2022: 412 posts.
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How did I not notice Scarlett Johansson played mermaids at least twice?
I saw The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in the theaters in 2004 and I saw Hail, Ceasar! in the theaters in 2016 and several times streaming since then. While watching Hail, Ceasar! last night it suddenly occurred to me Ms. Johansson played a mermaid in both. Now, why is it that my brain never has noticed…
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San Diego City Christmas Tree Recycling 2022
Source: San Diego City – Christmas Tree Recycling
- 03-Jan-2022Bumpin’ Morton Subotnick
Double Naught Spy Car from Panorama City is moorpark a boulevard? or avenue? you know boulevard? is it boulevard? is it boulevard boulevard? cruising moorpark! i’m looking for a hot chick in a ’79 pacer i’m bumpin Morton Subotnick don’t tell me it’s the wrong approach i’m morgan freeman and you’re the acting coach hitch…
- 04-Jan-2022web3
tante‘s The Third Web essay is a fine, detailed history and condemnation of the ideas of web3. I wish I could find more to take issue with, alas, the ideas of blockchain and cryptocurrency seem to be things that excite people without regard to their political, social, and energy effects.
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Paolo Soleri Presentation, 1988
I asked my pal Chris the following in May 2020: We attended a presentation by Soleri and a few other folks at the RH Fleet Space Museum in the mid to late 80s. Any idea what year? And do you remember any details of who or what entities were presenting? Was it just Soleri and…
- 04-Jan-2022Bodysurfing Ultimate Media Guide by Spencer Dunlap
THE BODYSURFER’S ULTIMATE MEDIA GUIDE BY SPENCER DUNLAP MARCH 10, 2021 originally on shapedbywater.blog, archived. reposting here for my own personal use. perhaps you will find it useful too! I thoroughly enjoy writing about bodysurfing. Why? Not only do I love bodysurfing and hope to share my stoke with as many people as possible, but…
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Thundarr
Maybe you’d like to read about Thundarr the Barbarian — one of my favorite cartoons when I was a kid. Deeply weird and VERY JACK KIRBY. I only learned that part years later. Also I am a fan of Mark Evanier. I learned his name in his comic DNAgents. I was buying them in 1983.
- 06-Jan-2022Hidden Zines!
This story is super-charming: Inside a hollow library book, a secret library By Tori Marlan. It’s about this art project: Decentralized Zine Library Project. As I’ve now been *in* some publications that were anthology zines (see: #burn_all_books) it has a special meaning for me. Make more art and put it in the world!
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That time my Halloween costume was an app
In 2016 I went as the Slacker App as my Halloween costume. I have a lot of affection for this costume! I would do it much better and slicker now that I have my very own paper cutter and a drawing desk!
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Prodigy Burnout: OMNI
He was a young violinist on his way to a brilliant career. Then one day he quit—-put down his violin and never picked it up again. He’s a high achiever in medical school now, but he nurses a sense of failure that may haunt him for life. What stopped him from becoming a Perlman or…
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Finding earworms in last.fm data with PHP
Over the weekend I was prompted to think about the idea of an “earworm” — a song or piece of music that gets stuck in your mind. Some people find such “earworms” to be highly irritating. The idiom implies an actual worm in your actual ear which sounds positively *horrifying* to me. For me, an…
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Sparklines in Excel courtesy seminar by Jordan Goldmeier
I attended Jordan Goldmeier’s (advancedxl.com) seminar on data visualization in Excel via one of Creative Morning‘s Field Trips. It is far easier to do cool stuff in Excel than I remember. Behold a sparkline bar graph of my ArtLung blog post counts by month since 2001.
