ArtLung: Archive: 2014

02-Jan-2014

Desktop robot agglomeration.

04-Jan-2014

Leah and her camera.

05-Jan-2014

Magical piano & me.

08-Jan-2014

Getter Poseidon: reconstituted

Getter Poseidon: reconstituted by Joe Crawford (artlung) Toy frippery! I bought one off eBay some months ago but it was not all there, and my efforts to repaint were not fruitful. Then at Robo Toy Fest I found a very broken one for $2 (cheap!). Now I’ve combined parts of both to make a good…

08-Jan-2014

Robot additions! Ready for action.

08-Jan-2014

Me, Saturday at The Last Bookstore. Think of the colors!

11-Jan-2014

Skullitacious!

13-Jan-2014

I do not get tired of changing around these bots!

15-Jan-2014

Programming Decor. Tux & Beastie.

16-Jan-2014

FREE CHILD with purchase of Adult

17-Jan-2014

Dawn Patrol.

18-Jan-2014

Love.

19-Jan-2014

At the San Diego Urban Sketchers meetup group surreptitiously drawing in plain sight.

22-Jan-2014

The Big Guy & Rusty The Boy Robot! Any day with robot additions can’t be all bad.

28-Jan-2014

The IRS Slog: All But Over

In 2009 Leah and I came to terms with an ugly truth: we owed the IRS and California a combined $27k for tax year 2008, and did not have the money. We knuckled down, and got on a payment plan. Meanwhile, we noticed that we’d failed to file in 2004 and 2005. Combining those we…

29-Jan-2014

Giving blood with San Diego Blood Bank.

30-Jan-2014

Curvilinear

31-Jan-2014

Finally emptied out

31-Jan-2014

Friday is dust & change the bots around day.

31-Jan-2014

Duchess demands petting. No choice.

01-Feb-2014

Showing my sister-in-law Mt Soledad and the Chief’s plaque!

01-Feb-2014

Latest recruits! From Connecticut and Tokyo! (Getter 1 & Gaiking)

04-Feb-2014

The Robots Collection of ArtLung

The Robots Collection of ArtLung by Joe Crawford (artlung) Frippery is the right of anyone. I’d say something like “I can’t afford a little sportscar so I collect robots” but I think even if I could afford a sportscar what I’d probably do is collect more expensive (as opposed to these cheap) robots. Actually I…

05-Feb-2014

Springesque

06-Feb-2014

bus kiosk, rainy day

06-Feb-2014

Making marks on the bus.

07-Feb-2014

Oh look it’s Chibi Mechagodzilla!

08-Feb-2014

Domos! Attention: @mikeynerd

13-Feb-2014

I love the unexpected congruency between @nikinapalm watercolor and @empoweredcomic ‘s comic. Both arrived yesterday!

14-Feb-2014

Creme brûlée with @leah7peah

15-Feb-2014

Bee themed. By Leah.

17-Feb-2014

I missed Mike Allred’s Madman when it came out in 1993. Now I’m catching up.

18-Feb-2014

Latest bot recruit is from a little show called Space Battleship Yamato (adapted sliced & diced into Star Blazers in USA)

19-Feb-2014

Walkin’ Self

19-Feb-2014

Analyzer Unit 09 (09-Type Autonomic Shipboard Analysis Unit) joins the family.

19-Feb-2014

Lucky Thirteen! (13 years blogging)

As of TODAY I’ve been blogging more or less sporadically for thirteen years. The first post? It occurs to me… was from when I was still on blogger.com, back when they were not owned by Google. If you’re curious about what’s actually worth revisiting and reading, you might check out the Popular Stuff Most Commented…

20-Feb-2014

My colorful cast of characters. eBay seller gave me bonus superdeformed Getter Robo!

20-Feb-2014

Standoff.

21-Feb-2014

I like the painting of David Crosby in the background. Also liking live tunes.

22-Feb-2014

Faux Flowers

24-Feb-2014

King Joe from the Ultraman universe has arrived! New bots always!

26-Feb-2014

The Bot Collection

When I started this post, back in January, the intent was for it to be a comprehensive discourse on toy robots. I was starting to collect them and thought I could sum it up succinctly. So much for brevity, it’s meandering. Bear with me. Here’s the collection from then. My fascination with robots probably began…

28-Feb-2014

I’m trying to think of them not as meetings, but parties. Like, not very good parties.

01-Mar-2014

Gundam Converge 12 RX-79[G] with Henrietta the plant.

02-Mar-2014

Freedom and the rule of law: fragile and precious

From Our Comrade The Electron by Maciej Ceglowski: Bad people are using the global surveillance system we built to do something mean! Holy crap! Who could have imagined this? Or when we learn that the American government is reading the email that you send unencrypted to the ad-supported mail service in another country where it…

03-Mar-2014

Stupid HTTP Status Jokes

Questionable humor value. And yet, there I go. Giddy Up 409: Beach Boys Conflict #HttpResponseCodeCulture — Joe Crawford (@artlung) March 3, 2014 501 Jeans: Not Implemented #HttpResponseCodeCulture — Joe Crawford (@artlung) March 3, 2014 418 I'm a little teapot short and stout #HttpResponseCodeCulture — Joe Crawford (@artlung) March 3, 2014 400 Blows: Bad Request #HttpResponseCodeCulture…

03-Mar-2014

Quotes of the Day

“Monsieur, azonnal kövessen engem bitte.” –Gaff “Lófaszt, nehogy már. Te vagy a Blade.” –Gaff “That gibberish he talked was city speak, gutter talk. A mishmash of Japanese, Spanish, German, what have you. I didn’t really need a translator, I knew the lingo, every good cop did. But I wasn’t going to make it easier for…

04-Mar-2014

Yes! Acquired Robot Girl by Michelle Valigura from @mostawesomeshop !! Happy (early) Birthday to me!

