----- Pinned Area ----- For SF Bay Area Art Scene and current going ons: https://artboard.info/ ----- ******* ----- ----- Note passing ----- :0 ----- ******* ----- 2.2.2026 I never interact much with participants in mass movement marches or protests, even when I am one of them. I just want to observe and support and be present. My friend is becoming more and more involved in a group called Usal (https://www.usalproject.com/events/long-slow-days-bike-ride) that does outdoor activity and guided community events mostly in SF, LA, NY. I can't be present for the next slow group ride on the 7th of Feb, 2026 but if you're able and willing you should participate, its really, really fun. Oh he has one of these too, ha! hello @clam_tony! 1.30.2026 For San Francisco dwellers: 1pm at ferry building for a memorial ride for A. Pretti. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/53835107 There's a shorter route that avoids the downtown and meets up in ggp here at conservatory of flowers probably around 2:30-3 1.28.2026 brutal back and forth unfocused and chaotic working weeks. Feel good regardless! Fantastic dune visits every evening, i keep seeing coyotes. In fact, San Francisco has a lot of coyotes, and there is a woman who tracks and records the history, territory disputes and drama of the various coyote packs. https://coyoteyipps.com/territories-population/ worth a read, its really interesting. This lady Janet writes with a lot of passion and fringe interest that I categorize as a true blue San Franciscan. This (https://coyoteyipps.com/2025/08/12/sf-coyote-territorial-map-and-family-situations-to-summer-2025/) is the most updated map and description of the various territories in SF for 2025. 1.25.2026 I have spent a day and a half integrating an are.na (https://www.are.na/dominic-decarlo/scrap-k6m8xpubrkg) page into an ancient script I wrote in college to display images on my website (https://www.dominicdecarlo.com/). It's working better than ever! A younger me would be amazed and today me is pretty happy. This is what it looks like! (https://imgur.com/I586Shd). This original was beautiful, pure javascript with really insightful comments like this one i remember being very proud of: // Durstenfeld shuffle javascript optimization // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle#The_modern_algorithm function shuffle(array) { for (var i = array.length - 1; i > 0; i--) { var j = Math.floor(Math.random() * (i + 1)); var temp = array[i]; array[i] = array[j]; array[j] = temp; } return array; } beautiful and 100% copied from github I made this site in ~2016? using a CMS called IndexExhibit (https://www.indexhibit.org/) maintained by this one dude Jeffery Vaska I would periodically fight with on his FAQ help forum. Love his CMS - I think its so great for my purposes I never want to stop using it! I really want to take a stab at maintaining it and forking it to work with a newer version of PHP. It's almost like a proto-small web CMS with its brutalist aesthetic and super simplistic forum capabilities. I think it'll be my archive site for the rest of my life. 1.20.2026 I live in the middle of San Francisco - almost the exact center. It's really ez to get anywhere on a bike! I spent this entire holiday weekend riding around and observing the city. An excuse to ride my bicycle across town: 1. deliver a gift to a friend 2. sit in the sand and think 3. talk to a friend on the phone and exercise at the same time 4. drink coffee in another neighborhood 5. wave at people, ring your bell to say hello what's your EXCUSE? 1.17.2026 A friend tells me about his client who erased his map. I call and we talk about it for a few hours. I make him laugh, we talk about dying, we talk about it all. I ride my favorite bike to the dunes - I go through the park, I ring my bell at kids in cargo bikes and they wave, I sit in the dunes for 3 hours and watch the surfers with binoculars. I eat half a chocolate bar and take a long time to find a stick to prop my bicycle up out of the sand. A highlight: a dad and his daughter flying a kite. The daughter drops the kite string and it flies off into the horizon, dad sprints into the surf to try and get it. It’s too fast and he just sits watching it, holding his daughter as she cries. They both watch as it goes over the horizon and smile together. I think about if they will remember this forever I ride home, a friend calls to talk to me about her crush and source advice. I get home and Mads has the flu - I find her shivering on the couch. I get her soup and she falls asleep miserable before eating it. While drawing I watch the movie Rebuilding with Josh OConnor and cry and cry. The directors first movie A Love Song made me do the same. 1.14.2026 Dead ends befitting cocktail punks: 1. idle chit chat 2. metabolic rate "messer upers" 3. less than 6-8 sleep hours Im so concerned with how creativity and productivity is stymied, both by my space and place in life! I worry about it when I wake up! Here's the goal: Spending this week diligently keeping a journal of when inspiration strikes and/or when you I do my best work. I think it'll go something like this, for example: If I find I do my best thinking in the shower, I will spend that weekend scrubbing the bathroom clean while thinking. Enhancing the space I think best while also doing good thinking. 1.12.2026 I have been thinking a lot about what I instinctively withhold and the lack of reasoning for it. That which our self-love longs for most is usually what I can assume is given instinctively, but not everyone functions that way. Sometimes its the opposite. How to combat this! Should you combat it? 1.10.2026 Riddles wisely expounded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Ballads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddles_Wisely_Expounded a few hundred years and an ocean later it becomes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9GVzDrMUj0 "Granny always said that these songs should be sung by an uneducated voice as the ballads themselves were uneducated." this idea of a "grace note" as "[an] unanticipated bend[s] on certain notes" 1.9.2026 Suddenly senior status thrust upon me 1.8.2026 how long can you go without looking at a screen once you wake up? Whats your record? 1.6.2026 bunny hop over patches of sand pedaling into the wind no sunglasses sand in my eyes tears everywhere 1.5.2026 Back on the jest 12.29.2025 Paid many people bills. Supported many, cooked for, and enjoyed the company of friends and family alike. In reference to 12.10.2025, I was outdone in both silliest and goofiest photos, but took home the gold in funniest. ... Thinking about attention: Soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8TN0OPBK-s this life [gives] you nothing, it only [makes] time pass. EX: replacing with things that don't merely distract but improve and address what we're trying to answer with said distraction - in this way, the attention becomes yours once again and it all finally makes sense in our modern day attention economy. 12.16.2025 It's _______ absolutely in my hands 12.10.2025 We eat chinese food with my parents (and my old) nextdoor neighbors every christmas eve. We've been doing it my whole life its already a good time. Their youngest daughter got into photos last year and has a toy digital camera that assigns a percentage value of "silly" "funny" "goofy" to your photo and this year she made sure I know that we will compete who will get the silliest, the funniest, the goofiest. 12.8.2025 use case and reasoning behind getting a dog: pro 1. Very good dog 2. a companion to share 3. dog as a touchstone and time delineator of where you're at in life con 1. life revolves around dog 2. ??? 12.3.2025 use case and reasoning for an omnium mini cargo bike: pro 1. looks cool 2. carry things to golden gate park con 1. every cyclist in SF will talk to you 11.24.2025 filling up your mind, head, heart, hands, stomach, etc etc 11.20.2025 small internet, small YOU 11.18.2025 I send good mail to anyone who asks. Lovely letters for times of challenge. What message do YOU need?