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• 26-Nov-2024

  
  Design is a verb I verb. Today I went through the code I wrote to put my comics collection online in 2000. In 2004 I posted to my blog, using Blogger, that they were for sale. Here’s the post. The PHP code was about as good as one could imagine it might be by a person whose primary skillset was implementing...

  designmemoriesprogramming
• 29-Oct-2024

  
  Going to Concerts Me, at the Grand Canyon, in my New Order t-shirt. 1989. I don’t have the shirt. I do have the hat. On Saturday, June 17, 1989 I saw the following bands play live in San Diego at SDSU. New Order Public Image Ltd The Sugarcubes De La Soul In my memory this was a Lollapalooza...

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• 28-Oct-2024

  
  Something New In 2007 I read a blog post and got applause at an event my ex created called LA Bloggers Live. That lasted less than a year but folks had fun at it. Public speaking was fun and terrifying in equal measure. Blogging has created for me so many distinct and peculiar opportunities! Things changed since...

  bloggingmemories
• 25-Oct-2024

  
  How can you not be romantic about baseball? The first professional baseball game I ever saw was at Dodger Stadium. Just Dad and me in—I think—1976. But the memory is vague. Might’ve been 1975. Steve Garvey was playing First. But he did that in L.A. for a very long time. I think I was in T-Ball. Dad listened to Vin Scully calling games....

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• 15-Aug-2024

  
  Wherein an ancient poem prompts me to reflect on failure and learning While there’s a lot of things I’ve had and lost over the years. Some artifacts I’ve kept but never really looked at. Here’s a poem (with corrected spelling): While raccoons run up trees Spider webs are being made While pigs roll in mud Otters swim in the sea That’s from a very yellowed piece of...

  learningmemorieswriting
• 15-Jul-2024

  
  Make scrapbooks. Glue sticks are great.

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• 27-May-2024

  
  Blogger Redirects, Linkrot & Writing I have been reading blogs a long time. And I’ve been writing for a long time too. Today at the IndieWeb pop up event focused on writing I had reason to remember when I got linked to on Boing Boing. It a list of links I had collated, but it was to my old blog...

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• 15-May-2024

  
  20 Year Article Idea Fulfilled By comparison, the dense and well-nigh unreadable Gravity’s Rainbow is 305,000 words. Depending on when I stop blogging, which is to say, once I am incapable of blogging because of infirmity or death, that sentence will stop updating because that sentence is generated programmatically. Why the above preamble? It’s to tell you that I don’t...

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• 12-May-2024

  
  Roger Corman my excuse to reminisce the time I was an extra on a monster movie More people die than I feel I can properly memorialize in this blog, so not every famous person gets an obituary here. But for Roger Corman I’m making an exception. in 1978 my parents, sister, and me lived at 70 6th Street in New Manila, Quezon City on the island of Luzon in the Philippines....

  memoriesmoviesup from the depths
• 18-Apr-2024

  
  Shenanigans on getting involved A few weeks ago I was approached in the water by a surfer whose head was bleeding. I walked with him the 150 yards to the lifeguard tower. I carried his blood spattered surfboard. There’s a photo. And a month ago when I was walking back with folks we’d picked up from the airport we...

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• 18-Apr-2024
  URLs remind me of train and bus schedules Over on Mastodon, Steve Randy Waldman posted this which struck me as true: the practice many browsers have adopted of truncating URLs in the address bar to the hostname is emblematic of the decline and commercially driven infantilization of the web. understanding URLs — their roles and the ways and whys of how they are...

  mastodonmemorieswayfinding
• 10-Apr-2024

  
  Roach Motels and Floppy Idioms If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe – Carl Sagan Yesterday in the hallways of chat of the IndieWeb people were comparing an upcoming Facebook API pondering a “data roach motel.” The history of companies providing an easy to use and free API as they roll...

  languagememories
• 21-Mar-2024

  
  Annuals and Robots Classmates dot com I guess will continue inflicting yearbook photos on me. It’s cool. My own high school annuals were lost in a theft of a storage locker in Moorpark many years ago. I got some things back though, which was nice. Probably having a website and being highly findable on the web made it...

  memories
• 13-Mar-2024

  
  oldweb.today wherein I look at my website 20 years ago oldweb dot today allows a person to use the web (rather slowly, which is how it usually worked) as it was from the past using old browsers on old websites archived by the incredible Internet Archive, which some folks call “The Wayback Machine.” But where does it get that name? The Wayback Machine or WABAC...

  indiewebmemoriesnetscapeoldweb
• 06-Mar-2024

  
  XOXO Fest is coming back, 2024 I credit XOXO Fest back in 2019 with a great deal of revitalization of my soul and spirit. My divorce was not final. I was adrift. I was seeking meaning. And I found quite a bit of it in Portland. Smart and creative people making their way in the world and kicking ass. At that...

  memoriesxoxofest
• 04-Mar-2024

  
  Misc Loquacious Linquacious Cascade It’s rare for me not to sleep great. And… I’ve not slept great the last few days. The rain prevented watergoing for a few days. And now it’s persistent wind preventing ocean swimming and bodysurfing. Yes, I need the water. I mentioned The Magic Mike wetsuit in April last year and now that my prior...

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• 01-Mar-2024
  How To Print A Web Page, 1997 style. Our technology choices were so primitive. And here in the 21st century I’ve done a fair amount of HTML to PDF generation. I’ve even created ebooks with them. It was fun to live in a time when things were so unformed. From comp.infosystems.www.misc, the question thread, from March 20, 1997: Anyone have a decent way...

  memoriesprintingusenet
• 21-Feb-2024

  
  Milk Carton ChatGPT I’m pretty sure the first time I had my hands on a “computer” I made it myself. It was made from a milk carton and it was in the 1970s. The way it worked was to write a question on one side of a card and the answer on the back. It was a fancy...

  Alan Turingchatgptcomputer sciencememories
• 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
• 20-Jan-2024

  
  Design and Star Trek Dan Hon’s Hallway Track 006 After going to the beach at Torrey Pines I came home to attend a thought-provoking video meeting. It was Dan Hon’s Hallway Track 006: Star Trek and Design with two very thoughtful designers, described on the event page thusly: Lisa Maria Marquis is an information architect and author, as well as a trekkie obsessed with...

  memoriesstar-trek
• 10-Jan-2024
  Misc; Writing HTML onto Paper This morning I’m listening to Scary Pockets. Covers of pop in a funky style. I enjoy much of it. It veers into what younger me would call “easy listening” which is a red flag. Music must be interesting. They manage to make it funky and fun and danceable. I started listening to Scary Pockets because...

  htmlmemoriesrespiratory
• 06-Jan-2024

  
  “You can do anything with HTML and CSS” on memory, code, and a belated birthday wish It’s Saturday. Today some of the family I have locally and I will visit the grave of my maternal great grandmother. I never met her. I am looking forward to hearing about her on a day we’ve dedicated to her at her final resting place. I’ve conspired with my cousin to put this gathering together...

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• 17-Oct-2023
  Music / Concerts I love music and have always loved music. I have seen a fair number of concerts. I created this post in 2014 as a “page” on this site, but really, it’s a point sample of a moment in time. And it deserves to be part of the blog. Barry Manilow, Orange County Beastie Boys, The...

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