2018: 304 posts.
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My Hare Krishna Costume. High School 198x.
I had no idea a photo of this existed, let alone that I’d see it. This rather culturally insensitive costume of a “Hare Krishna” I did one Halloween and wore to high school. Note the orange linen fabric I had to buy (and which now is part of a blanket Leah made if I remember…
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Chicago Airport Moment
The shuttle bus from Concourse C is filmed over with layers of salt and ice. The salt and ice remind me how cold it is, how cold it always is, how cold it will remain. My Mr. Rogers cardigan is slim protection from the frostbite I’d endure were I to be caught outside for longer…
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Prince / Slacker App Costume
In 2016 for Halloween I created a unique costume for work – I went as the Slacker Mobile App! It was pretty fun. Here’s the template I made to print large: Here’s the PDF of that I mounted the printed images onto a Tri-Fold Corrugate Display Board – I think it was 36in. x 48in,…
- 26-Jan-2018Fill in the blank.
____________________________ may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence…
- 27-Jan-2018Google AMP Considered Harmful
So there’s this open letter right now on ampletter.org regarding Google AMP. AMP is well intentioned but a terrible solution to the problem of page bloat on the web and optimizing pages for mobile. I’ve been tweeting about this for a long time, but have somehow not blogged about it. Well, I’m signing onto the…
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Ventcheck – a twitter bot I wrote in 2016
Back in 2016 I attended a terrific session of the San Diego Code Kitchen at FAB LAB San Diego. It was really a lot of fun and in a few hours I was able to create an inscrutable twitter bot – @ventcheck. It was fun! I didn’t write about it here because… well… who blogged…
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Yaquis – The Most Stubborn Fighters On Earth; January 1908
Original Source @ California Digital Newspaper Collection
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John Perry Barlow, Rest in Peace
I went to Jason Calacanis’ conference Digital Coast 2000 way back when. I didn’t write about it, but it was inspiring. I found Calacanis inspiring, he’s a raconteur and a troublemaker and I have enjoyed his podcasts over the years. The other standouts from that conference were Mark Cuban who I quoted long ago The…
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Random Notes on #lightningnow Tour / Trailhead / Salesforce
On January 29th and 30th I attended the Lighting Tour of Salesforce.com that was held here in San Diego. I had a lot of fun, and got a great sense that my skills in web development may have a great deal of carryover into working with and developing for Salesforce. Cutest stickers at @salesforce #lightningnow…
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Backup your Soundcloud files to Archive.org
Well here’s something cool! My pal Dennis Wilen backed up his Soundcloud hosted files to Archive.org – We backed up my SoundCloud to Archive.org and you can too. There’s a shell script by Tom Higgins that facilitates it.
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I don’t understand the excess rules about ferrets or the deficit of rules about guns.
We (the government) regulate hairdressers and car exhaust and doctors and lawyers and how you add a new room to your house and we license you to drive a car and regulate boats and regulate your speed on the interstate and how you educate your children and test whether your toys are safe and whether…
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WordFence is vital for self-hosted WordPress instances.
I’ve been hosting WordPress websites for a long time. This blog I migrated to WordPress in 2004. I had experience with it running San Diego Blog which started on B2 and I converted to WordPress in Summer 2004. So I’ve been hosting WordPress a long time. There’s a reason the software is popular. It’s free,…
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17 Years And Counting
In 2001 I started blogging via blogger.com. It allowed me to augment my personal site using blog with an external service via FTP and experiment with regularly writing. On this anniversary I have commemorated this before: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2014, and 2015. In 2003 I wrote: I am at a loss, but it’s…
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Most Steps.
I did an export using Pedometer++ and here’s a graph of my steps for the last several years. That corresponds to a 4 and a half mile walk I took. I’m not sure why there’s an off by one error or why there are so many zero-step days. (Was I bedridden?) But I love the…
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March Modok Madness is coming!
I never posted about the fact that I did a second MODOK in 2012. I mentioned the first one I did here, but not the second. What? You’ve never heard of March MODOK Madness? You’ve never heard of MODOK? Read about him!
