Super Dad, vol. 37
Something told me someone needed my help. Call it instinct, or a danger sense, or a well-trained neural network performing helpful vector completions distributed through hidden layers of connected...
View ArticleAn Archaic Tool Of Communication
I took this photo of an old projector in the Beat Generation exhibit at the Pompidou Centre in Paris last week. One of the projects of the Beat artists, so I am told, was to use the tools of modernity...
View ArticleThe Voyage of the Three Hermiones
“Are you doing magic? Let’s see, then.” “Sunshine, daisies, butter, mellow…” Sunshine “Come to Greece,” my friends said, “we’re getting married.” There are worse reasons to travel across the sea than...
View ArticleEndeavor To Persevere
Adrian sat in the grass at the park, bawling and clutching his ankle. It was the fourth time he had fallen from his bike in fifteen minutes, and this time he had struck one of the pedals with his...
View ArticleAt The Hundred-Twenty-First Meridian
When we left the Silicon Valley for Sacramento on Friday night, I felt a cold sore forming on my bottom lip. I’ve been getting them my whole life, and I know what happens when I don’t pay attention and...
View ArticleNow You Are Ten
To Erin, A Most Wonderful Daughter and Big Sister Erin, you have spent your first ten years showing your family, and the world, that if you run headlong at life’s boundaries, sometimes the boundaries...
View ArticleHappy New Year! I think I remember how to do this.
Hi, my name is Shawn, and I used to blog here. Ones of people from all over the world would come to this site to read what I’d written! Here’s what I’ve been up to today: I woke up. Then I woke up the...
View ArticleI Went On a Poutine Vacation, Now I Am Made of Cheese and Gravy
If you are following any of my social media accounts (which, of course you are, since you are reading this; I doubt you came here because you did a Google search for “Best Poutine in Canada” or...
View ArticleNight Time Photo Walk in San Francisco
A couple of years ago Emily arranged a night time photography workshop for me with the Aperture Academy. I’ve done a couple of workshops with them over the years now, and they helped me catch some nice...
View ArticleTwenty-One/Twenty
When we woke up this morning, Emily and I had been married for 21 years. Tomorrow, we’ll go out to a nice dinner, but today is a regular day in a wonderfully long marriage. I woke up the kids and got...
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