January 2025 Thirty-one posts

• 28-Jan-2025

  
  meditations on friction IndieWeb Carnival Sand forms when rocks break down from weathering and eroding over thousands and even millions of years. —NOAA National Ocean Service I can’t find my favorite quote. I thought it was in M. Scott Peck’s A Road Less Traveled. It was about the essential friction in all human relationships. Human beings have different needs and...

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• 28-Jan-2025

  
  Droneduded! I mentioned that I got captured by Drone Dude Ed back on September 7th, 2024 but never posted a link to the moment. Here’s the moment: youtube.com/watch?v=3ZHN1O9VHtI&t=1009s. Blink and you’ll miss it but it’s fun to look at. See dronedudeed.com on the web. And some screens from that video I saved and never posted: Ready...

  bodysurfingstoke
• 26-Jan-2025

  
  Sunset Cliffs Today Sunset Cliffs from the stairs at Ladera. A vividly beautiful moment in between much-needed overcast, rain and wind. Later I made my way down a dirt trail—hoping to bodysurf. I wasn’t prepared for the incline. Turned back. I had no wish for a SD lifeguard cliff rescue.

  beachpanoramasandiegoswim2025
• 25-Jan-2025

  
  You’re the best PB Low pressure weather coming in. Mismatched fins. I lost a Blue & White one Wednesday. Lost Red & Black’s partner a few years ago. Went in at the stairs by Crystal Pier. Planes arriving to San Diego west to east means bad weather. Rode a few. Churn and tide exposed some of the shells in...

  Pacific Beachswim2025via-posse
• 24-Jan-2025

  
  “USE IT.”

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• 22-Jan-2025

  
  Got into the water again. Lost a fin. Got slight strike from a stingray. No regrets.

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• 21-Jan-2025

  
  I hate billionaire Nazis.

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• 20-Jan-2025
  Painful reminder Erin Kissane, writing in her blog and newsletter: Bad Shape: Barlow’s Declaration—which is excruciating and which I’ve been making myself reread annually for years as penance for participating in tech culture—ends like this: We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments...

  politicssocia-software
• 20-Jan-2025
  Today and tomorrow and tomorrow First do no harm. Figure out what weapons you can wield. Be a healer. All the time.

  behaviormoralitypoliticssociology
• 18-Jan-2025
  Get your own website. on Tik Tok I’ve been studying film in one way or another since I was a kid. My first career was respiratory therapy. My second career was to be “something in film.” I have taken classes in tv production, broadcasting, film, screenwriting, visual effects. On my way out from medicine to film, I went to The Web. But...

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