2007: 381 posts.

• 01-Jan-2007
  Happy New Year!

  Word up!

• 01-Jan-2007
  It’s a Whole New World

  Of calf pain. And other things. Bike is on order. Stay tuned for more lower extremity pain this year. It’s not a resolution, the funniest of which is here. But a promise. There are physical changes afoot. The above photo was taken in Kanab after I did almost all of a hike the rest of…

• 01-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  How to Think Like a Computer Scientist / Java (tags: books computer school programming) Digital Colony – Ideas in Web Development MAS’s tech site. I look forward to seeing new (and legacy) stuff that comes up. (tags: programming howto tutorial asp asp.net sqlserver) My New Year’s Resolutions (Ftrain.com) alternative take on resolutions. (tags: funny)

• 02-Jan-2007
  Is it because I bought less than 10 CDs last year?

  Ouch. The Long Tail: 2006: The worst year for hit albums since 1983: What does it say about the music industry that the soundtrack to what was originally a Disney afterschool TV special was the bestselling album in the country last year? Related with a vengeance: Tower Records declared bankruptcy last year.

• 02-Jan-2007
  Retail Receipt and Bag Checks

  It’s fascinating what you find reading threads on where to buy electronics parts in the Bay Area — here’s a sub-thread about the door checks conducted in places like Fry’s or Best Buy — you know the ones, where you show your bag and they run a pink highlighter over your receipt. I had never…

• 02-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  Open the Future: An Eschatological Taxonomy How will the world end? (((I don’t see “Fire” or Ice”))) (tags: via:rc3 futurism future scifi) Dreaming in Code (tags: programming books history opensource development) The 40 Essential Gamecube Games » Geek Idiot (tags: games gaming gamecube) leahpeah » meg hourihan of megnut fame, leah does it again snagging…

• 03-Jan-2007
  I love that commercial!

  David Byrne Journal: 12.26.06: Trees and tree shapes: Do we purchase a car because the ad agency made a cute video? Is that how we make decisions? Maybe we do. Maybe the cleverness and technical virtuosity exhibited here imply to us that those same values carry over to the SUV. This would be a natural…

• 03-Jan-2007
  Twenty Years: University of San Diego High School

  It occurs to me that I graduated High School twenty years ago this year. 1987. I wonder if there’s a reunion? I think I’ve dropped out of touch with them. There’s a Wikipedia article about my school: University of San Diego High School. Wacky. My High School no longer exists. It’s closed on the old…

• 03-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2007 awesome. (tags: future futurism interview viridian brucesterling)

• 04-Jan-2007
  How would I lay me down to sleep?

  I don’t think I mentioned it, but several weeks ago I went to the Cathedral for Mass. I think it was around Thanksgiving. Anyway, I took some time after Mass to explore a little and I visited the Mausoleum downstairs. I found myself really compelled by the place. It’s solitary and quiet, nestled under a…

• 04-Jan-2007
  for lp

  Thanks for being on my team, too.

• 04-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  Steelpan – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia aka “steel drums” (tags: music culture)

• 05-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  Viridian Note #00484. some good stuff. (tags: green viridian brucesterling) eXile – Issue #254 – Feature Story – 2006: The Year Russia Schooled The West (tags: culture futurism politics russia)

• 07-Jan-2007
  LinkedIn Answers

  I agree with Jason Calacanis about the new LinkedIn Answers: oh, this is kinda rad. I have been impressed by LinkedIn lately, I seem to get more serious inquiries through there than anywhere else through my profile page. This is on the heels of Guy Kawasaki’s post about how to use LinkedIn better as well.

• 07-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  FooPlot: Online graphing calculator and plotter excellent implementation of svg. (tags: svg javascript visualization calculator graphics math) SMTP Email Settings translating phone numbers to email addresses (tags: telephony mobile phone email programming) apophenia: PEW data on social network site use danah boyd typically smart about new social networking sites stats (tags: socialnetworking socialsoftware) Bin-Blog: Creating…

• 07-Jan-2007
  Five Things You Don’t Know About Me

  First JeSais tagged me, and I resisted. Then Geoff tagged me, and I now give in: I dislike Pink Floyd, Winnie-the-Pooh, Moody Blues, and Jethro Tull. For various reasons that are unimportant, though I have listened to these bands and or watched their cartoons, and I have my reasons. I have never watched “That 70s…

• 08-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  Real Empires Ship (Ftrain.com) First they came for the vinyl, and I said nothing. Then for the cassettes, and the CDs, and the VHS tapes. Still I was silent. (tags: funny writing history apple culture) 3quarksdaily craigslist identity theft/419 scam for renting an apartment (tags: via:rc3 identity scam craigslist) NPR : Meet the Real Sacha…

• 11-Jan-2007
  San Diego Blog Facelift

  I believe I mentioned that several months ago I sold San Diego Blog. I’ve not talked about it much, but it’s bearing fruit for the new owners — for starters San Diego Blog got a Facelift, and so did San Diego Bloggers. Really wonderful to see these things that languished (owing to my move to…

• 11-Jan-2007
  Leah, Happy Birthday!

  1/11/07. Happy Birthday Babe!

• 11-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  San Diego Internships very cool! (tags: sandiego writing) Jonathan Coulton » Blog Archive » Thing a Week 29 – Code Monkey I have fallen in like with this song. (tags: free funny music song) A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods cute. (tags: visualization graphics reference) Cat and Girl particularly funny. (tags: comics funny) Sinfest God’s…

• 12-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  The Book of Common Prayer HTML Edition Episcopal Book of Common Prayer (tags: religion books)

• 14-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  Software As She’s Developed » Blog Archive » AJAX Patterns: Design Patterns for AJAX Usability (tags: ajax programming tutorial usability design)

• 15-Jan-2007
  Send Me A Private Comment?
• 15-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  SIGGRAPH Encore (tags: cgi computer graphics programming research education)

• 16-Jan-2007
  Good Day Y’all

  I have a few things bubbling on my mind. I was quite moved by this article about bloggers in the Middle East. If there were a risk that I might go to jail for my blogging, would I still do it? This is a hard question, but I’d like to think I would. The stories…

• 16-Jan-2007
  Lyrics: The Killer Inside Me, by MC 900 Foot Jesus

  I really like this song, available on One Step Ahead of the Spider. At some point I transcribed the lyrics, and here they are. If he put out more records, I would buy them. It’s interesting to me that though he’s still alive, or seems to be, Mark Griffen, aka MC 900 Foot Jesus, is…

• 16-Jan-2007
  Peter Nicholls’ Definition Of Science Fiction As Quoted By Bruce Sterling

  It occurs 45 minutes into the Long Now mp3 of the event “The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole;” it makes me laugh. Why would Science Fiction stoop to this? Why are they deploying this grand mathematical notion as like, a source of “plot coupons” Well I’ll explain this to you, and if you…

• 16-Jan-2007
  Time, Attention, and Alan Watts

  Thomas Barnett got an assistant and prioritizes based on the level of effort from the asker. Neal Stephenson simply asks you to go away. Eric Raymond wrote a whole article on asking good questions. One of my favorite articles is from Mark Pilgrim called Why We Won’t Help You (from 2003) which is actually inspirational…

• 16-Jan-2007
  The Diamond Age: Mini-Series for TV

  via BoingBoing, and confirmed on Clooney’s studio site. Here’s the story from scifi.com: SCI FI Wire: Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions. When a prominent member of society concludes…

• 16-Jan-2007
  [CakePHP:PHP] : [CakeInfo():phpinfo()]

  This is pretty nifty! cakeinfo! I’ll be using this on some of my projects to do internal diagnostics.

• 16-Jan-2007
  “Joe, don’t read this one”

  Poo? Too late. I was there, and those photos truly reflect Tyler’s incredible enthusiasm and cackling howls of laughter at tasty food that looks like excrement. I believe he even asked for the recipe.

• 16-Jan-2007
  Geni: Online Tool For Geneology

  Very very cool. The Geni Blog: Geni in the Press. My extended family is way into genealogy. I’m sort of interested too. This is a cool way to play with it. Check out Geni.com. Killer flash-based user interface. Sublimely easy to use. Recommended.

• 17-Jan-2007
  A Little Bit Of Rain

  Some random lyrics: He was a Cosby fan at heart it’s clear; He searched and found a Cosby hair! He spent ten long years and built a cloning machine; And now he’s accomplished his wonderful dream: To make a House of Cosbys… It’s a House of Cosbys. The theme song is nice even without the…

• 17-Jan-2007
  Incredible: Girl Down The Well

  This is the most awesome image I’ve seen today, courtesy genius potter Joe Bennion, of Horseshoe Mountain Pottery: Backstory.

• 17-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  Stevey’s Blog Rants: The Pinocchio Problem Opinionated. Lots to chew on. (tags: programming philosophy architecture) Coding Horror: The Programmer’s Bill of Rights (tags: management programming work software business)

• 18-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  Event-Driven Web Application Design » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (tags: ajax blog development programming webdev javascript)

• 22-Jan-2007
  Thought of the Day: Awe

  From the other day on AskMoses.com, I like it very much, it articulates something about fear that I think is important. One of the great Rabbis once said, “Jewish tradition teaches man how small he is and how great he can become.” Do not be frightened of G-d. Stand in awe of Him. Fear weakens…

• 22-Jan-2007
  Afoot and Afield

  Lots of stuff happening. Bike: gotten. Sister: engaged. Face: goateed (probably not for long). Job: new and Brentwood. Car: rented. Children of Men: seen and amazed by. Lawn: slightly brown. Weather: cold. Work: off to it!

• 22-Jan-2007
  Goatee Update

  By “popular” demand: Not a permanent change. Just for fun, for a little while.

• 22-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  Halite Studios: Piano Hero I think we could do this with Dev’s usb keyboard. Sounds possibly fun! (tags: music software tutorial games windows) The Big Picture – Joel on Software (tags: programming books software) EasyEclipse | Distributions | EasyEclipse for PHP Using this at the new gig. So far, very impressed by the workflow and…

• 22-Jan-2007
  WordPress 2.1 Ate My Blog

  I can see the posts in the database, but something went wonky on the upgrade and everything before the upgrade is invisible. Woe is me till I find the time to fix it. Please stand by. I’m asking about it on the wp support forum. Update: And we’re back. The way I fixed it: running…

• 23-Jan-2007
  Display a Brace in Smarty Code

  The “literal” tag should do it: {literal} {works} {/literal} Smarty info. (By the way, yes, the blog is still screwed up. I’m busy. Gimme a break. I was up till one last night working on it and no joy. Yuck. This is what I get for a rushed upgrade.)

• 23-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  Mcdonald’s, McDonaldland, & McDonaldization – 2005 Boje fascinating (tags: culture food history) eyeon08.com » Thoughts from the Hotline/Diageo poll: Mormonism Republicans have more negative and more defined views of Mormonism than anyone else. (tags: religion mormon politics culture lds) Fork JavaScript interesting library with a dumb name (tags: framework javascript webdev programming) LAVoice.org – Time…

• 23-Jan-2007
  Post Number Two Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty-Two

  That’s a lot of posts. This is mostly a test. I’m glad to be back up. WordPress 2.1 is actually pretty cool! I like the interface changes. Bummed it’s still kicking it old skool with regards to Atom. I think what I did was do the upgrade before all files had finished uploading to the…

• 24-Jan-2007
  Trailing commas in an array OK in PHP

  I was editing some code today and saw what looked like an error to me, but nothing was broken on the code I was looking at it, so I was prompted to look it up. And indeed, in PHP: “Having a trailing comma after the last defined array entry, while unusual, is a valid syntax.”…

• 24-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  World Public Opinion World View of US Role Goes From Bad to Worse (tags: culture history us politics) Coding Horror: Shipping Isn’t Enough (tags: development programming software) A List Apart: Articles: Paper Prototyping (tags: design howto interface project) Web 2.0 Technologies: Nested CRUD resources in Rails 1.2 (tags: rubyonrails webdev programming howto) Code Generation: The…

• 25-Jan-2007
  Goatee taken over

  The goatee is being strangled by what’s now clearly a beard. I need a shave, and a haircut. Two bits! It’s been a good week professionally so far. I dislike commuting, but it’s not bad when one has great audio to listen to. I’ve been listening to a course from Stanford on The Historical Jesus…

• 27-Jan-2007
  Loading TinyMCE on the fly

  Let’s say you have a textarea that is called into a page dynamically, say with an AJAX loaded chunk of HTML with a textarea in it. If you want that textarea to have TinyMCE applied to it, you need to call a script. This was a fun one to think through and debug, and it…

• 27-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  PUMML ArtSpace (tags: art history biography 3ones)

• 28-Jan-2007
  Paint.NET 3.0 Final is out

  via  Greg’s Cool [insert clever name] of the Day: Rick Brewster’s blog : Paint.NET 3.0 — Final Release now available! I like Paint.net. It’s slim and stable and free. It’s for Windows only, but the “.NET” in the name probably gave that away, yeah? Get it at getpaint.net

• 28-Jan-2007
  Procrustes

  Bizarre term I came across at the latest Viridian Note: Procrustes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In Greek mythology, Procrustes (the stretcher), also known as Damastes (subduer) and Polypemon (harming much), was a bandit from Attica. He had his stronghold in the hills outside Eleusis. There, he had an iron bed into which he invited…

• 28-Jan-2007
  New Feed: FeedBurner

  I have no idea how many people read me. I don’t follow stats closely. I do have a sitemeter account and I read the numbers, but I’ve no idea what that really means in the scheme of things. In the end I’m not driven to blog differently based on traffic. One of the things Leah…

• 28-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  YUI Theater: Douglas Crockford, The JavaScript Programming Language » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (tags: javascript video tutorial history programming) Google Testing Blog: Introducing “Testing on the Toilet” (tags: development programming software qa) Orcinus – Fiat Lux, indeed Universities moving to not provide credit to high school students used only Intelligent Design textbooks. (tags: education college…

• 29-Jan-2007
  Dental Work

  Deep cleaning, root canal x 2, antibiotics. It’s a fun week so far.

