ArtLung: Archive: 2023

01-Jan-2023

@gwenthegoblin, while the bed is unmade.

05-Jan-2023

The rain continues off and on. Sunset walk along San Diego River.

07-Jan-2023

Back to it as the first big 2023 swell wanes. The rain has subsided for now.

08-Jan-2023

What’s the cliché from the Academy Awards? “It’s an honor just to be nominated” — incredibly powerful water. None really very rideable for me unless you count bouncing around in flotsam like a stray buoy. I witnessed one surfer riding a huge fast wave in front of me. I did get past the monster breakers. The exhilaration and the view of the shore as I get raised 15-20 feet by a passing wave will always be a favorite. No photos taken; every ounce of my concentration and effort was swimming and staying safe. Know your limits.

08-Jan-2023

Big waves expose grander shells than usual. This one i found today after my session. My art supplies are mostly still boxed. I expect to falsify that statement soon.

11-Jan-2023

12 to 15 foot waves at Pipes. Brief post-work session. Sunset was 5:01pm and better daily.

12-Jan-2023

Quote of the Day: From Oliver Willis

Been a while since I quoted Mr. Willis, but Nothing The Right Freaks Out About Is Real None Of It. No, Not Even That. You can show a dyed-in-the-wool conservative news reports and government fact sheets that prove, for instance, that the story surrounding “Obama phones” was made up by the right to cast aspersions…

13-Jan-2023

Swimming, 2022. #stoke #swimming

13-Jan-2023

It’s been a long week. Beautiful tho.

17-Jan-2023

yesterday and today around the corner

18-Jan-2023

Pools are also a privilege I remind myself as I pine for the sea

21-Jan-2023

“You weren’t in the way—I see you can get out of the way fast—you’re like an effing dolphin” was the reply after I ducked under a surfer taking off. I came up—they were still there—“Sorry for getting in the way” I had said. I do not mind being compared to a dolphin.

22-Jan-2023

This Sunday

24-Jan-2023

Brief swim last night

26-Jan-2023

Went to Ponto jetties after work. Rocks no fun to walk on.

29-Jan-2023

sea lion cruising by 2 feet away from me. a local.

30-Jan-2023

More rain, but rainbows too

03-Feb-2023

Prework stoke

04-Feb-2023

Riding waves is mostly solitary but sometimes there’s an opportunity for it to be social. @bairdphoto was at Ocean Beach at his son’s high school surf contest and reached out at the critical hour I was waking up and deciding which break to start Saturday at. I decided on OB. Daniel even snuck out into the water for a Party Wave!

05-Feb-2023

This Bot Day! On Mastodon, the account is @affirmations@thisbot.day—perhaps you enjoy an encouraging word? Following it might be right for you! Peace and love, all!

07-Feb-2023

Brief swim last night

07-Feb-2023

Postwork @ Terramar

10-Feb-2023

That blur is me riding a wave. Surfline camera. Maelstrom today. OB. Great way to end the week.

11-Feb-2023

A Frank Stella painting and me. MCASD.

12-Feb-2023

I don’t go to Crystal Pier often but it looked fun on the cameras. And it was fun!

15-Feb-2023

Dinner then later drinks with a view. It was a very very Happy Valentine’s.

18-Feb-2023

Spent sundown in a cluster of other bodysurfers

19-Feb-2023

Beach parking lots are filling / spring is headed here quick

20-Feb-2023

Spent 3 hours in the water hanging out at Oceanside Pier. President Biden went to Ukraine. It’s a good day to celebrate the good things about the USA. There are a few!

22-Feb-2023

No swim today it’s windy stormy danger. So beautiful.

24-Feb-2023

Sign of the Times

An email from ArtStation We have updated our Terms of Service. Starting today, content distributed through the ArtStation Marketplace that is created using Generative AI Programs must have the “CreatedWithAI” product tag applied. Product tagging helps provide accurate product information and maintain the integrity of our marketplace. Please visit the updated Terms of Service and…

25-Feb-2023

New Cardigan.

25-Feb-2023

I can’t remember if I’ve done a selfie with her. Scripps.

27-Feb-2023

“Magic is green” — Matt Wagner’s Mage, 1984

02-Mar-2023

From Tuesday: The End of The California State of Emergency

Email Tuesday from the Respiratory Care Board of California: On October 17, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the State of Emergency, and associated Executive Orders N-39-20 and N-75-20, will end today, February 28, 2023. Upon the State of Emergency ending, active waivers that were issued under the authority of the State of Emergency and Executive…

03-Mar-2023

breakadawn

04-Mar-2023

I’m pretty sure the last time my cousin Leeman and I got in the ocean together was 36 years ago. Maybe less between time next time.

