Imaybehappy

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Jim/James Go Cubs Banner - Graffiti reading "Do Wat feels Bien or Don’t” in Oaxaca, MX PFP - A man in a t-shirt & ball cap sits on a log facing the water on a beach. Next to him a bike leans against a palm tree.

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Imaybehappy@jrmacd· 22d

The original photo. It definitely crops in a bit, to account for camera movement, I imagine, and loses a bunch of detail in the process from the same, but maybe a small bendy tripod balanced that could've worked (if I'd had one) where a full-sized wouldn't fit could fix that. Something to mess with.

A wilderness scene of the waters of Basin Creek rushing through a rocky creek bed to a vanishing point below a double peaked mounted bathed in evening alpenglow in North Cascades National Park. Thick vegetation covers the slopes on either side of the creek.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· 22d

I didn't know until recently an iPhone can turn a Live Photo into a long exposure(h/t Jamelle Bouie), and it doesn't do a terrible job for showing on small screens. Not decent camera on a tripod quality, but also, I was perched precariously on a rock with no place for a big tripod here. #photography

A wilderness scene of long-exposure smoothed water of Basin Creek rushing through a rocky creek bed to a vanishing point below a double peaked mounted bathed in evening alpenglow in North Cascades National Park. Thick vegetation covers the slopes on either side of the creek.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· 22d

Baby mountain goat, near Cascade Pass on Sunday.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· 29d

Rode the new Golden Gardens Shuttle to GG Beach on Sunday. So happy to have it as an option. Normally we bike, and will probably continue to do so, but now have the option of bringing our SUPs, hanging out before putting in and coming out at the Elks Club and then shuttling back to Market St.

A shuttle bus painted green with yellow accents sits in a parking lot near a beach on a blue sky day.

The legs of two people sitting on a sandy beach in camp chairs a short distance from the water. Both are wearing shorts. The person in the middle of the frame has a book sitting on his lap "Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded and Built Our World" by Patrick Wyman. The person on the right is reading "Detransition Baby" by Torrey Peters.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· 29d

I’m mutuals on IG with an old HS classmate who is Very Divorced and so reposts a lot of manosphere stuff(he's my window into that world), and I can’t tell if this is intended as “poor me” incel bs or hypermasculine “cowboy up” bs. I guess the ambiguity is what makes it Art.

Screen shot from an IG story the aforementioned Very Divorced ex-classmate, black text on an. all-white background read: If you're a man & you're having a bad day, just remember...
no one cares.
@mikerashid

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jul 12

Built to Spill.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jul 11

La lalalala lalalala la la la la la la la la la la. . .

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jun 26

I'm not a car person, so I didn't know that for a brief time in the late 60s Dodge made a little camper van, but now that I know they did, I want one.

A vintage Dodge A100 camper van with a 2 tone paint job (white top and a brown body with a lovely patina) sits parked on a tree lined street.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jun 26

"You'll never guess in a million guess what this reply is in response to." Just about ruined a library book spitting out my coffee.

Tim Onion• @bencollins.bsky.social • 38m
lol never, ever reply to a main character on a website. Now l've got remnant main character juice all over me today. Woke up and people are debating each other in my replies. Don't do that. Buy a motorcycle or something. Do a backflip over a gorge. Life's too short people!

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she's right and she should say it.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jun 25

Not sure what the drama going on between these two neighbors was (I think maybe somebody put their bins out a day early?), but I sure as heck didn't stick around to find out how it was resolved.

Two cats stare at each other from a distance of about 20 feet apart on a sidewalk. The nearer cat, which we see from behind, appears to be a siamese mix, and the further cat, facing the viewer, is a calico with a white chest.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jun 24

I would have been an even worse high school football player if every time I was supposed to be looking for the guy with the ball to tackle I was instead looking up at Mt Rainier on the horizon. Ballard HS is also where Deborah Vance (aka Jean Smart) attended. Same location but different building.

An empty football field in the earlier morning, surrounded by a running track, with Mt Rainier visible in the distance, as well as a few buildings in downtown Seattle and the top of the Space Needle over the Queen Anne neighborhood. Two people sit stretching in the foreground near the running track. There is some unidentified equipment on the field at the 50 yard line.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jun 23

I could sit in this spot for hours, not thinking. #photography

Rocky Creek falls down a small cascade as it flows through, well, a lot of rocks and boulders in a drainage below Kulshan (aka Mt Baker), which is visible in the background over a tree covered slopes, along with Lincoln and Colfax Peaks.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jun 23

This morning out walking, I chanced to look into the eyes of The Void, and The Void looked back at me. And now, yea verily, I have known The Void, and am in turn known by It.

