2015: 573 posts.
- 02-Jan-2015Resolution
New Year’s Resolution Resolve Ongoing resolution Resolving Power Resolute Desk High Resolution Resolved It’s 2015 today. It’s been this for a few hours now. It’s now three years I’ve worked for the same company. It’s ten years I’ve been married to the same woman. It’s been another year since my Mom died. I am happy…
- 04-Jan-2015Frostbite by ♡kitty♡
Current musical obsession for me is Frostbite by ♡kitty♡. I first became aware of her with OK Cupid a few years ago. That was low-fi hip-hop done at an unexpected angle – young, white, female and with a voice that reminded me of hip-hop that came from somewhere other than mainstream. Acts like De La…
- 06-Jan-2015Grim Meathook Present by jwz
Since the Pleistocene, 2001, jwz has been using the tag “grim meathook future” on his LiveJournal blog. I’ve always liked that. I don’t remember him really defining the term. In a comment today he sums up, in discussing which PKD film adaptation is worthwhile I think he summed up “grim meathook” pretty well: That said,…
- 08-Jan-2015“I wonder if anyone is reading this”
I have been wondering about my audience for this blog for a long time. As a reminder, I’ve been posting material here since 2001. 2015 marks 14 years of postings. Lately it seems it’s mostly a republishing platform for my Instagram photos because of my distrust of providers of internet services. Here’s a header I…
- 14-Jan-2015Tom Hanks, I love you!
“…but I hope the idea sticks, because more veterans, from Iraq and Afghanistan this time, as well as another generation of mothers, single parents and workers who have been out of the job market, need lower obstacles between now and the next chapter of their lives.” — Tom Hanks I came out of high school…
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Cartoon of the Day
Found in the excellent article from the Comics Journal: CHARLIE Horses: On Caricature and Outrage. It’s by Art Young and it’s from 1921. More about Art Young at www.cartooningcapitalism.com.
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Father’s Day, 2014.
I posted this to Facebook and not here last year. But it’s worth reposting. Originally from June 15, 2014. i posted it with this photo. This week I got to see 2001: a space odyssey on a big screen for a third time. I got to see Kier Dullea in person talk about having worked…
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Christina Aguilera Top 33
I don’t often post about work. If at all. Well, I’m a longtime fan of Christina Aguilera, appallingly documented by a search of this here blog. So here’s a post with a radio station from where I work (Slacker Radio). Enjoy! Fifteen years ago this week, Christina Aguilera’s “What a Girl Wants” became the first…
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L.A. is.
wherein I get all wispy about Los Angeles and my many memories thereto
- 28-Jan-2015Grace Hopper!
Learn about Grace Hopper and you’ll be a happier person.
- 01-Feb-2015busblog on Andrew Sullivan quitting blogging
Quote of the day from Tony Pierce: but judging from what i read, bro [Andrew Sullivan] was sad that there isn’t a vibrant blogging community out there any more, and it seemed he was sad there wasnt a bunch of money left in it neither. to quote the great artie lang: whaaaaaaaaa. omg boo hoo…
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The eldritch horror of IKEA.
The 15 minutes we just spent at IKEA… I… words… I have not been in years. It is bigger. Which is… the place is eldritch, Brobdingnagian, terrifying and yet cheerfully pumping Katy Perry songs. I believe it may have inspired the film Cube. Did a certain Mr Lovecraft play a hand in its tone and…
- 11-Feb-2015Programming Tinder
WOW. Go read: AUTOMATING TINDER WITH EIGENFACES This is some straightforward, and yet entirely brilliant programming. This person took his prior Tinder choices, made an aggregate of “yes” and “no” swipes, then used the official Tinder APIs to automate his selections. This is kind of Artificial Intelligence, though a better term might be “expert system”…
- 13-Feb-2015Who doesn’t love code?
Longtime blogger and longtime pal MAS mentioned me over in Make and Host Your Own Soundboard yesterday. I am glad to have contributed to more software. I dig being able to give to code that people use, even if it’s for no money. I love even more that the whole thing is up on GitHub….
- 19-Feb-201514 Years of ArtLung Blog.