• 29-Jan-2007
  Human Blunders

  Wealth Without Work Pleasure Without Conscience Knowledge Without Character Commerce Without Morality Science Without Humanity Worship Without Sacrifice Politics Without Principles Rights Without Responsibilities …from the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

• 29-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  Interview: Children of Men Director Alfonso Cuaron – Cinematical (tags: movies scifi interview) Against Well-designed Reputation Systems (An Argument for Community Patent) (tags: socialsoftware shirky)

• 30-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  Helvetica (tags: typography type film movies) Speak n Spell (tags: history technology children toys) Using Subversion via TextPad (tags: programming svn textpad howto tutorial) richard gate painter (tags: artist art santamonica utah) Google’s Bosworth: Why AJAX Failed (Then Succeeded) (tags: ajax history microsoft programming)

• 31-Jan-2007
  Another Day, Another Root Canal

  The big one was done today. Taking antibiotics and Tylenol #3 (hah! I love that there’s a wikipedia article about that). It occurs to me that Tylenol #3 is to Tylenol as ActionScript is to ECMAScript. Yes, even drugged, I am a bit odd. I’ll probably lie down for a while.

• 31-Jan-2007
  Molly Ivins

  Molly Ivins, 1944-2007 Molly was the kind of cantankerous thinker I really like. She will be missed. As a memorial, go read one of her articles. Take part in your democracy. I never met her. Anyone who can make me laugh AND make me think while I’m thinking about politics is okay in my book….

• 31-Jan-2007
  Daily Links

  Seth’s Blog: Wow! so funny. (tags: photo funny windows microsoft) Don’s Blog: I Agree with Richard Thompson (tags: music art history) ongoing · XML 2.0? great discussion on the future of the web, xml, and more. (tags: xml future programming syndication) Yahoo! 360° – The Department of Style – For the trees Douglas Crockford is…

• 01-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Nolobe – Interarchy Interarchy got bought/sold to “Nolobe” (tags: software business) adaptive path » blog » blog archive » Crayola redesign launches (tags: design children education interface webdev) Boing Boing: Record your stethoscope on your iPod Rather clever (tags: respiratory technology) MetroRiderLA ooh… mass transit geekery (tags: losangeles transport transportation socal) notes: These Are My…

• 02-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  O’Reilly Radar > Adrian Holovaty in American Journalism Review (tags: journalism writing programming visualization news media) Ultimate htaccess Examples | evolt.org (tags: htaccess webdev apache programming)

• 03-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Google Code – Google APIs (tags: google api programming)

• 04-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  YouTube – Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us (tags: writing futurism web web2.0 video html xml socialsoftware) Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress v2 Final (tags: wordpress tool google seo) altmusictv – 120 Minutes archive – Playlists (tags: music tv history) Wallhogs giant sized poster type thingies (tags: photo printer design photography)

• 05-Feb-2007
  Mr. Terse Speaks

  Man, has it been several days since I posted? I have not much to say since the dental procedures. They’re feeling good, but there’s more in store – I still have permanent crowns/bridges to be installed. Bummer factor: I have a cold – serious sniffles, which was a partial rationale for getting rid of Mr….

• 05-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Programming and Designing for the Web » FrogJS Javascript Gallery (tags: javascript photo programming photos webdev) Peter’s Blog – The window.onload problem (still) (tags: programming browser javascript webdev) err.the_blog.find_by_title(‘I Will Paginate’) (tags: rubyonrails programming howto webdev) gettext – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: i18n language programming opensource) SourceForge.net: Smarty Gettext (tags: i18n language programming opensource…

• 06-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  The Cult Of Sondra these videos sound pretty wonderful/horrible. (tags: video funny) Apple – Thoughts on Music Steve Jobs lets it be known that the DRM Emperor has no clothes, and that EVERYONE would be better served without it. Preach it brother! (tags: music apple software copyright law) San Diego Blogger Awards – Blogs to…

• 07-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Daring Fireball: Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs’s ‘Thoughts on Music’ An excellent exegesis. (tags: apple music copyright) Mental Shrapnel» Blog Archive » What a Difference a Day Makes sunrise vs. fog. (tags: sandiego photography) 71 – The Island of California « strange maps When Alta California tumbles into the sea, that’ll be the…

• 08-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Subtopia: On Border Tunnel Infill (tags: sandiego law mexico border) YouTube – Randy Newman – A Few Words in Defense of Our Country (tags: m music politics video) Code Hinting in Flash MX _btn _txt _mc and many others! (tags: howto tutorial flash actionscript) SodaHead – Whats bubbling in Your head | SodaHead.com (tags: socialsoftware…

• 09-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Creating a CSS layout from scratch : Subcide rather good explication of turning a layout into css. (tags: html css webdev design programming howto tutorial) Gayles Perks – Northridge California coffeehouse with free wireless (tags: wireless northridge) poundbang – Harish Mallipeddi’s Blog » Tutorial : Setting up Django on a shared host (tags: django howto…

• 09-Feb-2007
  Guru Meditation

  Best failure mode, ever. Amiga. Cool.

• 10-Feb-2007
  Guidelines for Recruiters

  If, on my resume, I indicate where I live, and that I am not interested in relocating; please do not suggest that I work in New York, Minnesota, Arizona, Florida, Nevada, or any other state where I don’t live. If your accent is so thick that I cannot understand you, I have no way to…

• 12-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll — New York Magazine (tags: blogging culture internet privacy futurism via:jwz socialsoftware kids) carlos huante art (tags: artist design illustration art) stereogum: Strange Grave, Here He Comes (tags: music morrissey death via:missewon) A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and…

• 13-Feb-2007
  When Suggestion Systems Fail: Wrong William Gibson

  This is the right William Gibson.

• 13-Feb-2007
  Google Analytics Map of lab.artlung.com Visits

  I find this pretty interesting to look at. Google Analytics is a powerful free tool.

• 13-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Welcome To King Trivia we went to one of these the other night and it was pretty fun! (tags: fun games socal) Natural Docs tool for doing automated documentation (a la javadoc, phpdoc, phpdocumentor) – requires perl (tags: programming tools javascript actionscript php python coldfusion) Rich Media Institute: Education for Digital Professionals (tags: education flash…

• 14-Feb-2007
  Happy Valentine’s Day MMVII
• 14-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Welcome to LostSouls.com (tags: art losangeles via:dougwelch) Multimap API V1.2 : Decluttering Markers (tags: api mapping maps) Articles on Career Change Advice by Debra Thorsen, Fearless Guides Certified Professional Coach (tags: work philosophy health) PublicRadioFan.com – Podcast directory (tags: podcast media radio audio) Tutorials on Microformats (tags: programming tutorial webdev semanticweb howto) Apple Hard At…

• 15-Feb-2007
  Turn off Magic Quotes in PHP via .htaccess

  #.htaccess SETTINGS TO TURN OFF # STUPID MAGIC QUOTES IN PHP # I HATE MAGIC QUOTES PROBLEMS php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off UPDATE: See Magic Quotes, and note: This feature has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0 and REMOVED as of PHP 6.0.0. Relying on this feature is highly discouraged.

• 15-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Tips for Writing Nicer Site Badges – Ed Eliot (tags: programming javascript webdev) Django | Documentation | Template guide (tags: django framework python webdev) webjayeng3 : webjayeng3 web jay frontend engineering position (tags: jobs yahoo santamonica) Change your View: Enhancing the User Interface of a Ruby on Rails Application (tags: rubyonrails programming tutorial)

• 16-Feb-2007
  San Diego Uni High Class of ’87 Reunion

  I emailed Cathedral High wondering if there were plans for a University of San Diego High School Class of 1987 Reunion. This year it will have been twenty (TWENTY!) years since I graduated from Uni. I got back this reply: There are plans. Martin Correia is chairing the event and is in the midst of…

• 16-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  4+1 Ways To Speed Up WordPress With Caching worthwhile. (tags: wordpress programming)

• 17-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Reduce WordPress Spam By Creating Fake Comment Forms For Spam Bots | OneTipADay.com (tags: wordpress spam howto) The right way to read files with PHP (tags: programming php tutorial webdev) Neo Culpa: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” (tags: politics war iraq republican history)

• 18-Feb-2007
  leahpeah.com/blog/ theme validates!

  It’s been a sore spot for me that Leah’s excellent blog has not really, uh, worked, for a long time. In MSIE 5 to 7, the thing basically went all wonky with the sidebars and ads and content. The thing was consistently off, and occasionally very broken. There’s an aphorism that “the cobbler’s children have…

• 18-Feb-2007
  Anna Nicole The Musical seeking Young Writers / Composers / Lyricists

  “It is a story of a small town girl, single mother, model, party animal and how she changed a little part of the world and touched so many people. “ read more | digg story

• 18-Feb-2007
  Count Zero

  Everything needs to be remade. Things will look wonky until I get the thing looking right. It may be a while. Comments and suggestions are welcome in the interim.

• 19-Feb-2007
  It Was Six Years Ago Today I Started Blogging

  Here’s the first post — rather short. Since that time I’ve built other blogs, sold other blogs, been divorced, fallen in and out of love, lived with some different people, remarried, been interviewed on the radio, worked at a few different placed, gained weight, lost weight, travelled, regained faith, been cranky, been happy, had long…

• 20-Feb-2007
  new design more-or-less complete

  And now, there’s other stuff to do today. Rawk awn!

• 20-Feb-2007
  Goodbye, Dedicated Homepage

  Hey kids, I’ve made artlung.com no longer be a homepage. If I do something like that again it’ll be over on the one-page joecrawford.com. At this point I have a great deal of faith in WordPress and I’ll be migrating all I can from the old pages into it. It’s been quite a few years,…

• 21-Feb-2007
  Commute from Simi Valley to Brentwood

  Not too long ago I asked on h about commuting strategies from Simi Valley to Brentwood. It’s been a few weeks, and here are the results: What I’ve tried in these past several weeks: 1. 118->405->Wilshire 2. 23->101->Kanan Road->PCH->Wilshire 3. 23->101->Topanga->PCH->Wilshire 4. 118->Sepulveda->Wilshire 5. 23->101->Las Virgines->Malibu Canyon->PCH->Wilshire 6. public transport The results: 1. feels fast…

• 21-Feb-2007
  Destructured Assignment in Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript

  Stupid code tricks in Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript

• 21-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Japan’s secret weapon: cuteness | FP Passport most heterogenous set of tags yet: “culture japan iraq funny cute war” (tags: culture japan iraq funny cute war) PHPUnit (tags: php qa framework opensource webdev programming tools) PHPUnit Pocket Guide (tags: php qa framework opensource webdev programming tools books tutorial) SourceForge.net: SimpleTest Integration into Eclipse for PHPUnit…

• 22-Feb-2007
  Lenten

  Lent is here. What’s Lent? And there are several possibilities floating around on tables.Stay tuned, I might even write about some of them. Heh. On other notes, I bought Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design recently, and I need to take the time and get into it some more. And it’s raining. Commute time, y’all.

• 22-Feb-2007
  Getting Lost at Mardis Gras

  Tuesday was Mardis Gras, and my Mom reminded me of the time I got lost in the crowds there. I had not remembered how old I was. Here’s the exchange: Joe, Remember when you got lost att Mardi Gras?  What a scare that was.  We almost lost you twice in crowds. I replied: I do…

• 22-Feb-2007
  I sing a song of shoes

  I have discovered an alarming trend of my online life: I document when I wear out my shoes. Here’s: The Sandals Which I Killt Wif My Walking from last August. And Old Shoe from 2004. I made a header out of that one. And in that spirit, here’s the latest in the line of dead…

• 22-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  MySQL AB :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 19.2 CREATE VIEW Syntax I am so used to being restrained by the limitations of MySQL I missed completely that it can now do views. I’m using this today on a project. (tags: database mysql programming) Alan Kay: The PC Must Be Revamped–Now (tags: culture computer technology…

• 23-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Why some women just can’t fit in (tags: women culture work via:backupbrain) There’s a Housing Bubble — A Fact-Filled Opinion | Piggington’s Econo-Almanac | Southern California Housing Bubble News and Analysis (tags: sandiego economics housing) voiceofsandiego.org: Toscano… There’s a Housing Bubble — A Fact-Filled Opinion (tags: sandiego economics housing) Zack Snyder Reveals Watchmen Details –…

• 24-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Ellen Lindner – Comics and Illustration (tags: comics illustration) Projectkooky.com — you poor jerk. (tags: comics illustration) Foreign Policy In Focus | Chomsky on Iran, Iraq, and the Rest of the World (tags: politics war iran iraq)

• 25-Feb-2007
  LA Blogger Shindig Tuesday after Next

  via leahpeah : Blog Archive » Tap tap tap and via blogging.la: Calling All Bloggers – PARTY!!!!!!1!11 this might be fun!