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Spielberg’s Films by year of release vs year set
The other day, over on twitter, Todd Vaziri sent a lazyweb request that piqued my interest: free cinema chart idea chart the films of steven spielberg and graph the release date minus the year the film takes place you know, for fun How does one do timelines these days anyway? I had a vague memory…
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Drawing with CSS: Cube Cat
I have seen extraordinary things made with HTML and CSS. I remember in 2003 seeing the CSS Zen Garden (though it was hosted on mezzoblue at the time). Nearly 20 years later and CSS remains an incredible tool, only more extraordinarily powerful with each passing week, each new spec, each new browser release. For several…
- 18-Jan-2022Quote of the Day, on Martin Luther King
from Tony Pierce mlk makes me think you can do everything you can and it still wont change some people. which is a good thing to realize quickly. that way you dont waste your time doing things to change people. instead you should do things because theyre awesome, and maybe youre the best person to…
- 23-Jan-2022Quote of the Week
This post: Only Scale, from Dubious Quality (who I’ve been reading for a decade or more): Morality is never rewarded in this country, only scale. Just think about that for a moment. Is doing the right thing ever even discussed? Not really. How often do you see a CEO get rewarded for taking a moral…
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Your Driver: The Rock
There was a tweet saying that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is going to be in another movie based on a videogame. Which of course is an explicit allusion to the incredible video game Desert Bus by Penn & Teller! The bus contains no passengers, there is little scenery aside from an occasional rock or bus…
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Cousins and TI-99/4a
That’s me and my cousins. I was quite proud to show off my TI-99/4a computer. 4 MHz processor and less RAM than pretty much any photo posted to any social media service you use daily. I did my first graphics programming on that computer. You can also see the tape recorder/radio I saved programs onto….
- 31-Jan-2022Dad’s words about Mom
My father says of himself and my later mother: “We majored in each other in college.” Some fun facts about them: He proposed to her during the movie Goldfinger at the drive-in. It was bold of her to visit him in Canada when she’d never been anywhere but Pasadena. He remembers movies they went to….
- 13-Feb-2022Paragraph of the Day
“I’m a big believer in Bill Joy’s Law of Startups, “success is inversely proportional to the amount of money you have”. For $2.5M we got Nvidia to working silicon that was revolutionary in two different respects. Right now, there is way too much money. If a system is to be decentralized, it has to have…
- 16-Feb-2022Crypto and NFTs
There’s a lot of writing and thinking about what people now call “crypto” going on. The other day I linked to DSHR’s Blog: EE380 Talk (a talk on “blockchain” technology in my post Paragraph of the Day. There’s a nice summation of that more technical talk by Cory Doctorow: Pluralistic: 13 Feb 2022: Externalities. Particularly…
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Hard Drive Cleaning: C++ Programming ’04
In 2004 I took a course at City College in C++ Programming. As I wait for my new job to start next week I’ve been doing a bunch of maintenance. I found an old backup hard drive and found a folder called cpp from an old Windows machine I had. I think it was running…
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It was 21 years ago today… (happy birthday blog)
It was 21 years ago today that I started blogging. Here’s what I had to say back then: It occurs to me that this Blogger stuff may be dull. Still, the prospect of keeping a journal is kind of a neat one. Of course, I’ll have to keep it up. Let’s see if I can…
- 07-Apr-2022LEGOs galore
This post 52: A Crazy LEGO Journey is wonderful and inspirational. Who doesn’t love LEGO bricks?
