Kool
10-12-2007, 01:28 PM
All you, Melting down, “Sculpting” a hole, black ring wanting, e-marrying, Being VR, Busting the BC ad, Getting Mynock’s clone for an intern, Printer hunting, Turned on by them rocks, PhotoShoping online, Helpdesk stumping, Paint bucket hunting, Too lazy to search, Graphic designers!!!
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Is there a window facing the yard? You could get an actual size cardboard cutout of Chuck Norris and put it in your front window. Then put a sign in your front yard saying something to the tune of "If your dog poops in my yard, Chuck is going come out and make you smoke that brown cigar." But then they'd not only steal your sign but bust your window and walk off with cardboard Chuck. Maybe a fence would be better?
It's too bad that people don't have common courtesy to pick it up. You could always follow them with the evidence and place it on their front step...in a paper bag...on fire... ring the doorbell and run...
I don't like noobs.
I think it is because I am afraid of change. In fact it's a fear that probably goes back to my childhood days when my parents suddenly uprooted me from my quiet Milwaukee home and fled to Dubuque Iowa over a $8000 gambling debt. It was a hectic move ... Living out of an old rusty celebrity wagon my parents found it tough to find work in the thriving metropolis that is downtown Dubuque. Dirt broke and starving we were forced to eat my poodle misty (my only child hood friend) to stay alive. Shortly after that tragic event my father was able to secure a position selling Kirby Vacuum Cleaners, pay back the bookies and return to living the High Life in Milwaukee, WI.
I have had more breakthroughs in this post than in my 15 years of state ordered psychotherapy. How is the same time next week for you? I think we can talk about middle school where the kids teased me by yelling fatty fatty crack head at me. (I was selling my body to fund my crack cocaine and peanut butter M&M habits at the time)
Hmmm, well, one needs to consider the various platforms and methods of sending out for rescue messages when on a desert island, as well as the materials available for other situations, so here are my choices.
Of course, the first choice is the message in a bottle. In that instance, you have no idea what platform the message in a bottle will be read in, after all, you're just casting it out into the water where some stranger to you will be intercepting it (you hope) so I think top three choices would have to be Arial, Verdana and maybe Trebuchet. I think it goes without saying that all the bottle platforms have these fonts available. Don't want to have that bottled up message garbled up just because the bottle platform can't read the font properly. So that's three.
Of course, don't forget messages in the sand. On this one, I'd have to agree with Frankster on the Helvetica Bold. Not only the easier execution in the sand (executing serifs in the sand ain't easy, after all), but the sheer readability from a distance can't be beat.
For smoke signals, however, I think I'd prefer a nice strong serif. I've always been rather fond of Berkeley Oldstyle, I think the bold is nice and strong without being overbearing, so that'd be my smoke signal font choice. So that gets us to five.
Let's not forget that once the various rescue methods are explored, there's boredom to think about, as you bide your time waiting for your various rescue methods to bear fruit. What better way to spend the time than recreating classic fonts in the fauna available in your surrounding area? To me, one of the easier font styles to recreate with your surrounding topography would be a slab serif, suitable for grasses, rocks, and perhaps even drawings in the sand. My vote for this would be Lubalin Graph, perhaps the demi weight, possibly the bold, depending on how bored you are. That's six.
And of course, since Lubalin Graph was created as a slab serif compliment to Avant Garde, why not do a version of Avant Garde, perhaps as a text font, built out of coconuts, if available? It seems that the rounds in Avant Garde would lend themselves quite nicely to coconuts. Perhaps you could even combine the two in a subhead/body text combination? So that's seven.
Of course, no font collection is complete without a script font. Depending on where you are, it could be that the font Sand is native to the island, therefore you wouldn't have to bring it with you. That's eight.
Being stranded on a desert island might actually even make the use of Comic Sans applicable. After all, if you parse the term "Comic Sans", how unfunny is it to be on a desert island after all? I'd say it's fairly high in the lacking in humor, after all, look at the long-running TV series "Lost". That makes nine.
Don't forget dingbats! Every now and then, one needs a diamond bullet. Unless your desert island contains a natural diamond resource, you might consider bringing along Universal Math and Pi symbols.
I sure hope that rock formation doesn't 'erupt'.
Welcome. Manchester US or UK?
My uni breakfast used to be a can of redbull and a bar of dairy milk. That got me wired until about 11.30am when I would impersonate a narcoleptic by crashing onto whatever lab eqipment I was working on. I lived on pro plus around exams and must have looked like Tweek from south park most of the time. Anyone that works a full night job on top of 30 hours of uni lectures and labs a week has my sympathy. I gather that some of today's students do actually take narcolepsy meds to get through it (modafinil). Scary!
