ArtLung
Places on the Bluesky map
“Mildly Dynamic Website” — (hey that’s how I work)
b+w at pb
We are in a web renaissance now.
15 seconds.
HWC Loops! (San Diego Edition)
Friday Music
Warm today. Swell diminishing.
Waves were hitting the bottom of the pier this morning. Fun to be among giants.
Homebrew San Diego 2026
Right over the berm, great big waves I played in.
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.
a low boil
Accidental Summer day in January.
Burning Friday Sun in the water
a productive day capped by a nice session
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.
Virginia Hats
PB Today
Mission Beach today.
Good lord, also QOTD
Started the day with a Balboa Park walk and later an OB session (windy)
San Diego, let’s website together! HWC 3 Feb 2026
Even closeouts can be fun.
Low tide fiery sunset.
Senior Yearbook Photo
Fog encroached on the beach as sunset neared. I called out “MARCO!” as a joke and got a chuckle from a fellow waverider.
“WELCOME BACK / DO NOT BEND” (seen on a piece of paper mail, but I’m over-interpreting it as positive coping advice)
At least the sunset was nice.
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.
Waveride
The world continues to be a mess. Bad leaders in America doing bad and illegal things. Beach is a respite.
Life and death at the ocean
New Year; New Site; New Finger
Flat but fun
I got in the ocean today after several day drought. I caught some waves and I found a plastic Christmas ornament in the gutter. Of course I saved it. I am a scavenger and a survivor.
A new kind of scam spam: let me use your US Upwork account and take a cut
Memories of Blogger Getting Bought
Feckless and Useless and Totalitarian and Liars
This year it’s been all about OB. Home sweet home.
Happy Chanukah from the IndieWeb Camp San Diego 2025, which I’ve been a co-organizer of for 3 years now. It was a great weekend of camaraderie, code, and ideas.
LIFE HAPPENS (an incredible talk on open source maintaining
IndieWeb Camp San Diego 2025: Typewritten Checkin!
Notability spam of the day
Magic
Anaphylacticin’
Good News / Bad News. Small waves and sunny day. Seagulls are hilarious.
“That guy still owes me money.”
It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas
Announcement: San Diego IndieWeb Camp 2025
Ocean Beach, 9am Wednesday.
Christmas Tree / Create Day / Chatbots
Today’s Right
I caught a few waves on the other side of the OB Pier. I didn’t shoot it but maybe could have.
Even small days can be good.
Thanksgiving started with party waves at OB
Nearly dawn patrol. Many sessions result in rides that are better than any wave I’ve ever ridden. Winter is good.
Writing, Context, Cleverness
Walls of whitewater kept most surf riders out of the water. I so enjoy going out when waves tickle the bottom of the pier. It demands completely undivided attention and the second I’m the least bit tired it’s time to come in. I managed to ride a wave or two along with plenty of paddling and diving.
Winter is bringing new wave opportunities. Incremental improvements continue.
Site Updates
Perspective: Doc Searls
Quote of the Day
Homebrew Website Club/Eastern at 6pm EST on Wednesday
Email from YouTube: “Automatic Dubbing”
(cycles, fluctuations)
Go! Read! Post!
Sir Dave Coulier
some melancholy
The sky and waves got interesting
Scam: Flickr Direct Message
What the hell is ego?
IBC: The Creative Act
Closeout City
Finally!
Berms up.
It was an errand-based trip for @hellokellykuhl and me more than anything. But that doesn’t mean it was drudgery. It was productive, memory-stimulating, and loving. We watched Sandra Bullock movies with Kelly’s daughter who has it together in ways I certainly didn’t at that age. She was a terrific host. Five stars. A good time was had by all. Plus a little free zoo time at the end.
Chicago is amazing for a lot of reasons but among the wildest is Portillo’s sells a chocolate shake with a piece of chocolate cake blended into it. It should not be drinkable but it somehow is.
Chicago trip. Productive, fun, delicious, charming, funny. There’s rain and no ocean and no waves but it’s nice, regardless.
Good morning, be back soon.
Fun day shorebreak
Weird Web October 2025 (Seven come Eleven)
It’s against the municipal code to jump off this pier into the sea. Swimming around the end of it from one side to the other is more ambiguous, legally speaking. Move cautiously and deliberately while complying with any lifeguard requests that might come your way and you’ll be fine.
Announcing Front End Study Hall #038
Times are really weird. Everyone on edge. Find solace in those things you find solace in. Be strong.
Weird Web October: A luta continua
Seaweedy
messy but some fun [OB]
Antipost: Religion
Weird Web October: Maps
Latest Misc.
Censors, Markoe, Letterman
Your second person birds
From 2005: My Mobile Office: BK
The Wild Robot: IWMC
Goodbye Henry
Today was like a summer day with cold water.
Smart Fellas Writing About Comics Stuff
Bookmarklet for Indieweb.org
Got a “shaka” hand sign after a ride today. Heavy shore break. Water cold. Friday night and parking lot a quarter empty. Summer is past done. I love it.
Overserious
“What need of telephones?”
Word of the Day: Gleichschaltung
Cousins 50 years apart.
There was drizzle today at OB. The water is colder. It’s perfect.
Don’t lose sight, baby don’t lose sight.
Dose 6 Miscellaneous
I didn’t give the stingray buckets any business today. But somebody did.