04-Mar-2023

The last time I was in this theater was for a Comic Con panel for a new animated tv show from Matt Groening of Life in Hell and the Tracey Ulmann Show shorts called “The Simpsons.” I’ll let you Wikipedia up what year that was.

05-Mar-2023

Home away from home

07-Mar-2023

Quote of the Day: anti-testimonial

“Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet” —Twitter’s owner, today

08-Mar-2023

Dawn patrol dog walk

11-Mar-2023

This photo was on my Mom’s fridge for a very long time. If I’m remembering right. I think it’s from my first Godson‘s christening. It’s a moment in time a long time ago. I can’t go back and tell that fella any advice. Time goes forward if we’re lucky.

12-Mar-2023

This was my 12th birthday party i think. I’m pretty sure it was a video arcade in Gretna, Louisiana—across the Mississippi from New Orleans. That lightning bolt hat I have on wasn’t a Chargers hat, but it wasn’t NOT a Chargers hat. The Space Invaders shirt wasn’t retro at the time, it was state of the art.

18-Mar-2023

Dolphins don’t ever go 13 days without the ocean. Sea birds neither. Birthday weekend commenceth.

19-Mar-2023

Waves were flat today. I was alone in the water a few times. Smattering of longboard riders. Older, mostly. There was a fella on the Jetty with his goat. He said neither he nor his goat liked the ocean. They don’t like to be cold. Also near the Jetty: a large collection of baby stingray, scattering from the swoop of my swim fins. Each one with a body about the size of a big chocolate chip cookie. Not a bad birthday’s eve session.

20-Mar-2023

Yesterday at the Jetty there was a fella taking his goat for a walk. I live in the right place. #SanDiego #PacificBeach #petGoat

21-Mar-2023

What did I do for my birthday yesterday.

…a list: Looked at Surfline and was disappointed to see rain and wind which prevented me from bodysurfing Got out my sewing machine Repaired a cloth grocery bag Repaired one of my singlet swimsuits Watched American Splendor Ate muffins Folded clothes Put up some art on the walls Bought shoes Went to Apple Store Picked…

22-Mar-2023

Email of the day: “Twitter two-factor authentication is now off”

I’ve had a twitter account since October 2006. In that time they’ve been pretty diligent about security. Not anymore. Today’s email, subject line is: “Twitter two-factor authentication is now off” You’ve turned off two-factor authentication for @artlung This means you’ll no longer have this added protection when you log in to Twitter. Your account will…

23-Mar-2023

I liked that I recognized this actor was the same dude in each:

Andrei Glukhov / Chernobyl Sergeant Linus Mosk / Andor That’s Alex Ferns. Quite good performances in each. I noticed this back in October, sent an email to myself. I guess to blog about this? And labeled it with “TODO.” And 5 months later? Here it is.

23-Mar-2023

Steve Yegge is writing about coding with an AI

And I’m reading it: Cheating is All You Need, Steve Yegge, March 23, 2023

24-Mar-2023

Top 10 Artists from 2022’s last.fm summations

The Beach Boys They Might Be Giants Charli XCX Kitty Uffie Hospitality Stew & The Negro Problem Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Talking Heads Randy Newman More: last.fm/user/artlung/

24-Mar-2023

These were our jams

These were my jams by adactio showed up in my usually neglected RSS reader. I have very fond memories of This is My Jam! What a great site. I considered their exit from service super classy, and said so at the time. When I was first getting online at a place not at an “Internet…

25-Mar-2023

Silly in Santa Barbara. Taken by Kelly.

27-Mar-2023

August 2007 … March 2023

29-Mar-2023

Quote of the Day / Twitter Edition

We should also consider how the ‘rules based order’ we’ve devised seems unable to stand up to a bully intent on replacing free access to information with paid disinformation — and how our democratic systems seem so incapable and frozen in the face of confident vandals running around spray-painting ‘freedom’ all over the walls as…

29-Mar-2023

Part of moving house means you get to box and unbox your things. Sometimes, one finds artifacts one does not remember. These are stills from 2 minutes of a silent black and white Super 8 film. I had it scanned by ScanCafe and found footage I took of my pal Chris at the Dana Point Concours d’Elegance. Pelican Hill Golf Club. I think it’s 1996±1. At the time Chris loved vehicle design and was practicing his craft and working odd jobs. I was still thinking I would work in film, taking classes—soon enough the World Wide Web would change my career path. Chris developed a career in graphics, illustration and industrial design: art direction, fabrication, and process. A nice surprise from an unlabeled reel of film.