04-Mar-2014

Debt and Education / Chomsky / Shirky

From Chomsky: How America’s Great University System Is Getting Destroyed Well how do you indoctrinate the young? There are a number of ways. One way is to burden them with hopelessly heavy tuition debt. Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the…

05-Mar-2014

Duck bus staredown

05-Mar-2014

Brilliant. Cassette tape case as phone stand.

05-Mar-2014

Am I still a Respiratory Therapist?

I am not licensed in California. That expired 10 years ago. My CV is way out of date. I kept paying for the license until 2004 even though I last practiced in 1997. I received Certificate Number 1555 for Respiratory Care Practitioner in Virginia in November 1993, but those expired long ago. In 1998 Virginia…

05-Mar-2014

Tab Sweep Time

I started writing this post back in November of 2013 and failed to finish it. Ah well. Oh golly, I don’t blog all that much. So, time to sweep some of the things I’ve been reading and watching in the past few weeks. And comment randomly. It’s scary to change careers a short inspirational comic…

06-Mar-2014

Gypsy is very patient during meetings.

07-Mar-2014

It’s Friday AND new robot day. Welcome Combattler! (Chōdenji Robo Combattler V) an anime from 1976.

10-Mar-2014

Excellent Co-workers are Excellent.

Last Friday some code I wrote finally got battle tested and was found wanting (read: it was not very good). And because of deployment processes I needed a co-worker to deploy it. Each time a new build of the software deployed my co-worker used an exclamation that it was complete that was colorful. (5:49:10 PM)…

10-Mar-2014

Jojo munching on her alien.

10-Mar-2014

New digs.

11-Mar-2014

Day 2. Family photo addition.

12-Mar-2014

Advancing age is best complemented with a flattering hairstyle.

14-Mar-2014

Gypsy doe not have to debug mysterious 400 errors.

15-Mar-2014

“You’re a good guy, like Superman.” New bot day. Iron Giant is #23 of my workbots.

17-Mar-2014

While waiting for backend folks to debug issues, robot rearrangement calms my nerves.

18-Mar-2014

Robot Inventory, Current Edition

Ultraman Cosmos (red) Father of Ultra (horns) Ultraman Neos (blue) Getter Robo (axes) The Big Guy Rusty The Boy Robot Getter Dragon Hexbug Ant Kikkerland Le Pinch Transformers Dreadwing (1) Transformers Dreadwing (2) Schylling Tin Bot X-306 Space Robot Wind-Up Party Favor Getter 1 Gaiking Analyzer Unit 09 Getter Robo (Superdeformed) Gundam Converge 12 RX-79[G]…

19-Mar-2014

The weather outside’s not frightful

20-Mar-2014

Birthday early morning dental appointment!

23-Mar-2014

Photobombed by Dusty at Family Dinner.

23-Mar-2014

Dewey is enormous and friendly. There are either 5 or 6 dogs here. Hard to count.

23-Mar-2014

Dusty & Miles

24-Mar-2014

Chilling.

24-Mar-2014

Colors of the wind.

26-Mar-2014

Toe to toe with giants.

27-Mar-2014

By height. Welcome Artoo! (Taller than Mechagodzilla & Analyzer) NewBotDay!

28-Mar-2014

Class Picture.

29-Mar-2014

GIANT ROBO HAS ARRIVED! (Design from Japanese manga and live action tv, 1967)

30-Mar-2014

Beware the finger missiles of Giant Robo (or, check out my explosive manicure)

07-Apr-2014

Lunchtime is comics, baloney and incredible weather.

09-Apr-2014

Scrum time. (Agile bots)

09-Apr-2014

Jojo on my lap during deployment.

11-Apr-2014

The face of late Friday.

17-Apr-2014

Agenda: California northbound.

18-Apr-2014

Sacramento really is a city of trees.

18-Apr-2014

Road trips are better with awesome folks.

18-Apr-2014

Goofballs of luv. Rehearsing up a storm.

19-Apr-2014

Plan for the afternoon and evening.

19-Apr-2014

Beautiful day.

19-Apr-2014

Photo booths are go!

20-Apr-2014

Easter Neighborhood Stroll

20-Apr-2014

Every backyard in Homewood seems to have trees like this.

20-Apr-2014

Road trip photos

20-Apr-2014

Creme Brûlée for 4.

21-Apr-2014

Eagerly and patiently awaiting (from Saturday)

21-Apr-2014

Alexandra’s Bridesmaids were lovely and did their jobs very well.

21-Apr-2014

Alexandra giving Ashlyn some tips on her job (Rehearsal afternoon)

21-Apr-2014

This is a Monday I could get used to.

21-Apr-2014

I love these women, I love those smiles. (Rehearsal day)

21-Apr-2014

The half order of salmon and bagel is not kidding around

21-Apr-2014

Protected.

21-Apr-2014

Beach day.

23-Apr-2014

Jojo, still at work.

24-Apr-2014

Quietude/Transit.

28-Apr-2014

Tetsujin 28! (Gigantor) has arrived! Joins the club tomorrow?

28-Apr-2014

Water temperature 62°F at the Jetty. I’m calling this summer.

29-Apr-2014

60s & 70s Japanese giant robots? Welcome 1956-debuting Tetsujin-28, GIGANTOR!

29-Apr-2014

Chill time between meetings at my office is pretty great.

30-Apr-2014

“Alright this is good hair”. –Leah

01-May-2014

Bus wait

02-May-2014

LP

03-May-2014

Welcome H.E.R.B.I.E.! (Humanoid Experimental Robot, B-type, Integrated Electronics) debuted 1978 in the Fantastic Four cartoon.

03-May-2014

Morning constitutional

03-May-2014

LP & R&B.

04-May-2014

\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM is missing or corrupt at this gas pump

05-May-2014

Helper bots united! Analyzer, HERBIE, & Artoo!

05-May-2014

Even overcast and ugly it’s kinda pretty.

06-May-2014

PETCO is pretty at sunset

06-May-2014

Stadium us!