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Blog Post Visualization + Code
I’ve been doing maintenance galore on this site. I have a hand-written theme and I’ve been doing things like returning the footer to a good shape and sweating the responsive details of it. I first wrote that code in 2010 but I’ve adapted it to be a bit better and now am using CSS Grid…
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Suspicious Activity: “An admin user with the username backup was created outside of WordPress”
On 14 February 2018, WordFence alerted me to highly suspicious behavior. This is the format of the email I received from WordFence version 4.9.3: This email was sent from your website “[REDACTED BLOG NAME]” by the Wordfence plugin. Wordfence found the following new issues on “[REDACTED BLOG NAME]”. Alert generated at Wednesday 14th of February…
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Markov Chains are hilarious.
I’ve wanted to make Markov chain generated sentences based on this blog for a long while. Wednesday night, I did. It took me under an hour! Why have I avoided it thinking it’d be difficult? Probably I thought it’d take a long time and would be lame. NOT SO First, I exported the contents of…
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I blogged for 17 years and all I got were these lousy Markov chains.
In which I turn my experiments with turning written text into Markovify-generated sentences into a cool Twitter bot.
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Color the Smiley
Over the years I have made a lot of little web experiments and geegaws. I’ve made hangman games and drawing programs and random text generators. At one place I worked I helped make a thing that would turn an uploaded photo of a face into a Terminator face! I’ve made so many of these kind…
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“Thanks Clairemont Coffee Bean & Tea… for the wireless”
That was 7 years ago. That Coffee Bean & Tea is now closed. I drew that with Brushes on an iPod Touch. I see now that Brushes has since become free software. That’s pretty cool, I think. You can program on the thing yourself–just download the source from Github and go.
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In 200 years someone will wonder what the heck AIM was.
In 2003 I blogged this to AOL Journals: I once had a fellow student give me this aphorism which i really like: the more competencies you have, the more deviancies you are allowed. blogging via im makes it easy to blog and not get really distracted into writing something good. the downside is that it…
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“Leverage browser caching”
I was looking at Google Pagespeed Insights results today for my website today. And I got this feedback: Leverage browser caching Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers for static resources instructs the browser to load previously downloaded resources from local disk rather than over the network. Leverage browser caching…
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Roanoke Tech Resources. Now on GitHub.
In 2010 I was living in Roanoke Virginia. I felt frustrated by the lack of a central place to go to see what was happening with local technology users groups – there was great stuff happening on a regular basis associated with Virginia Tech, and with the local .NET group but there was no single…
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Scott Galloway with… relationship advice?
I really really enjoy pundit Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) and his newsletter today he shared this critical relationship advice. It tracks with what I’ve learned, for myself through mistakes, through therapists, and through personal reading. It’s sharp, as all his writing typically is: Don’t keep score. It’s human nature to inflate your own contribution to the…
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March M.O.D.O.K Madness commences!
As promised, I’m all about MODOK MADNESS this year. I submitted last night. Keep drawing, True Believers!
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Surfing California Bear
In 2013 I uploaded the design above, my California Surfing Bear, to Redbubble. Ready for a fun fact? The California grizzly bear (Ursus californicus) was designated official State Animal in 1953. Before dying out in California, this largest and most powerful of carnivores thrived in the great valleys and low mountains of the state, probably…
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Squished expression and the President of the United States
Is Trump’s Twitter a Public Forum and the Limits of the Law by Eric Segall has me thinking quite a a bit about this question: WHAT IS TWITTER? I think about the Presidential Records Act and what it says about the things the President does in his official capacity. I think about the fact that…
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Wow calligraphr.com!
I found out about calligraphr.com in this article from freecodecamp.org. It was extraordinarily easy to use calligraphr.com’s template image, load it in Procreate on my iPad Pro, sketch out letters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, some punctuation, variant letters and ligatures, upload and there’s a font. Almost too easy! Want this quickie font? Here are two fonts, zipped…
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You’re the Mayor of My Heart
I made this for Foursquare nerds for Valentine’s Day, 2013. And I turned it into a product on redbubble. Foursquare is 9 years old today! Happy 9th birthday, @Foursquare. Thanks to everyone and anyone who’s helped us out along the way – staff, friends, fans, and the 50M+ community! https://t.co/KdxIF8aVuX — Dennis Crowley (@dens) March…
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do you ever think about how easy it is for M.O.D.O.K. to touch his toes?