• 26-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  Outrage at Pokez? Pokez waitress treats autistic kid VERY poorly. (tags: sandiego law food)

• 27-Feb-2007
  Daily Links

  MiniAjax.com / A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts (tags: ajax javascript webdev programming) March Mingle :: Home San Diego networking event (tags: sandiego technology event)

• 01-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  Volusion: Shopping Cart Software Ecommerce Solutions (tags: ecommerce simivalley) Everybody loves Eric Raymond silly fun (tags: comics humor opensource linux gpl) Deploying1.0ToASharedHost – symfony (tags: symfony mvc php programming framework)

• 03-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  XML for PHP developers, Part 1: The 15-minute PHP-with-XML starter (tags: php xml programming tutorial) Aflax: The Ajax Library for the Adobe Flash™ Platform (tags: flash programming opensource ajax javascript framework xml) A List Apart: Articles: Sliding Doors of CSS (tags: css howto html design webdev) WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to…

• 04-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  Jeff Russell’s STARSHIP DIMENSIONS still one of my favorite sites. it has herbie the love bug, lots of star wars ships, ringworld, and more. (tags: scifi startrek starwars arc architecture design) The life of Bryan | Music | Arts | Telegraph I was once an obsessive listener to Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music. It seems…

• 05-Mar-2007
  Browser Wars II

  I so wanted to go to this – folks from Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Opera PLUS my JavaScript hero Douglas Crockford getting together to talk browsers: YUI Theater — “Browser Wars Episode II: Attack of the DOMs” [Yahoo! User Interface Blog] I will be watching this. Hi, I’m Joe, and I’m a browser nerd.  Hi…

• 05-Mar-2007
  Bruce Sterling OpEd in the Washington Post

  And another of my heroes, Bruce Sterling: My Dot-Green Future Is Finally Arriving – washingtonpost.com In 1998, I had it figured that the dot-com boom would become a dot-green boom. It took a while for others to get it. Some still dont. They think Im joking. They are still used to thinking of greenness as…

• 05-Mar-2007
  Experience in Web Master

  Recruiting Email Sentence of the Day (emphasis added): My name is XXX XXXXX and I’m an IT recruiter at XXX. Our records show that you are an experienced IT professional with experience in Web Master. This experience is relevant to one of my current openings.

• 05-Mar-2007
  HA! HA! I get my news from Fark.com

  As Leah and I laze around the house, not putting away clothes in the bedroom, I will fire up Google Reader and read blogs the way nature never intended, in a newsreader. One of the not-really-blogs I read this way is FARK. FARK is the apotheosis of what a nonsense everything/nothing site is on the…

• 05-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  Greg’s Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day: Blogger Backup Utility v1.0.0.0 Alpha Released (tags: blogging tools asp.net) Yahoo! UI Library: YUI Theater (tags: video yahoo webdev) The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids — New York Magazine This article has the ring of truth (tags: culture kids psychology relationships family children) Eyunta.com »…

• 06-Mar-2007
  Record Receivables Outstanding… Now where are they?

  So much happening. My contract in Brentwood is ending soon, and I have beaucoup bucks in receivables outstanding — that is, people owe me money for work already done — more than ever, across many clients. The problem is, for about 7 days, no checks! What’s the deal people, baby needs a new pair of…

• 06-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  Ten Javascript Tools Everyone Should Have (tags: javascript programming webdev ajax) YouTube – ZWH – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out intriguing cover of a great smiths song. (tags: morrissey music video)

• 07-Mar-2007
  meh dee ah bee straw

  So Leah and I went to the mediabistro blogger meet thing tonight down in Los Angeles. It was jazzy fun. It was very loud at Bar Lubitsch. And nine bucks for a (not very tall) Jack Daniels and Coke? ¡Qué horror! It was good to see Heather again, and I even got to shake Tony…

• 07-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  Health Insurance, Medical Insurance, Individual Health Insurance Quotes (tags: business health medicine consumer) mediabistro.com: jobs, classes, community and news for media professionals (tags: advertising media jobs journalism culture losangeles publishing) Malibu Hindu Temple I want to visit this (tags: calabasas religion hinduism) Amit Pansare’s Photo Gallery Some great stuff in here (tags: photography socal photos)…

• 08-Mar-2007
  New Theory of Technology Work

  Quoting myself from an email to a colleague: Why I stayed so long at *****, where the primary thing I was working on was traditional ASP, I have no idea. I’m coming to think if a job isn’t making you smarter, it’s making you dumber. And *** man, every line of VBScript I code makes…

• 08-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  W3C Relaunches HTML Activity xhtml was not the be-all end all. (tags: html web webstandards)

• 09-Mar-2007
  Redesign of JoeCrawford.com

  joecrawford.com I done cracked myself up!

• 09-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  NCAM/CC for Flash Closed Captioning for Flash. Nifty. (tags: flash accessibility webdev) FreeStyle Street Basketball(TM) – Home (tags: games) Leahpeah’s Trade A Craft (tags: leahpeah socialsoftware crafts) Welcome to TextDrive – Reliable, high performance web hosting you can trust (tags: webdev hosting rubyonrails) Site5 Affordable Web Hosting – Discount Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting (tags:…

• 10-Mar-2007
  craigslist changes url for web jobs and rss feeds thereto

  the url for “web/HTML/info design jobs” on craigslist used to be http://losangeles.craigslist.org/art/ . I know this because until this morning I was subscribed to the RSS feed for those kind of jobs. That changed when the url for those web jobs changed to http://losangeles.craigslist.org/web/ , which of course means that the RSS feed also changed….

• 10-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  NEWSEUM: The Commissar Vanishes (tags: history photography ussr) de portables (10 years!) » Blog Archive » Abba The Hutt i laughed out loud. (tags: funny starwars music) Tales From the Database – Mile High Comics, Chuck Rozanski (tags: comics history via:mefi) Tales From the Database – Mile High Comics, Chuck Rozanski (tags: comics history via:mefi)…

• 11-Mar-2007
  Reconstituted Headers

  On March 1st I made the first new header for this site in almost two years. This morning I made another one. It has a Blade Runner theme. I quite like Gaff’s character. He’s blue eyed and semi-hispanic with a bizarre sartorial flair. I definitely identify with him. I have saved all of the headers…

• 11-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  Date and Time Formats (tags: calendar time programming webstandards) ISO 8601 – Numeric representation of dates and time (tags: calendar time) RFC 3339 Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps (tags: calendar time programming webstandards)

• 12-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  Wave Bubble (tags: howto radio cyberpunk futurism technology)

• 19-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  Thomas Pynchon Wiki: Gravity’s Rainbow (tags: books scifi literature wiki) Seeing Males Together: When It Was OK to Show Affection | MetaFilter (tags: culture history photography)

• 19-Mar-2007
  I’m 37.

  Wow. And… cool.

• 20-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  Table of Malcontents | WIRED Blogs James Randi from the 1970s. (tags: skeptic psychic funny) The Stan Laurel Correspondence Archive Project fascinating. (tags: culture writing history funny movies) For $17 you too can chain smoke near your PlayStation 3 Apparently smoking near your game system can make it disgusting. Funky. (tags: gaming respiratory health funny)…

• 21-Mar-2007
  Larry “Bud” R.I.P.

  I loved that guyPreviously.

• 21-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  YouTube – Novell Linux – Apple Ad Spoof (1st) (tags: linux video funny commercial) YouTube – Get a MAC Spoof 2 (tags: linux video funny commercial)

• 24-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  news from me – ARCHIVES The Secret Origin of Larry “Bud” Melman (tags: history tv culture) Daring Fireball: Markdown (tags: programming web opensource socialsoftware) Mortgage crisis overwhelming credit counselors – CNN.com (tags: cnn housing money) writing-test-cases-for-web-browsers (tags: mozilla web webdev via:wearehugh) The Kitty Letter – Southern California – Simi Valley – Thousand Oaks – Moorpark…

• 25-Mar-2007
  Freedom is Road Seldom Traveled by the Multitude

  A bike was freedom to me when I was a kid. Above is a picture of the bike I got not too long ago. It represents freedom. It’s hard to get out on the bike, and I don’t do it as often as might like to, but I do it when I can and I…

• 25-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  SANDOW BIRK Interesting neoclassical political artist (tags: art politics losangeles iraq) BLDGBLOG: Science Fiction and the City: Film Fest Update! Nice science fiction themed event at ArtCenter in May (tags: futurism pasadena architecture design events scifi movies illustration) Murphypop: The Illustration of Meghan Murphy (tags: art illustration comics) Dean Trippe (tags: comics illustration art) PragDave:…

• 27-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  Install multiple versions of IE on your PC | TredoSoft (tags: via:diveintomark browser development webdev qa software windows) Drupal handbooks | drupal.org (tags: cms drupal open opensource php webdev programming) Server Switcher :: Firefox Add-ons (tags: firefox webdev)

• 28-Mar-2007
  Wreck Right In Front of Me

  Last night I was driving home and witnessed an accident. Oh man, what a mess! I was driving north on Sepulveda and blammo! I narrowly missed being involved in it — I had to slam on my brakes or I’d have been right in it. I hung around late to give my statement to the…

• 28-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  JMeter – Apache JMeter load testing (tags: apache qa webdev opensource software)

• 29-Mar-2007
  Daily Links

  10 Quick Tips for an Easier CSS Life (tags: css webdev programming design) adamlogic » Metaprogramming JavaScript Presentation Very slick, very smart, inspirational. (tags: javascript programming webdev) API reference | Drupal API (tags: cms programming drupal webdev api) Code Craft » In software no good deed goes unpunished Wonderful post about writing code. memo to…

• 02-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  Lee’s Journal: Spring City Home for Sale moving and real. (tags: blog utah)

• 03-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  Sinfest by Tatsuya Ishida Tuesday 3rd April well i guess that covers it (tags: comics funny religion)

• 04-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  Annoyances.org – Stop Windows from saving the thumbnail cache (THUMBS.DB) I hate Thumbs.db. Garbage files suck! (tags: windows howto) xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe funny roleplaying comic (tags: funny comics geek gaming) Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies (tags: hci scifi computer movies culture interface)…

• 06-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  Bill O’Reilly Loses His Damn Mind [Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite To Stupid] (tags: media politics culture law) official band site for the noisettes | Home (tags: music culture) Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » Four percent of great tech innovations are Band-Aids for viruses/spyware Greenspun points out exactly how stupid that list is. (tags: technology stupid) Ricardo…

• 07-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  Microsoft is Dead Well, a sleeping giant, or maybe a doddering, zombie giant. (tags: apple microsoft google yahoo computer history te technology) MacTribe – Interview Audrey Kawasaki (tags: art artist illustration interview) YouTube – Dick Dale Interview Labels suck (tags: music business) Juxtapoz – Amy Sol Interview (tags: art artist illustration) amysol.com (tags: artist art…

• 08-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  apophenia: relationship performance in networked publics (tags: kids socialsoftware culture) Tropical SEO » Andy Hagans’ Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting and Social Media Marketing slimy (tags: seo marketing webdev) Coding Horror: SEOs: the New Pornographers of the Web (tags: seo marketing webdev) Frederator Studios Blog Goofy: Tobacco Junkie cartoon (tags: animation funny culture history) Making Fiends…

• 09-Apr-2007
  Stray Data

  I got an eye exam recently. I have reading glasses coming my way in 7 to 10 business days. I have noticed in recent years my eyes get tireder when I read. Still no new car. We need to rectify this and have been getting by with rentals. Time to do the deed. * We…

• 09-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  Mixed Computing: Stop Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files from Polluting Network Shares (tags: windows mac network howto) FreeStyle Street Basketball(TM) – QUICK START GUIDE how to play FreeStyle (tags: games gaming sports socialsoftware) Subterranean Press » Fiction: A Plain Tale from Our Hills by Bruce Sterling to read. (tags: scifi brucesterling cyberpunk) DHTML Site – Free…

• 10-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  Beyond the Beyond – Wired News: Reyner Banham Loved Los Angeles (tags: architecture history video) Google Operating System: ToDo List for Google Calendar (tags: firefox tools google calendar) JSON and Browser Security » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (tags: json javascript security webdev) Tubewad – Television Heat Vision and Jack: A Lesson in Absurd Brilliance (tags:…

• 11-Apr-2007
  I miss the Head Lemur

  My feedreader has the remnants of his blog Raving Lunacy, and I mark the point where it is gone now. His last, and now deleted post was: Wow from The Head Lemur character assassination by image and psedonym believe what you will get some help goodbye I have to say, the whole Kathy Sierra thing…

• 11-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  Is It Better to Buy or Rent? – New York Times very slick flash (tags: flash housing realestate money visualization)

• 13-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  XEODesign: The 4 Fun Keys applied to Game Design and play (tags: games gaming hci socialsoftware psychology research interface play design business usability) heathervescent: Powerpoint Karaoke – The g33k way Presented with a random powerpoint presentation, can you narrate it effectively? (tags: funny geek presentation games)

• 16-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  Pop!Tech – The Impact of Technology on People (tags: podcast future speech audio)

• 17-Apr-2007
  Post-Presidency

  From my favorite geopolitical thinker, Thomas Barnett: NPR : The Middle East and U.S. Policy And then in a more salient, how the world views us sort of way, I really argue that the Bush post-presidency began, for all practical purposes, with Katrina in New Orleans, when the world basically found out the double message…

• 17-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  P.O.V. – Tintin and I . On Cartooning . Chris Ware | PBS (tags: comics art interview) Susie Bright’s Journal : Vargas in Drag (tags: art culture pinup history) William Gibson “THE GREAT CLOMPING FOOT OF NERDISM” (tags: culture writing scifi) White Lights Lead to Red Lights (tags: presentation webdev webstandards via:diveintomark) Open the Future:…

• 18-Apr-2007
  Kia Rio Rawketh.

