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Any day I get to get into the water and catch a wave or two is a good day. Thankful to @dawnpatrol.app and @surfline to help me get in and review game footage. #stoke #bodysurfing

Feeling like good Summer. Except for all of the wrong in the world.

Crafty fix for wetsuit that wants to Magic Mike

Song of the Day: The Idea by Stacey Ryan

New Man

Just passing through at PB #CaliforniaSeaLion

My Favorite Cosplay

EOTD: “This is a legitimate arrangement—no risk to you.”

Two Museum Memories

a giant woman…

The range of conditions I’ve been out in at OB is wide. Today was mild yet beautiful and a brief break from staying informed about the news of the day.

Winged Migration (Club de cinéma IndieWeb)

Triple feature

starfish piling solidarity

Email: Amazon Wishlist purchases MAY expose your address

Intersecting Interests

Get your gear wet.

WOCA: My second time showing

“To the greater glory of god”

A memory from a San Diego sunrise

25 years of ArtLung Blog

wet glasses dog walk morning

Magic & Mistrust

Rainbow Coalition On the passing of Jesse Jackson

Yesterday for Valentine’s Kelly and I had a low key great time. We exchanged cards. There were flowers. We went out to dinner and then the theater. “The Recipe” is a biographical play of Julia Child up to her becoming a tv chef. Episodic, surprising, delightful. At @lajollaplayhouse @hellokellykuhl

Afternoon at Crystal Pier / Friday the 13th

Been a while since I went to La Jolla shores. A low key but enjoyable short session.

Buy a blog post from Shae Erisson

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.

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.