Sheldon

@socialwave

Early Internet/BBS Posse (86). Full-stack Drupal developer. Does marketing for small downtowns. Photographer. Former physical therapist. NAFO. Mostly here 👉 sfba.social/@sysop408

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Sheldon@socialwave· 28d

I would say you have got to be shitting me, but that might be a little too on point. Kohler has a smart toilet called... Claude and they're leaning into this b/c they trademarked the name! Yes, this is real. You can find it on the Kohler website.

An ad from Kohler showing a door open to a tastefully decorated bathroom where the centerpiece is a very oval-ish looking pedestal that only looks like a toilet because the toilet seat is halfway up to show it. Text overlaid on the image reads "Introducing Claude SMART TOILET."

Sheldon@socialwave· Jul 16

Even worse is when you see them and decide to back up and skip the aisle, but not before they notice you so now it’s doubly awkward. BTW, because of your avatar, I’m obliged to include this image.

A man holding a microphone stand on a foggy and darkened stage with reddish and blue strobe lights beaming behind him. It’s Jim Reid of the band, The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Sheldon@socialwave· Jun 11

For 4th of July, Baskin-Robbin's has a flavor called "America's Birthday Cake." It's a blend of Strawberry and Cake flavored ice creams. Not to be confused with America's 250 Birthday Cake, which was a dozen different ice creams, but now just a bucket of raw milk after all the flavor pulled out.

Photo of an ice cream freezer at Baskin-Robbins 31 Flavors ice cream shop. In the background are 5 gallon tubs of various ice cream flavors. The names of the flavors are on the glass in the front of the freezer. One says America's Birthday Cake.

Sheldon@socialwave· Jun 2

This is my favorite stupid bot DMs that I’ve ever received (on Instagram). Like are they actually trying to be ridiculous?

Photo of an attractive blonde woman with the caption “Liza 21 Single Looking for a Boyfriend.” Elsewhere on the screen, her name is Edith, Sunny, or Katrin.

Sheldon@socialwave· Apr 14

The deal sounds acceptable, but I will need to have my legal advisor review this first.

Grey and white tabby cat with one docked ear is lying on a fuzzy blue fleece blanket looking at your with a curious expression.

Sheldon@socialwave· Apr 13

Can we also talk about how the man he’s “healing” looks a lot like Jeffrey Epstein? #Epstein

Trump’s now infamous Truth Social post where he’s some kind of Jesus figure healing a man on a hospital bed while a flag waves behind him.

Sheldon@socialwave· Mar 3

Adding this fundraiser boosted by Fella @ducugavril.nafoforum.org. Doing a small bit extra this week to keep Ukraine from being forgotten from the headlines. Russia will lose.

Sheldon@socialwave· Mar 3

I don’t have time to be a Fella these days so I do weekly automatic donations to Come Back Alive. We can’t let the chaos caused by Trump and Bibi in the Middle East impair Ukraine’s fight so I’m jumping in for a little bit more this Toonie Tuesday. Russia will lose.

Sheldon@socialwave· Feb 9

Maaaan, someone sure wants to sell the idea that Green Day has mellowed out and only came to sing Kumbaya.

Screenshot of a CNN story that reads "Green Day pulls it political punches in Super Bowl performance."

Sheldon@socialwave· Jan 23

Been too busy to be a proper NAFO agent lately, but still jumping in to requests from my old trusted fundraisers. Lots of things to give to these days. Join me in this this Fiver Friday campaign if you have the means.

Sheldon@socialwave· Jun 15

My #NoKings day: I delivered a tribute to my Father-in-law, William Edward Stiles Jr, WW2 vet, proud Irishman, civil rights activist, and labor negotiator who defied the KKK to represent Black teachers. He’d be proud that his Asian-American son-in-law was bearing his flag in power.

Sheldon@socialwave· Apr 6

The train ride into the #HandsOff protest in San Jose was a part of the experience. Everyone already on the train would clap and cheer as more sign holding people squeezed into the already packed cars at every stop. And then when we got there, you realized just how many of us there were.

Sheldon@socialwave· Jun 19

Today I’m paying tribute to a city with one of the most awesome and honest town mottos. This is sign at the city line of Adelanto, California. It reads “the city WITH unlimited possibilities.” If you’ve ever been to Adelanto, you’d understand.

Photo of a sign along a barren desert field that reads “City of Adelanto the city with unlimited possibilities”.