06-May-2014

Me n’ Leah n’ Joelle n’ Mikey

07-May-2014

Mickey Padres from Petco Park

07-May-2014

Midway Model / Petco Park

09-May-2014

I got out without purchasing a thing from @ROBOT4LESS But I wanted many of the shiny things.

09-May-2014

Color swatches!

09-May-2014

The lighting in here emphasizes our ages. But we are having fun!

09-May-2014

Marilyn (3D) & Han (2D)

09-May-2014

Tiki Macabre

09-May-2014

Airbrushed new friend.

09-May-2014

Drawing jam, conversation and food/Chris & Joe. (1985 to 2014 and later)

09-May-2014

The World Famous Wedge, but it’s not breaking. I wonder how cold it is?

09-May-2014

Not too bad, though I did get some oil seep on my foot out there.

09-May-2014

I am an oilbird now. How do I get this off? Time to donate to @surfrider

10-May-2014

These are not giant robots.

10-May-2014

Much Gundam. wow.

10-May-2014

Death rides a snowboard orbiting the earth. Artist unknown, 21 C. Acrylic on snowboard.

10-May-2014

That is a hat, Hoss. @james47ag

10-May-2014

I came to the right place.

10-May-2014

Chōdenji Robo Combattler V! This place is great. Will come back.

10-May-2014

Zac!!!!!

11-May-2014

At the Jetty. Alexandra and Ryan came down PLUS they treated Leah and me to a brunch for Mothers Day? Perfect day.

12-May-2014

“I wear my headphones at the disco”

12-May-2014

Pairs of brothers! (Rightmost is a new acquisition!) Getter 1 bros and Combatra aka Combattler V.

15-May-2014

Beat the heat.

16-May-2014

Shaky bus sketch of Wondy and the Invisible Jet. Friday is the best thing.

17-May-2014

Long time no @drsketchysd

17-May-2014

18 minutes at @drsketchysd

18-May-2014

My 2008 California driver’s license photo. That hairstyle was not intentional.

21-May-2014

Perfectly beautiful sky

23-May-2014

Killin’ time inkin’ practice on this three day weekend.

24-May-2014

NEW COLORS. I think @skiesareclear would love this store.

24-May-2014

@missewon & janky animal beads

26-May-2014

Caution.

26-May-2014

New pal. Grill out time.

26-May-2014

Baily belongs to Jen & Chad. He’s cool.

28-May-2014

AngularJS on jsfiddle.

It’s pretty astonishingly easy to play with AngularJS with jsfiddle. Last night I went to the North County AngularJS Discussion Group / sandiegojs group at WalmartLabs here in San Diego. Smallish but impressive space.

31-May-2014

My dad @j23p worked at this Der Wienerschnitzel 50 years ago.

31-May-2014

Inking the blue line beach sketches I did while waiting for the brake job cost estimate. Final: $609 plus tax.

03-Jun-2014

Squinty blue morning

05-Jun-2014

Selfie between drawings on the bus.

05-Jun-2014

New @instagram app allows easy removal of blue lines when inking. Yay!

05-Jun-2014

Jojo at rest.

05-Jun-2014

Barstow In-N-Out is HUGE.

06-Jun-2014

My in-laws have some pretty flowers

06-Jun-2014

Today’s office has no robots but there is a tiny ninja.

06-Jun-2014

Father-in-law’s office shelves

06-Jun-2014

Pretty flowers (sunset edition) at the in-laws

07-Jun-2014

Picking green beans with in-laws in the morn. Reminded I’m a city boy.

07-Jun-2014

This is a pretty sky.

07-Jun-2014

Possibly not a hat couple.

07-Jun-2014

Generations working

10-Jun-2014

Roots

12-Jun-2014

Container Robot holds yogurt dipped raisins. PET recipiente con forma de Robot pequeño!

13-Jun-2014

Jojo casual Fridays. That’s Jojo’s owner Andria in the backgound.

14-Jun-2014

Chow Bella! My aunt Jacqui’s dog.

16-Jun-2014

Today I was the dude on the right.

27-Jun-2014

Planning Poker with Mountain Goat Software cards. Have read about it, now doing it.

04-Jul-2014

Power Girl’s costume is summery and patriotic. Kara Zor-L is Superman’s cousin from Earth-2. Happy 4th!

04-Jul-2014

GRENDIZER! Independence day means drawing.

05-Jul-2014

Ol’ Shellhead! (3 day weekend means drawing)

06-Jul-2014

December 1971 (a year and a half old) with my Nanie and cousin Shannon at Nanie & Tata’s.

07-Jul-2014

Fashion Plate. Age 5. 1975.

10-Jul-2014

Airport melon prepped by Leah

10-Jul-2014

Arrived DC. Sister driving. Vacation now!

11-Jul-2014

Nephew Archer feeds Javie breakfast. Daniel coordinates.

11-Jul-2014

Tiny hoop

11-Jul-2014

Morning in the yard

11-Jul-2014

ARCHER.

11-Jul-2014

Everyone here is cute.

11-Jul-2014

Toy boxes are hats here.

11-Jul-2014

“Archer make a face”

11-Jul-2014

From home!

11-Jul-2014

Archer & Auntie Leah & Hats

12-Jul-2014

Confederate flag hats on the left, buckets of pork bar-b-q on the right. Hello North Carolina.

12-Jul-2014

Supermoon. Nag’s Head.

13-Jul-2014

Dawn Patrol

13-Jul-2014

Sunup sketch: Princess Diana vs Killer Kroc

13-Jul-2014

Archer/Cars!

13-Jul-2014

Some classic Avengers sketchtime

13-Jul-2014

Idyllic back yard.

13-Jul-2014

Feet & Boards. You can’t hear the rhythmic sloshing of waves though.

14-Jul-2014

What will I do in the morning when there’s not a beach 60 yards away from the bedroom?

14-Jul-2014

Semi-alignment of moon, house, and shadow.

14-Jul-2014

Brightest morning sun

14-Jul-2014

Haircuts are a great relief.

