I don’t love the coffee place near my house. I mean, it’s good and all that, but love it? No, I don’t think I love it. As such I am going to change my post.
Here are a few nouns I do truly love
Brick, above, has professed his love for lamp
Up here in North Austin they opened an “It’s a grind” franchise.
The ladies ( staffed all by ladies in the morning, as far as I can see ) are so nice to me. They know many customers’ names and they say “Bye George” or “Back again Marie?” ( someone’s been reading their Dale Carnegie ). I think they’re all very nice and they seem to work well together.
I like that they’re different types, you can see the roles they fulfill within: Hard as nails barista, friendly face, master of the drive thru, it’s all good.
I like them all very much. I guess I was feeling appreciative after friend Daniel got the shaft during a recent visit. A post of his which, I daresay, will usher the advancement of our society to the “burbclave” model described in Snow Crash.
In Australia, the European continent, the UK, they all use A4 paper.
In the US we use letter.
( pretty picture of paper size comparison at Wikipedia )
A4 is a result of a rational design process ( just like Helvetica, you know the font that rules your life that so much that you don’t think about it ). Letter was a colloquial guess at how long and wide a sheet of beat tree-pulp should be.
I, personally, like A4 a lot better. Like most continental europeans it’s slender and allows room for perspective. Letter is short and squatty, by comparison ( analogy applies as well ).
Notably, our favorite faux-Brits, the Canadians, are on the US system. I suppose this is a symptom of economic imperialism.
Yet if that were so, why is Mexico on the A4 standard? Maybe Canadians aren’t as not-American as they like to proclaim ( loudly, and often )?
Better run, I hear the sound of ice skates, it might be an skate-by assassination.
I don’t understand why there isn’t more space between “(” and “)” in proportional fonts.
I find it very annoying (that the arc of the parenthesis is so close to the preceding or following character).
Wouldn’t it be better ( and you sometimes see this in my posts ), visually, if we put a space before the hook?
Yes I realize that some key keyboarding tropes would have to be re-learnt ( put two spaces after a full-stop and before or after a parenthetical token, as appropriate ), and that word-wrap algorithms would have to be taught some additional heuristics, but I find it ever-so much nicer to read.
In the monospace world, i.e. when you’re writing code in a text editor, it’s much more pleasing to follow this rule ( propz to Patrick D. for pointing this one out to me ).
Nasty
for (int i=0;i<=MAX;i++)
Better
for ( int i=0;i<=MAX;i++ )
Even Better
for ( int i=0; i<=MAX; i++ )
Additional spaces around the assignment operators, I can see that, but the additional spacing widens the measure of this for-loop construct and is much more pleasing to the eye, IMNSHO.
Now, you might be saying that “enter extra space” makes sense in a text editor, but it’s a real pain to do in my WYSIWYG word-processor ( Word, OpenOffice, etc.). I have to agree with you there, but that would seem to me that we should solve the problem by creating a parenthesis ligature. In addition to all the glyphs you know and love as part of a font ( A, “, Z, %, etc. ) there should be an “Additionally spaced parenthesis”.
Will anyone join my Jihad?
This is slicker than slick. Much props to you Martin Stubenschrott.
I’ve only been messing with this for a few minutes now, but here’s something that will flip your lid if you try it out.
t bmw m5 new
Opens google and does all the magic.
Or try:
t reddit.com | dmiessler.com
whoa.
Update: It strikes me that someone who read this post might thing I was trying to be punny. I wasn’t.
I heard this:
Alvy Singer: [narrating] After that it got pretty late, and we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again. I… I realized what a terrific person she was, and… and how much fun it was just knowing her; and I… I, I thought of that old joke, y’know, the, this… this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, “Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy; he thinks he’s a chicken.” And, uh, the doctor says, “Well, why don’t you turn him in?” The guy says, “I would, but I need the eggs.” Well, I guess that’s pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y’know, they’re totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and… but, uh, I guess we keep goin’ through it because, uh, most of us… need the eggs.
The gag at the end isn’t the truth, the truth is in the first fragment. Don’t watch the hand he’s pointing with, watch the one behind his back.
I’m going to set it back to wordpress default for a little bit. I’m not giving up, but I want to leave things not in an ABSOLUTE shambles.
Hi,
If you visit my site using FF or Safari you’ll probably think the site is fine.
If you’re using IE it looks terrible.
I’m trying to iron out the issues.
I really have no idea how / if this will work. Please bear with visible strangeness.
Later that evening…
I’ve tested this a pretty good bit on my PowerBook as I worked out the kinks.
Let me just say, folks, web design is hard. I did this with nothing else but Textmate and Firefox+Firebug. The people who get sites to look consistent and nice across all the browser platforms are definitely worthy of your respect and admiration.
I know that the different browsers show things a little bit differently, but I think most of these items are within fault standards.
Wow, I just looked at the site in IE. It looks terrible. IE is now dead to me. In light of the awfulness I have no choice but to revert back until I find a new level of CSS gurudom.
I have finished the new layout homepage ( index.php for those of you who have built WordPress themes ) and the right navigation ( sidebar.php ), but I hit a bit of a stumbling block.
The “about” page.
This seems to be a section of a site where the person who writes the site tells you what they already expect that you know about them.
This works like so for famous ( or blog-famous ) people.
If you’re Jeff Atwood this is where Jeff says “I’m Jeff and I know a lot about C#” or if you’re at ‘joelonsoftware.com’, it’s where you go “Hm, yes, Joel, I knew that about you, that’s why I”m reading your site.
For people who are famous on the Internets for being masters at topic X or Y, this page usually is just a reminder of why you visited their site in the first place. Akin to, say, Einstein’s about page saying something like “I did a lot of the early research in generalized relativity.”
For the rest of the masses ( yours truly included ) people who find your site usually do so by knowing you as “link #4 on google for my search for ‘bcr collection agency’”. For these people, should they wish to buy you a drink or send you sexy IMs, you like to provide some autobiographical background ( so that they know not to try to slip you a mickey in a vodka, versus a whiskey ).