since 1998
personal website: joe crawford. code. occasional comics. toy robots. bodysurfing. san diego. california. say hi. 

2021 Five hundred and fifteen posts

I posted 515 times in 2021 using WordPress. 462 were PESOS'ed from Instagram—more than 80%. The total word count for 2021 was 22,034 words with about 486 images and approximately 415 external links. I posted 247 posts tagged "swim2021". I made 8 comics that year. I didn't make any headers.

31-Dec-2021

Rang in an early New Year with @hellokellykuhl in the Gaslamp Quarter, where even the parking garages have nice views.

hellokellykuhl IFTTT via-instagram

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31-Dec-2021

I had 247 swim sessions in 2021. Pool, Pacific, snorkeling, Atlantic, hotel, bodysurfing, lap. I don’t have a #top9, sorry. #stoke #swimming

IFTTT stoke swimming top9 via-instagram

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31-Dec-2021

Future project

IFTTT via-instagram

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30-Dec-2021

Birds in the lineup. Earlier this week.

IFTTT via-instagram

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30-Dec-2021

Longmont Potion Castle Part of blogging in WordPress that’s great is that I can save drafts. This is one with just a link to wikipedia and the title Longmont Potion Castle. What did I mean? Why did I save it? To research? Longmont Potion Castle: Longmont Potion Castle (born 1972) is the pseudonym of an anonymous surrealist prank...

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30-Dec-2021

On Atemporality At the “end” of the year, as we are, one can’t help but think about time. Time “passes.” And we can “waste” time. But in a very real sense “time” is not a “thing” in the same way as other nouns. We are bound to our temporal space. We can “remember” prior times but we...

atemporality cyberpunk william-gibson
28-Dec-2021

Specklefin Midshipman I go to the beach a lot. And I post to Instagram the things I see. The waves, the sand, sometimes: sea creatures. On the morning of December 6th I came across a bunch of foodstuffs, and one unusual fish. So unusual that when the photo was shared to Facebook, my angler cousin remarked that...

fishes inaturalist mission beach ocean
28-Dec-2021

Quote of the Day is from Jeet Heer Fabricating Consensus Why The View’s search for a palatable Republican will fail: In a polarized America, The View is trying to manufacture a reasonable conservatism that is a miniscule and an ever diminishing part of the political spectrum. They are trying to create out of thin air a conservatism that has no bearing on actual...

Jeet Heer politics
28-Dec-2021

New Bot Day! Getter Poseidon is a classic 1974 robot I have several other iterations of. I used to draw its design in my middle school notebooks. Things change, and also repeat.

getter-robo IFTTT robots via-instagram

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27-Dec-2021

One of the best feelings: retiring debt This was a credit card shared in common with my ex-wife. Took a year and a half, and it feels so wonderful to be clear of it!

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