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

May 2023 Twenty-five posts

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...

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04-May-2023

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

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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.

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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...

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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!

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