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“📣 YouTube removed your content” (A Google Mystery)
A few weeks ago, on Wednesday, May 21, 8:56 AM I got this email: Hi Joe Crawford, It looks like an external link you included in CSSBattle for DECEMBER 5 (2024) Logo-i-zer & ArtLung Lab didn’t follow Community Guidelines. To help keep our community safe, we removed your content from YouTube. External link: https://apps.artlung.com/logo-i-zer/create.php REVIEW AND...
18th Anniversary on Meetup
Wow this is depressing. Happy anniversary from Meetup 18 years ago, you made the decision to join Meetup and pursue your passions. Since then, you’ve attended 57 events, joined groups, and hopefully met some great people along the way. Happy anniversary from all of us at Meetup. We’re thrilled that you are part of our...
An hour before sunset and then later.
We went in when the thunder started rumbling and we saw lightning
30 May / Pacific Beach
One way I track my beachgoing is to post each time I go. Often on Instagram first, then this blog. Or This blog first, then IG. In this case I’m doing it late, from last Friday. I’m writing this on 2 June, but slapping a date of 30 May on it. And it was gorgeous....
OB / 28 May
And another retroactive post. After this one. Actually written on 2 June but with a date of 28 May. Figure it out, historians! Love, Joe
Morning sesh at OB
Latest Shutdown
I have talked before about my mistrust of big platforms, and fear of digital video. Along those lines, an email I got 8 days ago: SUBJECT: Facebook’s Video Storage Policy Is Changing: Download Your Old Live Videos In The Next 7 Days Download your old Facebook Live videos by May 25. We are sending you...
I will keep trying…
As much as my CSS Battles are me, writing HTML and CSS and talking about it, sometimes I talk like I blog. From my video o May 25, 2025: …so much of any coding task is trying. And trying again and trying again and failing and failing and trying and trying and failing and failing...
Today I dropped off my piece for the mermaid themed art show organized by @arthang_sandiego at Subterranean Coffee on 30th Street here in San Diego! Opening event is on Sunday June 1st from 11a to 1p and the show will run through June 29th. Great coffee, vittles and mermaid artwork. Perfect!
The calm Friday before the storm of Memorial Day weekend.
Landing a trick
An unfortunate sea lion As I left OB today I spotted a sea lion lying down up the beach. I approached it. It eyed me, its hindflippers twitched. I could see its ribs retracting as it breathed. It was in trouble. Before the session. Starfish and mussels on the pier. Before that? It was a...
K O @ O B
PB Playground
Scuffle between hippies in the parking lot at OB today before I went out. Left me feeling weird before my session.
A Landscape of Things To Read
Tracy Durnell recently posted Browsing as Thinking: I’ve been having fun lately browsing as thinking, as in, searching a broad category of terms and exploring what’s connected to that node, in service of the things I want to write about. Essentially, intentionally doing a “bad search” as a means of survey. There’s a character in...
On Sensible Shoes
Jeremy Cherfas inquired about sensible shoe solutions in his post Sensible Shoes. I have an answer that’s not specific, but is something I feel may be useful and worth a read for others: I don’t have quite the same level of shoe and foot troubles. But I have thoughts on shoes. I also am old...
sun unguent
Basically it’s summer now
635pm
I’ve got it made in the shade
New Bot Day! “Intergalactic Robot” hails from 1998, the Beastie Boys music video for their song “Intergalactic.” This giant robot transports the 3 MCs to Tokyo; then fights a squidhead kaiju and breakdances. “Trying to change the world, I will plot and scheme!”
Lifeguards were putting up the summer buoys today.
110 Hours of CSS Battle
Preamble In Summer 2014 I installed it and started playing Clash of Clans. To keep in touch with my godson, which kind of worked. In January 2024 I quit. At the time I said: I stopped playing regularly a few months ago. I look periodically but I’ve lost the habit. Probably I’ve replaced it with...
I wish the shape of the waves were better today.
New Bot Day! Mr. Peanut appears in the 2025 film The Electric State, originally a visual novel from 2018, while the company mascot first appeared in 1916. In the film, Mr. Peanut has been exiled to The Exclusion Zone in an alternate, apocalyptic 1994. He leads other exiled robots who are sentient and fighting for their rights and dignity. He’s a wise leader. Welcome to my collection, Mr. Peanut. We all want dignity and justice here.
Saw some fish in the water including the first stingray of the year. Sandcrabs coming out. By-the-wind sailors beached. Sandcrabs are showing in force. I think it’s springtime in the water.
Go listen to some Jill Sobule.
In October, in the comments to my post Going To Concerts, my good friend Erin, recounting concerts we’ve been to, reminded me that “we saw Joe Jackson & Jill Sobule at SDSU Open Air” Amphitheater. That was on August 8, 1991. I read a quote from Michael Stipe when I was still young saying “lyrics...