01-Apr-2023

Quake yesterday

I didn’t post about the earthquake yesterday. But I felt it. And sign of the times: I didn’t immediately check Twitter. And when I did look at Twitter no accounts I follow mentioned it, but several Fediverse accounts have. Note: I’ve unfollowed many Twitter accounts since the last major quake.

01-Apr-2023

Aces to be back

02-Apr-2023

BarCampLA5 – 15 years later.

I learned so much at BarCamps. Dan Kaminsky, rest in peace You can see me in the back in that photo. Red checker shirt and a goatee chin. I enjoyed reading my write-up, seeing what I called out, remembering such a good time. I also liked reading my slides from the talk on YUI I…

02-Apr-2023

(Last week in Santa Barbara ❤️)

02-Apr-2023

I wore my old wetsuit today. It’s had more wear and tear than the one I got in January. But the zipper works better. It’s the same model, but the new one has this comedic attribute: in a big wave, or even a strong wave, the zipper tends to open from my neck down to my left leg like I was a character in Magic Mike. Luckily pretty soon I won’t have to wear a wetsuit in the water.

02-Apr-2023

Blog Refer

Oh, the more innocent times when I started storing each and every url coming in via HTTP referer (sic)that was coming to pages on my website. Decades ago! It wasn’t long before referring urls started including pure crap, spam, so it was not something I kept on the site for very long. Time passeth.

02-Apr-2023

A Live Well Wasted… returns.

I bought the Downcast app on April 28, 2013 and ALWW has been in my subscription list since then. Like the rest in my list I refresh dutifully regularly. I always have hope. When a fresh episode showed up 9 years after the last one, frankly, I didn’t believe it. But it did. You ought…

04-Apr-2023

Afrofuturism with Greg Tate

I went to a speech by Greg Tate in 2016. It was super cool. I apparently did not take notes. October 18, 2016 6:30 – 9:30 PM Visual Arts Facility, Performance Space The UC San Diego Visual Arts Department, Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and Black Studies Project at UCSD are pleased to…

05-Apr-2023

Affirmations Bot, Still going

@affirmations@thisbot.day Previously mentioned.

06-Apr-2023

OBGLASS

08-Apr-2023

Chilly but clear and sunny and people are back at the beach

09-Apr-2023

10 days ago a bird Kelly noticed a bird started hanging out on our balcony. Wednesday last @hellokellykuhl noticed it was a pair and they were building a nest in a disused pot and they’ve kept at it. Yesterday and overnight one of the pair was nesting continuously. This morning, Easter, here’s 2 mourning dove eggs. New life, indeed. Happy Easter!

09-Apr-2023

Last Easter I stepped on a stingray and had my bag removed from the beach (I got it back the next day). This Easter? Easter Egg Hunt successful.

10-Apr-2023

Merger Email of the Day

Going to the beach as often as I do, I have subscriptions for both Magic Seaweed and Surfline. Looks like they’re going to combine. How to get started with Surfline. Magicseaweed has been a part of the Surfline family for over five years and now we’re coming together under the Surfline brand umbrella. Learn more…

14-Apr-2023

Personal Websites are good.

I make this bold statement following a read of Exploring Personal Websites. I of course have had a personal website since 1996 which is an astounding 27 years, so I’m biased. I continue to feel queasy about how folks use Instagram handles to sign their art. I have a sense that these will age like…

14-Apr-2023

SDSU Backdoor—a venue that no longer exists—is where I first saw this band 35 years ago. I bought that ticket at Tower Records on Sports Arena Blvd. I bought tickets for last night’s show show 3 years ago. COVID delayed it again and again and again. It was worth the wait. They Might Be Giants. A favorite.

15-Apr-2023

No photos today, rather a still from a video, sweetened in Procreate.

16-Apr-2023

Nice bodysurfing session if a bit choppy. Plus I got to see a handful of the Velella Velella (aka By-the-Wind-Sailors). The biology of these things is amazing. They are each a “colony” that feeds on plankton. They live in all the planet’s oceans but I’ve never seen or heard of them before. It’s a treat to get to see a few up close.

