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Panorama from Pacific Beach Today Session in the water was “meh” today. When the session is dull I will sometimes muse on what words apply to it. “Desultory” came up a few times. Also I didn’t have an accurate definition of that word in my head. I think I meant something closer to “dismal” or “disappointing.” And now, about websites I’ve been looking at a lot of my old websites lately. I make a lot of sites! I forgot that I’d created a website enumerating Ventura County users groups back in…
I updated gwenthegoblin.com with a backup of everything (from the beginning to May) using Memento Mori. Here’s the GitHub issue I participated in. I will be doing this again. I added to a page I started many months ago, with links to how AI is talked about and characterized. It’s my ‘AI’ is… page For a bodysurfer fins are vital. If I’m worrying about my fins, if they are too tight, too loose, it’s impossible to properly navigate the water. It would not be hyperbole to describe fins as…
Elizabeth Holmes is in the news. In 2019 Alex Gibney released a documentary on what that company did and how it operated. It was called The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. I watched it on HBO. I can remember the feeling of watching it. It made me angry. What follows is an adaptation of my tweets from the time, starting here. (Also, I need to add threading to my archived tweets) (In 2020) I’m finally watching the Theranos documentary. As a former clinician I find it incredibly…
The blue-with-white tips DaFin fins which I’ve had for several years are officially lost. I mentioned yesterday in Good News; Bad News that on a big wave both my fins came off. As is my habit, I returned to the same beach the day after to look and see if they’d washed up or been found. Alas, no. Someone did return a football and an umbrella under the main lifeguard tower And this hat was on a trashcan near the staircase I used And I found some beach toys I took in exchange for the fins the…
Here’s what I texted to Kelly this morning after I went in the water: The good news is I learned I’m not allergic to bees, the bad news is I lost both fins in a very violent wave. The other good news is that I’m fine. I don’t like losing a fin. But I’ve lost fins before. Usually I get them back. Twice I’ve fully lost fins and gotten them back the day after. In another instance a week after. But after I lost them I got out of the water. And I looked to the sea. I scanned the water. I watched…
Forgive the pun. Who does this gull think they are? I’m checking the surf cameras on Surfline, and notice this gull in the way. Like–excuse me. Can you do your morning groom somewhere else please? Alas, birds will bird the way they want to bird. Yesterday I did maintenance on some even older parts of the websites I host. And I ended up reconnecting with someone I’ve not spoken to in years. I’ll leave it vague, but it’s great. I have some folks to invoice too, so that’s good. I do not mention…
Like I do, very often, I went to Pacific Beach Today. Here’s the panoramic photo I took before I went in the water. Here’s the Bing maps rendition of the spot. How impossibly blue is that water? The current was strong. I had an instinct that the current was strong and north. That’s the state of the swell in the water of course, but that macro view of the water doesn’t necessarily apply to every spot. The ocean’s vastness means eddies and flows may not apply to every possible spot. But I decided…
Today was really fun. The conversation at Front End Study Hall was rich. We discussed email, including a library I’ve yet to try called MJML which allows creating a unified file which compiles into html code which renders consistently in the many different mail programs. I’m not using it for my newsletter (yet?), but I may do so. For the moment I’m using Twig templates to make markdown, which I pasted into Buttondown. And I’ll do that again on Sunday night when I schedule Monday’s email. I…
In 1999 in answer to a comment that read: Check it out if you don’t believe me. I thought that cross-browser compatibility meant that everything looked the same in both browser, but I guess not. Here’s what I wrote: Cross-browser compatibility does NOT mean that everything looks the same everywhere. It means that I have a site which is usable on any browser. Let me illustrate my point: http://www.artlung.com/smorgasborg/otherviews/MAC_ICAB.GIF…
On Saturday I exhibited work at WOCA. It was a wonderful time. Kelly was very supportive. I have a passel of photos yet to post and I want to add the pieces I made to my art page in the next week. I’ve been to WOCA several times with friends, and this is the third time I’ve exhibited work. I’ll share a few photos: The layout of the panel I exhibited work on A sketch I did of the lead singer of Roses and Roses A photo of Kelly and I smiling as the heat was letting up and we were sitting in the…
You’re welcome to subscribe. See https://artlung.com/newsletter/ I’m committed to doing this on Mondays for a year. Let’s see how it goes. I’m using Buttondown and did some custom programming against the existing things I make to generate a markdown file which I can then use inside Buttondown. That address again: https://artlung.com/newsletter/ Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me | Book office hours | Share
I will be showing at WOCA again this weekend. Saturday. A selection of works made from found objects at the beach. I’ll post photos in the future. But come on down to WOCA and I’ll be there. I hope it’ll be fun. We may get food from The Hat afterwards. Art Spiegelman remains an influence on me. This piece from The Guardian is–sobering–Art Spiegelman: ‘The US needs a counter-revolution’. The documentary about him is rather good: Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse. Here’s the trailer. If you…
Lives well lived. Live as well as you can, be your authentic self. Carry on. Yes, I know it’s not easy. Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me | Book office hours | Share
Among the older things I put on the web were fansites: Bebe Ads Ronny Vardy Fan Stew & The Negro Problem Lyrics These are run with WordPress. I did some maintenance on them today. Not particularly interesting, but it keeps me busy. I added SoundCloud to my feed patterns list page, kind of obvious to check to see if SoundCloud has feeds come to think of it. I added my own to my Feeds page too. I went to a tech meetup yesterday and it was pleasant and I learned things. Today I also did a follow…
Panorama, Sunday It’s been foggy the last few mornings at the beach. And the weather has been hotter. The water temperature has been colder. I’m working on things. Making adjustments. Riding waves, both water and metaphorical. What wave it next? Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me | Book office hours | Share
Beth Accomando interviewing Chuck Tingle Kelly got us tickets to see Chuck Tingle speak at KPBS San Diego Book Festival. It was a hot day and it was great to peruse the booths and the energy of the folks walking the USD campus was terrific. Aside: I got to tell Kelly (again) that my parents, when they were first dating, used to go to Mass at the Immaculata. It never made sense to me that they went to church, since for most of my life Mass was not something my Dad was interested in attending. It…
We drove to Orange County yesterday. Kelly went to work, and I stole away to the beach at Huntington. I enjoy the scene at Huntington Beach, and I’ve been treated well by the folks in the water each time. Yesterday as I was walking out, in my wetsuit and carrying my swim fins and handplanes, a fellow called out at me– “A HANDGUN!” I said–“yes indeed, but I know when someone calls them that they have a bit more gray hair than other folks!” And he asked: “what do they call them now?”…
Class Action Park is a great documentary about a New Jersey waterpark where people died. Even just the trailer is amazing. Seek out the documentary and watch it. Chris Gethard is one of the folks interviewed for the documentary. He wrote for “Weird New Jersey” I think Gethard is great. He’s responsible for a piece of television which I find amazing. But the premise seems basic and too simple to be entertaining: “What’s in this dumpster.” It’s 10 years old. I had never heard of this until this…
