February 2024 Fifty-two posts

• 08-Feb-2024

  
  Typography and Nick Simson’s 26 Days of Type In the 1990s I would buy the magazine “Serif” (a site with a lot of broken links) at World Book & News on Cahuenga Blvd in Hollywood. I enjoyed it. When I bought my first Mac at the UCLA student bookstore I bought a copy of Fontographer. I never made much of a font with...

  indiewebmemoriestypography
• 08-Feb-2024

  
  Golf Book vs. Golf Clubs Al, in his latest post (Kudos Al!): Learn by doing. You’re not going to climb a mountain just by reading about Everest. I think I was 12 years old and my uncle – also called “Joe Crawford” by the way. posed this hypothetical: Imagine two people on two deserted islands. To one you give the...

  alabuteducationmemories
• 07-Feb-2024

  
  Burn Down The Malls! In honor of Mojo Nixon, 1957-2024 I just read that Mojo Nixon died. I love Mojo Nixon. Mojo Nixon is eternal. Elvis is in your mom! He’s in everybody– He’s in the young– The old– The fat– The skinny– The white– The black– The brown– And the blue people got Elvis in ’em too. Mojo was born in North Carolina, apparently....

  mojo nixonmusicvideos
• 07-Feb-2024

  
  Zero Theme Link-o-rama Being a post on the many things I’ve read, half-read, meant to read. But first, here’s Joe with a San Diego weather follow-up: The Jan. 22 Floods Displaced More Than 1,000 San Diegans from Their Homes. The Bruce Sterling prediction for the future from back when he was doing Viridian remains as true as ever:...

  misc
• 07-Feb-2024
  Quote of the Day From United States Court of Appeals for The District of Columbia Circuit: No. 1:23-cr-00257-1: We cannot accept former President Trump’s claim that a President has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power — the recognition and implementation of election results. Nor can we sanction his apparent contention...

  donald trumpus politics
• 06-Feb-2024

  
  Happy Tuesdays and Dead Headers Wait, that’s not the name of the band. I am thinking of Happy Mondays. You’re twistin’ my melon man. Likely because 24 Hour Party People is on Criterion. It’s quite a lot. It’s drama and dirt and myth making. It hits me along the axes of creativity and memory and fandom. Of the things depicted...

  headersprogramming
• 05-Feb-2024

  
  We were in the neighborhood and so we visited Glen Abbey Cemetery where my cousin Eddie rests and not 10 yards away this turtle is running the joint. RIP Ed.

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• 04-Feb-2024

  
  Sometimes the stoke is so intense ya giggle after a wave. A beautiful morning ahead of the next round of stormy weather.

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• 04-Feb-2024

  
  I woke up to find out a 4th great-granduncle was murdered in San Juan Capistrano A very weird email to start the day with. FamilySearch has the capability to attach news events to biographies in their genealogy data. Usually it’s about attaching US or British census data or Catholic Church baptismal or marriage data. Stuff like that. Today it was a news report about a murder. Today it was this...

  genealogyhistory
• 03-Feb-2024

  
  Not the worst way to wake up at 5am. Not the best. But there was a mysterious smoke smell the firefighters addressed. Safety first.

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