  The better to commute with, my dear! I really like this car.

• 18-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  Plus Deck Cassette Converter (tags: computer audio hardware music cassette)

• 20-Apr-2007
  Passing Strange – Discounted

  Passing along a neat promotion. If you’re a stew/negro problem fan who can get to New York, check it out! SEE PASSING STRANGE FOR JUST $35 AT THE PUBLIC THEATER! SEE THE FIRST MUSICAL TO BE BORN OUT OF JOE’S PUB FOR AS LOW AS $35!* (A Savings of over 40%)! Limited Engagement Begins May…

• 20-Apr-2007
  Nostalgic Kids

  Last weekend we engaged in some nostalgia for the kids, taking them to a park they used to play in, oh, 8 years ago. It was fun watching and hearing them talk about that time. A blessing, really. They look great. I like how they seem a little tentative here. Are they thinking “you can…

• 20-Apr-2007
  Mii for Me

  What’s a Mii?

• 20-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  F5 Networks – Firewall Load Balancing Tutorial nice primer on load balancing (tags: webdev tools)

• 22-Apr-2007
  Iran: “I ask you, is he irrational?”

  Thomas PM Barnett remains my favorite geopolitical thinker. Embedded in his talk (downloadable as a Podcast) from Pop!Tech is a short talk on Iran. He makes a metaphor about Iran that feels very true, and with that short metaphor explains their desire for nuclear weapons: Two thirds of the oil that comes out of the…

• 22-Apr-2007
  Zappa on Miami Vice

  I’ve known for years that (my hero) Frank Zappa had appeared on 1980s tv show Miami Vice. Until this morning, I had never seen anything from that show. Thanks to YouTube, I can enjoy it in all it’s (terrible) glory:

• 22-Apr-2007
  Accelerated Decrepitude: Reading Glasses

  Spectacles were invented in the 13th century. In the year of our Lord, 2007 — yesterday, in fact, I received a pair of eyeglasses which I will attempt to wear for reading and otherwise. I am 37 years old. Dr. Kubota, the Japanese-American eye doctor I went to was most professional. I really liked the…

• 22-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  Moon Zappa (tags: zappa books writing artist) Ahmet Zappa – Mighty McFearless (tags: zappa books kids) Diva Zappa – Hand Made Beauty (tags: zappa crafts) Apple – iTunes – iTunes Store – Podcasts – Technical Specification (tags: music mp3 podcast howto video syndication) Turning Projects Into Revenue Generating Businesses @ SXSW south by southwest festivals…

• 23-Apr-2007
  Juuke!

  Necessary silliness of the day:

• 24-Apr-2007
  @Work

  eyeglasses, earbuds, web browser, programming tools.

• 24-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  MetroRiderLA » San Diego Car-Free this would make a good post to sandiegoblog, but i haven’t the time (tags: transportation sandiego california) “I Don’t Care What the Judge Said!” by Joel Turtel libertarian political allegory (tags: drugs government history law activism propaganda)

• 25-Apr-2007
  For Devon
• 25-Apr-2007
  I love Roger Ebert

  Ebert: We spend too much time hiding illness :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State I have received a lot of advice that I should not attend the festival. I’m told that paparazzi will take unflattering pictures, people will be unkind, etc.Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. As a journalist I can take…

• 25-Apr-2007
  Fred Fish, R.I.P.

  Fred Fish – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fred Fish died at his home in Idaho on Friday April 20, 2007 at the age of 54 I was free software before free software was cool. 20 years ago, we all were.

• 25-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  jwz – Night Flight Night Flight really was awesome. (tags: culture tv 1980s) MAKIBISHI COMIC intriguing (tags: comics game flash illustration japan) Panic – Coda – One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X (tags: mac webdev software) Mohawke’s Best of the Best Free and Open Source Software Collection: Mac OS X and Windows software Collection…

• 26-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  Vimeo / Lip Dub – Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger fun workplace lip sync. (tags: music video funny) BattleBricks: WiigoBot, The Perfect Game someone built a robot to play wii sports bowling perfectly. (tags: robots wii gaming programming) Next Generation – Interactive Entertainment Today, Video Game and Industry News – Casual’s Wild Ride (tags: gaming…

• 27-Apr-2007
  Moving to Moorpark

  This weekend we are: Moving to Moorpark Please begin transmitting positive energies our way NOW. Thanks, Joe

• 27-Apr-2007
  Daily Links

  Impressive Style Editor for MySpace (tags: css design editor myspace) Translations of My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages “Mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas” (tags: language funny internationalization reference) The Joel on Software Discussion Group – On software development, “rock stars”, and interviewing… Performance vs. Knowledge. (tags: software development employment) Ajaxian »…

• 28-Apr-2007
  For Auction on eBay: WebSanDiego.org Banner

  We’re so moving. Anyone want to buy this lovely WebSanDiego Banner? Own a piece of history! eBay: WebSanDiego.org Banner (item 160111743932 end time May-05-07 12:20:52 PDT)

• 30-Apr-2007
  Gimme some truth, Joe

  OK: MOVING SUCKS.

• 30-Apr-2007
  On-The-Scene Agents Report

  Move complete. Stay tuned for more data.

• 01-May-2007
  Non In Situ / In Sutu

  In situ refers to an object or living being found” in the place where it lives. It’s about finding the thing in the context where it lives. As I leech bandwidth from one of my unknowingly-generous neighbors, I ponder the fact that what we learn about an object depends on the context in which we…

• 02-May-2007
  New Commute Times

  So actually, since my time to getting on the freeway is slightly less in the morning, it looks like my commute to Sierra is basically the same. This is pretty darn great. It’s an hour or so, hour fifteen in the morning. The real new “commute” time is the time to drive the kids to…

• 04-May-2007
  Daily Links

  Blog Law » 12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know (tags: legal blogging government us) IE7Pro – An Ultimate Add-On for Internet Explorer 7 via Greg’s Cool Thing OTD. Seems potentially useful. (tags: browser msie tools) Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » A bunch of presentations on scaling websites:…

• 07-May-2007
  Village Voice on Passing Strange

  village voice > art > The Negro Problems Stew Brings His Indie Musical to the Public Theater by David Ng Ask Stews fans to describe his music and youll likely get a more complete account of his repertoire: cabaret, the blues, soul, punk, funk, r&b, jazz, even gospel. Recently, the eclectic performer added another genre…

• 07-May-2007
  Good Morning Monday

  Cheapest in town: There’s a lot of other stuff going on. The universe once again conspires to keep monies owed us out of our hands. Why are Changes of Address so pokey? Oi! Lots of work right now, I worked this weekend, and more work this week as always. I’m looking forward to the abundance…

• 07-May-2007
  Hi [First Name]

  I’ve never felt so well served by a random recruitment email: Hi <First Name>, HUGE OPPORTUNITY WITH OUTSTANDING START-UP. MASSIVE FUNDS & OVERWHELMING GROWTH FOR RIGHT ENGINEER. REQUIRED: AJAX, DHTML, JAVASCRIPT, CSS, JAVE & OO DESIGN. I have fantastic job opportunity to tell you about. Below is a detailed job description. Please review and let…

• 09-May-2007
  Daily Links

  CacheExclude | drupal.org Exclude individual urls from the cache (to allow for executing PHP code pages fresh) (tags: drupal performance webdev)

• 10-May-2007
  Black Men Ski

  I will update this post later, but today this video for Black Men Ski by Stew and Heidi has made me pretty ecstatic. Look for a longer post and transcribed lyrics when I have some time to spare. Right now, I don’t! Black men go to Aspen and rent colorful chalets Giggle at the questions…

• 14-May-2007
  Huge Launch

  Big Launch today and tomorrow at the contract gig. Mother’s Day was good. There’s a bird in the house. Money stresses. My sister get’s her Master’s this weekend, I’ll be attending. Stepfatherhood evolves. New car running good. Still fridge-less. Ubuntu installed and cool, machine still underpowered. Much more another time. Rockonward.

• 14-May-2007
  Daily Links

  Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar (tags: msie tools webdev) On having layout — the concept of hasLayout in IE/Win (tags: msie css programming webdev javascript)

• 15-May-2007
  Daily Links

  Passing Strange – Theater – Review – New York Times (tags: stew theater music negroproblem) Strange Indeed « InnerContinental (tags: stew music theater negroproblem) Memory leak patterns in JavaScript (tags: javascript programming webdev) Craftzine.com blog: Trade a Craft Nice mention of Leah’s Craft site on Craftzine. (tags: leahpeah crafts cute) Rock musical’s a timeless tale…

• 22-May-2007
  Daily Links

  Welcome to Passing Strange An official site for Stew & Heidi’s groundbreaking play/theater piece! (tags: stew negroproblem theater music) salary vs performance | ben fry excellent java applet using Processing to visualize baseball team expenses and results (tags: visualization economics business programming sports) YUI Theater — Victor Tsaran: “Introduction to Screen Readers” » Yahoo! User…

• 23-May-2007
  Daily Links

  YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “Quality” » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (tags: programming history development webdev) My Interview with LeahPeah « In the Air (tags: interview leahpeah) all kinds of stuff: WALLY VS UPA PART 2 – Skilled Cartoonists Take Their Skills For Granted (tags: animation history) Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation » Rare…

• 24-May-2007
  Daily Links

  Web 2.0 Asia :: Even the premier Valley VCs are looking at Korean online games (tags: gaming business korea socialsoftware)

• 30-May-2007
  Daily Links

  Freestyle Basketball reviewed on Maxim Online (tags: sports games gaming sierraonline) FreeStyle Street Basketball (PC) Review at JustPressPlay – Game, Movie & Music Reviews (tags: sports games gaming sierraonline) SHARE! Self-Help Recovery and Exchange 310-305-8878 (tags: losangeles health)

• 31-May-2007
  Daily Links

  Speaking To You Somewhat At Length | Fiddley Gomme (tags: lds mormon history culture) Mount Timpanogos – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: geography utah) Google Gears API Developer’s Guide – Home (tags: google api browser programming webdev) Google Gears in Context – Browser Gets a Boost From Google (tags: google api browser programming webdev) Google…

• 01-Jun-2007
  The Choice Is Simple
• 01-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  Coquette: Coquette in Lab Magazine (tags: leahpeah magazine interview) Travelling Cross-Country by Train. Funny commentary. I love trains (tags: transportation transport travel funny) Out of Eight PC Game Reviews: FreeStyle Street Basketball Review (tags: sierraonline game gaming) FreeStyle Street Basketball for PC – FreeStyle Street Basketball PC Game – FreeStyle Street Basketball Computer Game (tags:…

• 02-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Media Viewer Bruce Sterling on design (tags: bruce brucesterling design futurism scifi)

• 08-Jun-2007
  Quiet

  Lot going on. My Mom’s in the hospital with a stroke and they’re still figuring all that out. Take care and at some point I’ll update here. Thanks for reading. Sorry for the brevity.

