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[animeartistjo]

Since I got roughly 6 hours of sleep in the past 48 hours, I slept 14 to make up for it last night. XD


Yesterday, when I was running around like a headless chicken, in that wide-awake state of the numbly exhausted, I saw a guy roll a joint behind the driver's back in the bus. Lamelamelame.

Also, my DES 115 class: typography and letters is getting to me. I was looking at my roommate's Twilight poster featuring Edward and Bella and immediately noted the shape of the lower case "a" with it's odd x-height and the  tops of the the "l." Immediately, I thought, "That looks sort of like Caslon, except for that dratted a".

On a minor, more resigned note--our router has crapped out again. What's the typical life-span of a linksys router anyways?

Comments

[darkestnight12.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Growing all typography on us, are we! XDD

Ha! Your joint roller can't beat the old woman I saw across the street from the bus station that toddled over to a row of trees and shrubs in front of the old folks home and squatted down and...yes. You get the drift. ((o_O))

Poor thing. *pats* Say a spell to make it better.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Have you updated the firmware on the router? That usually solves my router problems when I do it.

[snahjerblah.livejournal.com]

I like your icon. XD

[tygati.livejournal.com]

^__^ Hee. I want the matching shirt. Yus.

[animeartistjo.livejournal.com]

Design major has no idea what you're talking about. How does one go about doing that? Also, my roommate has just informed me that our router is nearing its 5th year of life. XD

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Heh. 5th is tolerable. But they really do work better with firmware upgrades. It's, um... okay, so it's a Linksys... you'll need to know model number, go out to Linksys' website, find the firmware upgrades section, and follow instructions.

Or, y'know, bat your eyes at a CompSci major. ^___^

[animeartistjo.livejournal.com]

That sounds totally do-able! More the former than the latter, but roommy's bf is former compsci if we can't figure it out.

Thanks!

[snahjerblah.livejournal.com]

Compsci guys are oblivious or really big pervs.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Usually our routers last between 3-5 years. Sometimes a little longer.

I actually wound up learning a lot about typography because of web design. Then when I started doing maps, it came in handy. I kind of wish I'd taken a class in it instead of learning on the fly.

[animeartistjo.livejournal.com]

My uni's design programs is sort of lacking in the web design department--it offers only one class and it's simple CSS and basic html. We don't learn java or anything else. Not even in later classes. T_T Besides one more class in flash, that's the total extent of web/motion graphics we learn.

I can see how that would help in maps! All that teeeny lettering that still must be neat and legible!

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

I taught myself most of my webdesign skills. HTML, layout, and CSS. I'm fairly decent, but have avoided the programming aspect like the plague.

There's also rules about what font you use for labeling different features (like water bodies versus countries versus cities), for titles, for legends, etc. It's really interesting. Or at least, it's interesting when you can change fonts on a computer as opposed to doing it by hand. I imagine I'd feel different if I had to redo the entire legend on a map by hand because I used the wrong font or font size.

I also know how to letter like an architect. Architects have a type of lettering which is used on blueprints to be uniform. It's one of those totally useless life skills I acquired while getting something else.

[animeartistjo.livejournal.com]

You rock. Resourceful ppl FTW!

(hee. soak, sponge, soak!)

[snahjerblah.livejournal.com]

Design geek! Haha. Many our router is lame.