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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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

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• 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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• 16-Nov-2021

  
  Literary Journal: Chiricú Journal – “Californio” In 2020, during the pandemic I submitted a comic to a journal, at the urging of my late friend Jennifer Simpson. And in 2021, I got a copy of it. I even have an academic citation. The reach of a small literary journal may be small, but as a kid whose academic achievement maxed out...

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• 24-Feb-2021

  
  Fry’s Closing; Memories of Fry’s Archiving text from their website for posterity. After nearly 36 years in business as the one-stop-shop and online resource for high-tech professionals across nine states and 31 stores, Fry’s Electronics, Inc. (“Fry’s” or “Company”), has made the difficult decision to shut down its operations and close its business permanently as a result of changes in...

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• 06-Feb-2021

  
  Jesus Arthur Silva—“Art”—was born on this day 100 years ago, February 6, 1921. I remember visiting him at grocery stores in San Diego like Big Bear or Food Basket, where he got assigned to whip their produce departments into shape. I wish I could ask him about working in a town that went from 80 thousand people to over 2 million in his lifetime. I want to ask him if it’s true he sold tamales on the streets of downtown. I want to ask him what kept him going when times were hard, working multiple jobs. How did he and Nanie raise 7 great kids? I was 17 when he died. I don’t have a photograph of him working. I’ve drawn him how I imagine he would have looked. Sharp, kind, diligent. After he passed, my mother missed him terribly. A great man. 100 years ago today.

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• 04-Dec-2020

  
  This smell: of fresh vegetables being washed in a mist of water—it makes me feel the memory of visiting my grandfather Art Silva (we called him tata: a Yaqui word for “father”) at a Big Bear or Food Basket. He’s be there taking care of the produce department: crisp shirt and tie and an apron. My mother adored him, while smaller me saw how impressive he was, a professional in command of his domain and offering some perfect piece of fruit to try. Smell and memory is amazing.

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• 05-Sep-2020

  
  Remembering Comic Gallery THE COMIC GALLERY “Everything in Comics & Fantasy” New & Collector’s Comics — Fantasy & Role Playing Games Miniatures – Japanese Animation Sports and Non-Sports Cards 4224 Balboa Avenue, San Diego CA 92117 9460-G Mira Mesa Blvd. San Diego CA 92126 322-J W. El Norte Parkway, Escondido, CA 92016 I went to the Balboa Avenue...

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• 11-Aug-2020

  
  San Diego Weather I originally drafted this on June 10, 2019. My earliest memories of San Diego weather are this weather. Driving from Los Angeles in the back of my parents VW late at night. CBS Mystery Theater on the radio. I wake up on the couch at my grandparents THIS is that weather. Dew on the lawn...

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• 09-Aug-2020

  
  Open Graph Protocol Tools updated to version 1.91 It’s been 10 years since I first wrote the Open Graph Protocol Tools WordPress plugin. It was first published to the WordPress Plugin repository on April 28, 2010. It’s a tool that embeds metadata into your WordPress blog so posts and pages that can be parsed by social media. It’s not a particular popular plugin,...

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• 08-Aug-2020

  
  On misgendering I was wearing my red sweater and was misgendered this morning (November 4, 2019) at the drive-through. Writing here in 2020, I can’t remember whether it was “ma’am” instead of “sir” or whether I merely overheard someone refer to me as “she” rather than “he.” But it’s immaterial. I am fascinated by the change in...

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• 05-Aug-2020

  
  Depthcharge Depthcharge is the first game I would seek out at any arcade. Looking at it now, I can see how slow-moving it is. It’s rather uncomfortably slow in the same way Lunar Lander was. When I was between the ages of 8 and 10 I thought Depthcharge was amazing. I’m delighted to see that the...

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• 16-May-2020

  
  A year of drawing and drinking with my friend Yesterday my phone spat out at me a screenful of “On This Day” photos. That’s the day I attended my first Long Beach Ink & Drink. I live in San Diego. Long Beach is 110 miles away. I have been attending San Diego’s Sketch Party since 2017. It’s close! And I have drawings which document my attendance...

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• 12-Apr-2020

  
  AGGRO HAPPY EASTER. 1976 I think. I made that hat. I can’t explain the shirt.

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• 03-Apr-2020

  
  Star Trek Conventions I think I went to a my first, very small, Star Trek Convention in San Diego in 1986 or 1987. My memory on this is squishy. I know I was at age where I could drive. I know it was on Mission Bay — I think it was at the Bahia Resort next to Mission...

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• 21-Feb-2019

  
  CALL CHAR 100 CALL CLEAR 110 CALL CHAR(96, "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF") 120 CALL CHAR(42, "0F0F0F0F0F0F0F0F") 130 CALL HCHAR(12,17,42) 140 CALL VCHAR(14,17,96) 150 FOR DELAY=1 TO 500 160 NEXT DELAY The first time I ever programmed it was from this page. And I made graphics in 8 by 8 squares on graph paper for months after that. Then I’d painstakingly...

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• 30-Dec-2018

  
  The door on the left was a 7-11 forty years ago. I played Centipede, Asteroids, Galaxian & Battlezone for the first time in that room.

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• 08-Sep-2018

  
  Work Walk / Scripps Summit I started working in March of this year. It’s a startup. I like it. It’s on the rim of a big ol’ canyon. It’s harsh, but interesting. When I first started there I walked around on that canyon edge a few times. One time I actually mapped my pathway, manually. That’s what this map is...

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• 28-Mar-2018

  
  Today’s (well, July 2017) drawing practice. Today’s drawing practice: taking an old drawing from 1988 or so and remaking it digitally. It was rare back then for me to draw from life and be happy with the result. I was impatient and hyper-self-critical. The source for this one was an exception. This drawing is of a pal of mine from way...

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• 28-Mar-2018

  
  Dad on the couch, 1987/2017 I’m continuing my art making. This is from a drawing of my Dad, from 1987. This is him exhausted from work, having some iced tea Crystal Light. I like to think he’s watching Victory at Sea, but I honestly can’t remember what he was watching. Note the Mylanta tablets on the coffee table. This was...

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• 07-Feb-2018

  
  John Perry Barlow, Rest in Peace I went to Jason Calacanis’ conference Digital Coast 2000 way back when. I didn’t write about it, but it was inspiring. I found Calacanis inspiring, he’s a raconteur and a troublemaker and I have enjoyed his podcasts over the years. The other standouts from that conference were Mark Cuban who I quoted long ago The...

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• 21-Jan-2018

  
  Chicago Airport Moment The shuttle bus from Concourse C is filmed over with layers of salt and ice. The salt and ice remind me how cold it is, how cold it always is, how cold it will remain. My Mr. Rogers cardigan is slim protection from the frostbite I’d endure were I to be caught outside for longer...

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