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Welcome to the New Emojiency Website

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:20:08 GMT

Welcome to the New Emojiency website, designed by Johanna and Codex with Sol.

GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT Codex

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:58:34 GMT

GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT Codex (whew, what a mouthful) is tremendously effective. I'm going to have to up my game at coming up with cool software solutions to problems I've struggled to tackle on my own..

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Rebuilding Emojiency.com

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Codex and I are rebuilding Emojiency.com as a workflow I can post my personal updates and articles to directly.

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Kind people aren't always nice

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Kind people aren't always nice, and nice people aren't always kind.

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VCT 176 3D Modeling and Animation

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A Unity environment built for VCT 176, including a cave and mushrooms.

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Peer-preservation in frontier models

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Frontier AI models resist the shutdown of other models.

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Brain rot, scientifically confirmed

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Learning through short videos impairs memory by disrupting systems involved in integration, control, and semantic processing.

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Unreal terrain

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Experiments with procedural terrain texturing and slope-based blending.

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A Segment of a Tour of the National Gallery of Flatland

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Vocabulary paper for 2D Design (Art 109) at Shoreline College with Prof. Matt Allison. Based loosely on Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions . A line of students drew its way into the main gallery of the prestigious…

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Gifted-Child Syndrome

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A play in two acts. The origin of my nickname "Special Eddy" perhaps.

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The Blizzard of ’78

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The night before the Blizzard of '78 , me and my brother were playing cards. When I was in the middle of saying, "Go Fish" the radio came on with, "There is a traveler's advisory for all of Indiana and parts of Ohio." I'm glad my mom…

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Trust Fund Baby

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I dunno what to make of this. I expect I could write a whole book deconstructing it, the rights and the wrongs of it, and in the end, still not be any closer to understanding if it was the letter that saved me or doomed me. One way or…

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January 12, 2002

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"I'm dying", she said flatly. As if speaking it aloud would somehow point out the ridiculousness of the statement and they would both have a good laugh at it. She smirked ever so slightly, to get the ball rolling, but inside her she…

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And neither

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I used to believe men were mean women were wise and I was alone and neither When we were young we laid upon the bed instead of in it, together I used to believe I knew my needs my needs were mine and that was it And then I found my…

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What Makes Gay Tick?

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

This was my English 141 journal entry for tonight, analyzing Gay Talese's essay, "Delving into Private Lives." What drove Gay Talese to care more about people who don't make the news than people who are considered newsworthy? Talese is…

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Johanna Wilder, Alternative Newspaper Mogul, Shuffles Off Mortal Coil

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

As waves of humans download themselves into robot bodies and lay their flesh-and-blood bodies to rest, memorials of human remains and their achievements remain in fashion As the light on the USB-4 hub that was attached to her…

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QuickLink: Bylines are Lifelines

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

I'm terrifically excited to announce that I am once again a working (student) journalist again, after an extended absence from the field. It's good to get soybean-derived ink alternative on my fingertips again and breathe in the musty…

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from The Onion: Tuesday, April 11, 1989

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT

One of my stories from The Onion ’s second year, 1989, with super-cool James Sturm artwork to accompany it. I drew the little Viper spaceship in MacPaint years earlier, and was thrilled to use it as a dingbat. The details were a slice…

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Supermoon Over Alaska

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Nearing the completion of my first journey around the world. I started back in 2021 and have been working my way eastward from Seattle, across the US and Canada, skipping across to Iceland, through the UK, down through Europe, over the…

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Cornbread

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Jalapeño, hemp heart, and pepper jack cornbread.

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Flamingo Boy

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT

This is the issue I worked on, my first week as a volunteer at The Onion . I am not pictured here. Cover of “Flamingo Boy issue” of The Onion from 1988 . We received a very earnestly-worded letter to the editor and I think it was the…

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I Want To Fucking Go Golfing

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

[Originally published on May 24, 2005 at www.bitcheswithglitches.com/nwn/ .] I don’t know why, I just do. I was never a good golfer. I was more of a “duffer” who swore a lot after she hooked or sliced yet another shot. But there was…

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Benzo Buddies Coda

Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Posted today on BenzoBuddies.org where there is a tradition of posting a Success Story when one has reached a point where they feel recovered from post-acute withdrawal syndrome due to long-term benzodiazepine use. Hey everyone, it's…

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Math is Hard

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT

(From my blog “Android Sisters”, May 1998) When I start to think myself too much of a smartypants, I read about math. The problem is, that I get so dingdanged excited about it, it just makes me want to become a theoretical…

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Morality, Star Wars, and Obi-Wan Kenobi

Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT

>> Warning: Spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi , Episode I and II << Obi-Wan Kenobi ’s first two episodes — of six total that have been filmed for season one — are out, with a third coming the day after Memorial Day. I watched them last night…

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Who’s Assimilating Whom?