The first post to this blog was made on February 19, 2001. Here it is. In those 14 years I’ve had quite a few different things happen. A divorce. A bankruptcy which I didn’t write about but alluded to the possibility of. A marriage and becoming a stepdad. I lost my Grandfather. Mother. Grandmother. I…
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Quote of the Day: coincidence
From the Steve Hulett of TAG (The Animation Guild) Blog: And funny thing. As the percentage of unionized households has cratered, the middle class’s share of national income has gone down with it: Weird, huh? I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. Read it all in Falling Wages, Falling Marriage Rates
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Feliz Cumpleaños
I found this for pjc‘s birthday and it’s awesome. I kind of like it for me too. I have a birthday upcoming.
- 01-Apr-2015April fooling
So many funny emails, posts, and links to ignore. Only upside is maybe it trains us all to be skeptical about what we see and read? The world is already so full of cheats, scoundrels and liars perhaps we don’t need a special day to make it seem funny. Or maybe I lack a sense…
- 07-Apr-2015Jack Kemp Quote of the Day
To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall….
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Latest Drawings
Frittering around with Paper, an iPad app and Pencil, a Bluetooth pen. I’m still learning.
- 12-May-2015Rickover on “Modern Management” from 1982.
Rickover on management and many other things from Doing a Job. Choice quotes as true today as they were 30 years ago. “By focusing on the techniques of “modern management,” they promote the idea that by mastering a few simple principles of how to handle people and situations one can become a universal manager: capable…
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This is what I look like.
Essentially.
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That time Greenpeace scaled ARCO HQ in Downtown L.A.
Sometimes the world intervenes in your life in such a way that tells you “stop working for these people.” The most notable time for me was when I was working for ARCO, the large petroleum and gas company. You may know them from their AM/PM mini marts. In 1997 I was working as a temp…
- 06-Jul-2015Today’s Hits on Slacker.
Give it a try! Something we are playing with at Slacker: Slacker Radio
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Maybe 2 days.
I looked at this Evel Knievel ad, the back cover of World’s Finest #243 from January 1977, far too much. Probably when we moved to the Philippines it was lost. Maybe to Goodwill? Maybe in a yard sale? Maybe in the trash. I loved comics. And in the Philippines I learned to love Asian media,…
- 22-Jul-2015
From Web Design: The First 100 Years by Maciej Cegłowski: Tech culture is like a deadbeat who lives on your basement sofa. You ask him: “When are you going to do all those things you promised?” “Oh, wait until everyone has a computer.” “They do.” “Okay, I mean wait until they’re all online. ” “They…
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The Grateful Dead: Influences and Influencers
Perhaps you’re interested in learning more about Half Century Phenomenon The Grateful Dead? I remember several Los Angeles nurses I worked with who dropped everything and went to San Francisco just to BE THERE in the immediate aftermath of Jerry Garcia’s death. The Dead means a lot to a lot of people. On the net.cultural…
- 29-Jul-2015Railroad Crossing
This is the Chesterfield Drive railroad crossing in Cardiff-by-the-Sea; between San Elijo Avenue and the Coast Highway. It’s a beautiful spot. I declared earlier I love trains. Travel and adventure. Going away and returning home. New places and people; and old friends and family. I think I even took Amtrak alone, at least once, as…
- 17-Aug-2015Italian Latency
Went to beach with Leah for the sunset. And looking, as I do, approachable, plus looking like I know my way around mass transit, random tourist humbly asks my help with the bus. He’s got the 8/9 bus schedule with highlighter marks on it. He’s a bit confused, and has a bit of an accent….
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Scan the world and make the world.
Last year Chris and I went to Orange County Makerspace. We got a tour of their very cool space, saw the various fabrication, laser cutting, extrusion and other tools. We also got my Godson’s head and torso scanned into 3-D. About a week later they sent Chris a little model of this! It was really…
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This Is My Jam: Classy and shut down.
I received this: Getting in touch one last time to say The Jam Archives have been published! Here’s your profile: http://www.thisismyjam.com/artlung Get Spotify playlists of your jams and and loved songs, download your data, and browse your wall o’ jams. You’ve been a dream community to create for. Thoughtful feedback, amazing music, warmth and kindness….
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2011: Amateur Flowsheet
Leah made this spreadsheet when we were helping my aunts and uncles take care of my Grandmother Jean at the end of her life, back in 2011. It’s a nursing flowsheet, meant for laypeople. It’s pretty useful and good. At that point we’d had a fair amount of experience taking care of the sick, having…