I feel honored to be able to participate in March MODOK Madness a second time this year! Previously, Previously, Previously.
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Balboa Park looking toward Coronado. 2013.
Plein air. Ink on Jack In The Box bag. Used with permission. Originally posted in 2013
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“Harold, they’re bots.”
Found on FlowingData: Bot or Not: A Twitter user classifier which uses machine learning. The source code is here. Previously: I wrote about writing @bloggingbot. “Harold, they’re bots.”
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Blogging! from The Lounge on KPBS. July 16, 2002.
A transcript from my radio appearance on The Lounge on KPBS from July 2002. It’s all about blogging!
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On The Radio.
Yesterday I did something I’d planned to do for a long time, but never got around to: I posted a transcript of that time I got on the radio. It took me 15 years and is 9,050 words. I’ve had the recording since 2002. It was a fun moment. Before it happened, here’s what I…
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On Prog Rock
Inspired by the little article “The Whitest Music Ever (Prog rock was audacious, innovative—and awful)” I wrote this: Datapoints: King Crimson can be furiously awesome. I saw them on the Thrak tour (I can’t remember if that was at the Wiltern) and I totally get it. Robert Fripp is terrific when tempered by other artists…
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I kind of love these corporate birthday greetings.
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Remember when we used to link to things?
So here’s a link to Doc Searls: Enough Alreadies, who said about leaving Quora: Even if something gets a lot of notice, the news cycle is hardly longer than Now, and the sense of having done something quickly disappears. The beautiful blog about aging with style Advanced Style posts Volunteer with Meals on Wheels, which sounds…
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Also, Tumblr: “Update on Russian-linked activity on Tumblr”
Just got this email: Dear artlung, As part of our commitment to transparency, we want you to know that we uncovered and terminated 84 accounts linked to Internet Research Agency or IRA (a group closely tied to the the Russian government) posing as members of the Tumblr community. The IRA engages in electronic disinformation and…
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Bizarre fraudulent phone message from 904-945-9929.
Here’s a weird message from someone impersonating agents of the federal government: https://artlung.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2018-03-23-message-from-904-945-9929.mp3 So, it has been considered as an intentional fraud and lawsuit has been filed under your name by United States Government. You may call our department number 904-945-9929. I repeat 904-945-9929. Thank you. Though the “9929” sounds like “nine ninety-nine” when this…
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Dad on the couch, 1987/2017
I’m continuing my art making. This is from a drawing of my Dad, from 1987. This is him exhausted from work, having some iced tea Crystal Light. I like to think he’s watching Victory at Sea, but I honestly can’t remember what he was watching. Note the Mylanta tablets on the coffee table. This was…
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Today’s (well, July 2017) drawing practice.
Today’s drawing practice: taking an old drawing from 1988 or so and remaking it digitally. It was rare back then for me to draw from life and be happy with the result. I was impatient and hyper-self-critical. The source for this one was an exception. This drawing is of a pal of mine from way…
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“your new Apple iPad doesn’t have the latest Google apps”
Boo, Google. This is pretty obnoxious. If I wanted those apps I’d install them.
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Groggy morning doodle, 2017
Groggy morning doodle of David when he came in early. Also drew a cow, a pig, a dog, a duck, a monkey, and we also spent a bunch of time just making marks on the tablet. Originally posted to Facebook September 10, 2017. Drawing made with Zen Brush 2 @psoftmobile_dev. And thank you Leah for…
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Rest in Peace Carrie Fisher
Incredible author and screenwriter of Postcards from the Edge; you were terrific on an episode of 30 Rock; you were perfectly cast, and played it perfectly as Jake’s homicidal girlfriend in The Blues Brothers; and you were perfectly droll in When Harry Met Sally. And of course 7 year old me fell in love with…
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SmugMug and Flickr: Best wishes, we’re in this together!