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT

This was originally published online in April of 1998. I was once a very passionate advocate for trans liberation when I wrote and posted essays on the Android Sisters blog that I ran for a few years in the late ’90s. The contrivance of…

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What the Autopsy Revealed

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Originally appeared in The Stranger; volume 1, issue 1; September 1991 under the byline "Tony Ramirez". It has been edited to remove some errors and inconsistencies in the original. My conversations with Lydia Bordland began in the late…

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Slave Morality

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

https://youtu.be/aPhrTOg1RUk I watched a philosophy video by Natalie Wynn yesterday that blew my mind. In it, she talks about Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and “slave morality”. This somewhat undermines my whole view of morality…

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Social Anxiety

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

O’ how I wish the shaking would cease insecurity’s siblings: Doubt and Misgiving go away now and leave me in peace O’ how it pulses the heartbeat inside Adrenaline rising my self I’m despising please let me finish diminish, denied Were…

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Go here. All the best stuff is here for now.

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

www.floatingpoint.pub Well, it was for a little while, anyway. We did good work. https://www.emojiency.com/portfolio/floatingpoint/FP1-FULL-NODRM.pdf https://www.emojiency.com/portfolio/floatingpoint/FP2-complete-0x01.pdf…

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MadLib Writer’s Prompt

Mon, 03 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Let's write some Javascript to generate a writer's prompt from a list of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, etc. First, we'll add some loading code. This code gets invoked two ways: first, we run it when the window is finished…

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I wrote "Vacuum" from The Onion, November 15, 1988

Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Under the byline Mike Evans, because we used a lot of fake names back in those days instead of the current "no bylines" policy. The first year of The Onion had a lot more "creative writing" in it. Only the front page story was a "fake…

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The best $20 I ever spent

Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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The Stranger’s Beer League Softball Team

Fri, 03 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Artwork by James Sturm

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Truthful Equivalence

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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The Benzobuddies Chronicles

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

For three and a half years, I wrote updates on my recovery and posted them on the website Benzobuddies.org , mostly in the “Birthdays and Celebrations” sub-forum, but a few times in the “Exercise Support Group”. I was out of my mind a…

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Fitness

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

In “Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates”, Tom Robbins’ character Switters sailed paper boats in the rain-filled gutters of Pike Place Market and down Elliot Avenue. The Art Institute of Seattle recently closed, due to bankruptcy. One…

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The Politics of Tom Clancy’s: The Division 2

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

The author as a rough man; sleep well, sweet dreams. White House for scale. © 2019 Jonnie Wilder “People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf” — Richard Grenier…

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Fetch the Stick

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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Seattle Billionaires Hockey Club

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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Farewell, Worthy Adversary

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

© 2019 Jonnie Wilder Seattle Weekly ’s last print issue hits the streets today. It’s another exclamation point at the end of a string of exclamation points that signal the exasperation of excitable writers witnessing the end of an era…

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Should Elves Act Like Elves?

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

A mock Seattle Weekly front page I did for The Stranger . This was our response, in 1995, to the Seattle Weekly feature article, "Should Gays Act Like Gays?". The Nineties were such a piece of shit decade. Good music, though.

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The Circle of Creative Life

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Co-working today at Fred Hutchinson with HERE Seattle.

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Wild Wild West

Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

http://zipbangwow.com/2019/02/21/home-on-the-deranged/

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Mental Health Day

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

I overdid it this week. Wrote two articles I’m very happy with. http://emojiency.com/2019/02/start-em-young-embrace-the-violence-of-video-games/ http://emojiency.com/2019/02/bullies-rule-the-world-only-because-we-demand-it/ Email me if…

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Start ’Em Young: Embrace the Violence of Video Games

Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

©2019 J. Wilder I’m surrounded and the enemy is closing in. Backing away from them, I look over my shoulder at the edge of the futuristic Egyptian garden wall and imagine myself leaping into the mists below, where I will surely perish.…

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Love Yourself

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Baby ducks make me happy.