15-Jul-2014

Archer concentrates on eggs.

16-Jul-2014

Archer, Kelly & Dumpling, a chicken.

16-Jul-2014

Me at Island Farm

16-Jul-2014

Leah and chickens

18-Jul-2014

In about 1988 I sewed this patch onto this hat. You can tell.

18-Jul-2014

This rocking chair is sponsored.

19-Jul-2014

Sunrise view, Outer Banks.

19-Jul-2014

And today is all rain.

19-Jul-2014

Last night of Nags Head: Joanie, Archer & Kelly

20-Jul-2014

All the stuff around K&D’s house is nice.

20-Jul-2014

J macking on a bit of grass.

20-Jul-2014

Airport drive.

20-Jul-2014

Airport drive II

21-Jul-2014

He’s tanned, rested and ready: Nixon ’88.

21-Jul-2014

New Bot Monday for Comic-Con week: Aphrodite A & Mazinger Z. (Created in ~1972)

23-Jul-2014

Batman @ 75 years. A bus commute doodle.

24-Jul-2014

Most packed trolleys: Comic-Con, next a ball game, last the old Street Scene.

24-Jul-2014

Bill Finger, the unsung creator of Batman and so much more. Panel at #SDCC cc: @MarcTNobleman

24-Jul-2014

Judah Friedlander of 30 Rock! @leahpeah will be jealous!

24-Jul-2014

It’s me & @missewon at #SDCC!

25-Jul-2014

The @sdbloodbank is getting ready to take my blood. Sponsored by #TrueBlood #SDCC

25-Jul-2014

Not recalling this cute little red robot in the Bible.

25-Jul-2014

Me and a friend. Bidibidibidi.

25-Jul-2014

Giant robot Batman, some random dude, and me with very tired eyes. I swear I feel better than that looks!

25-Jul-2014

Old school trolley not too packed

26-Jul-2014

STERANKO INTERVIEW PANEL!

26-Jul-2014

Iron Giant toy from Mondo looks great. #sdcc

27-Jul-2014

Robotic acquisitions from San Diego Comic Con 2014 #sdcc

28-Jul-2014

Gipsy Danger from Pacific Rim and the little red, silver and yellow fellow join the bot family!

29-Jul-2014

When I was a kid I had every SDMTS bus schedule in a ziplock in my backpack. Just in case I needed to GO.

29-Jul-2014

No radios, sodas, hot dogs or cigarettes.

30-Jul-2014

Lunch walk

31-Jul-2014

“This Location Has Gone Prince Days Without a Loss Time Accident” … Can you tell we’re a music company?

01-Aug-2014

Looking like the “before” part of a men’s hair color ad. Vaguely considering dyeing white or silver.

01-Aug-2014

This pool is no longer inviting.

01-Aug-2014

Stepdog!

04-Aug-2014

Día de los Muertos: me gusta Belle y Frida mucho más

06-Aug-2014

Shirt with no pockets is the mother of invention

07-Aug-2014

Today’s tooth polish flavor is “Tropical Fruit”

08-Aug-2014

Work dog Jojo demands attention. Cute new outfit (harness) every day.

09-Aug-2014

These are a few of my favorite things! (I miss the old brutalist PO already)

09-Aug-2014

True Blood t-shirt I got at Comic-Con is 2 for 2 starting conversations with cute male cashiers this morning. Ladies take note?

09-Aug-2014

SAND!

09-Aug-2014

Swam to the buoy, half mile approx total swim; 70 feet from a dolphin surfacing; typical day in SoCal.

10-Aug-2014

Green tea ice cream // last night

10-Aug-2014

No filters needed to make this Patty Pan Squash look vibrant.

11-Aug-2014

Bachelor week begins

12-Aug-2014

Talking on the phone with Chris and drawing. A tradition for decades.

12-Aug-2014

Need a shoeshine. Waiting on my car to get done so I can pay for my tires.

13-Aug-2014

Gipsy Danger oversees watermelon lunch.

13-Aug-2014

Terrible deal. (Unrelated: Was given lovely dinner and I installed some memory tonight, thus: La Mesa).

14-Aug-2014

Figs, olives, pickles, lend me your ears.

15-Aug-2014

Friday coffee wait selfie. Glad to have Leah back-from-her-trip face.

15-Aug-2014

Finally.

16-Aug-2014

Hmmm. Enterance?

17-Aug-2014

Whispering words of Wisdom, let it be. And for goodness sake let the vein on my temple chill out!

20-Aug-2014

Weather station.

21-Aug-2014

Back to school photo of my bots.

22-Aug-2014

Ceiling at Starbucks

23-Aug-2014

Tomatillos and eggplant

23-Aug-2014

Hardware store, grasshopper.

24-Aug-2014

I married the right woman.

25-Aug-2014

Please kind sir, nobody EVER plays with me, won’t you please cease this scrum and play?

26-Aug-2014

Thus morning’s busride sketch. Thus. This.

26-Aug-2014

Changing the ink cartridge on the moving bus was probably foolhardy. But I live on the edge Dottie.

27-Aug-2014

Dewy golf course in the morning. Serene. Less mystified by popularity of that pastime.

27-Aug-2014

I try to donate when they come to my building but it’s too soon since Comic Con. Mid September: B+.

27-Aug-2014

Walkies. Now playing: Eliza Doolittle (the Brit pop star not My Fair Lady)

28-Aug-2014

Fashion Valley Morning

28-Aug-2014

Easter & Halloween, cast off to better homes via Salvation Army drop off. Melancholy.

28-Aug-2014

Whistling at sunset near the Cove. Big swell.

29-Aug-2014

The retreat crew from sunset last night.

29-Aug-2014

It could be a great day, you ever think of that?

30-Aug-2014

Tea @ Blue Dragon Tea House

30-Aug-2014

Teri & Lee! Having wonderful pho with my cousin and his lovely girlfriend. Feeling lucky!

