Christy Canida

@canida.bsky.social

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Geek generalist. I solve problems, build communities, make awesome stuff, and help others do the same. Now: Alchemist Accelerator Prev: Instructables, Tinkercad, Autodesk, biotech

A close-up photo of a greenish banana slug on a sandy trail. Its antennae are alert and curious, and you can see the fine details of its skin and mantle.
A beach full of barking sea lions warming up in the early morning sun. They smell strongly of digested fish.
The back page of The Onion with the world’s best ad for Burt’s Shrimp Lip Balm.
Two excellent hardcover Star Trek books by Diane Duane -Spock’s World and Rihannsu. I’ve had these for, uh, several decades.
A medium-sized metal bowl sitting on flagstones, half-full of tasty sungold tomatoes, with sober fresh basil and shiso and alpine strawberries on top. There are a few carrots behind the bowl, their green fluffy tops curled around behind the bowl.
A golden, dry, well-munched field with a herd of more than a hundred multi-colored goats. Some are nibbling dry grass, most are napping under the shade of some big oak trees in the background.
At the end of the Underworld SF concert, they are just finishing Born Slippy. There is lots of night sunny yellow light from behind the performers shot through with green lasers, and the crowd is cheering with their hands in the air.
A small black millipede moving quickly over the paved path
The head and shoulders of a large and inquisitive banana slug, antenna out and alert
Boing, boom tchack, bing Music, nonstop by Kraftwerk
More hot blinky robot action behind Kraftwerk as they sing their signature song
Intro to We Are The Robots with Kraftwerk’s classic avatar robots on screen
Pulsating atoms with enough bass to vibrate my sternum
The bit where they list nuclear disasters during Radioactivity.
Kraftwerk playing Neon Lights in front of a bright rainbow of vertically striped neon light
The tinkly bits of The Model with black and white footage of models projected behind the band
A video of Kraftwerk singing the first verse of Computer Love. It is dated and silly and also modern and adorable.
A computer generated VW beetle with the license plate D - KR -70 driving on the autobahn on screen behind Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk singing in front of a big space station with a window overlooking earth
Kraftwerk playing Its More Fun To Compute, while the lights on their costumes change color and the backing screen shows colorful geometric images
Video of Kraftwerk playing with lots of numbers on the screen behind them
Kraftwerk is about to play, and there are empty podiums with yellow pixel robots in the screen behind
A curious banana slug crossing the trail. It is bright yellow and has perky antennae.
A small adult pig covered in a thick coat of brown hair, snout sticky with watermelon juice, and tongue sticking out sideways. He wound like to know if there is more watermelon rind available, please and thank you.
I’m holding a big chonky morel mushroom that grew in my mulch. Background is a pathway stone, and the base of the morel just adjacent in the mulch.
A vibrant chestnut-red shoot of young poison oak, three sets of three-leaf clusters positively glistening with toxic urushiol oil.
A close-up shot of proud teenager showing off her first foraged chanterelles. She has a giant California golden chanterelle in each hand.
A pacific ring necked shake slowly slithering across a dry rocky hiking trail.
A family Fury Road costume: dad is Mad Max, with a 3yo war boy and 6yo eye rolling Furiosa
Halloween costume: jeans, white button shirt, craft foam cartoon Homer Simpson mask, and camo netting to disappear into just like a hedge.
Bad Religion band members on stage at the Fox Theatre, bathed in red light
Blue sky with pink tinged cirrus clouds