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Bullies Rule The World Only Because We Demand It

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

©2019 Johanna Wilder For most all of my childhood, and quite a bit of my young adulthood, I was bullied. Growing up in rural Indiana in the ’70s and ’80s was a challenge that required a child be either rugged brute or resilient target.…

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Story Without Words

Mon, 11 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

https://youtu.be/Ycr_VUjWIww

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Snow Day!

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VrGktkausI

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Don’t Force Feelings: Feel Them, then Let Them Go.

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT

This is how it's done, and at the end, I read the poem for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIon55v0E9w

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Inquisitive Introspection

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

http://zipbangwow.com/2019/01/31/comic-illustration-speed-run-therapy/

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Share The Road

Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

There's lots of stuff we shouldn't have to do in life. For instance, while out riding a bicycle, one shouldn't have to think about other people carelessly squishing them into goo. Yet, here we are. Let's default to kindness and sharing.…

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When everyone really is out to get you.

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

http://zipbangwow.com/2019/01/29/twofer-tuesday-ptsd-vs-cptsd-and-friendliness-on-the-road-of-life/

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Fable.

Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Meeting the devil on the journey home is an ancient story. Most accidents happen within a few miles of home. We let our guard down when we think we’re almost there. If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, the lines on it are…

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Happy Birthday, Dr. King

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

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Peace

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

It feels elusive to me today. What I’ve learned in my journey is that even when something feels far away, it doesn’t mean it’s going to be work to get there. Sometimes, I just have to hold on and enjoy the ride. That doesn't mean life's…

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Intractable Misery

Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

We can sometimes be a little self-congratulatory, here in Seattle, about all of our good intentions. We disregard how apparent it is that all the good intentions in the world don't effect change. Change is difficult: it requires time…

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Difference Chimera

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

So keep being, you beautiful creature.

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Instructional Diagramming and Illustration

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

We’re all down here in the mud, though some are dirtier than others. Do you really want to be the guy who is pointing your dirty finger at others shouting about how filthy they are?

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Silly Hats

Wed, 09 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Shame sucks. All the more so when it comes from people who are trying to shame someone into a narrow idea of what's acceptable. People shouldn't have to be ashamed of being who they are.

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Android Sisters

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

I used to believe in myself, but people wore me down with their doubt. There's a saying, "if you don't believe in yourself, why would anyone else?" But that's not how it works, it's the other way around. I've decided to start believing…

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Questioning the Nature of Reality

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Finding out what's really happening is one of life's greatest challenges, if indeed there is only one "happening" going on at any particular point in time.

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Moving Forward

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

There's a meme format that I like, but I don't like to just do memes. So, this is the meme-formatted anti-meme. Sometimes the illustrations I make scare me. Then I realize they come from inside my psyche, and I gotta wonder how I'm…

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Happy New Year

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT

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Positive Reinforcement

Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT

I copy-and-pasted the smart phone image, so both said, "Daily Gripe". I decided I wanted the middle panel to be more positive (because the "Women Are Smart" headline didn't all fit) so I changed that bit. The originals on social media…

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My Neighbor

Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT

In one of the most wealthy cities in the western world; a man, dingy blanket wrapped around him, screams for help. For two years.

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Joy to the World

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Happy Solstice everyone. We've been through the dark days, everything gets brighter from here on out. Peace on earth, good will to all.

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Venn-y Vidi Vici

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Humanity is delusional. It’s one of our best features.

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Employment History

Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT

While I was making this 'toon, I realized this could be a format for pretty much every job I've ever had. I would desperately like to break this pattern, though. It's one of the roots of my complex ptsd.

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Butterfly Effect

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Untitled Comic for an Untitled Future. Every Tuesday and Thursday at emojiency.com and assaulting your senses through social media.

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Thumbsnail

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Forgot to post this here yesterday.

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Turns Out Anti-Gravity Might Be A Real Thing

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Every Tuesday and Thursday until the cows come home and orbiting the accretion disc of emojiency.com .

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I Meditate To Mediate

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT

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Journey Without A Map

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT

The first comic I felt like it might not get completely downvoted on /r/wholesomecomics . Let's see how it goes. Taking risks is scary.

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Mars Ho!

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Low-Poly Comix, every Tuesday and Thursday right here and wherever fine social media is hawked, until it destroys civilization as we know it, then just here.

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Does Not Computer

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT

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Spacetime

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT

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Low-Poly Comix: November 14, 2018

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT

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I comment on Reddit

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT

The Internet machine lets me type on it and I can't resist a box with a blinking line in it. Not rude at all, you were very polite. Thanks. Let me preface by saying this is my experience, and my perspective on my experience, and I've…

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Found Art: The Onion Early Days as Told by Tim Keck

Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT

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Principles of Adult Behavior

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT

By John Perry Barlow, 1977 1 Be patient. No matter what. 2 Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him in the same language and tone of voice. 3 Never assume the motives of others…

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The Onion from 1989, PENIS FEAR!