Sheldon@socialwave· Nov 19

More food photography from my recent gig of photographing whatever a group of small businesses asked me to shoot. Did this hours after helping a Mexican restaurant. I don’t get the benefit of knowing what I’m shooting. I have to wing it every time & it was rough b/c I hadn’t shot food in years.

Grilled pork chop in a bed of stewed beans. Other prepared dishes adorn the background.

Roasted chicken breast in a plate on top of a pool of yellow curried butternut sauce. Baby carrots and mint leaves garnish the entree.

Steak tar-tar: Perfectly pressed “hockey puck” of raw beef with a platter of finely chopped chives and fish eggs on top. Side dish is house made potato chips.

An artisan wood fired pizza with six dollops of some kind of cheese or sauce arranged in a circle on top of the pie.

Sheldon@socialwave· Nov 18

Got asked to shoot food for the first time since the pandemic and they didn’t make it easy. Got lots of gloppy food that smells great, but has little shape and one 400F dish too hot to move that complicated my ability to position plates. Still pleased enough given the circumstances. #foodphotography

Sheldon@socialwave· Nov 2

Weird things I never thought I'd need to know. Undead Barbie is a hilarious gag, but a horror show to photograph because bright magenta pink really screws up the color cast of spooky photos. Reducing green levels by about 5% and desaturating magenta helps to offset the Barbie color shift.

Zombie Barbie walking in a crowd of zombies in the dark. She's making scary zombie hands.

Seven undead Barbies doing scare poses stand in front of a dark horizon where the last light of day is peering over the hills.

A group of undead Barbies making scare poses on the corner of a sidewalk at night in front of a restaurant.

A group of undead Barbies over over a Djinn genie character and me wearing street clothes and a t-shirt with the pea shooter from Plants vs Zombies.

Sheldon@socialwave· Oct 31

Spending your weekend as Spider Man taking lots of fun #Halloween photos: 10/10!!! Returning home tired and sore as hell to cull and edit over 2000 photos… 😩

Foreground: PS4 Spider-Man with a red Spider-Man insignia face mask and sunglasses. Background: people dressed up as DeadPool, Monster (muppet), Beaker (muppet), and Cookie Monster.

A child sits on her father’s shoulders to look out across a large crowd gathered to watch a bunch of costumed zombies do the dance from the Michael Jackson Thriller video.

Three zombies growling up close at the camera.

One zombie seen from below upwards as she lunges out at the crowd watching her perform the Thriller Dance.

Sheldon@socialwave· Sep 20

Well this sucks. Air quality from NorCal and Oregon fires are hitting pretty hard in the SF Bay Area right now. May linger for a few days. Hope that’s wrong.

Sheldon@socialwave· Aug 20

Looks legit to me.

A dark and dimly lit back alleyway with a dirty walls and discolored metal railings. There is a distressed and discolored metal door and next to it is a red lighted sign saying ATM. Directly next to the sign is a trash dumpster.

Sheldon@socialwave· Aug 19

This is the second Walgreen’s pharmacy in a row that gave me a CO2 reading in the 500ppm range. In this one, I can actually hear the ventilation fans going overhead. Most retail spaces check in between 700-800ppm.

Aranet4 CO2 monitor showing 512ppm. It’s held up for a photo with a mostly empty Walgreen’s store in the background and a masked employee walking toward me.

Sheldon@socialwave· Aug 10

Capitol Drive-in Movie Theaters in San Jose, CA at sunset is oddly picturesque. Large jets coast right over it from two directions on their way to landing at SJC. This is all the more reason to love the experience or hate it depending on who you are. I’m on team love. Support the drive-in!

Car with headlights cruises in from the left against a clear sheet of asphalt and silhouettes of palm trees and houses on a hill. All are shaded purple by the last light of day at sunset.

The underside of a palm tree from below looking up at a large jet flying past the very dark fronds against a violet sky at dusk.

The roofs of three cars are staggered in view from left to right as they wait in line to purchase tickets to the first showings of the night at the drive in theater. Behind a blank screen is visible and a passenger jet sails toward the sunset against the dusky violet sky.

A closer look at the rear of the passenger jet cruising toward SJC airport at sunset. The plane is framed from three sides by the silhouette of trees as the airframe bisects the gap between them.

Sheldon@socialwave· Jul 31

I recently got reacquainted with the drive-in and it has been a quirky, but great way to enjoy movies. It's so informal and people act like they're in their own living rooms. The occasional odd RV suggests that some may literally be coming to the movies in their living rooms. #photography #movies