I have plans for my online presence and I’m not quite sure how this domain fits in.
Will this affair come to an end? Stay tuned.
I always seem to run into this problem of not really feeling up to writing longer (or any) posts for a while, and then my blogs inevitably die.
Now what?
Kraak & Smaak - Squeeze Me
Brilliant groove.
The following is my response to an assigned reading on typographic measurements. Let’s hope the professor finds it as amusing as I do.
The standard type measurement system consisting of points and picas could easily find its place in a college survival handbook in the section titled Inflating/Deflating Papers. The science (and magic) of setting type provides a resourceful student with a plethora of tools to manipulate how much or little text can fit on what at first glance appears to be a standard double-spaced 12pt font page.
Here follows an example of inflating an overly short essay to make it appear as if it fulfills the length requirement:
1) Choose the correct typeface. A typeface with larger x-height is preferred, and larger individual character width would also be helpful. For example, my beloved Garamond loses in this scenario to the oh-so-boring-and-ubiquitous Times New Roman with default settings. (Pro tip: Choose a non-standard typeface unlikely to be used by anyone else in class to ensure that settings altered in further steps are less noticeable, but stick with common looking ones to avoid attracting too much attention.)
2) Alter line spacing to be slightly more than double. Setting it to approximately 2.2 lines frequently passes by the professor’s eye, yet “lengthens” the text by 10%, or a page for every 10.
3) Slightly increase letterspacing. There are no magic numbers to use for this setting, so apply the old-fashioned trial and error principle until optimal results are achieved.
4) Slightly increase wordspacing. Trial and error usually yields best results.
5) Always compare the final copy with a standard unaltered sample to avoid drastic differences, repeating steps 2, 3, and 4 as necessary.
6) Do not try any of the above with your typography professor for obvious reasons.
Disclaimer: The above is merely an example and the author advocates no such cheap tricks. Use at own peril.
I finally stopped being lazy and decided to set some music as my ringtone, only to find out you have to buy it from the iTunes Music Store.
Well, Apple, fuck you with something hard and sandpapery.
The link is a (relatively) easy way to make your own ringtones using nothing but iTunes.
In iTunes, if you select several songs that belong to the same album (as I often do with entire albums) and go to File -> New Playlist from Selection, the playlist name will automagically be set to “[album]” or “[artist] - [album]” and will be highlighted for your correcting convenience.
I’m pretty sure that feature has been there ever since I started using iTunes (in 2004, I think), but it nonetheless still makes me happy.
It is one of the many little things Apple does with the UI of their software that makes it so wonderful to use.
A bystander filming the crime scene is approached by Det. Flak.
