Nasty storm hit yesterday, and there was no power when I got home . . . and none when I got up. Looks to be a tree down on the street, and I’m guessing it took the power line with it, and no opportunity to fix it in the dark. No lights, no [...]
How bold can Darth Vader be?
Font pun and typeface art. I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
On the vagaries of random playlists on the iPod:
The transition from Bobby Darin’s “Mack the Knife” to RHCP’s “Funky Monks” at oh-dark-thirty in the morning, before caffeine and not really fully awake, is a little harsh.
I’m just sayin’
To help NCIS catch those evil fonts caught on video, only to find that their prints aren’t in AFIS.
What The Font?
via Daring Fireball
The Zero Blaster. Makes cherry-scented smoke rings.
The Super Zero Fluid lists no ingredients, and it’s made in China, so I’m sure it’s fine.
Do not taunt happy fun ball!
As I had commented before, I have a USB missile launcher in the office. I first noticed them a few years ago but not only were they unavailable (it was around Christmas), they were unavailable only in England. A few months later they were back in stock, and I had to buy two [...]
Come to think of it, I meant option C: “Planck’s constant”
(the actual issue was that this was a copy-and-paste of a longer expression, and there is an almost indistinguishable fraction of an extra space after the apostrophe)
YES
Zach Feinstein declares for the NBA draft. It’s free. The deadline for “early entry” declarations is 60 days prior to the draft (which is June 26), so if anyone desires to go this route, it’s too late for this year. (One has to wonder if it will remain free once [...]
Wikipedia T-shirt
Business section of the LOLcat Times-Gazette, headline about the pedestrian eating habits of a well-known an activist shareholder
Icahn Has Cheeseburger
(sometimes on the treadmill, all one can do is think silly thoughts)
The Nerd Handbook
OK, it’s a little bit slanted toward the computer nerd, but many things apply to general geekage.
Your nerd might come off as not liking people. Small talk. Those first awkward five minutes when two people are forced to interact. Small talk is the bane of the nerd’s existence because small talk is a [...]
More than you probably wanted to know about ampersands and how they look in different fonts.
As both its function and form suggest, the ampersand is a written contraction of “et,” the Latin word for “and.” Its shape has evolved continuously since its introduction, and while some ampersands are still manifestly e-t ligatures, others merely hint [...]
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