17-Apr-2023

A good rideable wave rolls in and starts to fold over and breaks gradually. The boys I went to high school with would draw an iconic perfect tubular wave curling over and breaking just like that forever. People who ride waves chase such waves. Today the waves were warped as though seen through a funhouse mirror. They started then stopped and then started again. Required improvisation to have fun with. And I did.

18-Apr-2023

Went out at one spot, came back in a quarter mile north.

19-Apr-2023

Oh look, I’m in a large language model (LLM) corpus

Vacillating between “It’s a major award” (1) and “I’m somebody now!”(2) RANK: 77,171 DOMAIN: artlung.com TOKENS: 250k PERCENT OF ALL TOKENS: 0.0002% From: Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart.

20-Apr-2023

The sun has set / La Jolla

21-Apr-2023

A fine remembrance of the web as it was; and is

ReadWriteWeb Turns 20 by Richard MacManus. Take blogging itself. People don’t have blogs anymore, now they have email newsletters. People used to read blogs in their RSS Readers, and you would visit the website to leave a comment — or write your own blog post in reply, which would show up as a trackback link…

21-Apr-2023

Quote of the Day

I say often that computers are terrible. Nontechnical people seldom take me seriously. But people in tech, like Galloway do: A growing vein of the tech community (Venture Catastrophists) deploy weapons of mass distraction and fear to wallpaper over an inconvenient truth: The menace unleashed on America the past two decades isn’t psychotic homeless people…

22-Apr-2023

Kneel

23-Apr-2023

Summery today. Every day fresh and new. Beach parking lot blacktop getting hotter. Today was Scripps.

24-Apr-2023

During one ride today I lost one of my handplanes. That ride was like going down a long steep snowy hillside on my back. Incredible speed. Thrilling. I got the handplane back at the ehd. A surfer brought it to shore. She said “I thought it would be easy to bring it in but it about killed me.” I thanked her.

25-Apr-2023

New Bot Day! Welcome Roll Bot, a robot toy for toddlers 1-1/2+ years old. It’s an activity toy with no backstory by Canadian company Madison Joseph Battat Limited. I think it’s c.1985 but might be off.

25-Apr-2023

Gear

26-Apr-2023

New Bot Day! GC-09 Metal Robo 55 DynaRobo is a chogokin die-cast metal toy from 1983. This lovely and very special piece was a Christmas gift from Kelly. You will note I have a backlog on bots since moving in December. More bots ahoy!

27-Apr-2023

I’m still working on some code to create an image (my ARTLUNG signature) on an ancient (40 year old) operating system emulator. TI Extended BASIC from the TI-99/4a computer. It’s a machine with less memory than your average jpeg.

27-Apr-2023

Programming graphics on the TI-99/4a

Back in 2019 I wrote about programming in TI-BASIC a little bit. I remembered going from graph paper to hex but the mechanics of drawing to the screen was not something I remembered. I did remember it was pretty tedious. But rewarding! Well, the other day I was inspired to create a chunk of code…

30-Apr-2023

Weekend mornings are sometimes eventful! Some great corners to ride. Once again @lifeguardsofsandiego always awesome hooking me up with the hot hot water and fine foot wrapping. Stingray encounter # 5 in the last 2 years i think. First time at OB.

02-May-2023

New Bot Day! Sox is a robot cat who first appeared in 2022’s Lightyear. Sox is a personal companion bot issued to Buzz by Star Command. Welcome Sox!

03-May-2023

VueJS app to create TI Extended Basic CALL CHAR strings

I continue to revisit the kinds of things I did as a kid on the TI-99/4a computer through the lens of modern tooling. When I was a kid I used graph paper to create 8×8 grids, then worked backwards from that to create 16 character strings to represent those graphics. Last night and this morning…

04-May-2023

On Easter morning we had 2 visitors. Mourning doves. One had laid 2 eggs in a disused flower pot which they turned into a nest. For the next 19 days they diligently incubated the eggs. Never more than 2 minutes for a shift change. On that day 19, they stopped coming around. This image is the light on my phone illuminating the lack of structure in the eggs. Kelly and I think the eggs were never fertilized.

04-May-2023

From an half-finished autobiographical comic. Cinco de Mayo is a deeply weird American holiday. Maybe I’ll finish this one.

05-May-2023

From Popehat: “Deserve’s Got Nothing To Do With It”

Deserve’s Got Nothing To Do With It from Ken White (popehat) is right on. The criminal justice system ought to be fair and impartial. I mean, what are those scales of justice about, what is the blindfold on Lady Justice supposed to be about? Whenever we ask if someone deserves to have had some awful…