"I have to admit, my favorite recreational reading is Erratica."
"... You mean Erotica?"
"Ooh, look at this beauty! 'Because of a production error involving the color plates Figure 7 is a photograph of J M W Turner's _The Battle of Trafalgar_. Though in black and white we here include the correct photograph of a cow.' Isn't that *great*?"
Remember, kids: Talk to your fellow employees about how much you're paid. No employer has your best interests at heart. They need your labor to continue doing business, and they want to pay as little as they possibly can for it.
That puts you, the workers, in the position of power. Remember that too.
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poem
blue sky, you highest vaulted arch,
not often enough do we meet -
i am hemmed in always by flat ceilings
and long for the wash of your sun
promised through the windows
until after it has set, and the moon,
saint of the unknown, greets me
with its entourage of little stars
and blesses me to try again tomorrow.
@xinjinmeng This is especially fun for any software that's evolved from DOS or some other OS. The cut-copy-paste-undo set are usually intact, but anything else is chaos.
I recall the first time I tried to close FreePlane. It yelled at me about 'alt F4' not being defined. I yelled back. "I've been using Windows since before it stopped having real version numbers. Alt-F4 is damned well defined!"
Here's a deep dive at fontsinuse into the real NGE typography: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion
Key quote: "this brutal treatment started as a hidden homage to the title cards in old Toho movies from the sixties and seventies, but soon became visually synonymous with Evangelion after the show first aired."
@zx3 I love that album so damn much! For that among many reasons.
#FediTip do not worry, william shatner can't find you here
Here is a book that I thought to be entertaining for the kids but which is actually exhaustingly serious:
Arcade Game Typography
The Art of Pixel Type
(Toshi Omagari)
It is totally from the POV of the fonts.
Every single time I look at this shop it has something new and somehow even more cute and glorious than before. https://shop.sevenishmagpies.com/product/gender-final-revision-sticker
@LexYeen @millimax@high.cat Er.... "usually" sung, not "normally". Bad word choice.
@LexYeen When I write for @millimax@high.cat I have a sort of internal list of quirks and patterns for how her wording and rhythm vary, the punctuation used, a per-post character limit that has to include the CW... and her native language is normally sung more than spoken.
So there are a few reasons I refer to each individual post – each little piece of the whole – as a "stanza". Blurring the lines between prose and poetry turns out to be a lot of fun!
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