31-Aug-2014

Midnight Show Joe. For Ghost in the Shell.

31-Aug-2014

March 1971. That’s me in the sailor suit with my aunt Joan and my folks.

31-Aug-2014

Universal Studios. Dad and me. I’m probably two years old. That’s my NOPE face.

01-Sep-2014

Penny! (Belongs to my pal @missewon) super sweet new gato!

01-Sep-2014

Penny again. @leah7peah and I had brunch with her owner @missewon then Ghostbusters in the theater! SUPERDELIGHTFULMORN!

01-Sep-2014

Star Wars board game from 1982 is terrible. @missewon found it. Destined to be donated to Goodwill.

01-Sep-2014

ROBOT-7 is a wind-up tin toy from I think the mid-90s. He’s a replica of an older toy. I love him and he was a surprise gift from my pal Erin aka @missewon … Expect more photos when he joins my toy robot army tomorrow at work! Thanks EW!

02-Sep-2014

“do you know this one girl with hair like this?” “yes that’s ramona flowers”

02-Sep-2014

Old Boy’s Club. (ROBOT-7 joins the crew)

04-Sep-2014

Lunch is comics and crackers with the fakiest fake cheese and an apple (not pictured) and a fountain.

04-Sep-2014

Bus sketch time: the assassin Elektra.

05-Sep-2014

Finished “Seconds”– not sure what to read next. Thanks @radiomaru for another great read!

05-Sep-2014

Haircut & apple for breakfast.

05-Sep-2014

lunchtime inkery

05-Sep-2014

Empty bocce court

05-Sep-2014

.05 with my love.

06-Sep-2014

The Heart is a Happy Hunter! En la casa de mi amiga @missewon

06-Sep-2014

Miss Ewon! My pal. New do and old movie marquee letter E.

06-Sep-2014

I HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE

06-Sep-2014

Erin gave me this Op Art tie and told me to put it on so I did.

07-Sep-2014

My theory of selling @missewon ‘s junked and old iPod 40GB was good. Just not very lucrative. Amazon will give me $0.25.

09-Sep-2014

Back atcha! (Lunch walkies)

09-Sep-2014

I finally caught a photo of the Tweety car!

10-Sep-2014

Wednesday is new Bot day here on the bus. Stowing away is Wall-E.

10-Sep-2014

Nic <3's Nikki. All these people all of these lives where are they now?

12-Sep-2014

Apple’s market power allows them to put advertisements on my ATM for new Pay product

12-Sep-2014

Tiles

12-Sep-2014

Are these Reese’s shaped like a pumpkin, do they taste like a pumpkin? Both?

13-Sep-2014

Accompaniments.

14-Sep-2014

Zac carefully examining Pokemon options!

14-Sep-2014

The team!

14-Sep-2014

Chris starts a Fighter from classic BSG.

14-Sep-2014

Finished! And a Cylon!

15-Sep-2014

I love this photo of my pal Chris and his daughter Diana from early 1990s!

15-Sep-2014

Kid stuff is the best. Visiting my best friend Chris & my godson this week.

15-Sep-2014

Zac!

15-Sep-2014

New friend is surly. Also she’s not real and pretty expensive.

16-Sep-2014

It’s comforting waking up to Katniss’s hopeful face this week.

16-Sep-2014

Me and the boys got Gundams! Being walking distance to #robot4less is awesome.

16-Sep-2014

3-D scanner selfie! At OCmakerspace.org

16-Sep-2014

Zac & crown. This night has everything!

16-Sep-2014

Translucent Gundam from #robot4less looks pretty cool lit up.

17-Sep-2014

Father and son looking at ancient (1966) spacecraft. At California Science Center.

17-Sep-2014

Beating the heat at the science center.

17-Sep-2014

Shuttles galore!

17-Sep-2014

Sunset with Chris & Zac (not pictured)

17-Sep-2014

Zac @ Sunset

18-Sep-2014

This pole says “I <3 NEW EDITION" I wonder when that was written.

18-Sep-2014

Zac racing the RC car. Winning handily.

19-Sep-2014

It’s cool enough this morning to go for a walk through Orange County suburbia without fear of exhaustion. Yay!

20-Sep-2014

This is my “working in the house going to Goodwill look.” Not, I swear, “Blue Steel” @a1c233.

20-Sep-2014

Kitty & blonde hair drinks

21-Sep-2014

The letter of the day is “Angels’ ‘L'” which I just found littered.

21-Sep-2014

Polish festival means lots of red and white.

21-Sep-2014

One of the more important jobs of a godparent is to expose the kid to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.

22-Sep-2014

I missed Jojo and her fauxhawk.

22-Sep-2014

My desk has moved. That means the bots have moved. They’re up in that shelf in the distance–just slightly too out of reach. Gipsy Danger & Girl Robot are hanging with me temporarily until I can figure out if I can stand them being so far away.

25-Sep-2014

Getting ready to hear Larry Marder & Scott McCloud at San Diego Public Library.

26-Sep-2014

Robot Girl is my favorite. With her mecha she assists me with my headphone cord.

27-Sep-2014

Ornate ceilings a specialty at Bookstar née Loma Theatre.

28-Sep-2014

A certain kind of church time.

28-Sep-2014

The second adventure was putting on my suit for awhile. This one might be blue steel on purpose.

29-Sep-2014

Some inking to start the week right.

29-Sep-2014

There are worse lunch locations.

30-Sep-2014

Gigantor helps me with my yogurt and nectarine breakfast. What’s adulthood again? I think it may be overrated.

01-Oct-2014

This dog on my lap is more stylish than me. Jojo: she’s the fashion plate in this planning meeting.

01-Oct-2014

Today’s bus scribblings.

02-Oct-2014

Window or Aisle?

03-Oct-2014

It’s been a fun week with superdeformed Mechagodzilla and Tetsujin-28. Who will be the desk robots next week?

04-Oct-2014

This. Is. Happening.