A black cat stares back intently, perhaps knowingly, at the view. It is sitting on the concrete front steps of a house, framed by cast iron railings and some plants.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jun 17

Swirling sunset skies, sea stacks and Vancouver Island in the distance, seen from Cape Alava, WA. #photography

A long exposure smoothes the seastack dotted waters of the Pacific Ocean along the Washington Coast, under a sunset sky scattered with swirly red and purple black clouds floating over the distant hills of Vancouver Island, Canada.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jun 17

Caught this view of Seattle from the window of a plane taking the roundabout way into Seatac about a week ago. This place is magical. #photography

Seen from the window of a plane, a view of a good portion of Seattle, BainBridge Island, and the eastern edge of the Olympic Peninsula a couple hours before sunset, as the sunlight breaks briefly through clouds skies, casting god rays and golden light on the waters of Lake Washington and Puget Sound and turning the waters of Salmon Bay and the Ship Canal an even deeper gold.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jun 16

It's just a really big mountain, man. #photography #mountainsout

Across the waters of Puget Sound, Mt Rainier looms/floats over the tops of the skyscrapers of downtown Seattle that are visible above forested hills, appearing far closer that the almost 100 miles southeast of the city it is.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jun 11

Well, my bil is English and coaches soccer for a living. But despite having watched games with him & his mates and listening to what they’re seeing and having read this pretty good book, I still can’t really tell you what formation a team is playing, or what’s a foul and what’s just a good tackle.

Screenshot of a book called Inverting the Pyramid (A history of Soccer tactics) by Jonathan Wilson.

Here is the library summary of the book: In this modern classic, soccer journalist Jonathan Wilson pulls apart the finer details of the world's game, tracing the global history of tactics from modern pioneers right back to the beginning, when chaos reigned. Along the way, he examines the lives of great players and thinkers who shaped the sport and probes why the English, in particular, have proved themselves unwilling to grapple with the abstract.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jun 11

Morning glory. #photography #mountainsout

A lone person dressed in black walks along a rocky beach. Across the water Mt Rainier rises up in a clear blue morning sky. A large tanker ship is visible in the distance between to low, forested hills split by the bay.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jun 11

Tide's out Thursday. Nice to get back near water after being away for a week followed by bad weather and then just general tiredness keeping me inside in the mornings.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Jun 1

‪This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone. This is Jennie, a long term(years) foster at my Mom's house. And this is how Jennie looks at me when I have the gall to walk around the house I grew up in.

A grey and white cat stares a the cameraperson from eye-level with an "I'll kill you in your sleep" stare from the top of a grey cat tree in front of a blue curtain

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· May 14

Fell on black days.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· May 7

I once thought Matt was smart, b/c he talked about things I'm dumb about. But PE upended my life once (and is about to again), so I learned that PE doesn't care if their companies are profitable. I get it's counterintuitive, so read Bad Company to understand why. Great book. This but Matt & econ.

screenshot of a tweet:

Rod Hilton
@rodhilton@mastodon.social

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people
said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when
people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon
Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people
say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

Dec 24, 2022, 09:32 PM .

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· May 7

I'm solo this week so last night I biked down to the beach after dinner so I could be among people without having to interact with people. The breeze from the south was a little chilly and it carried with it the occasional stinky odor of the sea lions currently residing down by the boat launch.

The sun sets behind a range of mountains seen from a rocky beach across a body of water. In the foreground you can see someone's pants-clad knees with a book resting on them. The title is partially visible "A world". (The full tile is A World Appears and it is the new non fiction book about consciousness by Michael Pollan. The front half of a bike is visible jutting in from the bottom right corner of the frame. Further down the beach toward the water are two people sitting in camps chairs and two more people and their German Shepard sitting against a piece of driftwood. The whole scene glows with golden hour light.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· May 5

Stuck the action cam on the ground and set the timer to take a quick selfie and by total chance put it in the right spot to get a kind-of setting sunstar thru the bike frame last Saturday evening. I'm sitting there annoyed I forgot to pack the camp chair so I have to sit on the ground. #photography

In a scene shot from ground-level, a man in a burnt red hoody sits on a a rocky beach under a blue sky lit with the golden hour light of the setting sun, which appears as a sunstar between the downtime and the fender of the e-bike sitting to his right, propped on it's kickstand.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Apr 25

4 bikes. I'm 51. This was my first bike. Bought at Toy R Us. 1/

A childs dirt bike, with yellow fenders with red accents, and red chain guard, red handebar, called the Tornado

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Apr 24

Car privileg is just a breathtaking thing to behold. The total lack of self-awarenes. took a stan a fixing his closing statement.

driving
When the only way to make transit
transit
irresistible is to make driving unbearable, you're not offering people a better option.
You're taking away the one they have.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Apr 23

Had glorious weather on Saturday and went for a bike ride on a bit of the Interurban trail before looping back to our favorite nice day brewery and then biking home a little bit tipsy.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Apr 17

Sinking into the weekend like

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Apr 17

A painting of a calico cat looking directly at the viewer and laying in loaf form on the keyboard of a half-closed laptop. The background is a shade of blue and the painting in done is a style somewhat in the vein of Cezanne, the painters favorite painter.

Imaybehappy@jrmacd· Apr 17

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it): Pt 2 My favorite picture of Derwyn that I myself took, among many. After Derwyn died, my Mom's best friend surprised me with a painting commemorating this(next post)