I remember being amazed at how incredibly geeky and narrow-focused that SNL be was.
I remember being amazed at how incredibly geeky and narrow-focused that SNL be was. I loved it. I don't know if I noticed that Papyrus text was shown in Comic Sans there at the end. That is just... *chef's kiss*
I'm a bit of a font-junkie. It's kind of a condition. OK, fine it's in fact a weird obsession of mine....I'll admit it. I actually worked in graphic design for many years (and still do some freelance work here and there), and I've always had a bit of a thing about fonts and logos.
This was a pretty cool video, thanks for posting.
This video.... ... is one of my all time favorites from SNL. I doubt many people would find it anywhere near as funny as I do, but it hits pretty close to home for me.
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BTW, 'Comic Sans' is Latin for 'I have no brain'.
We-e-e-e-lllllllll...
Discovery of the Higgs Boson annnounced with Comic Sans....
The first tweet in the article is the font's designer responding!
Slight derailment but that guy who disparaged doing physics in Imperial units reminds me of being in school for aerospace engineering, and most of my professors making a point to make sure we could do both Imperial and metric units because the American aerospace industry uses so much Imperial. A lot of people stumbled on 1 lbf = 1 slug-ft / sec^2 for some reason but I never had a problem with it. To this day when calculations need doing in Imperial units, my response is CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
Edit: I also remember now a time in my Thermodynamics class when a guy asked if they would lose any points for converting a problem into metric and then converting their answer back to Imperial. The professor responded "That's fine, but we will mock you." I couldn't help but think the mockery would be especially intense if they got the wrong answer from messing up a conversion.
make sure we could do both Imperial and metric units because the American aerospace industry uses so much Imperial.
I'm a bit of a font-junkie. It's kind of a condition. OK, fine it's in fact a weird obsession of mine....I'll admit it. I actually worked in graphic design for many years (and still do some freelance work here and there), and I've always had a bit of a thing about fonts and logos.
This was a pretty cool video, thanks for posting.
This video.... ... is one of my all time favorites from SNL. I doubt many people would find it anywhere near as funny as I do, but it hits pretty close to home for me.
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[edit] FWIW, my main logo was in a Gill variant, and most of my text was in a boring sans serif font (Calibri? Arial? Can't remember).
That’s the one, though it was a slight variant that doesn’t come in the standard Windows library. After the campaign, I saw a description of it in a book “an inherently trustworthy font, never fussy, consistently practical.” (Just My Type by Simon Garfield). Not a bad message for a school board candidate, though it didn’t carry me across the finish line.Gill Sans? Isn't that the London Underground font?
I like to be contrarian. I use Comic Sans MS exclusively, mostly because it drives a lot of people nuts. And I do like it.I remember being amazed at how incredibly geeky and narrow-focused that SNL be was. I loved it. I don't know if I noticed that Papyrus text was shown in Comic Sans there at the end. That is just... *chef's kiss*
I love a good font discussion.
Here's one of my favorites.
The thing that still bends my brain in metric is that Newtons can be both a force measurement and a mass measurement. Foot-pounds is more intuitive. Converting newton-secs to get thrust-to-weight ratios is a bloody PITA.Slight derailment but that guy who disparaged doing physics in Imperial units reminds me of being in school for aerospace engineering, and most of my professors making a point to make sure we could do both Imperial and metric units because the American aerospace industry uses so much Imperial. A lot of people stumbled on 1 lbf = 1 slug-ft / sec^2 for some reason but I never had a problem with it. To this day when calculations need doing in Imperial units, my response is CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
Edit: I also remember now a time in my Thermodynamics class when a guy asked if they would lose any points for converting a problem into metric and then converting their answer back to Imperial. The professor responded "That's fine, but we will mock you." I couldn't help but think the mockery would be especially intense if they got the wrong answer from messing up a conversion.
The thing that still bends my brain in metric is that Newtons can be both a force measurement and a mass measurement. Foot-pounds is more intuitive. Converting newton-secs to get thrust-to-weight ratios is a bloody PITA.
Mathcad recognizes a kgf (Kilogram force), but I've never heard of a Newton mass. Kgf is just like Pounds-force and Pounds-mass - A kg of stuff weighed in earth's gravity...
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Plus you can define your own units... which capability I've totally never used to prank the boss with...
It's all the nomenclature. It's simply confusing. A Newton can be converted into a Pound-Force (mass), which is not the same as a Pound (weight). A Newton-Meter (torque) converts to a Pound-Force foot (foot-pound). Ugh! Actually, a Newton converts into a Kilogram-Force (the "bastard" unit referred to above). Some scientific sort with bad language skills came up with the names and they stuck because no one else could understand them and rationalize the naming conventions.The thing that still bends my brain in metric is that Newtons can be both a force measurement and a mass measurement. Foot-pounds is more intuitive. Converting newton-secs to get thrust-to-weight ratios is a bloody PITA.
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