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Slacker Radio to LiveXLive to LiveOne
Hey, the great company I worked for for a long time changed their name. slacker.com became livexlive.com became liveone.com. Today I’m catching up on email. Introducing LiveOne We’re excited to announce that LiveXLive is becoming LiveOne! In the coming weeks, look for new branding on our website, and in our mobile and TV apps, including…
- 07-Apr-2022How many quotes of the day are enough: Clay Shirky
Transformation of Higher Ed: Great Books and American Diversity by Clay Shirky. Seriously, read it. Some of the quotes which made me laugh and think include: You will never guess where the deepest questions were asked and the greatest texts written, and since you won’t be able to guess, I’ll just tell you: It was…
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Camp Kearney panoramas in the Library of Congress
See Camp Kearney panoramas in the Library of Congress. Found out about this via this PDF that’s a history of Miramar. One fun fact is that the boundaries of Linda Vista in the 19th and early 20th century were way different than what we call Linda Vista now. Here’s a factlet that’s fascinating: In October…
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YOU ONLY LIVE EVERY DAY
From Stardust Coyote Gazette, a newsletter you ought to subscribe to by Stardust Coyote: YOLO and YOLED are both self care, a whole yin yang approach. If this concept resonates with you, journal about it a bit this month. Experiment with where you can YOLED more in your life, what that looks like on a…
- 08-Apr-2022Quote of the Day from Prof Galloway
From his post @elon: in which Galloway says what free speech actually is and how it applies to Twitter. …Some basic law: Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy, but free speech is a protection from government limits on speech. Free speech doesn’t limit Twitter … it protects Twitter. Rigorous adherence to the principle…
- 10-Apr-2022New Blog Read: 23 Breaths
Any blog that has a post about the wonder of surf mats (rubber things you can ride in waves) is an instant read for me. Go 23 Breaths Go! … and again, surf mats
- 21-Apr-2022Good news on the Tijuana River; from Surfrider
From Surfrider: Clean Border Water Now Lawsuit Settlement: Dangerous pollutants (including sewage, chemicals, heavy metals, physical trash and other contaminants), flow through the Tijuana River Valley and into the Pacific in south San Diego County, forcing closures of local beaches nearly 300 days per year. The lawsuit settlement alongside EPA programs on the border will…
- 21-Apr-2022“A short conversation with, and about, a bank” by Dan Hon
A short conversation with, and about, a bank by Dan Hon is brilliant and hilarious and covers a great deal of what I mean when I say computers are bad and are to be avoided. If you are so inclined, you might enjoy a subscription to his newsletter.
- 26-Apr-2022Home Sweet Homepage
I love this so much. It’s my story too, though I was 10 years older. And I remain on the internet with a homepage and everything.
- 08-May-2022In service shutdown news, this from Facebook
Hi Joe, Because you’ve previously used Nearby Friends, Weather alerts, Location History or Background Location, we’re letting you know that these products and features will no longer be available after May 31, 2022. Information you shared that was used for these experiences, including Location History and Background Location, will stop being collected after May 31,…
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I can never remember the name of GitPrime which is now Pluralsight Flow
I worked for a startup a few years ago and one of the tools that company used to measure developer productivity was GitPrime. The tool tied into the primary code repository in GitHub and made reports on the work done. It measured commits by size and pattern. It was fairly intelligent about attempting to create…
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Keming is a real word!
From Ironic Sans, David Friedman’s newsletter: 60: The Case for Keming. It’s his argument for the inclusion of “keming” in the dictionary. I have been following Ironic Sans a long time. I remember reading his original post, I believe via RSS: Idea: A new typography term in 2008. Sign The Petition
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This is why the robot collection has rules.
I have been a fan of Voltes V for 50 years. And this here is exactly why I have rules for my collecting of toy robots. This violates 2 of my rules. The first rule it violates is that none of my robots may cost more than US$100. So far I’ve done well with this….
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Clash of Clans, Maximized.
I’ve been playing Clash of Clans for 8 years. Since 2014. I think I’ve upgraded and maximized everything that can be upgraded and maximized. It’s a diversion that turns off my brain. It’s not bad for that. It’s not good, exactly. Here’s what my base looks like. Will I stop? I honestly don’t know.
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The Apartment Show / curated by Raquelle Jac
Raquelle Jac has put together a great independent art show which opens tomorrow (Saturday July 16, 2022) night downtown in San Diego! what is it? a Paris Salon-style showcase, featuring a diverse range of local, national, and international artists, hosted by Texan comix artist Raquelle Jac in San Diego’s Gaslamp District special thanks to Burn…
- 03-Aug-2022Feynman Lectures – Online
Looks like CalTech is making them all available in one place. Very cool. www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu
- 05-Aug-2022Quote of the Day
Paipo, Alaias and body surfing are all making a comeback, not that they really ever left. So long as wave riders forgo their leashes, waves will be waves and toss said riders ass over tin cup requiring a body surf to the beach to recover their surf craft. When “surfing” is not so narrowly defined…
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Beaches in Los Angeles, 1970s/1980s
I thought this was great: TOD PAPAGEORGE: from “The Beaches, Los Angeles” 1979 – 1982
- 18-Aug-2022SF and waveriding? I enjoy.