• 08-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  Young American: The Theatre: The New Yorker Passing Strange reviewed in the New Yorker (tags: stew negroproblem theater art)

• 10-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  Jesus and Mo » Archive » holy That *is* nuts (tags: religion funny macintosh) YUI Theater: Douglas Crockford — “JavaScript: The Good Parts” » Yahoo! User Interface Blog My favorite pundit on JavaScript: why JavaScript is awesome, well the good parts are? (tags: javascript programming video webdev) Molly Crabapple Illustration (tags: art illustration artist comics)

• 12-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in Interesting analysis from Marc Andreesen. And I thought that dude was washed up! (tags: webdev programming socialsoftware socialnetworking scalability) Airbrush A Person – Tutorial Dash (tags: howto photoshop photography tutorial graphics) blog.pmarca.com: How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with (tags: programming recruiting) Weblog Tools…

• 13-Jun-2007
  Update on My Mom

  Thanks for all the well wishes, all. Here’s the latest on my Mom’s diagnosis. The stroke turns out to have been the thing to point out what’s really going on, and that’s Stage 4 cancer of the Kidney. I will be traveling to Virginia next month some time to assist where I can during her…

• 13-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  macosxhints.com – Use iTunes’ Copy to Play Order to control iPod song order I didn’t realize this was there. Invaluable for my shuffle. (tags: ipod music howto) The creepy populism surrounding Paris Hilton and Scooter Libby. – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine (tags: culture media news celebrity) YouTube – Turk does Poison (Scrubs) (tags:…

• 14-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  Freestyle Street Basketball | The A.V. Club C+ review. :-\ (tags: games gaming sierraonline) The WebKit Open Source Project – Installing Developer Tools (tags: browser api sdk safari apple) Free Vectors by Vecteezy! via pinguino (tags: graphics free opensource illustration vector webdev) Digital Web Magazine – The Rise of Flash Video, Part 3 (tags: flash…

• 15-Jun-2007
  Ocean View

  This a major upside of a more coastal commute. The ocean abides. Sometimes there are surfers. The water temperature is about 64°. Maybe I’ll try and go in soon. Chilly but good. Lots on my mind. Tyler graduated yesterday from 8th grade. Devon graduated from High School. Leah has photos. Monday my mom will have…

• 15-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  Fully Ramblomatic.com – Features Armageddon Flowchart, Brit, Silly (tags: comics funny religion) Must See: D-War Movie Trailer and Posters | /Film This movie looks awesome and bad SIMULTANEOUSLY (tags: film movies korea) audrey kawasaki her work gets mentioned on boingboing a lot. she’s really a phenomenal draughtsman, though her work is not work-safe (tags: art…

• 17-Jun-2007
  Green Onions

  Good bike ride this morning. I wore bike shorts and they were much more comfortable than wearing regular shorts, which is sort of amazing since I was not sure they are even the right size. The improvement was noticeable. I rode for about an hour. I had the notion to go to Somis, but I’m…

• 17-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  BobHarris.com – Tony Soprano didn’t just get whacked; he practically got a funeral Interpretation of the signs and signals of the Sopranos finale. (tags: tv writing culture fiction criticism) All About Lycra Bicycle Shorts – wheelandsprocket.com (tags: cycling clothing fashion technology)

• 18-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  Helens Cycles – It’s Bicycle Heaven (tags: cycling sports losangeles) Underwood Family Farms – HOME I like the goats. (tags: moorpark somis food) » RUBY: DRY up your Enumerations – DevChix – Blog Archive (tags: ruby programming rubyonrails) David Foster’s Kicking Kidney Cancer’s Arse (tags: cancer blog health medicine) Google Mashup Editor (tags: google webdev…

• 19-Jun-2007
  Freedom trails economic freedom

  I love how concise Thomas Barnett can be: Watch Vietnam’s rerun of China’s relationship with U.S.: Vietnam will face all the same pushback China has and continues to receive: yes, you’re turning capitalistic but not democratic at the same time. What should Triet do? Exact same game plan: He will also respond to criticism of…

• 19-Jun-2007
  Entropy

  Another reflection from my Sunday bike ride: Entropy is a constant. How long it takes to do its business is the variable. The various structures put up along the arroyo to tame its course are all in states of disrepair, gradually succumbing to the elements. Word is my mother’s struggle with entropy, or rather with…

• 19-Jun-2007
  Dear Mice, GET OFF MY PROPERTY

  …specifically, get out of my living room. Score today alone: Heck, I have a pre-made icon to denote kills. This should demonstrate my readiness. First contact was a week and a half ago. We thought you were a lizard. That was sort of fun. I remembered lizards on the wall in the Philippines and that…

• 19-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  Coding Horror: Escaping From Gilligan’s Island (tags: programming technology management) A Case Study in Classic Mistakes Software is hard. (tags: programming technology management) LAFlashapaloozastock 2 | LA Flash (tags: flash event losangeles) The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters | Official Movie Site | Picturehouse This looks awesome. (tags: movie games gaming history) Voice…

• 26-Jun-2007
  As of yesterday: Mice

  Updated Mice stats: Sad, really. “Where the heck are they coming from?” is what I want to know. It’s not clear to me. Previously.

• 26-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  qwantz.com – dinosaur comics – June 14 2007 (tags: funny comics science math physics) Is she your daughter? Man asked to prove it at Wal-Mart :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Mary Mitchell (tags: racism walmart stupid) Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories – Solid freeform fabrication: DIY, on the cheap, and made of pure sugar (tags: 3d diy…

• 28-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  Rhino – JavaScript for Java (tags: javascript java api opensource programming) Ventura County Airporter Shuttle service to LAX from Oxnard and Ventura. Almost convenient to me. (tags: travel ventura losangeles oxnard) Stevey’s Blog Rants: Rhino on Rails Peculiar and interesting. (tags: javascript rhino rubyonrails programming java)

• 29-Jun-2007
  LA Bloggers Live

  I had a pretty good time, despite being almost uncontrollably nervous about it beforehand.I read my mom’s favorite post.More about it at labloggerslive.com.And more even more from leahpeah, emcee and organizer of the event!

• 29-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  My Work Stories « Tasty Research Some internship and work stories (tags: microsoft yahoo google work jobs) QuirksBlog: Drag and drop (tags: webdev programming javascript via:diveintomark)

• 30-Jun-2007
  Daily Links

  Animation Mentor (tags: animation school drawing education design illustration) lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other visual arts » The drawing bench (horse) a special drawing bench (tags: art drawing tools) Design icons Charles & Ray Eames | Veerle’s blog (tags: design history) Iconoculture –…

• 01-Jul-2007
  Livid (regarding a Mouse)

  Last time, on Mouse Update we were at 5. I don’t really get livid very often, but this morning we went to a new count. Leah herself stepped on a blanket in the living room that squeaked. Under the blanket was a mouse who had dragged a glue trap under there, freaking her and me…

• 02-Jul-2007
  Daily Links

  KERNSPIRACY: A Place for Designers to Share Secrets at Barbara’s at the Brewery (Wednesday, July 11, 2007) – Upcoming (tags: losangeles design event) KERNSPIRACY: A Place for Designers to Share Secrets (tags: losangeles design event) Los Angeles | groups.drupal.org (tags: losangeles cms drupal socialsoftware event) Carcassonne (tags: games sierraonline) Switchball (tags: game sierraonline) Flip Animation…

• 05-Jul-2007
  Daily Links

  YouTube – Rock Band footage from Gamespot! Like “Guitar Hero” but combines 2 guitars, a singer, and a drummer. (tags: games gaming music video via:waxy) Jesus and Mo » Archive » well (tags: religion funny comics) Muhammad al-Mahdi – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Twelver Shi’as believe that Muhammad was born in 868 and has been…

• 06-Jul-2007
  Daily Links

  CastingWords: Podcast Transcription (tags: podcast transcription audio blogging) heathervescent: Taking it Higher Los Angeles is getting some very cool tech world events. People make that happen. (tags: losangeles socialnetworking events) templatemaker – Google Code looks like an excellent screenscraping tool. (tags: python tools webdev) Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature (tags: psychology…

• 11-Jul-2007
  From Durgesh to Sheetul

  I get a lot of email inquiries from people who would like to hire me. I tag these emails so I can get at them fast. So I can see the emails at a glance. Here is a list of the last 50 first names of these inquirers, duplicate names are from recruiters who have…

• 11-Jul-2007
  Daily Links

  Anti-Grain Geometry – Texts Rasterization Exposures (tags: typography webdev design fonts type)

• 12-Jul-2007
  Recruiter Name Roll Call Addendum

  Incredibly, since the last one, yesterday we have another 10. I love the names. Zahra Nitin Ryan Vidhya Kat Julie Tanvik Kevin Ekta Monica

• 12-Jul-2007
  Mr. Mind

  I need some silly today. Here’s Mister Mind — he first appeared in the comics in 1943. I think he looks awesome.

• 12-Jul-2007
  Daily Links

  BookTour: Where Authors and Audiences Meet I like seeing authors speak and read. This is a great idea. (tags: books events publishing writing) heathervescent: Feeling Angsty? I heard this ended up good. (tags: leahpeah event losangeles) Stefan Landsberger’s Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages–Chinese Space Program (tags: art china space illustration military propaganda politics via:brucesterling) CaringBridge: Free…

• 13-Jul-2007
  Dice Accelerates Recruiter Roll Call

  Another 15! In under a day since the last one, I have 15 more for the roll call. Dice sent me a note that “isn’t it time for you to update your Dice resume?” I did, and I now have 15 in a day, vs. 50 in a month. If you’re in technology and looking…

• 13-Jul-2007
  Daily Links

  The Mini-Penis Scandal: US Publisher Turns away from Cartoon Nudity – International – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News (tags: comics art books censorship stupid via:mefi) Cat and Girl Fear! (tags: comics funny politics) UMass Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press: The Colored Cartoon (tags: book racism history culture animation) FlightAware – Free Flight Tracker – IFR Flight…

• 14-Jul-2007
  In Roanoke to see my Mom

  I’ve come to the east coast for a week. Last night I left Los Angeles for Roanoke, Virginia. It was a short notice flight, but my family and I have been looking for an excuse to come east to see my Mom, recently diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, cancer. She has Stage IV, the stage…

• 15-Jul-2007
  It Is So Green Here / Laptop Bummerville

  It’s noon here, which means it’s nine ante meridiem back in California. It’s odd to think about that difference. Meanwhile, I’m a little bummed because my laptop is going wonky. It’s an iBook G4:    Anyone seen this kind of “melting screen” effect. Happens at random. I suspect it’s the hard drive crashing and grinding….

• 15-Jul-2007
  Lazy Sunday at the Crawford’s
• 15-Jul-2007
  I’m So Cute

  Well, 35 years ago.

• 16-Jul-2007
  And have I mentioned the green?

  Pretty, right? Humidity is up. A little drizzling yesterday. I think I’m sync’ed up with the time zone now. Mom seems to be having a pretty good morning. Maybe we’re through the side effects of the chemo? Of course, the kidney cancer, and the tumor in her head. and her nocardia infection still might provide…

• 17-Jul-2007
  All Things Grow With Love

  Except, Cancer!

• 18-Jul-2007
  Next Up

  Chemo on Friday for my Mom. She’s doing well. I’m very glad I came. Who can know what’s down the road?

• 27-Jul-2007
  Joe Trains

  I am back from Virginia, and I’ll have more to say about that later this weekend. Leah is at BlogHer. She’s moderating a panel on crafting. I miss her. Things are not the same without her. I’ve been keeping busy. I disgorged some cell phone photos to flickr. I also have done some cleaning. With…

• 30-Jul-2007
  She’s Back

  Great to have her back from her rousing success at BlogHer Chicago. Update: photo of the panel participants! and a recording of the panel! from Craftzine and CraftSanity, respectively.

• 01-Aug-2007
  This is what I look like after a ride

  Bike ride, that is. Nicely sweaty, I think. This is from Saturday morning. For some reason the Sprint to Flickr posting by phone was not working the other day. Just tried it now and it is working again. Crazy computers never work, man. Amazing when they do.

• 01-Aug-2007
  Lyrics of the Night

  there are some bad people on the rise there are some bad people on the rise theyre saving their own skins by ruining other peoples lives bad, bad people on the rise young married couple in debt …ever felt had ? young married couple in debt …ever felt had ? oh a government scheme designed…

• 04-Aug-2007
  Joe/Santa Monica Apple Store/Photo

  We went to the Santa Monica Promenade today and messed about. Easy fun!

• 04-Aug-2007
  t0ny, photo-boother
• 05-Aug-2007
  California Decertifies Diebold

  Yay! This is good news for the accountability of elections. I know I’ve not posted much in the way of politics in the past year — frankly there’s not been much in the way of good news on any fronts, but this, from my own Republic of California. California Secretary of State – Voting Systems…

• 05-Aug-2007
  Santa Monica Joe

  I look so serious. by leahpeah.

• 05-Aug-2007
  I am here, and you are my sofa.

  I’m not much for religious messages here on the blog, at least not lately. God is where God is found. That is where. Lately God is found at the beach. Also, in music. Also laughter. Also in small things. Even films can have God in them. Despite the language and violence, I believe there to…

• 06-Aug-2007
  The Current Office Set-Up

  I enjoy seeing other people’s offices. I like seeing what kind of gear they use, how they have things set up. The current set up works pretty well. It could be better, but it serves me right now. If you look at the photo on flickr you can see what some of the objects are.

