Finger Problem

Finger problem

 

Pre treatment

 

ER bracelet

 

Vitals

 

Instrument tray

 

Sensorcaine & iodine

 

Post treatment.  Mercy, that was unpleasant. Then it got worse.

 

…but seems to be improving now (Sunday night).

Beanie Weenie

Made with El Pato. I love this graphic design. What a stalwart duck! Also, tasty sauce.

Jihad

Webster near 14th St, Oakland

Confounding Footware

 

Cinquo de Mayo

It was an interesting day.  We went to the track, and then to Kaiser Oakland ER.

Gayle (radially striped hat) watching a race. I stupidly didn’t get any shots of the Tom Cats!




The joker with the tall hat won the contest. Mr Legohead didn’t place. Neither did we.  Such a burn!


Gayle, Sue, Mary, Bruce. Photo by Susan Porter Beckstead.

Mary’s hand is on the mend now.  Thanks, Oakland Kaiser ER.  Good job!

Helmets for Tom & Gayle

cf http://brucine.blogspot.com/search?q=HELMET


For Tom


For Gayle

These hats came up losers at the Golden Gate Fields Derby Day Hat Contest, so we gave them to Tom & Gayle.

On my way to work on Wednesday…

Paint & Collage

Analglyph that shit. Looks like some kind of bio process

“Stripes” drawing.

Combined

Dicotyledon Toilet Brush

With window reflections.  Some design-y place on the same block as House of Pain 450 Sutter. I hate to speculate what you're supposed to clean with the little one.

Timmins and Katey at Costco

Talking Mezuzah (Something I’m Working On)

Early mezuzah sketch with Shin. Bad design, disregard.
Needs work.  Hi, Kenton! (Kenton has expressed interest in helping me with the electronics.)

You approach the house.  Kiss the first two fingers of your right hand and touch them to the mezuzah on the doorpost. It's in the shape of a human mouth, crafted from soft, pliant silicone plastic.  A touch-sensitive pressure switch activates a circuit which plays back two audio files through a speaker, hidden behind the mezuzah's lips.

1. Voice of your favorite Tzaddik*:  [whispered] "Shaddai"
2. Your mother's voice: [maybe a little bit shrill] "Ugh, that thing is all fershmutzik, covered with other peoples' germs! Get inside and wash your hands this instant! Wait! Wipe your feet! You'd think you were brought up in a barn."

*...and for an extra $19.99 per year, you can upgrade to Mezuzah Platinum with exclusive Tzaddik only service.

…so we’re going to need voice talent.  I’m thinking of rebbe Bauer for the Tzaddik.  The Jewish mother?  Well, Babs is gone, and that’s a shame.  But Meg is a Jewish Mother.  As is Andrea. And her mom, Vivian.  And, recently arguably Kenton’s mom Ann.  And Ann Pereles. Who am I forgetting? Marni? Oma? Lynne-Rachel!  And perhaps Peter could be a second Tzaddik.  Mustn't rule out the possibility of a Tzaddikin voice, as well.


Working drawing. What the circuitry does

 
There's a blue LED which fades on and off every three seconds or so.


Here's how it might look in action.

5/13 12 Whoa—This Prior Art just in from the Holy Land:

Guess what Dude Illigence just bought!

Also, here’s our first customer:

A Day at the Museums

 
I love the Exploratorium.  I went there with Andrea to help out with her graphic transplant booth at the Swap-o-rama-rama. I mostly just did a science-buddy nostalgia walkabout--

Hi, Jim!

Hi, Bruce!
Text and audio from www.ybca.org/nathalie-talec, video is Exploratorium's cloud chamber. I love that cloud chamber.  I could spend all day watching that stuff. 



I sat in on as much of Nathalie-Talec’s conversation as I could.  For the life of me, I couldn’t tell whether she was addressing male exploration of the poles a hundred years ago, or contemporary feminist art practice. Whatever it was, it seemed like the bunkus to me.  I kept on looking around the room trying to catch the eye of anybody else at the talk to signal a WTF? with my eyebrows, but they were all entirely engrossed.

Learning to Love the Smudge

The Area

I’ve been having this intermittent, not related to anything that I can discern, funny tingly feeling sort of to the right of my pupik. Wonder what that’s about.

The Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens

Lovely site.  Visionary with followthrough.  Highly recommended.
  
Oh, look! They have a restaurant!
    
Bugs


 
Flora. 


 
Swimmin’ hole




Pollywogs