I dig this combination of waveriding and science fiction! Previously: QOTD, New Blog Read: 23 Breaths
- 19-Aug-2022Angry Galloway is the best Galloway
In Welfare Queens: The biggest critics of the government are, oddly, some of its biggest beneficiaries. Tech billionaires are often the first to shitpost America, even as they continue to harvest wealth from the investments taxpayers make via the U.S. government. In fact, the biggest bitch(er) may be the biggest (financial) beneficiary. Elon Musk says…
- 07-Oct-2022Galloway on Musk
Always worth a read, Galloway on Musk, October 2022 edition. You’d hope the richest person in the world would assemble a circle of advisers who push back when appropriate (i.e., not yes men). But Elon’s history of reckless, childish behavior and these texts prove there is no group or individual who is a truth-teller. In…
- 07-Oct-2022setlist.fm / user / artlung
It is delightful to revisit concerts I have attended. My account: https://www.setlist.fm/user/artlung Sep 29, 2022: Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew, Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA Nov 20, 1992: Morrissey, Performing Arts Center of Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA, USA Sep 17, 1992: Tori Amos, Old Cabell Hall, Charlottesville, VA, USA Aug 16, 1992: U2, Robert F….
- 13-Oct-2022Los Angeles Times, August 23, 1988: Bodysurfing
BODY WAVES: Surfers Take to the Water Without Much Gear, Looking for a Free Ride: The style of bodysurfing is that there is no established style. “Bodysurfing is just you and the wave,” Budman, the lifeguard, said.
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US Level 125
via https://tenpages.github.io/us-level/us.html
- 03-Nov-2022Twitter went private, then it got weird.
I’ve been using twitter since October 2006. That’s not a short amount of time to be using a service. 16 years! It’s deeply weird to return to what was once called “internet time.” Internet time was what we called the era where brand new web pages or services would pop up and get massively popular…
- 08-Nov-2022Mastodon!
Back in 2019 I first heard of Mastodon. I saw this: a Pi Zero with stats back at XOXO in 2019. Since the Twitter changes, I’m using my Mastodon account more than my Twitter account. Simon Willison recently wrote Mastodon is just blogs, having blogged for twenty years I definitely feel that. Anyway, read Simon’s…
- 16-Nov-2022Predicted. Quote of the Day
Running Twitter Isn’t Rocket Science. It’s Harder by Clive Thompson. In the near future, Musk and his engineers may yearn for the days when their hardest job was merely landing reusable rockets. from October 29 of this year
- 21-Nov-2022California State of Emergency for COVID-19 ends in February.
Governor Newsom to End the COVID-19 State of Emergency
- 22-Nov-2022QOTD: Code
The sooner you realize that ALL code is temporary trash destined for the garbage heap of history, the sooner you can start making rational decisions. From Technical Debt is a Choice
- 23-Nov-2022I’m over on Mastodon
For those few of you who also follow my Twitter account you may have noticed a severe drop off in my participation on that site. The overall quality of interaction there, along with the aggressively poor behavior of the owner has been enough of a prompt for me to step away from it to a…
- 07-Dec-2022Expatriate
I posted over on Mastodon. The most important thing that happened to me was to become, at age 7, an expatriate kid. I was only that for a few years, but the learning stuck. I retain this point of view even decades later. Here’s 5 lessons. 1. I know that the things taken for granted…
- 12-Dec-2022Popehat exits Twitter
I have been a fan of Ken White for quite a while. He’s the sort of contrarian thinker who nonetheless is able to actually have convictions about civil liberties. His assessments read as evenhanded to me, which does sometimes make them frustrating to read, but he leavens these views in a way that makes me…
- 13-Dec-2022QOTD: MDWA
“Tell me, why do we require a trip to Mount Everest in order to be able to perceive one moment of reality? I mean… I mean, is Mount Everest more “real” than New York? I mean, isn’t New York “real”? I mean, you see, I think if you could become fully aware of what existed…