• 06-Aug-2007
  William Gibson Book Tour (Updated)

  Touring with his new novel Spook Country. I think I can make it. Leah, want to go with me? We can make a night of it! Friday, August 10, 7:00 PM Vroman’s Bookstore 695 E Colorado Blvd Pasadena, CA 91101 UPDATE: By the way, booktour.com, you were USELESS in bringing me this information. You have…

• 06-Aug-2007
  Philip K. Dick Gave Me Twenty Bucks

  Meta: Is it just me, or does it seem like I am blogging again? Enough of this vox and twitter and flickr an especially delicious bull. I will continue to use the services that have utility, but they take my eye off the ball as far as what I’m trying to do online. Look on…

• 06-Aug-2007
  They Call Me The Seeker

  Lyrics for the week: Focusing on nowhere Investigating miles I’m a seeker I’m a really desperate man I won’t get to get what I’m after Till the day I die I learned how to raise my voice in anger Yeah, but look at my face, ain’t this a smile? I’m happy when life’s good And…

• 06-Aug-2007
  Richard Gate: Zzyzx Road

  My brother-in-law Rick has a new show at the Ruth Bachofner Gallery, entitled Zzyzx Road, as part of that show several new paintings have been placed (by me) on the Paintings page on his site. I find Rick to be an interesting character. At once he reminds me of my father to some extent, but…

• 07-Aug-2007
  I’m in the Persai Feed Corpus

  For some weeks I’ve been enjoying the vicious and rather dirty blog uncov — which attempts to  deflate Web 2.0 hype by exposing the crap that passes for clever technology, they are particularly cruel to TechCrunch, who does seem to hype each and every dumb startup and site to the moon. I was delighted to…

• 07-Aug-2007
  “talk about a blog with a singular purpose”

  Leah’s response when I sent her a link to lpcoverlover.com — a blog that shows the covers of old LPs was “talk about a blog with a singular purpose.” Today there’s one I really like: And Leah’s reaction was “oh my god. that is awesome.” And of course she’s right. Soundtracks I understand, but soundtracks…

• 08-Aug-2007
  Google Maps Street View

  This morning I saw this post on LAist about Google Maps Street View in L.A. That works well, but despite the fact that I live approximately in Los Angeles I was more interested in San Diego views. And downtown, my old stomping grounds is pretty well covered. When I was 18 years old (uh, that’s…

• 08-Aug-2007
  Yesterday and Today in Facial Hair

  Compare and contrast: Perhaps it’s time to again try for a Zappa style arrangement, though that particular arrangement freaks Leah out a little because it reminds her some jerk. And I am not a jerk. Well, usually: Tune in tomorrow on WHAT’S JOE’S FACE LOOK LIKE!

• 08-Aug-2007
  BookTour.com catches up with William Gibson

  I carped about BookTour.com the other day in William Gibson Book Tour (Updated) and I will note that they have now updated the William Gibson page, and the RSS Feed thereto with updated information. There’s also a page and a feed just for Vroman’s. That’s a nice feature. I’ll back off being too harsh on…

• 08-Aug-2007
  LP Cover Lover says “Hey, Joe”

  I feel quite honored to have been ask to suggest a post to LP Cover Lover, and it has come to pass: LP Cover Lover · Hey, Joe All I did was mention it here, and I got noticed. I’ve mentioned the Captain Kangaroo record before, here.

• 08-Aug-2007
  Joseph Christian Leyendecker

  I’ve started reading many more blogs about drawing, illustration, animation, and comics, and I have to mention an artist who quite impressed me, and who I had never heard of. Over at lines and colors, Charley Parker posted about him the other day and it wowed me: lines and colors: A Little Bit of Leyendecker…

• 09-Aug-2007
  Quakey Wakey: Moorpark

  Half an hour ago there was an earthquake – 4.5 on the Richter Scale. More info here: Info is here or here. Keep up to date at Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada. Kind of exciting. Felt all over Los Angeles, and centered in Chatsworth, so say the sources.

• 09-Aug-2007
  Birdy

  From a few months ago. Cell phone cam.

• 09-Aug-2007
  Mom and the Cancer

  It’s been several weeks since I updated here about my Mom. Several weeks ago I visited my family in Virginia, primarily to see my Mom, who recently had a stroke and was subsequently diagnosed with Stage IV Renal (Kidney) Cell Carcinoma, Cancer. She also has metastases to her brain, lung and mediastinum. I had a…

• 10-Aug-2007
  Not a thought in my head

  Today I have nothing particularly on my mind, only things miscellaneous. Variously some nouns that are swirling around: deadline, William Gibson, ruthlessness, trash can, dish, invoice, milk, gasoline, PayPal, telephone. Apropos of that nonlinear list, here’s a pixel drawing from approximately 20 years ago!

• 12-Aug-2007
  On the todo list: Acres of Books

  Acres of Books may be the “world’s largest used bookstore.” As such, I think I want to go there. I read about it on Mark Evanier’s blog: I haven’t set foot in the place for twenty years but I bet it hasn’t changed much. I’m talking about Acres of Books, which is located in Long…

• 13-Aug-2007
  Duality
• 27-Aug-2007
  RealMental.org Launch

  Just a bit of Leah’s latest project — realmental.org: leahpeah : Blog Archive » RealMental.org RealMental.org is a home of sorts. It’s a place where everyone is welcome who wishes to explore what it means to have a mental disorder, be in a relationship with someone who has a mental disorder and all the other…

• 27-Aug-2007
  Welcome to Joe’s Cafe

  …taken by leah. (where we sometimes go a week without posting!)

• 28-Aug-2007
  Obscura On YouTube

  I put up things on the web because nobody else has. As time goes on more and more of what I considered to be highly obscure, highly ephemeral objects make it to the web. This is a wonderful thing that delights me. It tends to destroy the whole notion of scarcity in terms of objects…

• 28-Aug-2007
  Interactive Table @ Art Center

  Back on August 17, my friend Chris Greazel and I attended the Graduation show at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. This fuzzy photo is of (I think I remember this right) Jeffrey Jarvis, a student at Art Center and this table is interactive. The table responds to touch and Jeff had programmed it…

• 28-Aug-2007
  Santa Barbara Buddha, $135

  What’s a Buddha? In Buddhism, a buddha (Sanskrit: Awakened) is any being who has become fully awakened (enlightened), and has experienced Nirvana.

• 28-Aug-2007
  Good night, moon.

  Unfortunately, the moon was too pale to be visible in this photo. This is Santa Barbara — looking down Chapala Street toward the ocean from the corner of Chapala and West Yanolani. It’s very pretty there, but where we were there is not enough surf, just harbor. I prefer waves. Many many terrifying waves.

• 29-Aug-2007
  Bas in the Puzzle Box

  He’s great. This photo was sent to me by my sister.

• 29-Aug-2007
  Ladies.

  I like this photo a lot.

• 30-Aug-2007
  Outlastin’

  Don’t you call this a regular jam I’m gonna rock this land I’m gonna take this itty bitty world by storm And I’m just gettin warm Just like Muhummad Ali they called him Cassius Watch me bash this Beat like a skull ‘Cause you know I had beef wit Why do you riff with me…

• 30-Aug-2007
  My Internal Musical State

  I had forgotten about last.fm, but it seems to be showing a pretty good representation of my music choices, since, *ahem* it’s always watching what I play when I’m working on stuff at home. You can see the whole list at http://www.last.fm/user/artlung Here are the top artists overall: 1 They Might Be Giants 1,416 2…

• 30-Aug-2007
  Email Disasters: SXSW Podcast

  The incredible, appalling display or rudeness and rancor that sometimes occurs on mailing lists has a lot to do with the fact that email is incredibly easy to get wrong. The podcast “I Can’t Believe You Sent That: E-mail Disasters, Large and Small and How to Avoid Them“: ( direct mp3 link ) … is…

• 30-Aug-2007
  WIFE POWER!!!

  This is the most wonderful thing I’ve read in a week. Clowns KKKick KKK ass! – Asheville Indymedia “White Power!” the Nazi’s angrily shouted once more, “White flowers?” the clowns cheers and threw white flowers in the air and danced about merrily. “White Power!” the Nazi’s tried once again in a doomed and somewhat funny…

• 30-Aug-2007
  Read Cat and Girl, you!

  Donation Derby has been going great as well.

• 02-Sep-2007
  Leah at the scrimmage

  Awfully cute lady. Even when she’s pursing her lips.

• 05-Sep-2007
  Work Transit Diptych

  My chest is aching Burns like a furnace The burning keeps me alive

• 07-Sep-2007
  You have left the group websandiego.

  On March 19, 1999, eight and a half years ago, I started the websandiego mailing list. I started it on onelist at the time. They got eaten by eGroups eventually, who were in turn consumed by Yahoo. I’ve been a moderator and list owner since then, and it has been very rewarding. Everything I learned…

• 08-Sep-2007
  Hello World
• 10-Sep-2007
  Cln shvn

  Everything old is new again.

• 14-Sep-2007
  Stolen Commute Moment

  It’s so beautiful here in California. Even the banal is beautiful. Progress is being made, peace is closer every day.

• 16-Sep-2007
  Transitions

  This week, my hosting company, Pair.com, will be making several upgrades to the machine I host with. The biggest transition is that my sites will now be running under PHP5 instead of PHP4. Yesterday I upgraded the blogs I maintain to the latest and best version of WordPress — version 2.2.3 — and for the…

• 16-Sep-2007
  War of the Worlds

  A few days ago, the Drawn! Blog pointed out the War of the Worlds web comic, published by Dark Horse. It’s been on my “to read” list for a while and today I finally got the chance to drink it in, and WOW is it ever great. Vivid and moving, it’s an excellent adaptation. Check…

• 18-Sep-2007
  Five Years Ago I Met Leah

  September 18, 2002 I met Leah. I met her at a WebSanDiego event at which there were actually two other women I was seeing. In fact, one of these women asked Leah to hold her purse. I was quite uncomfortable that night, and in no way looking to find anyone to date, let alone live…

• 20-Sep-2007
  Pair.com System Notices for Just One Server

  I mentioned Pair.com‘s system upgrades the other day, which have now been accomplished and went off — from what I can tell — without a hitch for all the sites I host. Bully for them, and for me! Before the upgrade happened, I emailed Pair.com support and got a prompt reply that yes, indeed, there…

• 21-Sep-2007
  Slow Commute

  Luckily, I was accompanied by good audio. It’s raining in the Southland. This makes for slow traffic. But with Ze Frank’s If The Earth Were a Sandwich, The Who’s Baba O’Reilly, and History of the United States by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard on Librovox, my 1:50 commute time practically went by in…

• 22-Sep-2007
  Belinda Carlisle

  At various times it comes up in conversation that I have a crush on Belinda Carlisle. Well, not Belinda Carlisle as such, but rather the version of Belinda Carlisle when she was in the Go-Go’s, but before the Go-Go’s broke with their smash single “Vacation.” Specifically I believe this version of her was just a…

• 22-Sep-2007
  Tree Wave Love

  I mentioned yesterday in a comment in response to a comment my old friend Erin made, wherein she mentions she heard Christina Aguilera and thought of me. Yes, I was so into Christina several years ago that a certain number of people now associate me with her. I’m not listening to that much Christina Aguilera…

• 22-Sep-2007
  Moorpark Packers Photos Page Needs Work

  Last night I uploaded a bunch of photos for a few different teams on the Moorpark Packers. I have to say though, before the month is out I want to improve the interface for viewing these photos, it’s hacked up from, like, years ago now, and needs some serious love to get it so that…

• 22-Sep-2007
  Supercharming: Google explains iGoogle to Japan

  Found via JapanProbe, which describes it thus: This video, in which Google spokesman Brad tells Japanese netizens about how they can customize their Google Homepage with iGoogle, has been featured on the main page of YouTube Japan: Think it will convince many Japanese netizens to stop using Yahoo over Google?

• 23-Sep-2007
  1971 Zappa Documentary

  This is in no way safe for work. But it’s a fascinating look into the world of Frank Zappa from the Flo & Eddy era. There’s bad language, drugs (only cigarettes for frank), sexuality, and more. Worth it for Zappa Fans.

• 23-Sep-2007
  robots.txt Crawling and Stats

  I found robots.txt Adventure really compelling. Anyone with the time and inclination to do broad studies of all the web, or at least as wide a portion as you can get your arms around, is fine by me. It’s impressive enough when someone like Google does it, as in 2005’s Web Authoring Statistics, but when…

• 23-Sep-2007
  In Search of Steve Ditko

  Oh man, this is good. A BBC Documentary about comics creator Steve Ditko. It’s delightful, and I sure hope it stays up on YouTube. THE BEAT :In Search of Steve Ditko via The Beat Blog.

• 24-Sep-2007
  Tried and True

  Several million years ago I used to work alongside a fellow Respiratory Therapist named Dave. We worked alongside each other and he’d say wise and smartassed things on the night shift at California Hospital. Good work and good talk. Now, it turns out the dude blogs about things Los Angeles, but especially what he calls…

• 24-Sep-2007
  Consistent with Reality

  Jim Kunstler writes Shock and Awe Reality is telling us to shift from avoidance behavior and denial to engaging with reality in order to lead lives that are consistent with reality. Sometime the truth hurts or stings. Jim Kunstler is talking about many things to do with the US economy there. One of the great…

• 25-Sep-2007
  Blog Upgraded to WordPress 2.3

  WordPress 2.3 is out and I have updated to it without incident. The big new addition is tags, though I will need to update my themes to view those. I’ve never been quite comfortable with the Categories system in WordPress, perhaps the tagging in 2.3 is a good answer, I certainly enjoy tags in flickr…

• 25-Sep-2007
  My Mom’s Cancer (Update)

  So it’s been a few months since my Mom’s stroke and subsequent diagnosis of Stage IV Renal Cancer. She’s been through a bunch of chemotherapy, ups and downs, but generally is in great spirits and kicking butt. A few weeks ago she was out with my Dad and the rest of my family to San…

• 25-Sep-2007
  my resume sucks, what to do about it

  I really like that Steve Yegge fellow. He’s funny and smart and he builds stuff with computers. That’s my kind of people. Stevey’s Blog Rants: Ten Tips for a (Slightly) Less Awful Resume Face it: all the traditional advice about trying to convince the hiring manager that you’re a plucky, scrappy young individual from a…

• 26-Sep-2007
  Time Warner, Cabletards

  So this morning I spent THIRTY-FIVE minutes at the local office of Time Warner Cable because apparently we had not paid our bill. But of course, we had, several times, since we have moved. But somehow, twice this week, they shut us off for nonpayment. My time at TW taught me that the payments they…

• 27-Sep-2007
  American Innovation: Sushi

  I have mentioned before how much I esteem Thomas P.M. Barnett. In a recent blog post he points out a USA Today story about a new term in American Islam: Sushi The quote from the USA Today story: He calls himself “Sushi,” the popular term for a combination of Sunni and Shiite. Once the glib…

• 27-Sep-2007
  ATTN Web Designers: Ashley Qualls Beats You At Internet

  MySpace millionaire says “whatever” to high school Go Ashley Go! Ashley’s business is whateverlife.com. At first I found the 17 year old’s story a bit depressing, but after thinking about it a bit I find it really inspiring.