I thought it was Paddle Bee Nest ... and then I realized that Bee Nest sounds a lot like Penis .. and I snickered a little at my childishness.
I keep my mental health in check by printing out a sample of Comic Sans every day, crumpling it up into a ball, tossing it in the toilet and doing my business on it. Works like a charm. *twitch*
You'll be happy to know that I showed this image to my 85-year-old grandmother, who recently moved to NYC from Slovakia. Upon viewing this rock formation, she let out a high-pitched gasp, clapped her hands to her cheeks, and cried out:
"It look like penis!"
I start my numbering from a random number, usually between 5-8. Then each subsequent page after that is numbered by the second power to the page previous. The numbers get a little large towards the end of the document, but it works.
Does Brie get brie cheese in her taco? Or is that cannibalism?
http://koolsplace.com/images/qotweekclassic.gif
I got this E-Mail today from Nigeria, now I know what you are thinking Nigeria is just full of millionaires trying to get their money out of the country and those are all scams, well this one is different. You see Dr. Amina Ciroma, (Mrs) Director and the Chief procurement Officer with Kebbi State health population project is POed at her boss and wants to rip him off by allowing me to over bid on a contract for supply of AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL AND DRUG/INJECTIONS FOR COW TREATMENT. Amina got my name from the foreign consulate trade mission there in Nigeria and figures I'm just the guy to help her for which she will split the 4.4 million dollars we will overcharge the Kebbi State health population project with me.
I'm gonna be rich, I'm gonna be rich.
All I have to do is let her withdraw $700 from my bank for processing purposes, send them a couple of boxes of cow drugs and my 2.2 million will be on it's way. Maybe after I get my millions I will stop back here to the forum and check up on the rest of you losers, but probably not. Now I'm off to order a new Porche.
They are claiming there are only 17 (approximate) pirates? I gotta think there are more than that! Have you ever seen the movie Captain Ron - if you believe everything you see on TV as I do you'd know that there are all kinds of pirates... and gorillas still in the world, it's a profitable business...
And because noobs leaving in a snit is not something new, here's one from the archives:
Thanks so much..... 38 views of my post and not one person replies? :( I will figure this out on my own. Unfortunately, Amazon.com, which I use alot when reviewing a book or a product, does not have much feedback on the 3 popular all in one books available now.
So much for asking for help from Graphic Designers. :mad:
Have a great weekend!!! http://home.comcast.net/~rnick9/eatdrink042.gif
http://home.comcast.net/~rnick9/qotweek.gif
Is there a window facing the yard? You could get an actual size cardboard cutout of Chuck Norris and put it in your front window. Then put a sign in your front yard saying something to the tune of "If your dog poops in my yard, Chuck is going come out and make you smoke that brown cigar." But then they'd not only steal your sign but bust your window and walk off with cardboard Chuck. Maybe a fence would be better?
It's too bad that people don't have common courtesy to pick it up. You could always follow them with the evidence and place it on their front step...in a paper bag...on fire... ring the doorbell and run...
I don't like noobs.
I think it is because I am afraid of change. In fact it's a fear that probably goes back to my childhood days when my parents suddenly uprooted me from my quiet Milwaukee home and fled to Dubuque Iowa over a $8000 gambling debt. It was a hectic move ... Living out of an old rusty celebrity wagon my parents found it tough to find work in the thriving metropolis that is downtown Dubuque. Dirt broke and starving we were forced to eat my poodle misty (my only child hood friend) to stay alive. Shortly after that tragic event my father was able to secure a position selling Kirby Vacuum Cleaners, pay back the bookies and return to living the High Life in Milwaukee, WI.
I have had more breakthroughs in this post than in my 15 years of state ordered psychotherapy. How is the same time next week for you? I think we can talk about middle school where the kids teased me by yelling fatty fatty crack head at me. (I was selling my body to fund my crack cocaine and peanut butter M&M habits at the time)
Hmmm, well, one needs to consider the various platforms and methods of sending out for rescue messages when on a desert island, as well as the materials available for other situations, so here are my choices.
Of course, the first choice is the message in a bottle. In that instance, you have no idea what platform the message in a bottle will be read in, after all, you're just casting it out into the water where some stranger to you will be intercepting it (you hope) so I think top three choices would have to be Arial, Verdana and maybe Trebuchet. I think it goes without saying that all the bottle platforms have these fonts available. Don't want to have that bottled up message garbled up just because the bottle platform can't read the font properly. So that's three.
