Sturdy Hoe

Rune Factory plot update:



Ooooh mysterious.

Also, got Brain Age 2. The games do seem harder but in general more fun than the straight-forward math problems in the previous installment.

Myriad

This year's edition, Guiness World Records 2008, had this to say about the font used in the book:

This year's edition is set in Myriad Pro, a beautifully proportioned and highly readable humanist sans serif typeface designed in the early 1990s by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly (both USA). Humanist fonts are those that embody the cleaness and purity of a modern, "grotesque" typeface with the natural, organic feel of hand-drawn letters; sans serif refers to the lack of serifs or flourishes - such as the small feet on a serified n or i - common to the "roman" typefaces.

That was...s-so beautiful. *sheds a tear*

Although admittedly I didn't know that bit about the sans serif.

I searched for "Myriad Pro" and it turns out that for $35 each you can choose from a whole myriad of styles of Myriad Pro, such as: Regular, Condensed, SemiCondensed, and SemiExtended, not including all the Bold, Black, Italic, Light, and SemiBold variations.

The website also adds:

Myriad also has subtle geometric shaping and monotone color, balanced by varying letter widths and open counter shapes. A readable and friendly face, Myriad works well for both text and display typography. A headline font and the playful "sketch" and "tilt" versions add versatility.

This is clearly the BEST FONT EVER.

I think I haven't had enough exposure to the world of "professional font-making".

Expirty

Today I took a crazy adventure with public transportation. In one outing I experienced for the first time YRT busing, VIVA busing, and TTC busing. (Having only previously taken TTC streetcars and subways) Yes...somehow I haven't taken the YRT until now. I learned that:

1) VIVA Purple doesn't go straight (realized once the Hwy 7 bus whizzed by)

2) You pay when you get OFF a TTC bus?

Recently I've been playing Rune Factory, although getting it was hard as its existence in Canada was very vague and uncertain until recently, even though it was apparently everywhere in the US and they didn't know what to do with all of them. I finally found it by asking an EB rep in the store. (They hid them in the storeroom and didn't feel like displaying a single game box)

Anyhoo, my favourite character so far is the pastor, Wesley.



No doubt he bathes with holy water as well.

Celebration

Got back from a satisfying but tiring vacation. Mainly, it was a theme park rush with a bit of shopping in between. I don't think I've ever needed to line up so long for rides. Each attraction would take at least 30 mins, although it's usually around an hour or more. Especially in Universal Studios where their lines are usually outside and without consistent cooling fans, it was pretty hard to bear. It also seemed like Camp Week or something as there were groups of identically dressed kids everywhere, taking up big chunks of queue lines at a time. Everything from kayak camp to children's camp to bible camp.


The airport/airplane part of the trip was surprisingly smooth. No delays, security issues, etc. It actually went relatively fast, and the lineups were pretty short.


Epcot was generally a good experience, with the exception of Soarin', a new ride. That ride took over two hours worth of standing in line, half of the time on sloped surface, and the ride itself was terrible. The pretext of the ride was that you would "soar through the skies on a hang glider". Thus I was under the impression it would be a roller coaster similar to Tomb Raider at Wonderland. It..wasn't. In any case, never again will I go near that ride.


The new ride at Animal Kingdom is pretty decent. It's a pretty good idea to get the FastPass. However overall the best theme park is still Islands of Adventure.

Finally, see the nice fireworks from Epcot:

Haha...I don't remember hearing that random scream at the time...

I never got around to finishing that book, which I'll do very soon.

Friendly Fire

My course selection is in capable hands and now I'm off to Florida for a week on a chartered flight. Maybe I'll get hot towels on the flight which I've never had before (on a flight). Let's hope there isn't a nutcase in the airport/plane who tries to spoil that book for me.

This post is the bom

Excerpt obtained from Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss about Shaw's recommendation to remove the second 'b' in 'bomb':

I can scribble the word "bomb" barely legibly 18 times in one minute and "bom" 24 times, saving 25 per cent per minute by dropping the superfluous b. In the British Commonwealth, on which the sun never sets, and in the United States of North America, there are always millions of people continually writing, writing, writing... Those who are writing are losing time at the rate of 131,400 X x per annum...
George Bernard Shaw on Language, 1965

And this was in 1965. Can you even imagine how much time has been lost since then? (Apparently 131,400 X x...) Although, it does seem to take less time to type 'b' than to write it, so maybe our losses have been alleviated...

Edit: Changed the "About" section slightly.

In a good way

:-(

Aw man, missed my obligatory Canada Day post.

Making a timetable for university is going really badly as so many of the half courses have only one set of times for lectures, making the placement of labs at a reasonable time nearly impossible. The organic chem course had the brilliant idea of making us choose one of two lab times: 8:30am-12pm or 6:30pm-10pm. Brilliant.