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Q: bob, why didn't Jesus come back? - Name withheld
A: Oh, you mean Strongbeau? That wasn't here. I heard he found true, and left them others' behinds.
Q: Very Funny. No, I mean Jesus, the LORD.
A: Well, let me ask you. When you started junior high, how often did you go back to visit your buddies who were still in grammar school?
There's a few of them guys like that; Jesus was just the one who spoke English. That Buddha guy, he's already got his bachelor's, and he's working on his Masters'. I think, one day, he might be the Ph.D, when the other guy goes Emeritus.
As for Jesus, he tries to come back, every so often, but it doesn't always work. A couple of times he got aborted, because a lot of people are skeptical about virgin births these days. One time recently he was black, but he was assassinated at a relatively young age, while still gathering momentum. More recently, he wasn't a dude, so a lot of people didn't know it was Him.
You have to understand that a lot of things have to line up, before He can even try to come back. First you need to have a guy who's got some of the Holy Ghost seed in him, and I mean, in his nuts, not the way you other guys were picturing it. Then that guy has to go in apache, and one of his good boys has to win the race. It's difficult to plan that in advance, because all that's got to happen about nine months before some , like a bright comet, or an asteroid hitting the moon, or a space shuttle explosion, or even just a syzygy; those happen a lot more often, and can be predicted, in advance.
Then he'd need to educate himself, to unlearn a lot of the things he'd be taught in school, these days, or from other people, who don't get it. Then we'd just have to cross our fingers, and hope that we get it from Him, before He gets it from one of them.
A: Oh, you mean Strongbeau? That wasn't here. I heard he found true, and left them others' behinds.
Q: Very Funny. No, I mean Jesus, the LORD.
A: Well, let me ask you. When you started junior high, how often did you go back to visit your buddies who were still in grammar school?
There's a few of them guys like that; Jesus was just the one who spoke English. That Buddha guy, he's already got his bachelor's, and he's working on his Masters'. I think, one day, he might be the Ph.D, when the other guy goes Emeritus.
As for Jesus, he tries to come back, every so often, but it doesn't always work. A couple of times he got aborted, because a lot of people are skeptical about virgin births these days. One time recently he was black, but he was assassinated at a relatively young age, while still gathering momentum. More recently, he wasn't a dude, so a lot of people didn't know it was Him.
You have to understand that a lot of things have to line up, before He can even try to come back. First you need to have a guy who's got some of the Holy Ghost seed in him, and I mean, in his nuts, not the way you other guys were picturing it. Then that guy has to go in apache, and one of his good boys has to win the race. It's difficult to plan that in advance, because all that's got to happen about nine months before some , like a bright comet, or an asteroid hitting the moon, or a space shuttle explosion, or even just a syzygy; those happen a lot more often, and can be predicted, in advance.
Then he'd need to educate himself, to unlearn a lot of the things he'd be taught in school, these days, or from other people, who don't get it. Then we'd just have to cross our fingers, and hope that we get it from Him, before He gets it from one of them.
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Sarah, I only collected fonts for the first few years, (2003- mid 2007), before I started to make them. Mid 2007, I started to make my own, to 'give something back' to the design community.
I did some experiments in turning colour photographs into monochrome bitmaps, with MS Paint. I never 'drew' an image for a font before this year; I always downloaded photos or artwork from the Internet, and modified them to two colour images. At first, I wanted to do fonts of women's faces.
The first two were really bad, because the source graphics I used were too small. I experimented with a number of different ways to create monochrome bitmaps from multicoloured images. The early work is very ambitious, but unskilled at the vector stage; I was making nice small, black and white clip art, and sticking it into a font editing program.
Early on, I experimented with simulated grey tones, created by using 16 colour or 256 colour bitmaps in intermediate stages, but I abandoned that after about nine months. Those 'toned' fonts tend to have huge file sizes, and they can freeze operating systems when opened in preview - the character display at the different sizes uses huge amount of memory, if the subject matter is too complex. I wanted to find the limits of complexity, and often exceeded them.
This image:
of Hayden Panettiere is too complex to convert to vector, but it's composed entirely of black and white pixels.
Early in 2009, I changed my procedure, and started to manually trace the source graphics. I would find pictures/ artwork, like before, crop and/ or resize them to 280 pixels height, (1 pixel = 1/96 of an inch, square), with variable width, and draw on top of the image in two colours, composed for monochrome. I do this at eight times enlargement.
I got good results doing this, and still use this procedure. The difference is that I now do a lot of editing after completing the source graphic. I did the 27 font "Obey" series in 2009, using this method. It's based on the Obey Giant 'street art' of Shepard Fairey, who is sort of the Roy Lichtenstein of the current era.
I use ScanFont 3 to make fonts. It's a 1990's app that doesn't work with Windows O/S's after XP. It's one of the few that accepts imported monochrome bitmap sources, ('raster'), which are converted to vector images. Most people design vectors with Adobe Illustrator in a 'connect the dots' method, which can be fast, if the creator knows how to draw. I can't draw, but I can trace and 'sculpt' rough vectors.
I made one font in 2010, FixCystNeon, which is really ugly, but technically very skilled, and it's mainly useful in MS Word at exactly 9 points. The point sizes of all of my released fonts are larger than standard, because I didn't know how to adjust the size of the vectors, (vertical metrics), and that doesn't really matter for 100% free picture fonts. I like to do images that simulate 3D perspective, when possible.
My fonts home page is here: There's one other font, (single image), that wasn't posted, MockingjayXL https://fontspace.com/metaphase-brothel-graphix/mockingjayxl, and the GrimNatwickBettyBoop font posted on both is the original from 2008, not the 2014 revision. That's only been shared on the 'dark net' forum.
All of the fonts, even the really complex early ones, work fine when installed. The problem is only when opened in preview, (ie: double-click on .ttf file). Some of the fonts have been modified to move the images from lower case to capitals, to make this 'bug' use less memory.
My most popular fonts are KleinKarpets, (January, 2008), which uses a small number of source images flipped horizontally and rotated, to form composite glyphs composed of a group of four 'mirror' images that make a larger image, and BeautyMarks, an erotic picture font, approaching 200,000 downloads. See the 'Inked' thread in the photography forum for more details about BeautyMarks, (August, 2012).
I'll have a separate post soon, about the font I've been working on since February, 2013, which is miles past my previous work.
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What's that you said oldguyzer??
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papasmerf said:
Honestly - that had to be one of the most brilliantly written posts I've ever seen him produce. Praise-Bowing
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I was talking about your post OG. :biggrin2:
Oops - I forgot to quote you. :blush2:
Oops - I forgot to quote you. :blush2:
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papasmerf said:
Who's on first??? :YMPARTY:
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Now we have to apologize to bob for hijacking his thread.
Sorry bob. :sorry2:
Sorry bob. :sorry2:
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Sarah said:
How would I know?
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papasmerf said:
That's what I always say, literally.