Of course, don't forget messages in the sand. On this one, I'd have to agree with Frankster on the Helvetica Bold. Not only the easier execution in the sand (executing serifs in the sand ain't easy, after all), but the sheer readability from a distance can't be beat.
For smoke signals, however, I think I'd prefer a nice strong serif. I've always been rather fond of Berkeley Oldstyle, I think the bold is nice and strong without being overbearing, so that'd be my smoke signal font choice. So that gets us to five.
Let's not forget that once the various rescue methods are explored, there's boredom to think about, as you bide your time waiting for your various rescue methods to bear fruit. What better way to spend the time than recreating classic fonts in the fauna available in your surrounding area? To me, one of the easier font styles to recreate with your surrounding topography would be a slab serif, suitable for grasses, rocks, and perhaps even drawings in the sand. My vote for this would be Lubalin Graph, perhaps the demi weight, possibly the bold, depending on how bored you are. That's six.
And of course, since Lubalin Graph was created as a slab serif compliment to Avant Garde, why not do a version of Avant Garde, perhaps as a text font, built out of coconuts, if available? It seems that the rounds in Avant Garde would lend themselves quite nicely to coconuts. Perhaps you could even combine the two in a subhead/body text combination? So that's seven.
Of course, no font collection is complete without a script font. Depending on where you are, it could be that the font Sand is native to the island, therefore you wouldn't have to bring it with you. That's eight.
Being stranded on a desert island might actually even make the use of Comic Sans applicable. After all, if you parse the term "Comic Sans", how unfunny is it to be on a desert island after all? I'd say it's fairly high in the lacking in humor, after all, look at the long-running TV series "Lost". That makes nine.
Don't forget dingbats! Every now and then, one needs a diamond bullet. Unless your desert island contains a natural diamond resource, you might consider bringing along Universal Math and Pi symbols.
I sure hope that rock formation doesn't 'erupt'.
Welcome. Manchester US or UK?
My uni breakfast used to be a can of redbull and a bar of dairy milk. That got me wired until about 11.30am when I would impersonate a narcoleptic by crashing onto whatever lab eqipment I was working on. I lived on pro plus around exams and must have looked like Tweek from south park most of the time. Anyone that works a full night job on top of 30 hours of uni lectures and labs a week has my sympathy. I gather that some of today's students do actually take narcolepsy meds to get through it (modafinil). Scary!
I thought it was Paddle Bee Nest ... and then I realized that Bee Nest sounds a lot like Penis .. and I snickered a little at my childishness.
I keep my mental health in check by printing out a sample of Comic Sans every day, crumpling it up into a ball, tossing it in the toilet and doing my business on it. Works like a charm. *twitch*
You'll be happy to know that I showed this image to my 85-year-old grandmother, who recently moved to NYC from Slovakia. Upon viewing this rock formation, she let out a high-pitched gasp, clapped her hands to her cheeks, and cried out:
"It look like penis!"
I start my numbering from a random number, usually between 5-8. Then each subsequent page after that is numbered by the second power to the page previous. The numbers get a little large towards the end of the document, but it works.
Does Brie get brie cheese in her taco? Or is that cannibalism?
http://koolsplace.com/images/qotweekclassic.gif
I got this E-Mail today from Nigeria, now I know what you are thinking Nigeria is just full of millionaires trying to get their money out of the country and those are all scams, well this one is different. You see Dr. Amina Ciroma, (Mrs) Director and the Chief procurement Officer with Kebbi State health population project is POed at her boss and wants to rip him off by allowing me to over bid on a contract for supply of AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL AND DRUG/INJECTIONS FOR COW TREATMENT. Amina got my name from the foreign consulate trade mission there in Nigeria and figures I'm just the guy to help her for which she will split the 4.4 million dollars we will overcharge the Kebbi State health population project with me.
I'm gonna be rich, I'm gonna be rich.
All I have to do is let her withdraw $700 from my bank for processing purposes, send them a couple of boxes of cow drugs and my 2.2 million will be on it's way. Maybe after I get my millions I will stop back here to the forum and check up on the rest of you losers, but probably not. Now I'm off to order a new Porche.
They are claiming there are only 17 (approximate) pirates? I gotta think there are more than that! Have you ever seen the movie Captain Ron - if you believe everything you see on TV as I do you'd know that there are all kinds of pirates... and gorillas still in the world, it's a profitable business...
And because noobs leaving in a snit is not something new, here's one from the archives:
Thanks so much..... 38 views of my post and not one person replies? :( I will figure this out on my own. Unfortunately, Amazon.com, which I use alot when reviewing a book or a product, does not have much feedback on the 3 popular all in one books available now.
So much for asking for help from Graphic Designers. :mad: