Chuck Grimmett

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  • Snow day sketches.

  • Definitely not doing Dry January. Quiet, cold January is a great time to savor good drinks while reading.
  • I want fewer things to be computerized and more things to be improved by computational analysis. Example: Gas pump touch screens suck. The buttons last much longer. Double down and make these flawless and durable with models instead of replacing them with touch screens.

  • Quick sketches of robots today. No reference, just sitting in a quiet room.

  • Snowstorm prep Charlie and I did this afternoon: Got out the snow shovels, made sure the generator is accessible, got out the sled, and filled the bird feeders.
  • I mostly hate lotion, but need it in the winter. Neutrogena Hydro Boost (the blue bottle) is the only one I’ve found that both works for me and doesn’t leave me feeling greasy.

  • This NZ sauvignon blanc has a nose dominated by passionfruit and is a great deal at $13.

  • making this hominy stew from Rancho Gordo for this weekend’s snowstorm

    Rancho Gordo Hominy Stew for the Slow Cooker Recipe
    Inspired by some of the slow cooker recipes in Rick Bayless’ Everyday Mexican a Main Dishes Recipe with Rancho Gordo hominy and dried heirloom beans.
    www.ranchogordo.com

  • Quick sketches of a coffee cup on my desk from different starting points. Sometimes I started from the side, bottom, top, or handle.

    Not the most inspired sketches. My son will be home in 5 minutes, so I wanted to get this done for the day.

  • I think I’m going to go from 3 screens on my desk down to two. The one to go will be the vertical mounted one.

  • Today’s sketches are done in the spirit of Steal Like an Artist.

    I’m a longtime subscriber of Al’s Cocktail Club, and each month Al had a new themed sketch in the weekly emails. I admire them, so I thought I’d see if I could copy them and learn a bit about Al’s style.

  • I tried some blind contour sketching today. 3 minutes for each page.

    First, a boot sitting to my left.

    Next, a chair in front of me. I did not do very well at this one.

    Last, a ponytail palm in a pot to my right.

  • I’m not sure how I missed the Stage Manager feature in macOS Ventura (I’m now on Sonoma), but I stumbled across it today in Settings and loved it from the moment I turned it on. Enable it in Settings > Desktop & Dock > Stage Manager.

  • Can anyone recommend a good online gesture drawing or contour drawing class? Or someone I can hire for a few 1:1 tutoring sessions? I essentially want to learn how to draw like Jason Polan.

  • Today’s sketch: A cardinal.

    Some of my process of trying to figure it out:

    Inspiration: There was a cardinal at the feeder when I glanced out the window this morning.

  • Some Nitter instances generate RSS feeds from Twitter, sans API keys. See: https://feedland.com/?river=https://nitter.tux.pizza/cagrimmett/rss

  • I fixed about 181 broken images on old posts. I migrated the posts from old microblog, micro.cagrimmett.com, over to this site in 2020, but it looks like I missed some image src replacements.

    Two quick wp-cli commands later and those look much better.

    $ wp search-replace micro.cagrimmett.com cagrimmett.com
    $ wp cache flush

  • Taylor Swift? Back in my day we called her Taylor Objective-C.

  • Idea from my Dad: Make firestarters using sawdust, sticks, and wax in something like small paper cups. Old candles or a brick of Gulf Wax works well. You can add some lamp oil or citronella to the sawdust before pouring in the melted wax to make them burn a little better.

  • With the proliferation of AI tools, it now seems weird and a limitation that you can’t ask Slackbot real questions.