04-Oct-2014

Garsh!

05-Oct-2014

Pity this San Onofre Nuclear Plant Operations shirt did not fit. I suspect the embroidered twin reactor globes would have been great conversation starters.

06-Oct-2014

Welcome Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atomu or Mighty Atom) to my collection! Created by the great Osamu Tezuka in 1952, he’s got heart.

08-Oct-2014

I almost bought this ceramic pig just so every day I could make up a new theory about its’ origin. Almost.

09-Oct-2014

Combattler V and Giant Robo are pals.

10-Oct-2014

These are my chairs now. –Jojo

10-Oct-2014

Pretty logotype.

13-Oct-2014

WALL-E deadlifting a banana. E-306 looks on admiringly.

13-Oct-2014

Bus sketch for the day: Wonder Woman. Started this morning, finished now.

14-Oct-2014

Today’s Bus+Lunchtime Doodle is gender bent female Aquaman.

15-Oct-2014

Digging the cooler weather, still.

15-Oct-2014

Pants: Shoplifting

Pants that are too big are good for holding a sealed beverage. Useful for my cold green tea. Shoplifting also somewhat more feasible. Though I’ve not shoplifted since I was 11 and living in New Orleans. Two times: both from a drugstore on my way to Christ the King Catholic School. First time: Baby Ruth…

15-Oct-2014

“3 Figures, 6 Weapons” sounds like the title of a terrible action movie. I did NOT buy these bots from CVS today.

15-Oct-2014

Trolley self.

16-Oct-2014

This tree had a really bad day.

16-Oct-2014

I love these adventurer women. She’s a pirate and no “damsel in distress.”

17-Oct-2014

A girl and her squeaky cow plush toy.

18-Oct-2014

I love that they have Super Best Friends stuff here

19-Oct-2014

“Fairest of them All” tattoo girl from the bus yesterday.

19-Oct-2014

Cowles Mountain is not easy for a fat fine fellow such as myself. Taking breaks. May not get to the summit this time.

20-Oct-2014

Given I keep losing this in my pocket, it’s time for a new PC919 Bleu Inactinique (non photo blue) pencil.

20-Oct-2014

Getter Poseidon presents Ultraman Cosmos with a hacky sack. (It’s technically a Sipa Sipa but never mind).

21-Oct-2014

Cookie time.

23-Oct-2014

Sexy Pirate costume, 1998.

24-Oct-2014

Getter Poseidon and Ultraman Cosmos “raise the roof” about the code I wrote this week.

25-Oct-2014

Duo of traffic cones hanging in the laundry room.

27-Oct-2014

This week’s desk bots are villains. Dreadwing & King Joe. They look at this cupcake monster with skepticism.

27-Oct-2014

Not my costume.

29-Oct-2014

Robots and coaster time. Code is hard and I need distractions.

29-Oct-2014

Among my happy places

29-Oct-2014

Wandering in Little Italy earlier tonight.

30-Oct-2014

King Joe manages my raspberries and strawberries.

31-Oct-2014

Clown Prince of Crime. Ready for work. Happy Halloween!

31-Oct-2014

Lipstick traces

31-Oct-2014

Meeting selfies are more fun in costume.

31-Oct-2014

My officemate has brought a VERY FLUFFY BABY CUTE PUPPY today. I’m stuck in here with them both.

31-Oct-2014

Master thespian. ACTING!

31-Oct-2014

Clown party! With @missewon

01-Nov-2014

There are way worse views from public transportation than this.

01-Nov-2014

A benefit to being in Pacific Beach without a car is I can stop here and not worry about parking.

03-Nov-2014

Same bat time, same bat selfie.

03-Nov-2014

Monday play begging.

03-Nov-2014

Diagnostics

03-Nov-2014

Jojo yawns as the team debugs mobile network issues.

04-Nov-2014

Find your polling place and VOTE.

04-Nov-2014

Mark on the bus asked me what I draw and I answered “anything.” We talked about what art is and whether I had a DeviantArt account (I do but don’t use it). I drew him but he says he doesn’t look this old. I failed to get his smile right, is what I see.

04-Nov-2014

This week’s bots are pretty tough. I think Gipsy Danger may take a swing at The Big Guy.

05-Nov-2014

Lunchtime.

05-Nov-2014

Goofing at lunch. Orange.

05-Nov-2014

Moonrise over the dead Rancho Bernardo Hooters. The Sublime & The Mundane.

06-Nov-2014

Some mornings when I go to the post office early in Carmel Mountain, there’s a collection of people standing around. They are waiting diligently for the passport office to open, not really in line but scattered, still, and waiting. There something about it that reminds me of Hitchcock’s The Birds.

07-Nov-2014

End of the week still life.

08-Nov-2014

Exquisite corpse artwork and breakfast with @missewon @leah7peah

11-Nov-2014

A shout of pride to my dad Jim Crawford who served in the Army & Navy. Thank you for your service!

12-Nov-2014

Dreadwing & Rusty The Boy Robot are buds this week on the desk.

13-Nov-2014

The fluffiest puppy in the whole wide world.

14-Nov-2014

Brie, pineapple guavas & persimmons assembly by Leah last night.

14-Nov-2014

Light morning.

15-Nov-2014

This morning’s neighborhood has made lovely typographical choices.

15-Nov-2014

Utopia.

15-Nov-2014

All the years back when I lived in L.A. I never went in here. Today I did. I’m pretty sure my dad got gear here in the early 1970s. I know he had A16 gear because I got it eventually. Also, the inside smells like campfire.

15-Nov-2014

A very cute gate.

15-Nov-2014

Former life.

15-Nov-2014

Root control from my wanderings today.

15-Nov-2014

I’m not sure all these uniform clothes would pass muster with the uniform codes of the hospitals I worked at. Particularly the thigh high red ribbon stockings. Hmm.

18-Nov-2014

Work obliges me to look at strange things. This is a raw comparison of font files.

18-Nov-2014

Thought of you @missewon

19-Nov-2014

Transitory.

19-Nov-2014

much clouds wow

19-Nov-2014

Jojo & the Cow toy.

19-Nov-2014

JCPenny / J Penny

20-Nov-2014

Fruit & Robots.

21-Nov-2014

These robots fell down because of a stray hacky sack. Chad and I are still terrible (or I am), but we’re better than a month ago!

21-Nov-2014

Goof.

21-Nov-2014

Date night has transmogrified into fabrics night.

22-Nov-2014

14.

22-Nov-2014

Mrs Claus.

22-Nov-2014

Personality Comics Presents Paula Abdul. I’m pretty pleased with this $0.25 purchase.

22-Nov-2014

Mink? Ferret? Other?

23-Nov-2014

I can’t remember the last time Mr. William Gibson wrote proper SF. If he’s going to write it I’ll read it.

23-Nov-2014

The very humble tie I got at AmVets for $4.95 for Joker cosplay is GETTING IT DONE today.

25-Nov-2014

Capitalism made this. Capitalism is so weird. (from Friday)

26-Nov-2014

Jojo is high energy this morning. Good energy in the office today.

26-Nov-2014

My helper bots this week. It’s been a busy week. Happy Thanksgiving!

26-Nov-2014

In my 20s I loved getting things dry-cleaned. I love it again.

28-Nov-2014

Forever in our hearts is right. I only found out this year there’s a marker for my cousin so yesterday we went and visited. RIP.

28-Nov-2014

Collectible ceramic “Cobra 29” CB radio. Okay.

28-Nov-2014

PEPPERS

28-Nov-2014

Rolled in on Mission Bay

29-Nov-2014

Derpy Kitties For Sale

29-Nov-2014

Terrifying Eight-Toed Horse Clown is designed to hold liquor. Is terrifying.

30-Nov-2014

That time again. Be Positive.

30-Nov-2014

Well Coach Z, that all depends, can you get yer green mittens on a fish-eye lens?

01-Dec-2014

Pepper Pachinko?

03-Dec-2014

I have not worn any kind of coat in a year. Today must be the day.

04-Dec-2014

Ladies in Ponchos.

04-Dec-2014

Yesterday in Rancho Bernardo. Wearing a coat again today. And the 163 appears parking lot-ish. Luckily I have tunes to listen to and transit will take the time it takes.

04-Dec-2014

Clearly.

I write code for a living now. I was trained as a Respiratory Therapist and worked in hospitals for many years. I was trained to care for people. When I graduated from RT school we were obliged to take a professional oath. “Do no harm” a concept from the ancients. I have avoided the videos…

04-Dec-2014

Symmetry at the dead motel.

04-Dec-2014

In happier news, the somewhat nervous but quite cute SHELBY is in the house! She belongs to Amy.

04-Dec-2014

Incredibly good lunch.

04-Dec-2014

Transit downtown

04-Dec-2014

mint

05-Dec-2014

Frs Rd.

05-Dec-2014

Winter Soldiers. This place has comics at the top of Horton Plaza and that is wacky.

05-Dec-2014

Leah taking photos of the kids is her happy place.

06-Dec-2014

December 6th has turned out to be my best bodysurfing day of 2014. 🔝🏊⁉️

06-Dec-2014

Being within 100 yards of an ocean is my favorite place.

08-Dec-2014

The morning’s random office kitchen offering appears in the office: Brandy Beans. Chocolate covered brandy. Exactly what it sounds like.

09-Dec-2014

Traffic Cone Funeral

09-Dec-2014

Hide All From Terrible Site

How I stay sane on Facebook:

09-Dec-2014

Close Encounters.

10-Dec-2014

New fullscreen view of Slacker Radio looks pretty great! Try it out if you haven’t. Anyone interested in a free month of Premium ping me I have a few coupon cards.

12-Dec-2014

Queen Jojo chilling on a rainy day. (in the background poster: Kurt Cobain’s hands)

12-Dec-2014

Jojo demanding Max’s attention. Jojo thinks the morning scrum is playtime.

12-Dec-2014

Right after this, Shelby barked at me.

14-Dec-2014

San Diego Boat Parade of Smurfettes @ Seaport Village

14-Dec-2014

Boat Parade of Lights! A San Diego tradition for decades!

15-Dec-2014

The Blight of Guantanamo

Guantanamo continues to be a blight on the reputation of the US and a corrupter of our professional military. If it does not operate according to the laws and ethical codes of the United States, then what, exactly does it stand for? Nursing group urges military not to punish Guantánamo nurse who refused to force-feed…

15-Dec-2014

Glucose Update!

Back in 2012 I posted about my health and glucose level. The news was all bad. Last month, I got re-tested. I posted to the-facebook: My fasting glucose in 2012: 104 mg/dl. Pre-diabetic. Bad. Worry. My fasting glucose this morning: 99 mg/dl. Normal. Continuous quality improvement. Vigilance. Onward And so goes the improvement kids. Also,…

15-Dec-2014

Comic-Con 2013

I went to Comic-Con this year! It was great. Things I did: Things I wanted to do but couldn’t. GOOD LORD. I started this as a draft and NEVER wrote about my experiences at Comic-Con 2013. PLUSWHICH I didn’t write about my experiences at 2014 Comic-Con. Will I write about my 2015 Comic-Con experiences? Only…

15-Dec-2014

TabSweep.txt PART 1

I’ve been keeping a text file with links. Some of which I have read and listened to, some of which, not. It’s sort of my “todo” list of links. And it’s unwieldy but it’s time to catch up with them all! And so, I present to you, TabSweep.txt. I’ll be doing these in chunks of…

15-Dec-2014

Quote of the day: “If they think you’re crude, go technical; if they think you’re technical, go crude. I’m a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible.”

