pretty random

I wish I were privy to your smartness. lol

you're husband doesn't post half as often as he should. hehe

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You're one to talk -- you have at least three blog-type things now, but we hardly ever hear from you! :)

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shame shame. lol - I only have one real one. I just needed to communicate to you and Vin through this one. yeesh.

*cry*

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OTHER people watch your LJ as well, you know.

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touche

*rolls eyes* lol ;)

I'm sorry C - I'll post more pics and typings ~ thanks for both of you to help me see the way.

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do you know how much i despise arial?
can i just count the ways??

(though, ANYTHING is better than comic sans)

anyway, i'm not a big fan of verdana, either. i love love Trebuchet, and the Lucida and Gill Sans families.

for actual print, though, you can't beat Bookman and Baskerville families.

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tee hee

We need to get some paid LJ subscriber to syndicate Ben's blogspacemyfacehotornot whatever that other site is. Then it will be way more convenient. :)

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/ public service announcement.

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http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html

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yeesh.

hot or not.. dude ... so eight years ago. hehe

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cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com

Verdana 10 is soooo Office 2003. All of the cool kids are using Calibri now.

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Tell me what benefits I get from it, and I'll get excited. Verdana has specific measureable improvements over Arial. Is Calibri a return to the common "more fonts equals better product" retail software world or the early 90s?

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i *would*, were i privy to the address.

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cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com

Far more readable than Verdana. Read all about it, and the other new ones coming down the line here (http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=47&aid=78683).

(I like Corbel better for plain text, but it looks a bit odd when Bolded.

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my friend Ian (the Graphic Communications Mgmt Prof at Ryerson) would LOVE this conversation.

http://www.ryerson.ca/~ibaitz/

http://ianbaitz.cgpublisher.com/

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privy to this one http://www.myspace.com/bendacruick

or this one http://benjthecruick.blogspot.com/

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don't even think that i'd ever click on a myspace link.

i deleted my account there in '03, and never looked back.

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:: notes your other blog for later reading ::

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:: noted ::

i read it.

but i've ALWAYS hated helvetic AND arial.

they just look BAD.

though, now i can't decide if i want to discuss web fonts or print fonts.

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oh - I don't blog on myspace.. lol

the other one is where I normally blog and .. man. I'm boring.

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I clicked the myspace link foolishly, and it said weird things like Ben was in my extended network. Even though I know for certain that the computer I'm at has *never* been to that website. Very odd.

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There's this guy who volunteers with Wayves (that glbt paper I'm always going on about) who, from a distance of 20 feet, can identify the typeface, the variant of the typeface, the weight, and the freakin' leading. It's spooky.

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foolishly.. yeesh. you're full of em today :|

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Ah yes, I saw that previously. I like a good font, but to be honest I just don't get excited about them. Oh well.

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LOL. we'll see.

i'll start reading ya. :-)

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i could compete up to identifying the font, variant, (sometimes even the generic versions of the actual fonts) and weight. but leading? not so much.

i kind of miss my reprographics career.

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I LOVE TYPEFACE DISCUSSION.

:: hides; breathes ::

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also, it annoys me that i can't see people's pictures unless i sign up for an account.

and honestly, i'm sure that's the top underlying reason that people do in the first place.

;-)

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that's just the myspace though, isn't it?

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LOL, yeah. you're right.

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if you want pics.. lol go nuts www.face-pic.com/benjamin22
(although I think most of them are the same ones I have on here)
haha.

no cool songs though like the myspace one.

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wow. face-pic certainly has changed. a LOT.

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/benj_rss/

that's a link for we LJ-ers who want to read your NON-LJ blog, through our regular LJ friends pages.

:)

(but i already added your blogger feed to my RSS reader, so consider yourself under pressure)

btw: have you seen the MySpace movie?? your pictures are JUST LIKE the ones they mention.

hehe.

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haha no I haven't -- what are they mentioning :S

(under pressure - lol - thanks)

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jamincan.livejournal.com

I think it's incredible sad that I read that as an exclamation the first time round. l33t is a plague. :-(

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no problem. i like to make people sweat.
or something.

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they talk about the "myspace angles"... e.g.: people taking every possible picture of themself EXCEPT for from the front. seemingly, it's mostly the ugly girls who do so, as a way of hiding their trollness.

(i'm only quoting the video)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nFT-lyFN3BM

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That is a *little* sad.

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hmm - shame again. lol

Cam - am I a troll?

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Haha - you're almost completely non-troll-like. :)

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dude, how hard done one need to smack you for having to ask that question?

;-)

seriously, watch the movie. you'll fall out of your chair from laughter.

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oh smack me baby.

lol

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