• 28-Sep-2007
  communication usually fails, except by accident

  Wiio’s laws are humoristically formulated serious observations about how human communication usually fails except by accident. This document comments on the applicability and consequences of the laws, especially as regards to communication on the Internet. Communication usually fails, except by accident. If communication can fail, it will If communication cannot fail, it still most usually…

• 29-Sep-2007
  Site Maintenance; Leah 2002

  You may have noticed I’ve reverted the theme of this blog back to my prior black with zig-zag sidebars and away from the excellent free theme I had been using. In the end using someone else’s theme on my blog feels wrong to me. It’s not really showing my crufty personality and peculiar oddness in…

• 30-Sep-2007
  Zappa Morning

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FUAgIBysj4 via Kill Ugly Radio And also, Adrian Belew recently made two posts about adventures in Frank Zappa’s world: How To End Up Wearing A Dress On Stage In A Concert Film With Frank Zappa How To End Up Imitating Bob Dylan In Concert With Frank Zappa Every good morning should begin with a little…

• 30-Sep-2007
  Jon Lech Johansen on iPhone Bricking

  Thoughtful thinking from DVD Jon who knows about this stuff. Think Closed Has Nokia or Sony Ericsson ever bricked or refused service on an unlocked phone? Not that I’ve heard of, and if they did, they would have been quickly sued in several countries where consumer rights are more strongly protected. Did Sony ever brick…

• 30-Sep-2007
  Soyrizo & Eggs

  Mexican. Vegan. Kosher. Soy. Awesome.

• 30-Sep-2007
  Dead PHP3 Code

  People don’t write PHP like this anymore, or, if they do, they get hurt badly. This is old code of mine. Timestamp is January 29, 2002. Yeesh. <? $where_they_are = ‘http://’ . $SERVER_NAME . $REQUEST_URI; if ($HTTP_REFERER!=”) { $recipientlist=’joe@artlung.com’; $emailsubject=”visit to $SERVER_NAME via ” . $HTTP_REFERER; $emailbody=”someone came to $where_they_are via $HTTP_REFERER ip address: $REMOTE_ADDR…

• 01-Oct-2007
  Maxed Out

  When Dave Ramsey shows up in the first 10 minutes of a documentary about credit in the USA, that’s a good sign for the documentary. Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders. Well reviewed on Rotten Tomatoes.

• 01-Oct-2007
  The Information Age: longer than you thought.

  Alex Wright, The Deep History of the Information Age Download the audio to this talk at the Long Now Seminars page.

• 05-Oct-2007
  Seriously, Ryze?

  Email from @ryze.com. Subject line: Someone wants to network with you Okay, fine, I’ve not been to Ryze, but I thought it was cool a long time ago, and I don’t mind linkedin, or facebook, or even myspace messages, so I take a look at the email. Body: Someone wants to network with you: http://www.ryze.com/networkwithme.php…

• 08-Oct-2007
  Nephrectomy

  Word from Virginia is that over the weekend my Mom had a successful nephrectomy. She has one less kidney than she had when she was born. Apparently it went well, and she’s recovering in the hospital. I hope to get back there sometime this month. Previously. Update: I just got an IM from my sister…

• 09-Oct-2007
  Mom’s Magazine Article

  Our Health Magazine, about my Mom, Phyllis Crawford. This almost… almost captures how awesome she is. From October/November 2007 in www.ourhealthswva.com (their website does not have the article). In the article it has my Grandfather, Jesus Arthur Silva (where I get my middle name from, by the way) saying “No, Mia” — which is a…

• 10-Oct-2007
  Morning’s Miscellany

  Zappa Documentary on YouTube, Pointed to by Kill Ugly Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syhzBQUZgjQ 10 Zen Monkeys asks writers Is The Net Good For Writers? My favorite is Clay Shirky’s. My current musical obsessions: Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street, Foo Fighter’s Baker Street, Toy Doll’s Nellie the Elephant, Siouxsee & the Banshees Dear Prudence, Christine, and The Passenger, and…

• 10-Oct-2007
  Please Compare and Contrast

  Gerry Rafferty: Baker Street, from around 1979: Toy Dolls: Nellie the Elephant, from around 1984: Topics you may wish to discuss include video aesthetics, goofy British dudes, musicianship, seriousness and fun. I like both songs very much.

• 10-Oct-2007
  Leah made me look really good

  Just the other day: She’s driving back from Utah tomorrow. My wish for her is excellent driving, good weather, and little traffic.

• 10-Oct-2007
  Yahoo Kool-Aid: Y! Mash and MyBlogLog

  Vernacular speech is pretty crazy stuff. “Drinking the Kool-Aid” is a metaphor for embracing something fully, often unthinkingly. This metaphor has its roots in either psychedelic drugs or mass religious suicide. Take your pick. Anyway, with that, I’ll cop to two new social-software, web two-point-oh oddnesses. The first is Yahoo! Mash, YASN. I’m not sure…

• 11-Oct-2007
  Morning is the time for Miscellany

  Danah Boyd is surprised to be used as a pack mule for some great marketing. I think it’s the nature of the beast. When something hits your gut, it’s natural to try and promote it. Taking a step back and realizing you’re part of someone’s street team can be a little disorienting! Via The Beat,…

• 12-Oct-2007
  Just me and the pygmy pony

  Lyric of the day: I’m gonna find me a horse Just about this big, And ride him all along the border line With a Pair of heavy-duty Zircon-encrusted tweezers in my hand Every other wrangler would say I was mighty grand But by myself I wouldn’t Have no boss, But I’d be raisin’ my lonely…

• 13-Oct-2007
  My name is Misc, How do you do?

  Uncov got some para-journalistic love from Wired. I have mentioned uncov before. I have thought a bit more about the salty language Ted uses, and I’ve decided it’s really interesting to my brain to have the subject be computer science and business and have the language come out of, oh, Quentin Tarantino. Id meets intellect….

• 13-Oct-2007
  Required Viewing for the Music Business

  via Mark Evanier, Flo and Eddie, aka The Turtles, explain their storied relationships with lawsuits and bad managers: The music business is a cesspool, always has been. Sad.

• 14-Oct-2007
  Flowchart of the Day

  Over on Worse than Failure, there’s a thoughtful essay about the usual software is impossible: Avoiding Development Disasters. The graphic looks right to me. A dozen paths to failure. Success rare.

• 15-Oct-2007
  .NET, Miguel de Icaza

  A few weeks ago Miguel de Icaza, the firebrand behing Mono, the open source implementation of Dot Net, posted a bit about the punditry about Microsoft’s decision to allow folks to look at the code behind Dot Net. Not exactly open sourcing it. Got that, he was talking about those talking about it:  A Journey…

• 15-Oct-2007
  Good Weekend

  It was a good weekend. Pumpkin pie. Paychecks arrived on-time. Bills paid on-time. Leah‘s still back: awesome. Latest photos? Terrific. Heard good things from my sister by text message about the cytology of my Mom’s cancer. She continues to recover from her surgery. As Drudge would say… developing. Not looking forward to the traffic today…

• 15-Oct-2007
  Reader Subscription Stats are Complicated

  Check out more information over at the FeedBurner Blog: Burning Questions • Google Reader Subscription Stats and FeedBurner I don’t pay too much attention to stats, but I do watch for folks coming in through referring links. FeedBurner is pretty cool, I use the FeedSmith plugin referenced. Valleywag’s take is typically cynical.

• 16-Oct-2007
  Play Misc-y for Me

  I’ve been reading and listening to lots about animation, and one of the more fun things has been Spline Cast, a podcast about 3-D animation. My favorite podcast right now is Dave Ramsey’s 1 hour version of his show. Don’t bother with the 3-hour version, it’s not really free. My previous favorite podcast is Harry…

• 16-Oct-2007
  Mom’s Cancer News

  So I mentioned yesterday, ever-so-briefly, that there was some news about the pathology report from my Mom’s kidney, which was removed. This morning my father sent me an updated and elaborated diagnosis, and more information. This may prove useful to someone, and is definitely useful to family and friends who would like an update. First…

• 17-Oct-2007
  Misc and Max

  Some strangeness afoot. Police apparently came in the house while I was in the tub and looked around looking for some dude (Ryan Reynolds?). They didn’t bug me. Also, my Windows 2003 and my iTunes and my old 1GB iPod Shuffle are not playing well. Jerks. Yuck! I tried the iPod Reset Utility, I tried…

• 18-Oct-2007
  I’m sure it’s for a good cause

  via Uncle Eddy Fun things I noted recently, Neil joined my MyBlogLog (we’re up to 1 member, yay!), and also that he had mentioned me in a blog post but I had missed it. Kind words. Neil’s a very funny writer. Headed to work now. Yesterday was good. Hoping for likewise today.

• 18-Oct-2007
  My Commute Can Be Pretty

  On Las Virgenes through the canyons as I am coming into Malibu.

• 19-Oct-2007
  Misc is out of Style

  To start with, a random screenshot from a video from 1989: It’s by MC 900 Ft. Jesus. Watch actual videos by MC 900 Ft Jesus below: I enjoy his music very much. He got his name from a vision of Oral Roberts: May 25, 1980, while overlooking his religious center which was in financial difficulty:…

• 20-Oct-2007
  All The Misc That’s Fit to Misc

  Don’t use oxygen and smoke, please. Thomas PM Barnett, a great Powerpointer, mentions that Al Gore has his Nobel Prize because of his PPTs (actually Keynote, but same difference, presentation software). Read/Write Web has good thoughts on Microsoft’s playing catch-up with Google on a number of web tools. I like competitor for Google. It means…

• 22-Oct-2007
  Terrorism is an inverted lottery

  From a recent interview: William Gibson Hates Futurists :: tyeebooks.ca On whether some new terrorist attack will make 9-11 look small “Eventually, I would say it’s almost inevitable. Not immediately, because there is no need. The last one is still working. In some strange way, [for terrorists] anything that was less than 9-11 won’t do….

• 22-Oct-2007
  Smokey Sky above Moorpark

  Fires to the northwest, northeast, to the southeast. We get smoke, everything smells of smoke. No school closings tomorrow, says Moorpark Unified School District. It all reminds me of the fires in San Diego back in 2003.

• 23-Oct-2007
  Moorpark Air is Bad Today

  I woke up with my throat dry and with an acrid feel in my nose. I can also feel, with a deep breath, some pain on inhalation. This is not good. It’ll do me good to get out and out of this air. I’m going to encourage Leah and our houseguests to get away from…

• 24-Oct-2007
  Lyrics of the Day: Endicott

  Endicott’s up by 5 o’clock Endicott’s givin’ it all he got Endicott’s job is six to nine but Endicott’s home by 9 oh five Endicott helps to cook the steak Endicott helps to wash the plates Endicott puts the kids to bed Endicott reads a book to them (Why cant you be like Endicott?) (oh)…

• 25-Oct-2007
  Where There’s a Misc There’s a Way

  The language in this is not safe for work, but the sentiments are important: How to Irritate and Annoy People in the Name of Blogging A lot of people I know or know of are blogging about the fires in San Diego: Sassy, JeSais, MAS, MissEwon, Chuck, and Geoff. Also, people I haven’t met: Raph…

• 26-Oct-2007
  Slate: Crashed Hard

  I tried to click through to a slate article just now. Big .NET error. Ugly. I figure the linker got the url wrong. I slice off the request and just leave http://www.slate.com/ — and still, ugly. Ten minutes later? Still down. This is what we call FAIL. Someone should be getting a page, someone should…

• 29-Oct-2007
  Misc, Misc, everywhere… and not a drop to drink

  Blurbomat points to the review of MacOS 10.5, “Leopard” on Ars Technica. Anil Dash has no sense of humor about one icon. I wish Windows had included Mac networking by default years ago. Sadly, no. Maybe something based on: I upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.3.1. Bugfixes and an easy transition from 2.3. I’m so…

• 31-Oct-2007
  Misc-y Halloween!

  Did I really go a day without blogging? For shame! No, not really. It’s Halloween, though I don’t have any special visuals to offer you today — I’ve been far too busy lately. But I do have many tasty linky treats to offer. Really! Remember, Color Me Badd — famous for the song I Want…

• 03-Nov-2007
  I don’t want to set the Misc on fire.

