January 2022 Fifty-nine posts

• 16-Jan-2022

  
  I’ve cosplayed Dr. Hank McCoy twice. The first time it was great, the second just okay. The next time, it’ll be best yet. These were light gray thumbless gloves meant to be some other creature. I dyed them over Christmas and will deploy them next time I cosplay. #beastcosplay #cosplay

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• 15-Jan-2022

  
  As your attorney I must advise you to slice beets, steam em up, and eat as directed by your physician. Bon appétit!

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• 14-Jan-2022

  
  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...

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• 14-Jan-2022

  
  VHS stands for “Video Home System”—shoutout to Zappa, #HHGTG, Star Wars Holiday Special, animation and “Voltus[sic] 5” #VoltesV plus the movie I appear in, Up From The Depths.

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• 13-Jan-2022

  
  It’s an honor to get to play in huge surf. Bracing, beautiful afternoon at the tail of a nice swell.

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• 13-Jan-2022

  
  Spielberg’s Films by “Year of Release” versus “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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• 13-Jan-2022

  
  New Bot Day! “Blaster T-1000” is merchandise based on Terminator 2: Judgement Day. His whole torso can hinge forward to fire a missile? This 1991 toy robot makes no sense but is a great villain in an “all cops are bastards” way.

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• 13-Jan-2022

  
  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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• 11-Jan-2022

  
  I don’t know why the rescue boat was patrolling. Snagged a selfie while it was there. #stoke

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• 10-Jan-2022

  
  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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