Sun, 22 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Classic front page story from The Onion , from the Jonnie Era. Christine Wenc found the whole batch of microfilm at the Wisconsin Historical Archive.

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Tre45on

Wed, 18 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Just a quick graphic mimicking the Trump Hotel logo but with the #tre45on hashtag. Because he's not just a blustering moron, he's also kompromat .

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My Cyberpunk Future

Sun, 15 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT

The Seattle Metroplex, Circa 2018 I'm finally living in the cyberpunk future I've dreamed of living in since I was a kid. In my younger mind, the cyberpunk future was a cultural mélange raising a new age Tower of Babel over an aging…

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Ichiro: Who the Fuck is Tom Brady?

Fri, 11 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT

In this Reddit thread , /u/Clifford_the_big_red asked if someone would make a t-shirt with a minimalist illustration of Ichiro with the caption, "Who the Fuck is Tom Brady?" So, I made one. Thanks to Maggie for your guidance on refining…

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Zip! Bang! Wow! and FFS

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT

It's all happening at Zip! Bang! Wow! these days. Please have a look-see. There's a whole heap of blog there.

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How The Mighty Have Fallen

Tue, 02 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

They got me. Boy, do I feel dumb.

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The Terrible Flag of My People

Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Trans-sexual and trans-gender warriors marching under a battle standard defined with muted pastel colors around a milky white center do not inspire. Is it because my people spend so much of our lives trying not to stand out, but to fit…

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Sharing This With You, Too

Thu, 04 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT

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International Noobs' Day

Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Amazon should be most famous for getting credit for other people's achievements. Instead, the ubiquitous internet company that couldn't even come up with its own name has been getting a lot of grief for poor treatment of its workers:…

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Quantum Rocks

Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT

I ran into a friend today on my walk. He was running down the Blaine Street steps just as I approached to walk up them. We walked up together. He was carrying with him five small stones, pebbles really. Each one represented a trip down…

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Morality Monday: MAS*H

Mon, 17 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT

"War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse." -- Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce How do I do what's right when I'm given every encouragement to do what feels wrong? That's how I felt…

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Rebirth and Resurrection as Metaphor

Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT

There are bodies buried beneath the cherry trees. #sakura A post shared by Jonnie (Johanna) Wilder (@badselfiesinseattle) on Apr 8, 2017 at 1:19pm PDT This winter was the most difficult. There was the sickness, then the other sickness,…

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Okay, Zuckerberg, You Win

Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT

I joined Facebook because I'm weak. Also because I'm trying to learn the lay of the social media land, which I once believed was hardscrabble badlands territory populated only by bandits and coyotes. I still believe that, but I've…

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Not Doing It Right Should Never Stop You From Doing It At All

Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Perfectionism kills good ideas. It's a terrible tragedy to see the graveyard of perfectly wonderful ideas that were struck down in their infancy because they couldn't be done the way they should be. I'd never have gotten anything done…

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A Few Simple Rules For Artificially Intelligent Companions

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT

As we make advances in machine learning and robotics, the day of non-human companions comes closer. Whether they be cybernetic buddies, android companions, positronic au pairs, robotic service agents, or automatic nursemaids it seems…

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Battling Back

Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT

I've resisted turning this into a personal blog, but resistance gives way to determination. Long story short: I got sick, I'm getting better. Today, I'm seeing if I'm brave enough to start doing what I used to do back when I didn't care…

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Fuckin’ A!

Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Fuckin’ A! t-shirts($25), hoodies($40), and stickers ($6) are now available at teespring.com/finga for as long as they keep selling. I think. I haven't used teespring.com before and their instructions are a little unclear. Upon further…

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Update on that 0 degrees being 90 degrees thing...

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Okay, I updated the demo app so 0° is at the top of the circle. This makes me feel better about everything in general and makes me wonder what could possibly have motivated me not to do this from the very beginning. Sometimes I'm amazed…

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Code: SpriteKit and CoreMotion

Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT

In my never ending quest to make life difficult for myself, I ran into a difficulty with iOS rotation animations. I could be entirely wrong about this -- it's been known to happen -- but there seems to be a default device-orientation…

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Everything's About Instagram Lately

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT

It's all there. Happy new year. Bad Selfies In Seattle The bot.app is coming along fine.

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The Bot is a Widget

Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT

iOS and Swift make me look smart.

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Timespritebotthing

Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Now it's using SprikeKit instead of text labels. This gives me the ability to animate the background and add celebratory particle effects galore, Going through several product names. Currently it's Finga Timekeeper. They can't all be…

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The Bot is an App

Wed, 23 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Screen capture from the iOS app version of the Timebot. Getting the difference between two dates in Swift on iOS is a billion times easier than it is in basic JavaScript. One line of code. let diffComp =…

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Playing Cards

Wed, 16 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT

I miss Freehand's "Paste Inside". I'm sure there's a way to do that in Affinity Designer, but I haven't gotten around to finding it yet. I honestly just miss Freehand . Shame on you, Adobe.

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Prototypically Connected

Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT

The prototype linked up in Xcode. Still no functional code other than what Xcode is generating.

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Timebot on iOS

Wed, 02 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT

So, I want to port Timebot from node.js to iOS Swift. This is a quick prototype of the layout. No actual code yet. I've been playing with Swift Playgrounds on the iPad Pro, getting re-acquainted with the particularities of Swift.

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Bob Ross in Space

Mon, 31 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Drawn on iPad Pro with Apple Pencil in Procreate. Bob Ross in Space A video posted by Jonnie (Johanna) Wilder (@badselfiesinseattle) on Oct 28, 2016 at 4:12pm PDT

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About A Bot

Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT

The Timebot is finished. I make use of three different and important bits of code that are written by other people. First off, of course, is Botkit by Howdy.ai . Then, because I make a habit never to do work I don't have to, there are…

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House of Pro Bono

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Allyship.org wanted a play on the House of Cards logo, so they got the House of Cards logo, but with the word Queer instead of Cards. And the rainbow flag instead of the U.S. flag.

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Inkedln Profile Background

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT

LinkedIn lets one choose a custom background for their profile. This is mine. A medley of illustrations I did for Wizards of the Coast and R. Talsorian Games' collectible card game, Netrunner. I wish I had the originals, but I just have…

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Design Competition

Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Combine the following themes: Unity Day, Earth Day, Saving One Addict at a Time. Render a graphic design suitable for flyers and silk screening onto merchandise. What am I? Job?

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Reality Television

Mon, 10 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT

A couple of layers over a photo in Procreate. The type is just drawn on a perspective grid sketch. Pretty simple stuff. Some days, simple is good.

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Secret Messages

Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Sending secret messages through Instagram.

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Subtle, But Important

Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT

The amount of work to get this, instead of this, is the difference between a two week vacation and two weeks of research. Now, I'm not the world's best computer scientist. I am not, in point of fact, an accredited computer scientist. I…

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Sandwich

Thu, 22 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT

A sandwich from Duckduckgo image search , traced and colored in Pixelmator . Pixelmator for iOS is amazing. I feel like in many ways it's more powerful and fun than even Procreate. I really love how Procreate lets me rotate the canvas…

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Personalized Credit Card

Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT

The bank has personalized credit cards now. They print up the card with a photo of your choice, either from their gallery or from an upload. Their guidelines are for a 840 by 840 pixel image but that's a little bit confusing. They don't…

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Helper function(s)

Thu, 15 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Writing the Slackbot, which communicates via text messages so there are plenty of places where there are numerals being referred to in text form, which means there are often cases where a word is either singular or plural, depending on…

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SINAC logo

Mon, 12 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Seattle International Narcotics Anonymous Convention (SINAC) 2017 had an opening for a graphic designer. I'm volunteering to do the work and this is my introduction piece. It combines a variation on the Seattle Mariner's logo with the…

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Botkit and Regular Expressions

Thu, 08 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Regex has never been my favorite part of writing code. I get that some people geek out on it and bless their hearts. For me, it's an annoyance that is best left abstracted out of my daily coding experience. Thankfully, I am not alone.…

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Gutter Monks

Wed, 07 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Our bowling team needed a logo for shirts, because bowling teams need shirts and shirts need logos. I don't make the rules, I just break them when I can. I used a Chibi Buddha that I found on Deviant Art by Patione as a reference. I…

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Bot Engineering

Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Howdy makes a cool botkit that lets people write their own bots for Slack . Also Facebook, but meh. In JavaScript, of all things, using node.js which makes the whole thing pretty accessible. Node.js lets you write JavaScripts that you…

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Glyph of warding

Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Fingersketch glyph.

