benbrown.txt

I am a big fan of Peach Momoko's surreal and often times disturbing watercolor paintings.

Two very interesting essays landed in my feeds this morning, both meditating on "artificial intelligence" by thinking about the life of bugs.

Here is a cool video of comic book artist Frank Cho drawing Conan in a classic pose.

This morning at the coffee shop, I was telling my friend famous composer Steven Barber about the book I'm reading, Christopher Brown's "A Natural History of Empty Lots."

I'm a big fan of William Gibson's classic cyberpunk novel, NEUROMANCER.

I went to see Tricky play last night after the universe told me to get tickets.

This weekend, I finished Deep Austin: Case of the Weird Carnivorous Sky.

DEAR INTERNET, IT IS FRIDAY AND I AM ABOUT TO EAT A DELICIOUS TACO.

Last night I finished Nexus by Ramez Naam.

This weekend I attended ArmadilloCon 48, a local science fiction convention.

DEAR INTERNET, The best thing about three day weekends, other than the thing itself, is the four day weeks that follow.

DEAR INTERNET, "I AM WRITING TO YOU LIVE, NUDE, COVERED IN DUST AND MUD -- DIRECT FROM THE PLAYA!

I really enjoyed this talk from DEF CON 34 featuring @cooperq (of EFF and Rayhunter fame) and Colonel Panic in which they discuss using ESP32 devices to do COUNTER SURVEILLANCE of the many corporate, state and privately owned devices that are recording in…

Today there are two new #1s I'll be checking out at the comic shop, in addition to my normal pull list. -> The first is Crowbound #1, written by Jeff Lemire and illustrated by Dustin Nguyen.

DEAR INTERNET, Another week has transpired and we are still here.

You know how sometimes weird random things seem to come together by coincidence, but as if some sort of higher power was trying to send you a message?

D and I went to see the AUSTIN GAMBLERS, our very own professional bull riding - or PBR - team.

I took D to see Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe, a movie whose title is only slightly less complicated and obscure than its plot.

DEAR INTERNET, IT IS FRIDAY, THANK FUCK.

This was a pretty good week for new comics with KAYA, BATTLE BEAST, BUG WARS and M1 topping my list, and also one of these totally meh Marvel ALIENS things thrown in out of pity.

DEAR INTERNET, I AM IN HOT WAR WITH A CLOUD BUILD PIPELINE AT WORK THAT WANTS TO SEE ME DEAD.

DEAR INTERNET, Last Friday, I placed an order for a seeed sticky eink doodad.

This is the video for JJAM by Stray Kids, my daughter's favorite k-pop band.

I saw Spider-man this weekend with my son, and once again, I am called to duty as one of the web's most important voices in comic book matters to share my observations. ◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣ SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOI…

I am really stoked to see clipping this Friday!

DEAR INTERNET, As a child, my favorite super hero was Spider-man.

BLADE RUNNER 2099 NEUROMANCER GHOST IN THE SHELL

DEAR INTERNET, The other day someone in a work meeting that ended early said, "20 minutes back to you, a gift!"

This reminds me of the Mr.

DEAR INTERNET, FUCK YEAH, IT'S FRIDAY!

You thought my posts about plastic model kits and Conan the Barbarian comic books was nerdy, STAP IN MY FRIEND IT IS TIME TO HEAR ABOUT BEN'S ATTEMPT TO CUSTOMIZE A HOT WHEELS CAR.

DEAR INTERNET, IT IS FRRRRRRRIDAY AND IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN A WEEK SINCE I HAVE EATEN A TACO WHICH IS LONGER THAN EVER BEFORE IN MY ADULT LIFE.

My family took a week long trip from our home in Austin to Greece.

My family members in Annapolis are always talking about going on boats, and I always tell them that I'm NOT A BOAT GUY but after this trip I might have to change my tune because I spent A LOT OF HOURS on boats and enjoyed them ALL!

The streets of central Athens are covered in graffiti and street art.

I was shocked - SHOCKED I TELL YOU - by the proliferation of payphone booths in Greece.

This one is an old one, but a good one.

Ever since Matt Webb announced it, I have been wanting to tinker with Resident - a dynamic code sandbox that runs my beloved ESP32 stack.

I saw Supergirl.

I think about things like this a lot: At this point I don’t feel like I’m reading.

This is cool: STARLOG, the magazine about science fiction, is coming back to print with Annalee Newitz as the editor.

I added a GLITCH MODE to the headroom command line tool that puts an ascii version of Max Headroom in any terminal.

DEAR INTERNET, IT IS THE END OF THE WEEK FINALLY AND WE HAVE KEPT THE CORPO DOGS AT BAY BY COSPLAYING AS A CORPO DOG ALL WEEK, HUZZAH.

DEAR INTERNET, Somehow it is already the middle of June.

For my latest weird little hack, I made a Mac app that helps me manage the many USB devices I have.

I try to draw at least one goat every day.

I linked this Waveshare ESP32 smart watch last Friday, and Wrew told me he had found them on JEFFBEZOS's Amazon, and so a few hours later one arrived at my house - a wrist mounted touch screen computer with bluetooth, wifi, 6-axis motion sensor and micro-…

Just took my second bin out of the printer and I have to say these look great and stack perfectly and will fit in great with all my toy robots.

DEAR INTERNET, I cleaned my office this week because the piles of stickers, patches, robot toys, fancy flashlights, and ESP32 powered devices was getting simply too unstable.