Dan Martinez

@hivehand.cc

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Geek, born to European parents. Speak Spanish and German. Grew up just outside Philadelphia; have lived in the Bay Area since the mid-90s. Exist mainly to care for and entertain dogs. Own way too many headphones.

A Far Side cartoon in while multiple cavemen are feasting on a slain animal. One caveman is holding a sprig of parsley near his mouth, which another says, “Zak! Don't eat parsley! …Just for looks!”
Sebastian and Viola, a bonded pair consisting of an orange tabby and a mostly white shorthair, stretched out side-by-side on a loveseat, with Sebastian gently grooming Viola.
Pinotti: No. No. No. Isaac, no. All I'm saying is that I worked with him twelve hours, fifteen hours, a day, and then everybody went their own way. Our age difference is wide. I could be his father. Chotiner: I read that Roman Polanski is a father figure to him. So that role might already be filled. There are a lot of people who feel affection for Brett.
A painted impression of Desslok, leader of the Gamilans, from Star Blazers. He is sitting on his throne, having just activated a mechanism that opened a hole in the floor under one of his subordinates, and saying, “I can’t stand a man who laughs at his own jokes.”
A Venmo payment confirmation, with a message to the recipient saying, “Black Hart me dice que tengo mucha hambre”, Spanish for “Black Hart tells me I’m very hungry”.
Dan, leaning forward and grinning, while Sebastian, a half-year-old orange kitten, perches on his shoulder and gazes skeptically into the camera.
Two sibling kittens, Viola and Sebastian, lying at the top of their cat tower. Sebastian is resting partly against Viola, one of his front legs propped on her side. She’s regarding him dubiously, but tolerating it for the moment.
Two newly-acquired sibling kittens, Viola and Sebastian, perched atop their carpeted white, pink, and violet tower astride the bathroom sink. Viola is mostly white, but has black fur around her ears and eyes that makes her look like she’s wearing a ballroom mask, while Sebastian is a classic yellow-orange. Both have their heads resting at the same angle on the tower’s raised rim, gazing contemplatively to the viewer’s left.
Pill popper: a small, slim, device that looks like a syringe, but serves to dispense solid pills into pets’ mouths. It has a soft-silicone tip that holds the pill, while a rod with short travel runs its length. Push the rod at the human end, and the pill is ejected from the pet end.
Cab, a mostly white cat with brown markings, lying atop the back of a love seat, with his arms dangling down either side.
The head of Gertie, a long-haired elegant mutt, with half her head in shadow and half in morning sun.
Oberon, a large dog with a brindle coat, sitting on a sofa with one arm on the armrest and grinning like a goober, as though posing for a dating-site picture.
A pill popper, a small syringe-like device that lets you drop a pill far back in a pet’s mouth, making the animal reflexively swallow rather than spitting the medication out.
The Far Side: two cowboys, holding rifles, are hunched behind wooden barrels that are part of a circle of wagons. Flaming arrows have hit the wagons and the ground in front of them. One is saying to the other, “Hey! They’re lighting their arrows! Can they DO that?”
Screenshot from the game Geometry Wars, highlighting its simulation of vector graphics by deliberate recreation of that technology’s artifacts: glowing auras around the lines, and brighter hot spots at their ends.
Written on a gray sidewalk tile in white chalk, “Make sure the good in you is strong.” Just below it is a valentine heart.
The mounting plate of a Lutron Aurora smarthome switch being attached to a regular light switch.
A tool for pulling keycaps off of a mechanical keyboard, consisting of a handle and a pair of flat-bottomed wire loops.
Guardian headline: “Trump repeats lies and attacks Kamala Harris’s racial identity at panel of Black journalists”
Pinna-Gregory: four perfectly concentric circles of alternating black and white squares, tilted 17 degrees relative to the tangent, that most people perceive as a sort of Celtic knot.
The Hiigara, the player's base ship from the game Homeworld. It is a large vertical slab with a rounded front edge. It is depicted in front of a large cloud of interstellar gas, lit from behind by the bright glare of a near star.
Iguana perched on a rock in partial shade.
A sitting dog caught at the moment he was blinking, looking drowsy and/or stoned as a result.
A 13-year-old field lab, perched on his cushion on a love seat, looking soulfully into the camera.
A white cat with brown patches of fur, perched atop a seat back, with his hind legs under him in a “loafing” position, but his head and chest resting on the back itself, while his front legs dangle in front of and behind said seat back. He looks vaguely pensive.