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• 16-Sep-2023

  
  Sad Tomorrow; Object & Param Tags a blog post about old blog posts and YouTube embeds

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• 27-Aug-2023

  
  Scripps August 26 Kelly and I went to La Jolla Shores yesterday. We ended up at Scripps. Weirdly: despite San Diego Municipal Code 63.20.7 there were TWO large trucks on the beach: one delivery, one tow. There were a dozen pelicans floating near the pier,they avoided the waves by flying a bit then went right back to hanging...
• 10-May-2023

  
  Me. July, 2008. San Francisco. BlogHer. Instead of attending the conference with my wife of the time I tooled around San Francisco. This is on my mind because I learned today that Heather “Dooce” died yesterday. Heather spoke at BlogHer’08 and was at the time in the whirlwind of being perhaps the most well-known blogger on the planet. She was surrounded by people every time I glimpsed her, then. Mental health is hard to maintain; harder still with the pressure of entertaining an audience. Deepest condolences to everyone rocked by the tragic news of her passing. And if you’re struggling: reach out, there’s help out there. RIP Heather.

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• 14-Apr-2023

  
  SDSU Backdoor—a venue that no longer exists—is where I first saw this band 35 years ago. I bought that ticket at Tower Records on Sports Arena Blvd. I bought tickets for last night’s show show 3 years ago. COVID delayed it again and again and again. It was worth the wait. They Might Be Giants. A favorite.

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• 02-Apr-2023

  
  Blog Refer Oh, the more innocent times when I started storing each and every url coming in via HTTP referer (sic)that was coming to pages on my website. Decades ago! It wasn’t long before referring urls started including pure crap, spam, so it was not something I kept on the site for very long. Time passeth.
• 02-Apr-2023

  
  BarCampLA5 – 15 years later. I learned so much at BarCamps. Dan Kaminsky, rest in peace You can see me in the back in that photo. Red checker shirt and a goatee chin. I enjoyed reading my write-up, seeing what I called out, remembering such a good time. I also liked reading my slides from the talk on YUI I...
• 29-Mar-2023

  
  Part of moving house means you get to box and unbox your things. Sometimes, one finds artifacts one does not remember. These are stills from 2 minutes of a silent black and white Super 8 film. I had it scanned by ScanCafe and found footage I took of my pal Chris at the Dana Point Concours d’Elegance. Pelican Hill Golf Club. I think it’s 1996±1. At the time Chris loved vehicle design and was practicing his craft and working odd jobs. I was still thinking I would work in film, taking classes—soon enough the World Wide Web would change my career path. Chris developed a career in graphics, illustration and industrial design: art direction, fabrication, and process. A nice surprise from an unlabeled reel of film.

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• 27-Mar-2023

  
  August 2007 … March 2023

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• 21-Mar-2023

  
  What did I do for my birthday yesterday. …a list: Looked at Surfline and was disappointed to see rain and wind which prevented me from bodysurfing Got out my sewing machine Repaired a cloth grocery bag Repaired one of my singlet swimsuits Watched American Splendor Ate muffins Folded clothes Put up some art on the walls Bought shoes Went to Apple Store Picked...
• 12-Mar-2023

  
  This was my 12th birthday party i think. I’m pretty sure it was a video arcade in Gretna, Louisiana—across the Mississippi from New Orleans. That lightning bolt hat I have on wasn’t a Chargers hat, but it wasn’t NOT a Chargers hat. The Space Invaders shirt wasn’t retro at the time, it was state of the art.

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• 04-Mar-2023

  
  The last time I was in this theater was for a Comic Con panel for a new animated tv show from Matt Groening of Life in Hell and the Tracey Ulmann Show shorts called “The Simpsons.” I’ll let you Wikipedia up what year that was.

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• 31-Dec-2022

  
  I’ve moved so much I’m not totally sure how many. 22. Depending on how long you have to live somewhere to make it count as a move. My most recent move happened fast. I lived in that apartment longer than I’ve lived anywhere else in my life, and this is the longest years in a row I’ve ever lived in any city. It feels good to have a home I like. Moving is dislocation and disruption; it’s hard in any circumstance. I’ve moved broke, depressed, divorced, unemployed. Here at the end of 2022 I’m happy and working and creating and I’ve got family and friends and the means to take action and a I have a terrific girlfriend I’m moving in with. Here’s to 2023!

