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Sarah said:
Better to start with the others; I'm an act not easily followed.
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Better to start with the others; I'm an act not easily followed.
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No, but she smelled it, and you've been eating pork again.
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Q: OK, bob, this is the thing. I'm too old for clubbing, in any decent amount of light. I don't want to have to resort to the ice cream aisle. I'm tired of reading about other guys having sex. Where should I go, to find various types of civvie women that might find any of a number of us pathetic guys at least worthy of coffee? - Yu, Shanghai
Yu, a man's best friend in choosing, rather than being chosen, is lack of visible competition. Women are often interested in the best man who's there, rather than the best man who there is.
If you're looking for a standard '5', in any of a number of different shapes, sizes, and age groups, you could get tickets for one of those local women's talk shows, every station has a couple of them, The View, with different hostesses. You're going to be the only guy in the audience, so that automatically makes you the best looking guy there, if only for a little while, until other guys start doing it, too.
If you want sleezy in an attractive way, try to get tickets for one of those lowbrow talk shows, in the Jerry Springer vein, with the paternity suits, or the plot of a MILF smut clip. A lot of guys are already working that field, so wear a clean baseball cap, and tuck in the mullet, it's not the 90's, anymore.
If you're looking for someone a little more refined, try Sunday afternoon around 2:00 PM at the ROM, or the Natural History Museum closest to you. You'll find the younger single moms in the dinosaurs section, or near the mummies, or cave man dioramas. You'll know she's single, because if she weren't, she would be making sandwiches and bringing beers to the guys watching the game. If you just want a quick fling with a brainy single, go to the armour section, but be careful; the permafrown crowd congregates there, too. How to spot them is another lesson.
If you wanted to have a few drinks with some of the women who don't go to bars to drink with men they don't know, it might be a good investment to take a Learning Annex wine appreciation course, on a Friday. If you don't meet anyone you like, take it again; most people don't take that course twice, unless they want a clean slate.
Yu, a man's best friend in choosing, rather than being chosen, is lack of visible competition. Women are often interested in the best man who's there, rather than the best man who there is.
If you're looking for a standard '5', in any of a number of different shapes, sizes, and age groups, you could get tickets for one of those local women's talk shows, every station has a couple of them, The View, with different hostesses. You're going to be the only guy in the audience, so that automatically makes you the best looking guy there, if only for a little while, until other guys start doing it, too.
If you want sleezy in an attractive way, try to get tickets for one of those lowbrow talk shows, in the Jerry Springer vein, with the paternity suits, or the plot of a MILF smut clip. A lot of guys are already working that field, so wear a clean baseball cap, and tuck in the mullet, it's not the 90's, anymore.
If you're looking for someone a little more refined, try Sunday afternoon around 2:00 PM at the ROM, or the Natural History Museum closest to you. You'll find the younger single moms in the dinosaurs section, or near the mummies, or cave man dioramas. You'll know she's single, because if she weren't, she would be making sandwiches and bringing beers to the guys watching the game. If you just want a quick fling with a brainy single, go to the armour section, but be careful; the permafrown crowd congregates there, too. How to spot them is another lesson.
If you wanted to have a few drinks with some of the women who don't go to bars to drink with men they don't know, it might be a good investment to take a Learning Annex wine appreciation course, on a Friday. If you don't meet anyone you like, take it again; most people don't take that course twice, unless they want a clean slate.
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Sarah, with the new font, I used a different procedure. I'll be displaying all images by url, because most are too large for the reply window, and they need to be seen at full size, for effect..
I didn't draw any of the alphabet from scratch. I used a design originally called Light Shade, from 1874. I found large sized .jpeg images of A-Z at a site called bigletters.org, in the Vintage Letters section.
This is the M I started with, 1000 pixels high, including the white above and below:
I cropped and resized that image into a 280 pixel high frame, using MS Paint, in which the height from top to bottom of a letter that's flat on both ends is 171 pixels. This does not include the bottom edge, below the letter.
I manually trace the reduced sized source .jpg, (saved as 24 bit bitmap or .png), to a two colour image, composed for monochrome:
And this was the source graphic used for the font named Outstanding. The name does not refer to the quality of the rendering, but rather to the simulated third dimension of the letters.
After completing Outstanding about two years ago, I decided that I didn't like it. I liked the concept of the design, but not the rendering. I thought that the letters were much too wide, and too inconsistent, as if someone had painted them with a brush and some duct tape.
