Andy Clarke

malarkey (malaki) meaningless talk, bunkum, stuff & nonsense

Sitting by a campfire with a starry desert sky overhead. This makes me very happy.

Happy

Second night of the GR8-Esc is at a National Park near Oceanside, between Los Angeles and San Diego.

Happy

One large All American Burger and two gallons of cider was a lovely way to start our GR8-Esc.

Very Happy

Met up with the Boags and unpacked for our first night on the GR8-Esc at Orangeland, Santa Ana, California.

Happy

After a night in an LAX hotel, we’re getting an Uber down to pick up our RV and then driving to Santa Ana to meet up with Paul and Cath Boag.

OK

Soylent Green is a good film and could actually use a remake.

Happy

Had a quiet day on my own, mooching magazine and bookshops in Manchester.

Very Happy

If all goes well, our mortgage will be paid off this year. Imagine what we’ll be able to do with the money we’ll save every month.

Very Happy

I’ve reached the age where most of my weekends are taken up by looking after old people.

Sad

Thanks to my good friend Sush Kelly for all his help in setting up Eleventy on this new website.

Very Happy

I’m making a series of robot art/graphic drawings using PC ports and connectors. It’s a time consuming but very relaxing process.

OK

Jesus was from Venus and the Star of Bethlehem was, in fact, a vast extraterrestrial mother ship. Apparently.

OK

Still, I try to stay positive, keep my chins up.

OK

Don’t pick on me for being fat. I have a lot on my plate.

OK

I’m so fat that the lifeguard told me to get off the beach. The tide was waiting to come in and there wasn’t room for both of us.

OK

A quecto is one-thousand times smaller than a billionth. Each byte of data stored adds one quectogram to the weight of a device. So there you go…

OK
Boondocks

For our first night camping in the boondocks, we stopped at a spot close to California border with Arizona and half a mile from Mexico.

More on the demise of Micky, the world’s cleverest chimpanzee

Liverpool Zoological Park had a varied but small collection of animals and birds. The star attraction being a chimpanzee named Mickey who escaped in 1938. Here’s a story about Micky the world’s cleverest chimpanzee.


I’m Andy Clarke

Although I’d like to tell you tales about the time I roadied for rock bands, faked my own death, and dated supermodels, the truth is far less exciting. For the past 30 years, I’ve been a digital product and website designer at Stuff & Nonsense and more recently consultant Director of Product Design at Nozomi Networks. I’ve written several books. Not historical romance novels featuring gypsy girls and lusty stablehands, but about website design including Transcending CSS (2005 and 2019,) Hardboiled Web Design (2010 and 2015,) and Art Direction for the Web (2019.) I’ve lived in Cymru/Wales for 25 years because my private island has very slow internet.