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• 07-Dec-2022
  Expatriate I posted over on Mastodon. The most important thing that happened to me was to become, at age 7, an expatriate kid. I was only that for a few years, but the learning stuck. I retain this point of view even decades later. Here’s 5 lessons. 1. I know that the things taken for granted...
• 19-May-2022

  
  I have no idea how many times I’ve walked through San Diego’s Santa Fe. Arriving and departing from L.A. as a kid, one time alone, when we lived in Echo Park and Alhambra; as a term, playing hooky; trips to Fullerton to see my pal Chris at ages 17 until now; trips to events: concerts by @stewtnp and the “Live from the Blogosphere” event where @evhead announced Blogger dot com was sold to Google; trips to and from Comic-Con; Little Tokyo; up to Moorpark when I lived there; walking though it many times when arriving by Coaster from Carlsbad where @leohblooms dropped me off, I worked at Emerald Plaza, then; picking up and dropping off more people than I can remember, traveling; once went to a plein air drawing event here; wandering downtown when I worked at the original @sdpubliclibrary Central Branch; and Avencom, and jury duty 2 years ago; which is why I’m here this morning.

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• 10-Apr-2022

  
  My grandmother sewed me a cape. #Superman #1970s

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• 19-Feb-2022

  
  It was 21 years ago today… (happy birthday blog) It was 21 years ago today that I started blogging. Here’s what I had to say back then: It occurs to me that this Blogger stuff may be dull. Still, the prospect of keeping a journal is kind of a neat one. Of course, I’ll have to keep it up. Let’s see if I can...
• 09-Feb-2022

  
  Me and my cousin Michael a few years back. At a Tweety Bird-themed party maybe.

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• 31-Jan-2022
  Dad’s words about Mom My father says of himself and my later mother: “We majored in each other in college.” Some fun facts about them: He proposed to her during the movie Goldfinger at the drive-in. It was bold of her to visit him in Canada when she’d never been anywhere but Pasadena. He remembers movies they went to....
• 26-Jan-2022

  
  Cousins and TI-99/4a That’s me and my cousins. I was quite proud to show off my TI-99/4a computer. 4 MHz processor and less RAM than pretty much any photo posted to any social media service you use daily. I did my first graphics programming on that computer. You can also see the tape recorder/radio I saved programs onto....
• 22-Jan-2022

  
  This morning I connected to my cross country flight to Virginia via LAX. I saw the dawn. I saw places that mean a lot to me. There’s my apartment! On the hill behind it was where my high school once stood, now replaced by condos. There’s Mission Bay where I’ve swum and kayaked and not-successfully windsurfed and jet ski’d. Beyond: Navy housing we lived in when I was a teenager. Had I been on the left side of the plane I’d have seen my favorite spot: Mission Beach Jetty. But take a beat on my right is former favorite swim spot La Jolla Cove. Shores. Del Mar. Solana Beach where I worked at failed dot com EduPoint. Orange County. Los Angeles County. Beaches, apartments; jobs and job interviews; car accidents, fights, train rides, romance and catastrophe. Southern California is my home; imbued with meaning. Onward.

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• 23-Dec-2021

  
  Resume View Tracker from 2010 Back in 2010 or so when I was looking for work. I wanted to track when recipients were looking at my portfolio, so I added some code to alert me whenever the page was loaded, by anyone. It seems more innocent than sinister to me now. Note how I had to alter it to filter...
• 21-Dec-2021

  
  Remember .sig files? I used to spend a great deal of time on mailing lists. Listservs. Majordomo lists. eGroups. Onelist. Yahoogroups. So I agonized about good formatting of my signature file. Here are some old ones! I think they’re great. Joe (ArtLung@aol.com) http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3384 http://www.earthlink.net/~artlung Joe Crawford mailto:ArtLung@earthlink.net http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3384 http://www.earthlink.net/~artlung Joe Crawford > ArtLung = Artist + Respiratory Therapist...
• 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
• 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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