The first thing I did in the redesign was to reduce the width of each letter by 20%, without changing the height:
I experimented with different width reduction percentages, and found that the design continued to look better when reduced to 90, 85 and 80%, but it started to look worse at 75%, for at least a few letters. I wanted the reduction percentage to be the same for all letters.
The reduced width source graphic, in monochrome bitmap file type, is imported into my font editor, ScanFont 3, to create a vector drawing. It looks like this, initially:
I can show or hide the horizontal and vertical hint lines:
The 'caps height', (bottom to top of flat/bottomed/ topped letters), is 1710 editing units, or ten times the number of pixels in the bitmap source. The grid squares in the background represent 100 editing units horizontally and vertically, so within each grid square, there are 100 vertical and horizontal X/Y planes, and 10,000 X/Y intersection points, on which a node or handle can be located. It's possible to have two or more nodes, handles, or combination of the two located on the same X/Y intersection coordinate.
The green, blue, and red spots are nodes. The yellow are handles. Nodes connect to form contours, solid black areas where the ink goes, when printed. All contours must have a minimum of two nodes. A line between two red nodes or a red and a blue node, is straight. A line between a red and a green, a green and a blue, or a green and a green is curved. The locations of the handles, relative to the nodes to which they are attached, determines the placement and eccentricity of the curve in a line that isn't straight. Even with the artificial width reduction, the source graphics were fairly 'clean', so there aren't a whole lot of unnecessary nodes.
My first editing step was to remove all of the nodes that weren't necessary to hold the outline in place. A third point on a straight line would be unnecessary, or one that interrupts a curve; nodes always leave a 'flat spot', to some extent, but the design can 'hide' the flat spot locations, to create smoother curves that aren't flat on top.
The 'raw' vector above looks like this, in print:
For some people, this would be a finished font, after removing the black squares used to set the base line and the upper limit of the frame. Effectively, this much of the finished design is not my work, other than the choice to reduce the width.
By May, 2013, I had edited the letters to this stage:
Where the extraneous nodes have been removed, but no design improvements have been made. I took Outstanding to this stage.
There are a lot of changes I wanted to make, but I didn't know how to do it. I wanted certain lines to be exactly parallel to each other, I wanted the diagonal lines to have slopes that could be expressed as a fractional number, with a low denominator, such as 3:1, 7:4, 8:3, etc. The theory is that, if the line slope is simple, it won't be rounded arbitrarily by a computer, if the size changes. I don't care about the actual length of the diagonal line; that would be trigonometry, while this is Cartesian, and to a smaller extent, Euclidean geometry. Euclidean takes into account the diagonal Z axis, for three dimensions.
I also wanted to have consistency, from one letter to the next. I wanted the lengths and angles of all the upper serifs to be the same. I wanted the width of the thick vertical stroke of the M to be the same as for a B, D, E, F, H, I, J, K, L, P, R, T, U, and Y. I wanted the horizontal cross stems of the A, B, E, F, H, P, R, and Z to be the same width, and the same distance from the base line to the cross stem for all but Z. I wanted a proportional consistency between the width of the white gap next to a letter, and the black side edge. The black is marginally thicker than the white, (3-7%), so they will reduce proportionally. If I made them the same width, the white would dominate at lower point sizes.
I was doing stupid things to try to measure parallel lines and such, like putting a piece of legal sized paper on top of my monitor, to see if three nodes lined up diagonally.
What I did was create a test font, with the stage of editing done to date. I install that test font, and open MS Word 2007. I wanted to display the text large enough in Word that it would appear as monochrome, when copied to a blank Paint document; if it's too small, there will be grey, beige, etc pixels, instead of pure black and white. Through trial and error, I chose 288 points display in Word. To accomplish this, I had to set the paper size to maximum, (22 x 22 inches), to accommodate the image size.
I then select and copy the 288 point image from Word, and paste into Paint. This procedure reduces the size of the text to 75%, so my image in Paint is the equivalent of 216 point size, and I can enlarge the view to 800%, at maximum. At this scale, there is almost an exact correlation between one pixel in the bitmap and four editing units in the vector. The vectors above are 50% reduced. I can enlarge them to, (I think), 1600%, or 32 times as large as the graphic, or something like 14 feet tall, and I see only a portion of the glyph on my monitor, at that setting.