16-Dec-2014

TabSweep.txt PART 2

Hey look kids, more links! Links are fun. Links are the essential currency of the net. Or maybe it’s apps. Apps are the essential currency and nobody is reading this. But when the apps die, the links will live on. Maybe. (Bonus: read about webiness) It Don’t Gitmo Better Than This, journalism by Molly Crabapple…

17-Dec-2014

TabSweep.txt PART 3

The link disbursement continues! Another 25 or thereabouts links for your enjoyment. “Mira la loca!” by Suebob. Also, Just A Minute, Buddy, advising dudes on the inadvisablity of trying to mask objectifying women with humor. It’s ungentlemanly. Google’s Material Design for Bootstrap The myth of the fall by Eric S. Raymond (open source was only…

17-Dec-2014

Festive 19th century naval warfare! Merry Christmas!

17-Dec-2014

Clash of Clans X-Mas Tree

I’ve been playing Clash of Clans since the Summer. I play it to keep in touch with my Godson Zac, though I think he’s playing it less than me these days. Today I removed a little Christmas Cheer, an “X-Mas Tree” which is an Obstacle in the game. Obstacles can be removed for a cost,…

17-Dec-2014

Tonight’s haul hanging out with Erin @missewon . Villainous Lair super helpful to her!

18-Dec-2014

TabSweep.txt PART 4

The TabSweep.txt continueth! What Every Frontend Developer Should Know About Webpage Rendering by Alexander Skutin The Case for Reparations: An Intellectual Autopsy “Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here’s the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.” by Ta-Nehisi Coates Leaflet — an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps Mega Engineering–Process and…

18-Dec-2014

Derpy smile + statuary @ Villainous Lair Comics last night.

18-Dec-2014

TO APPEAL TO GIRLS WITH LEGOS

I have to check out this webcomic: SEASONAL DEPRESSION

18-Dec-2014

WORKING AS DESIGNED

The smartest take on The Interview debacle I’ve read is in “America didn’t cave. Hollywood didn’t cave. Capitalism caved.” by David Atkins. This is the free market everyone says solves everything. Well, it does, but it doesn’t solve things in ways that have anything to do with “freedom of speech.”: “But in truth, neither “America”…

19-Dec-2014

TabSweep.txt PART 5

More linky links, linktastic linkies! ASTOUNDING HAWKGIRL COSPLAY Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away by Clay Shirky Seeing Spaces by Bret Victor The Other Side of Diversity JavaScript Memory Management Masterclass by Addy Osmani Skadi is a great comic about a barbarian girl who quests with her sidekick Diseaseoid to…

19-Dec-2014

Me. Mid-1990s. Erin was visiting me in L.A. and we went into this motorcycle gear shop on Hollywood Blvd. I don’t think the leather vest is “me.” But the hair is great. Thanks @missewon for exhuming this pic!

19-Dec-2014

Hilarious cup is hilarious. Microsoft OS/2 mug!

19-Dec-2014

GetGlue → tvtag → /dev/null

Formerly GetGlue, tvtag is shutting down on January 1, 2015. You can get your data out.

20-Dec-2014

“Sister, there’s a story there!” -or- Merry Christmas, Art Car style.

20-Dec-2014

My first, of many, many questions is: “was this wolf angry before he lost that eye?” And then, “did anyone on the Old Spice creative team manage to keep their job?”

21-Dec-2014

Aniversary: 10th

10 YEARS MARRIED TO Leah as of December 21st this year. Here’s what we sounded like a bit after we got married: http://files.artlung.com/audioblogger.com/www-audioblogger-com-media-25807-126148.mp3 Because of this, we know where we actually got married: The Stained Glass Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Then: Now: Hey, Onward.

23-Dec-2014

Christmas Cheer.

Sometimes I think I’ve made more cool stuff than I actually have. In particular I thought I made more headers that were Christmas themed. Turns out there’s only one. Still, there are a few cool Christmasy things in my archives: I’ve improved the display of search on my site, still not perfect, but improving. Christmas…

23-Dec-2014

Sushi mandala 🍣

24-Dec-2014

Venn diagram intersection of Funko collectors and Duck Dynasty boosters: nil. @ 99 cent store.

24-Dec-2014

Tidings of great joy: peace, equanimity & love be upon you all! Merry Christmas!

25-Dec-2014

Christmas with Eddy’s & Crawfords is a wonderful Christmas. Home is where you’re at!

25-Dec-2014

Zoey is super sweet 8 yr old chocolate lab. My Aunt Joan got her Saturday!

25-Dec-2014

Rusty is regal.

25-Dec-2014

Dewey is not a small dog.

26-Dec-2014

Christmas was new bot day. Welcome Baymax from Big Hero 6 + cat Mochi. Thanks Leah!

26-Dec-2014

Today I met Shatzi who is being dog-sat by Dev & Lacey.

26-Dec-2014

Stepdog! Pogo is a sweetie, still.

26-Dec-2014

Me & Shatzi

27-Dec-2014

Reflecting on myself, August 2014.

Back in August I made this image of myself from different eras. It was fun to put it together. It showcases my various haircuts and facial hair. Top Left A driver’s license photo from the mid 1990s. I arrived in California to try to get into movies. I cultivated long hair and a bushy beard….

28-Dec-2014

Unkempt and ready for a new year, plz. I’ll be patient.

28-Dec-2014

“a climate-ravaged corporatist dystopia of inequality that mirrors feudalism”

The phrase “a climate-ravaged corporatist dystopia of inequality that mirrors feudalism” is quite pithy, no? Obviously, if you’re looking for bad news you can find it everywhere. It’s entirely possible we’re headed for a climate-ravaged corporatist dystopia of inequality that mirrors feudalism. But signs of a new moral awakening are also out there—not the least…

29-Dec-2014

Have a robotic new year!

It’s been a while since I’ve given the bots any attention. Welcoming Baymax to the fold. There are more coming this year including the Kickstarter-funded Project: Vulkira. I probably will move to replace the Mazinger Z and Aphrodite A bots. The gashapon size and poseability is just way too low. I’m looking forward to a…