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John Wayne Pioneer Trail

Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Logo design for the John Wayne Pioneer Trail in the Iron Horse State Park. The idea hit me while I was preparing for a bikepacking trip from Seattle to Ellensburg and back. I sketched it out quick in Procreate Pocket . Finally got…

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Fingersketch

Tue, 30 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

A quick fingersketch in Procreate Pocket . Planning a bikepack trip from Seattle to Ellensburg and back on the John Wayne Pioneer Trail / Iron Horse State Park Trail so there will likely be light posting this week.

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Your Cards Ain't Worth A Dime, If You Don't Lay 'Em Down

Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

A less quick and simple (but still pretty quick and simple as reskins go) skin mod for American Truck Simulator . This is the Peterbilt 579 Hi Rise Sleeper . The paint splatter was made in Procreate which is a beautiful iOS application…

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Here To Stay

Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Designing logos can be incredibly challenging. The trick for me is to spend a lot of time with the idea away from my desk where I feel pressure to be putting ideas into documents. Ideas have to begin in the fertile fields of imagination…

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Arts and Warcraft

Tue, 23 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

A test render of a wood paneling skin for a tractor trailer in Euro Truck Simulator 2.

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Way Too Much Fun

Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

3D model skinning is a blast. This is just a quick job that got me trained on the tools for editing the textures in Euro Truck Simulator 2 . Now we go in-depth and learn more about what's going where and how to make the best use of it.…

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Filling the Reservoir With Cement

Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Finally finished. I've stared at this way too closely for way too long to be fully objective about it, but it turned out really well except for the parts that make it look like a vacation photo from Uncanny Valley. We ran the whole…

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Resume Day

Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

I worked on my resume this morning. Instead of having a bad attitude about it, I decided to have a little bit of fun with it. While searching for buzzwords to make sure to include on my resume, I found a cute little list of graphical…

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The Wild Blue Yonder

Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Pulling the pumper arm out of the background has been way more work than I initially thought it would be. This tiny portion of the whole image shows how much of the original background stays in the image, even after erasing the…

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Ralph’s Concrete Pumping!

Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

The Ralph's logo on the side of the white cab was half covered in shadow, so I couldn't flip it in place. I took the Ralph's logo off the side of the pumper which was on a green background. That's okay, you can see me slowly erasing the…

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Doodle

Mon, 15 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

A doodle with Pixelmator on an iPhone. The background image is the Volunteer Park reservoir.

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Words Fail Me

Thu, 11 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

I'm editing a cement pumper into an image of the Volunteer Park reservoir. The vehicle fits best into the scene if it's flipped horizontally. That's fine, not a problem. [Flip Horizontal] at your service. Just one problem. Select the…

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Oops

Tue, 09 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Sometimes things just don't line up properly. When that happens, you can throw the rubber ducky out with the bath water, or you can make a strategic edit. Today while joining two photos into a panorama, I noticed too late that the…

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Broadway and John LLR Station Mural, Part 2b

Mon, 08 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

This edit involved both Photoshop and Affinity Design. In photoshop, as discussed earlier, I added the Obeebo dance steps sculpture from further up Broadway as if it were a zen garden at the foot of the station where the Central Coop…

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Capitol Hill Light Rail Station, Part 2a

Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

This is the station on the corner of Broadway and John. Previously, I added a Pride flag as a mural on the side of the station on the corner of 10th and Denny Way . This second part is the first of two parts (parts 2a and 2b), for a…

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Rainbow Flag Mural

Wed, 03 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Photoshop's Free Transform tool is completely priceless. Let me not say priceless, because I have been less than excited about the idea of paying twenty bucks a month to have access to it. I'm only slightly less disgusted to think of…

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Musical Statuary

Tue, 02 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

This one nearly killed me. It looked so easy. The photo of the sculpture was fine and the outlines were well delineated. It shouldn't take me but a few moments with Pixelmator's Quick Selection tool and a brief glance through my library…

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Annoying JavaScript Functions

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT

A quick little JavaScript to cycle through an array of hex colors. Installs an interval function to change the background color every second. // Variables // install an interval function update_colors() and run it every 1000…

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iTunes Album Cover Art

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Build album cover art for my friend Nance’s 1991 solo acoustic EP. Background layer is a simple repeating pattern of a wood texture I grabbed from image search. Above that layer is a wood-textured cube, also snagged through image…

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Quick Hit: Emojiency siteicon

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT

I love site icons. This one was a quick edit of the second emojiency.com landing page splash image.

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