Creative Problem Solver. Programmer. Bodysurfing. Sometime Comics.
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Sign My Guestbook which includes the first GIF I ever made, in 1999.

Viridian Contest Entries from 1999 to 2001 were recently revamped.

Color schemes on all pages now flow, via CSS custom properties into the designs of pages.

The Blogroll now has its own page, and includes a link to some WordPress code for capturing feed urls. You can get OPML for it too.

The Contact page now has a contact form on it. Over the years I’ve called it “Feedback” or “Message Me” or “Contact Me” and also includes other social media links.

I also maintain a Links page, for those “Link In Bio” links on platforms which somehow are on the web but aren’t like web pages at all.

Thanks for visiting!

Basically Summer

A lovely early birthday dinner for me from Kelly last night. And horse-themed lighting. I remain incredibly lucky.

Daniels cited Murray Bookchin at SXSW

DO THE IMPOSSIBLE

The quote, from Utopia, not futurism, 1978, Murray Bookchin.

‘Imagination to power’, as the French students said. ‘Be practical, do the impossible’, because if you don’t do the impossible, as I’ve cried out over and over again, we’re going to wind up with the unthinkable—and that will be the destruction of the planet itself. So to do the impossible is the most rational and practical thing we can do. And that impossible is both in our own conviction and in our shared conviction with our brothers and sisters, to begin to try to create, or work toward a very distinct notion of what constitutes a finally truly liberated as well as ecological society. A utopian notion, not a futuristic notion.

Quoted in their talk at SXSW:

Description:

Join award-winning writers and directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert as they talk about the process of developing, creating, and releasing their surprise hit movie that took the world by st— okay, look, if you’re still reading this, we should tell you that we’ve run out of new things to say about Everything Everywhere All At Once, so although we’ll try our best to stay on topic, we’ll most likely go on a bunch of tangents about the state of the world, the impending climate crisis, the collapse of consensus truth, the rise of AI, the importance and impossibility of self care, and our collective responsibility as storytellers to confront the issues of our time, because that’s probably going to be what’s on our mind, but we can’t make any promises, but at times we don’t feel qualified to talk about any of that stuff, anyway we hope you enjoy our SXSW keynote!

DO THE IMPOSSIBLE

Sun/LJ Shores. Saw a windsurfer ripping out there today.

Good morning

Good stuff is afoot.

Currently seeking work and quite enjoying the process of interviewing. Getting to know what problems people want to solve. It’s a two-way process, interviewing. They get to learn about me. I get to learn about them. And if there’s a match, we give it a shot.

Feels good.

I mentioned my CSS gradient thing the other day. Play with it.
Later: beach!

Cease.

HCR, yesterday’s letter:

This morning, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), one of the highest-ranking Jewish officials in the U.S. government, said Israelis need to call new elections to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who, Schumer said, “has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel.” Schumer, who is a strong ally of Israel and who also blamed Hamas for the crisis in the Middle East, warned that the deadly toll on civilians in Gaza under the policies of Netanyahu’s government is “pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows. Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah.”

For as much power as it seems the United States has in the relationship with Israel, we are far past time for using that soft power and material power to get it to STOP KILLING CIVILIANS.

The politics this year are dismal and depressing. Keep letting your representatives know what you want to change in the world. Even if it seems like it’s all being directed to /dev/null.

Positive day

Current pushed me south under the pier. Fun weird session!