Got this email the other day: We’re excited to announce that Flickr has agreed to be acquired by SmugMug, the photography platform dedicated to visual storytellers. SmugMug has a long history of empowering people who love photography and who want to improve their craft, making them a perfect fit for Flickr and our creative community….
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Lovely Light Mom
I snuck this photo of my Mom, Phyllis Crawford, when visiting Northern Virginia in May 2007. My sister was getting her Master’s Degree and many of us were visiting. I love the light in this photo. And I miss Mom. She would have been 72 today had she not died of cancer in 2010. May 8th…
- 14-Jun-2018New Stew Record! New Negro Problem Record!
ONE NIGHT, TWO ALBUMS Next Monday, June 18, is the must see music event of the Summer for fans and friends of Stew & The Negro Problem. This is a one-night-only, special concert performance and celebration, it will be hosted by (le) poisson rouge in the West Village, and they’ll be talking about it for…
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Scam phone call: 518-636-6997
Once it get expired after that you will be taking under custody by the local police. As there are 4 serious allegations pressed on your name at this moment. We would request that you to get back to us so that we can discuss about this case before taking any legal action against you. The…
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Work Walk / Scripps Summit
I started working in March of this year. It’s a startup. I like it. It’s on the rim of a big ol’ canyon. It’s harsh, but interesting. When I first started there I walked around on that canyon edge a few times. One time I actually mapped my pathway, manually. That’s what this map is…
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Mysterious Galaxy Seeks New Ownership
I thought this email was interesting: Mysterious Galaxy seeks new ownership! For more than 25 years, Mysterious Galaxy has been an iconic fixture in the heart of San Diego, and your support has sustained one of the city’s most cherished independent bookstores. It’s time to pass the torch to a new owner, someone who can…
- 22-Sep-2018Posted September 13, 2018 to Facebook.
If you’re reading this you are a acquaintance, a friend, or family of Leah and Joe. 2018 was a year of great change for Joe and Leah. We explored where we were, and what we wanted in life with the help of some supportive family and friends. To make a long and private story short,…
- 22-Sep-2018Sometimes
Sometimes a person is sad and lonely. Me. Sometimes I’M sad and lonely. Sad and lonely. Sorted it out with friends and activity. Push on. Onward.
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Dave Pressler
I regret that I didn’t get up to Lancaster to see his show: Idea to Object but I’m glad I can follow his website: Dave Pressler.
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Google’s Gmail Suggestions vs Apple’s MacOS Suggestions.
Neither believe I want to write the word “Quiche.”
- 06-Oct-2018Love that Prof. Galloway.
“Love received is comforting, love reciprocated is rewarding, and love given completely is eternal. You are immortal. Our role, our job as agents of the species, is to love someone unconditionally. It’s the secret sauce cementing the survival of homo sapiens. And to ensure we continue to enlist in this act, it’s also the most…
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315-750-4432
And once again expired after that you will be taken under custody by the local cops as there are four serious allegations pressed on your name at this moment. We would request you to get back to us so that we can discuss about this case before taking any legal action against you. The number…
- 31-Oct-2018Observation on whataboutism
It’s always neat when I meet people who say “President N also did that in response to a criticism.” Sometimes it’s useful historical context. But often it’s a feckless way to divert criticism. The claim that every President is the same or every President is just like Trump is laughable and deserves ridicule. Moreover, the…
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Wherein I photobomb Cixin Liu
That’s me in the back! From UCSD Clarke Center: In case you missed our sold-out evening with science fiction masters Cixin Liu and John Scalzi, you can now see the documentary video of the interview with Clarke Center Director Sheldon Brown at our Youtube channel:
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Comic-Con Museum
I’ve been going to San Diego Comic-Con a long time. I love that the San Diego Comic-Con Museum seems to have enthusiasm at a grassroots level: Dear Joe, All of us at Comic-Con Museum are overwhelmed by the support we received on Giving Tuesday. Thanks to you and many others we managed to raise $20,912…
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My Grandma at Marshall Scotty’s
I love this photo of my grandma holding a camera taking my photo just and I take hers. Out at Marshall Scotty’s and taking photos and having fun with her kids and grandkids. She was less mobile because of a stroke and goodness gracious that was a burden for her to bear but look at…