It was my birthday last month. It was low-key. I loved it. I went to the beach. Kite surfers were out in force this afternoon. For my birthday session. I got birthday wishes from AARP. That’s The American Association of Retired Persons. I am not retired. Nowhere close. I am working age still. I am...

I really love the band Hospitality. Something dreamy but also arch and ironic but also deeply heartfelt. It’s got all the contradictions that I love so much in artists I encountered once I hit my 30s and 40s. Here’s a song called Friends of Friends: Actually, it’s so good I’ll link to two versions. One...

I moved another page which I’d brought into WordPress out of WordPress. And so, the new Writing page, which will continue to be a sort of work in progress. I really want to provide a bit more context, add more dates, and some nice summaries. Maybe even word counts? New job is going well. I...

From a gmail address. Emphasis in original. I am pretty sure this would be violating the law and violating contractual agreements which might get made should an actual “job” get booked. Subject: To Joe Crawford Hi Joe, This is %REDACTED%, and I’ve found your contact from LinkedIn. I’ve been managing an outsourcing team for the...

Yesterday the dog got zoomies. Zoomies are what Americans (others too?) call it when a dog runs around in circles in what looks either manic or fun or maybe both. Kelly had gone to work. And Gwen came back in from the walk, looked for her, and lacking Kelly in the apartment, the zoomies commenced....

Subject: need someone in san diego Joe, i’m a developer in %REDACTED% and can’t talk to us clients directly – language thing gets in the way. got 9+ years under my belt and a solid plan for landing us it work. technical side is locked in. what i’m missing is someone who can handle the...

Dan Q wrote The Lost Art of the Amusing WiFi Hotspot Name and I have to say, among the apartment dwellers such as me, it’s not entirely a lost art. True, there are many very boring default wifi hotspot names. But there are are a handful which have the capacity to amuse. To wit: Casa...

I will start a new job on Monday. In the lead up to that I suspect posting to my own site will slow down–somewhat. But then again, maybe not. I’ve done a good job updating how my site works to an extent it’s super malleable for me. But things have been updated. I’ve made so...

Today I read Tom Zylstra’s post human.json, in which he said (in response to two other posts: AI Policy and Human.json, Adding human.json to WordPress) the following: Claudine Chionh and Terence Eden both mention human.json, a data file that lists people and sites you know are written by humans, as opposed to generated by AI....

Front page of Comic-Con International website in 2025 I’ve had this image in my folder of potential blog posts and web pages since early 2025. I don’t have a lot to add in words. But I am always glad to see myself in costume with other folks in costume. On this image I’m center left...

I say time and again there’s a lot of stuff on my site. I consider the site a message in a bottle, a diary, a hangout, a digital garden, a junk drawer. But it’s mine and I like it. There are things here I forgot were here. Today I reworked 3 holiday cards from decades...

I don’t have a sitemap, but I am sneaking up on one. Here are some pages which have gotten some improvements lately. I learned a lot looking at my old splash pages. Lots of stuff afoot. Here are some sections: Search & Navigation search site index slash pages Projects headers mixtapes art weird web october...

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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