This is what the 216 point bitmap looks like, before I start the precision editing:
When enlarged to 800%, I can see the line slopes as 'stair steps', and I can count distances, and draw on top of the bitmap depiction of the vector. If I want a line to have 8/3 slope, that line in bitmap will be a recurring pattern of 3, 3, 2. I can draw 3, 3, 2 on the bitmap, in another colour, to give me an idea of how far to move a node on the top or bottom, and in which direction(s), to achieve the desired line slopes. This is done incrementally, with a new test font being produced after some positive changes have been made.
I did the M first, and it took me almost two months, but a lot of that was trial and error time. It was the most difficult, because of the third 'edge' below, and I hadn't figured out that the 4:1 editing units: pixels correlation wasn't exact; it's about 3.94:1.
I had fully edited the alphabet glyphs before discovering that the X/Y coordinates were displayed in the lower right of the app window, if the left mouse button is held down on a node, handle, or hint line.
This is what the fully edited letter looks like, in text:
Any this is why it looks like that:
https://s26.postimg.org/iuc9uklkp/C...some nodes that I could find a way to remove.
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Speaking of fonts ...
Introducing Dyslexie, a Font for Dyslexic People
A Dutch designer has created a font specifically for people with dyslexia, intended to stop the text from performing alphabetic gymnastics like reversing or flipping over backwards when they’re trying to read. “People with dyslexia unconsciously switch, rotate and mirror letters in their minds,” Christian Boer, the font’s creator, told design site Dezeen. “Traditional typefaces make this worse, because they base some letter designs on others, inadvertently creating ‘twin letters’ for people with dyslexia.”
In Boer’s font,which is called Dyslexie, those “twin letters” — like b and d — lean slightly slanted to the left, and their openings are distinctively shaped. And all of the letters are thicker at the bottom, which, Boer says on his website, keeps them from flipping around in the reader’s mind.
https://ca.shine.yahoo.com/introducing-dyslexie--a-font-for-dyslexic-people-212550796.html
Introducing Dyslexie, a Font for Dyslexic People
A Dutch designer has created a font specifically for people with dyslexia, intended to stop the text from performing alphabetic gymnastics like reversing or flipping over backwards when they’re trying to read. “People with dyslexia unconsciously switch, rotate and mirror letters in their minds,” Christian Boer, the font’s creator, told design site Dezeen. “Traditional typefaces make this worse, because they base some letter designs on others, inadvertently creating ‘twin letters’ for people with dyslexia.”
In Boer’s font,which is called Dyslexie, those “twin letters” — like b and d — lean slightly slanted to the left, and their openings are distinctively shaped. And all of the letters are thicker at the bottom, which, Boer says on his website, keeps them from flipping around in the reader’s mind.
https://ca.shine.yahoo.com/introducing-dyslexie--a-font-for-dyslexic-people-212550796.html
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papasmerf said:
MircoSotf will be adding that one to the core fnots in Widnows 9
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Sarah said:
It's a nice idea, but the design is aesthetically unattractive. I'll probably be gone by the time that font is imposed on everyone, everywhere, to make life easier for the dyslexics.
Spelling in schools is already heading in that direction. The only kids who spell well in school these days are the ones who knew no English when they came here, East Indians, and kids whose parents can't afford to buy them a phone.
In India, they only have two sports; Cricket and Spelling Bee. The ones who can't hit the doosra on a slow pitch learn how to spell fackeltanz instead.
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Why do potato chips go stale so fast when you leave the bag open, but don't go stale from the air sealed inside the unopened bag?
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Sarah said:
When packaged the air in the bag is replaced with an inert gas. Argon and Nitrogen are popular for this.
Same thing with your double and triple pane windows the air is evacuated between the pieces of glass and replaced with Argon.
Damn now I gave myself a headache.
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Why does one always misplace one's keys?? Every morning I'm running around getting ready and I either can't find my keys or my phone. My phone is easy because I just call it and listen for the sound but the keys, well they can be tricky.
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Dogs are too much work and my keys are not on the clap on clap off system although that's not a bad idea.
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Only if you feed them... :blush2:
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It's the walking and picking up their shit that I have a problem with.
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Key play hide and seek, JessieJames. Here's how you find them:
Page link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PnNM9329CA&feature=youtu.be
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Get the fuck out of my thread, muppet.
