I’ll be adding mixtapes back as far as 1982 which I’ve...

It’s upgrade and cleanup season. I moved the old noke dot us site into the archive. And I archived the Git repo. And added it to my prior projects. I created a new page to enumerate my robots: /robots. I made a new header. I also deprecated some domains I will not do anything with....

These are bits and pieces. Not fully formed thoughts. But I want to quote two smart people. Steve Yegge 2 years ago. And Dan Hon a few days ago. From Steve Yegge, 2023: Cheating is all you need: All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software engineering exists as a discipline because...