Protecting my lips from the sun before the session. The sun slowly lower in the sky, mid session. After the sunset from my car. I’ve been listening to my 2022 mixtape ~ playlist. It’s good. Madonna’s Ray of Light is so beautiful. Impeach the President is on it. And that’s an old song. It’s got...

I do love drawing M.O.D.O.K. First posted at marchmodokmadness.blogspot.com. Not too late to draw and submit your own! Go! MODOK Go!

I heard over the lifeguard loudspeaker an order to a group of surfers to move north from the swim zone. I was catching waves, hanging out. Long gaps between. They were paddling as a group, making their way bit by bit. As much I’m in the water, I know surfers. I can see the ones...

The front page of my site has had a few different looks over the years. artlung.com/splashes/ – doing some modernizing of those pages and putting duct tape on the old code. For, you know, fun. The aforementioned Splash Pages page.

Another email offering would-be free money got through my spam filters. Previously: EOTD: “This is a legitimate arrangement—no risk to you.” Hi Joe Crawford, I’ve put a lot of thought into this email, and I hope that comes through. I’m %REDACTED%, a Senior Full Stack Engineer from %REDACTED_COUNTRY% with 8+ years of development experience. I...

I made a new site header. This one was fun. I reused a background that was a great big GIF and turned it into an AVIF which is half the size. I added it in the same directory where the original one was. The folder name is permanent_media. I was half my current age when...

An animation offered up to me on iPad to tell me about the milestone. It’s a ubiquitous and highly problematic platform. YouTube remains useful to me. My account is at youtube.com/@artlung The first video I uploaded was this Bauhaus animation I created using Cinema4D. I wrote a bit about my experience with 3-D software in...

The panorama from today There were a couple on the edge of the small cliff that overlooks PB. It’s a part of the landscape that collapses. There’s signage that says “UNSTABLE CLIFFS.” Something about where they were situated prompted me to tell them “you don’t want to be there.” The dude in the couple didn’t...

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die starts with a madman raving at the Norm’s on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles. That’s the same Norm’s where I first and clearly understood and internalized the difference between a vector computer graphics element and a raster graphics element. It was a technical book whose title I can’t...

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Previously: I wore my old wetsuit today. It’s had more wear and tear than the one I got in January. But the zipper works better. It’s the same model, but the new one has this comedic attribute: in a big wave, or even a strong wave, the zipper tends to open from my neck down...

IT’S BEEN A FEW YEARS, BUT TIME AGAIN FOR A M.O.D.O.K! ORIGINALLY POSTED to MARCHMODOKMADNESS.BLOGSPOT.COM

I came across this post entitled On the emotional weight of a life in medicine via the Bear Blog Trending RSS feed. It talks a bit about code blue situations, and the natural stress of taking responsibility for attempting to take a person who is crashing — their heart stopped — and making that stop...

I bought a new wetsuit last week. It smelled like a new car when I tried it on. It will never smell like that again after wearing it in the ocean today. It was flat today. Not enough swell. And Santa Ana Winds built slowly over the session. There’s a song about the Santa Ana...

I love a song that can stand up to the simplest possible presentation. The words: I, I miss that feeling– the feeling of somebody close I, I crave that feeling– the feeling that I miss the most Empathy is part of me and everything that comes with it is first class I’m riding in economy...

I ended a post with the following in 2007. I am eggs of all kinds. I am the Chrome Dinette. And you are my sofa. Those are lyrics from a Frank Zappa song. Translated from German. It is, of course, absurdist. Ich bin Eier aller Arten. Ich bin der Chrome Dinette. Und du bist mein...

I am trading blog post titles with Sara. She gave me a few suggestions for what to write about. I chose the title “My favorite cosplay”. I like to dress up. And I like to dress up in costumes. Wikipedia tells me the term “costly” first appeared in print in Japan in 1983. I am...

I got an email that got past spam filters with the subject “Re: engineering collaboration (US)” today. It is depressing on several axes. This doesn’t appear to be an offer to subcontract which could be plausible. This email describes behavior that every workplace I ever worked at would consider breach of contract and grounds for...

This month the topic for the IndieWeb Blog Carnival is “Museum Memories.” As I thought about what that prompt brought to mind, I was flooded with memory. I used to play hooky from high school and go to the San Diego Museum of Art. My friend Susan curated a show at San Diego Public Library’s...

All I wanna do, is see you turn into, a giant woman… A page I made last year. Giant Women

Winged Migration is a lovely film that on its surface seems like innocuous footage of birds in their habitats. But look closer and it’s a life or death adventure and dramatization of what it means to live on planet earth. I found it profoundly moving. There are scenes that made me gasp. A shot of...

Triple feature of the day— Weather Underground (2002) One Battle After Another (2025) Running on Empty (1988) Previously: Running On Empty, Movies Owned Which Can Predictably Induce Crying

I’ve had an Amazon wishlist linked from my website for years. Many years. I had a few folks who I helped out with website help or other kinds of technical help buy me stuff from my Amazon Wishlist. It’s been a while, but up until today it’s been linked from my site for decades. Part...