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.

22-Nov-2021

Wayne White I surely wish I’d seen Wayne White’s exhibit “Big Lectric Fan to Keep Me Cool While I Sleep” — it is goofy and wonderfully made. I’m ragged but I’m right, you know. I think I’ll watch Beauty is Embarrassing a few more times before the year 2021 ends.

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21-Nov-2021

Cabbage Salad (the Crawford family recipe) Ingredients 2 heads green cabbage salt 2 thin green onions 1-1/2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 tablespoons mustard seed mayonnaise Directions chop cabbage finely, layer in Tupperware with salt chop green onions finely mix green onions, lemon juice and mustard seed thoroughly with cabbage let rest overnight add mayonnaise to mixture an hour before serving

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21-Nov-2021

“I took the trolley to @ucsandiego and UTC” is a super futuristic sentence! with @hellokellykuhl & @ilovecomput3rs ! Thanks @sdmts!

hellokellykuhl IFTTT ilovecomput3rs sdmts transit ucsandiego via-instagram

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21-Nov-2021

Citysuit! In July 1999–or rather 01999 as Long Now would write it out–I designed an entry for the Viridian Couture Contest. The design brief can be read here, here are some excerpts: (((The natural question then arises: what should really wealthy, technically proficient, middle-aged people dress like? What kind of clothes will garner them the rewards...

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20-Nov-2021

When the tide is low it’s easier to find sand dollars (this is Dendraster excentricus, native of my coast, from Alaska, to Washington, and Alta California (where I live) and down to Baja California)

IFTTT via-instagram

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19-Nov-2021

Sun heading down on Friday

IFTTT swim2021 via-instagram

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19-Nov-2021

Music Friday Roundup Yesterday I was talking to gRegor. gRegor is a chap I met at the end of 2019 when he was trying to get an in-person #indieweb “Homebrew Website Club” meetup going for San Diego. We had just a few before a global Pandemic. But meeting a kindred spirit is always wonderful. Two years have passed...

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18-Nov-2021

Migrating my old static pages into my WordPress theme For one, I updated the Colophon. For another, I updated a jillion pages under the “Words” section. These had been static pages for, uh, 20 years. And finally I’ve imported those pages into the blog. It was relatively painless to do the import, but the old static pages were pretty quixotic, so customizing their unique...

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18-Nov-2021

Nuclear Exclusion Clause I worked in a bank “note department” in my first job in a bank. I was tasked with documenting and making sure each “note” aka “mortgage” has proper insurance. I was 15 years old. In looking at reams of paperwork I remember seeing “NUCLEAR EXCLUSION CLAUSE” and as a kid in the 1980s that certainly...

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17-Nov-2021

Sunset from the water

IFTTT swim2021 via-instagram

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