  Today is catch-up and do stuff day. First, enjoy some Sinfest! Also, know that the truly twisted (and rarely safe for work) online comic Perry Bible Fellowship has a book coming out soon, with the enigmatic title The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories: A Collection of The Comic Strips of The Perry Bible…

• 03-Nov-2007
  JDarkroom and focus.

  So I have a problem with focus sometimes. My mind drifts thither and yon. I have a lot of interests, and it can be hard to stay on-task, at home, at work, anywhere. My “Misc” posts are all about that. Whatever’s in front of my nose and on my mind. But they lack depth. I’m…

• 05-Nov-2007
  Bar Camp LA 4 was Cool

  I had a great time at BarCamp LA. I missed Saturday but I went Sunday, I brought 60 pounds of ice, I brought 7-up, I brought grape soda, I saw and participated in presentations, I met people (few new, some old), I took photos, I twittered, other people took photos, I ate pizza, I went…

• 07-Nov-2007
  Expatriate Baby Part 2

  Part 1 was back in 2005. Here’s what Laura says: Just a short note to let you know Juliette Alexandra Ross joined us on October 22 at 2:23 Paris time. She was a long and lean 19.5 inches, 6.5 pounds, and she’s been an angel from the second she arrived. We’re at home now and…

• 08-Nov-2007
  In lieu of blogging today, I offer instead this adorable photo.

  Found here.

• 13-Nov-2007
  Pleasantness Overall, And Why

  I’m pleased with how things are arranged right now. Usually being content means I am blogging much more. So much wonderful stuff to say! I’ve been pleasantly busy. This pleasantness has manifested itself in steady work, side projects finishing finally, and things at my dayjob going relatively well. Herein I will try and communicate some…

• 14-Nov-2007
  Misc Cavalcade!

  Yesterday I managed to write a post that was not: a single photo with a caption; a list of links; a random snippet of lyrics; a few words begging you off until I could really blog. Today, I have some links, but there are very many, and I hope to provide some context for each….

• 16-Nov-2007
  Bad Recruiter Email of the Day: Posted in the Google

  HI, Good Evening. I found your profile which you have posted in the Google. I got very good job offer for you. I am sending you the details. If you are interested to take this opportunity, kindly send your updated resume with contact details and two references so that I can submit you and put…

• 19-Nov-2007
  Playing with jQuery

  One of my goals in the new year is to create some kind of simple online game in JavaScript. I’m almost at a point where I have free time, which is so awesome. Also, I’m learning some of the libraries and frameworks for JavaScript — to that end I’m experimenting with some of the frameworks…

• 20-Nov-2007
  William Gibson, Gravy, and a Video

  William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary Interview : Rolling Stone I find myself less pessimistic than I sometimes imagine I should be. When I started to write science fiction, the intelligent and informed position on humanity’s future was that it wasn’t going to have one at all. We’ve forgotten that a whole lot of…

• 21-Nov-2007
  Rock Band

  One of the funner side effects of working for a game company is that new games tend to get bought on the date of release. To that end, yesterday there was a copy of Rock Band in the office. Because of my previous experience (documented by Leah here) playing SingStar and Karaoke Revolution I was…

• 22-Nov-2007
  Happy Thanksgiving

  I could not possibly say it any better than Sassy did in his post: Turkey Time at Vista Seeker: I am a big Thanksgiving fan. It’s a holiday with the sole purpose of getting together, eating, drinking, and being merry. There’s no religious overtones, no consumerism-tainted gift-guilting, and it’s a one-day thing – no endless…

• 24-Nov-2007
  My Remarkable Mom

  A story about her in the Roanoke Times and World News… Go Mom! A look at calendar changes her outlook “God is where the poor are”: Five years ago, Phyllis Crawford, 61, took a class that forced her to examine her life by looking at her calendar. She was told that “what you saw there…

• 28-Nov-2007
  Sheepies in the Vast Gray Field

  As you may have seen previously, I’ve been experimenting with building a game with jQuery as the infrastructure over on joecrawford.com. This is a screenshot. The super-cute illustrations were created by Dug. The concept of a game with sheep was suggested by a few people, including MAS. Ping said cats and mice, but I quite…

• 28-Nov-2007
  Leah in Fray

  One of my earliest encounters with online storytelling was via Fray, I even saw a bit of a live “Fray Cafe” event at SXSW in 2001. I’m quite happy to see Fray relaunching as a virtual and paper magazine, and incredibly PROUD to have my wife as a contribute to the first issue!

• 28-Nov-2007
  Sixty Out of Ninety-One

  Sadly, they inserted a hidden link to some dumb dating site into the HTML they generate. Boo! … Quiz was fun though.

• 30-Nov-2007
  Misc Never Knows

  I’m up relatively early this morning. I can hear rain outside the window of the office. Leah acquired some of the lovely All Natural Cola by Whole Foods and I’m having one of those. I feel a tickle in my nose and I think I might be getting a cold. That’s not optimal. I have…

• 30-Nov-2007
  Uh oh, I am unwell

  My nose is a-snifflin’. My head is a-stuffy. This is not optimal. I am wishin’ and hopin’ for health, and also mean to get into some fluids and whatnot. Also rest where possible. But I feel so energetic!

• 05-Dec-2007
  Rub Our Noses In It (Steven King on the Media)

  From Q&A: Talking with Stephen King in Time Magazine. Do you actually think Britney and Lindsay should be on our cover? Yeah, I do. Sort of a, ‘This is what the media’s actually interested it, so let’s just put it out there’ thing? I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people,…

• 06-Dec-2007
  Joe2 bowls 137; Oblivious

  Went bowling yesterday with co-workers, it was pretty fun. I bowled a 137, a 130, and a 114 which put me third among the 12 folks bowling. My head is feeling better too. It’s all good. The song in my head which I was unable a good copy of from either on iTunes, Amazon MP3…

• 06-Dec-2007
  Oblivious / Roddy Frame

  Stuck in my head like a stone in my shoe is the song Oblivious by Aztec Camera. Here’s a live recording by Roddy Frame, then the awesome lyrics. Aztec Camera / Oblivious from the mountain tops down to the sunny street a different drum is playing a different kind of beat it’s like a mystery…

• 10-Dec-2007
  Observations

  Backstory: Last Tuesday, Leah drove with Alison and Tony (my niece and her husband) back to Utah, where they will go to school. They were great houseguests and their soups will be missed. So last week Leah was hanging out with Robin and the Armstrongs. I stayed back and worked. On Friday I flew to…

• 10-Dec-2007
  I have no Xbox

  But now I have a gamertag: http://live.xbox.com/member/artlung Working in the games business, as I do by dint of working for a game company, it’s become sort of sad that I don’t have one. Even sadder though, is that I’m unlikely to add anything to it anytime soon.

• 11-Dec-2007
  Quote of the Day

  “put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry” cite

• 13-Dec-2007
  Leah and Joe, a Bit Tired

  I really like the photo, but we do look a bit worn out. I do like it very much though. Dooce takes some great photos. This photo was from Friday night, pretty late.

• 13-Dec-2007
  Movable Type Open Source

  Movable Type went open source yesterday, and I don’t care. Too little, too late. A long time ago, it seemed like MT was the way to put together a blog. It was free for personal use, it was good, it was used by heavyweights of blogging. But I could never get past two things: the…

• 13-Dec-2007
  Youth Pastor Joe

  So at work some of the guys, notably Jukebox JT, have started referring to me as “Youth Pastor Joe” — presumably it’s about my being generally non-confrontational, even-tempered, and diplomatic. They mentioned I should have a public-access TV show and issue helpful messages to the kids today. It’s pretty funny stuff, actually. Youth Pastor Joe…

• 14-Dec-2007
  Flickr Pro Stats Showed Me Uses of My Images

  So Flickr Pro users now have access to stats, also announced on the flickr blog on the amounts of traffic they get, and where that traffic comes from. One of the first things I saw was a post on Valleywag that uses an old image from my Amiga Pictures set, here’s another old link to…

• 15-Dec-2007
  Robot Meets Girl

  I really like this set of photos, originally from Girl Vogue Korea in January 2006. They are sweet and charming and very 21st Century. If you had asked me in 1986 what I thought magazine fashion spreads for teen girls would look like in 2006, this would have been my answer. Of course, I’d have…

• 16-Dec-2007
  Downtown Los Angeles from Griffith Park

  Excellent photo by Mack Reed over on Metroblogging.la: “Frigid dawn over Los Angeles”: Absolutely beautiful. About ten years ago I worked downtown on the night shift at California Hospital, just a few years after that I worked as a temp at ARCO working on web pages, where I first encountered any server-side programming in a…

• 18-Dec-2007
  St. James Infirmary

  There’s an entire blog devoted to the song St. James Infirmary. It’s called NO NOTES and is pretty great. It’s a testament to the power of the web to provide whole environments where fandom and obsessive scholarship can flourish. I’m a big fan of fansites. If someone has a peculiar obsession, I think that’s great….

• 18-Dec-2007
  Jelly Belly

  Several weeks ago, Leah got me a jar of Jelly Bellies for work from CostCo (our houseguests had a membership and we took advantage of it for a wee little while): Here they are yesterday, at the tail end of their existence: I like having candy at my desk. Folks come by, they say hello,…

• 20-Dec-2007
  Valentine’s Day Display in December (?!?)

  Leah and I took a trip to a local Thousand Oaks Ralphs Supermarket — freeway-close and near the intersection of Moorpark Road and Janss Road — to get some Christmas essentials — namely: colored cellophane paper, candy canes, and IBUPROFEN. And what to my wandering eyes did appear, TWO AISLES OF SEASONAL TRAPPINGS. Only, what…

• 21-Dec-2007
  Happy Anniversary, Leahpeah

  As of today, three years married for me and Mrs. Leahpeah. It’s been, and continues to be, a pleasure. I have a real partner and someone I learn from and who learns from me every day. What a gift from the Universe. All my love, Joe

• 25-Dec-2007
  Back From San Diego

  Had a great time, and we’re wiped out. Here are some vaguely representative photos via a fuzzy phone camera. This is Leah and Me at a very unflattering angle listening to my Uncle Lee sing at a local church service (Lutheran) he sounded great! And here’s the same uncle and my aunt singing on Christmas…

• 28-Dec-2007
  No Thanks, Hopelessness

  John Scalzi writes a rather moving and rational answer to the eternal questions of “is that all there is?” and “why bother?” I have to say, it tracks with many of my own philosophies: Whatever: Reader Request Week 2007 #4: The Inevitable Blackness That Will Engulf Us All With the exception of the very last…

• 28-Dec-2007
  Happy Holidays!

  I like how this animation screwed with my expectations. Supernifty!

• 28-Dec-2007
  Video Killed The Radio Star

  Something I missed not being in San Diego. Excellent, inspiring, beautiful cover of the one-hit-wonder. The date on the YouTube video is 2006. The band “The Wrong Trousers” is active on their myspace: http://www.thewrongtrousersband.com/. via Waxy, where many good things come from

• 28-Dec-2007
  Rain, can’t drive in.

  So the lore in Los Angeles is that people in Los Angeles can’t drive in the rain. It feels so true, everyone says it. Even I say it, and I have lived in enough places to know that things are the same all over. Anyway, one of my favorite blogs, Militant Angeleno did some research…

• 30-Dec-2007
  Ronald McDonald

  Originally uploaded by Bill Rini Bill Rini was in Thailand for Christmas and took a lot of great photos. but I really like this one of a statue of Ronald McDonald with his hands in what I think might be a Buddhist greeting. Different cultures are different!

• 30-Dec-2007
  Healing Moral Fissures at DoD

  Retired General McCaffrey’s comments about Iraq after doing an extensive weeklong visit there, including leading with leadership and common people are heartening, particularly the bit about healing the moral stance of the Department of Defense. I really like the terse, matter-of-fact style. It reminds me a bit of the style in which Dave Ramsey gives…

• 30-Dec-2007
  Lovely Animation: Chinese Translation

  Here’s someone at The Stranger gushing about it. I like it.

• 30-Dec-2007
  Quiet Faith in Man

  This post by Dave Segovia, who I’ve mentioned before, VINCENT, THOMAS, and ME has been knocking about in my brain for a few weeks. Much as we worry about the toxins and pollutants and sure as they do us damage, science and medicine end up tasked with correcting the wrongs, they sort of do the…

• 31-Dec-2007
  Presidential Hopefuls Can’t Help Lying

  What is wrong with these clowns!?!? Sorting Truth From Campaign Fiction Mitt Romney says he “saw” his father “march” with Martin Luther King Jr. Rudolph W. Giuliani claims that he is one of the “five best-known Americans in the world.” According to John McCain, the Constitution established the United States as a “Christian nation.” Ron…

• 31-Dec-2007
  From April

  I like this photo by Grace Davis very much. It’s from dinner at Olio E Limone prior to going to see Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris perform.

• 31-Dec-2007
  Happy New Year!

  Random image, for a not bad year. Lovely mellow night here with the kids, in and out at parties. HAPPY NEW YEAR Y’ALL!!!