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More people die than I feel I can properly memorialize in this blog, so not every famous person gets an obituary here. But for Roger Corman I’m making an exception. in 1978 my parents, sister, and me lived at 70 6th Street in New Manila, Quezon City on the island of Luzon in the … | Continue reading
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Kevin Marks shared this talk: Declarative Design, by Jeremy Keith which has been given in a few places around the world. It’s quite good, quite simple, but also tells a fundamental truth about the web, that is is designed to give a certain amount of control to the user. There’s v … | Continue reading
April Wensel wrote, in her latest newsletter from Compassionate Coding: Before you add an obscure cultural reference or quirky inside joke to code, though, I implore you to think of the poor developer who may be wading through your code a decade (or a few months) later. I’m a fan … | Continue reading
The next Front End Study Hall (#003) will be on May 23, 2024. #002 was yesterday and was another solid get together. I learned bit of nuance around using grid-template-areas and understand what I’ve seen before when trying that, one really needs to have predictable markup to use … | Continue reading
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En realidad mi español no es muy bueno. Pero es un buen título. Y es bueno practicar español. But English is my best language so I shall endeavor to do that. I signed a petition about San Clemente beaches yesterday and was glad to do it. I think about the beach a lot and go... | Continue reading
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Update, May 1, 2024: We can have a different web by Molly White. In answer to Molly White’s question about what people miss about the web I wrote: @molly0xfff I’ve been following RSS decades . A Life Well Wasted updated after a 9 year hiatus. Dooce died and won’t be updating. I m … | Continue reading
Mandaris Moore wrote: I don’t normally have an image because I’m not very confident in my drawings and the friction of creating it, resizing it, posting it, and then putting it on the post saps a little bit of the joy for a post that may only be a couple sentences long. I agree w … | Continue reading
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It’s been a fun week. In the “toots I didn’t toot” category was: Also I’m content to have songs be about whatever the artists want them to be about. I like the songs “Sail Away” by Randy Newman and “The Illinois Enema Bandit” by Frank Zappa though I have a rather hard time with “ … | Continue reading
California toll services: We’ve noticed an outstanding balance of $11.69 on your record. To prevent a late fee of $50.00, please visit https://ncsunspasstollservices.com to settle your invoice. Similarly: Virginia Department of Transportation warnings about scams Don’t Fall for t … | Continue reading
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The Case for Leaving Protesters Be: We practice forbearance for a greater good. Just like a member of Congress should ask whether they are elected only to pass legislation that will help with their reelection or whether they serve a higher purpose for the good of their country, a … | Continue reading
The next Front End Study Hall will be May 7, 2024 – come join, teach, and learn together! If you’re a maven of markup or stylesheet superstar, or a newbie novice with nth-of-type, all are welcome to learn together at Front End Study Hall. The foundation of a flexible, good IndieW … | Continue reading
Superman or Green Lantern ain’t got nothin’ on me I of course love San Diego Comic Con, but I also love a song featuring something from the comics. I add to this playlist periodically and love new suggestions. There’s far more comics-adjacent music than one might think (or can be … | Continue reading
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. ― Frank Zappa | Continue reading
I like the idea of this Zoom meeting Bonus Online Homebrew Website Club – Social Norms in the IndieWeb, it’s currently tentative, but is intentionally about the culture of the IndieWeb, and was created by Sara Jakša: Lets have a meeting connecting to the social norms on the inter … | Continue reading
On repeat this week is a song from 2002 by Charli XCX: Yuck, and I’m a big fan of the sentiment of not trying to get mushy. Yuck, now you got me blushin’ Cheeks so red when the blood starts rushing Yuck, that boy’s so mushy Sending me flowers, I’m just tryna get lucky Yuck,... | Continue reading
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Mark Sutherland, a fellow I know from several enjoyable IndieWeb events he moderated or co-moderated, is rebuilding his blog in Laravel and making great progress. And he blogged over the weekend. I love that he alluded to– the traditional “I’ve not blogged in a while” bit …which … | Continue reading
Yesterday I found another wavy turban shell at PB. When I got home I immediately put it in 1/3rd strength bleach solution. Top left, how it looked when I put it in the back of my car, and the next 3 are after 18 hours of a bleach solution. I will soak it more with... | Continue reading
I don’t talk politics on this blog. There’s beach photos mostly these days. But the news of the US Congress finally sending some dough to Ukraine makes me very happy. Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter of April 20, 2024: Cheering broke out in the gallery and among Democrats on the f … | Continue reading
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Some great waveriding. From BEEFS TV & Brad Jacobson. The Wedge – Biggest and Gnarliest Day of First Swell 2024! (RAW): Massive Waves Kick Off the Wedge Surf Season See also: Dirty Old Wedge, The Wedge (wikipedia) | Continue reading
A few weeks ago I was approached in the water by a surfer whose head was bleeding. I walked with him the 150 yards to the lifeguard tower. I carried his blood spattered surfboard. There’s a photo. And a month ago when I was walking back with folks we’d picked up from the airport … | Continue reading
The latest news in tech has been excitement about reports that Automattic has the intent to sell Tumblr and WordPress.com website data (read that as “your blog posts”) to a Large Language Model-based company for big dollars. Putting your stuff on a companies servers usually means … | Continue reading
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I love this quote. It’s a great thing to see first as I start my day reading the internet. Also, At its most basic, making art is about following what’s luminous to you and putting it in a jar, to share with others. —Ben Folds, A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and... | Continue reading
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Here’s Al Abut looking through a lens: This is not a recent photo. It’s a blurry photo I played around with this morning. I like the playfulness of it. Adriano Santi took this photo (more or less) of Al in Seattle in 2007. I emailed Adriano and he tells me “I think Pinguino took … | Continue reading
It rained something awful over the last 2 days in San Diego. That makes the water quality crap due to crap runoff. So while I’m prevented from going in the ocean, I’ll disgorge a few things about bodysurfing I’ve been meaning to read and write about my favorite pastime. First, he … | Continue reading
MRS. CRAWFORD St. Rita’s Catholic Church was the scene of the wedding on June 15 of Miss Phyllis Silva, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesus Arthur Silva of 7002 Skyline Drive, to James Joseph Crawford. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph James Crawford of 4801 Mt. Gaywas … | Continue reading
The cadets at Morse have chosen Linda Conrad, a senior, to reign as queen over the annual Cadet Ball March 13 in Balboa Park. Linda will be crowned by last year’s queen, Phyllis Silva. – National City Star-News, Volume 82, Number 54, 11 — March 1965 | Continue reading
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In Summer 2014 I started playing the quite engaging iOS game Clash of Clans.I mentioned it at the end of 2014. And I mentioned it in 2022, too–with screenshots. I stopped playing regularly a few months ago. I look periodically but I’ve lost the habit. Probably I’ve replaced it wi … | Continue reading