This will be the first year WITHOUT a Cheese Memorial Day BBQ Extravaganza. I'm kind of sad but with
the move, Tasia's parents visiting, work & freelance being extremely busy, Gaming, and having a relationship,
I just don't have the time, energy, or money.
I miss the friends, yummy food, DRINKS, the Golden Mallet, and themes….Pirates, White party, Hawaiian,
Western… all super fun!!!
We have been in the new house for 2 months and it has flown by. We haven't really had people over,except for
a few here and there. We have talked about having a house warming party or BBQ but haven't figured out all
the logistics yet. There will be something in June (we think) so there is that to look forward to.
Tasia's parents came to visit (and stay with us) last week. They slept in the office on my old
bed that I drug in from the garage and put in the center of the room. I have never had a significant
others parents stay with me… EVER! So I was a little nervous and worried. I had never met them,
let alone they were 10 feet from where I slept! They have been to San Diego before to visit their
daughter, so they weren't doing the tourist stuff this time around. That being said, they still had a
very aggressive schedule over the couple of days there were in town (which meant I had to
"Be ON" for a couple of days).
They arrived Wednesday night and we scooped them up and headed over to Bluewater for some
fish (the BEST in SD). Great meal and some time to sit and talk. Back to the house to clean up, unpack,
and crash. We had a busy day that was a a few hours away…
Theo were up at 4am (6am Texas time) so I couldn't sleep. We were on the road for Universal studios
by 6:30, arriving by 10am. 6 hours of fun. Then a 3.5 hour drive home. Dinner out at my newest fav
Italian restaurant - Il Postino. Had a fabulous dinner - splitting a bunch of apps and a couple entrees.
Friday was back to work for me, while they went sky diving. It was Tasia's second time and a first
for her Dad. Sounds like they had a blast! Not something in my wheelhouse (those of you that
know me, know I HATE rollercoasters… (let me rephrase that. I hate most rollercoasters).
Friday night was dinner with my family and hers at Urban Solace. I still had not eaten there.
I had the Meatloaf and Sweat Potato Mash…. Extremely yummy! A couple of drinks and
good conversation. Happy everyone got along.
Saturday I spent with the boys, while Tasia and the Fam went to Doheny Beach for a music festival.
They got home late and left for the airport at 6:30am on Sunday. A quick trip, but a good one
none-the-less. I think they enjoyed themselves and I was glad to finally meet them. I will be
staying one night at their place when we head to Texas in July.
Glad to have my life back to normal, after a quick rush to the head.
The Foo Fighters have started their US Tour that will run through the rest of
the year (so it seems). Their first date was in Tulsa, OK and they played
28 songs, including 6 new ones, mixed in with their greatest hits. I cannot
wait for a West Coast announcement but as of now we wait… patiently.
I remember when Star Tours opened at Disneyland… A wet dream for boys that had visions of Star Wars
in their youth. They promised they were making a ride where you could take part in different parts
of the SW universe. Unfortunately (and technologically) it was never expanded past the original plot
and ride, making it boring and trite. Fast forward 20 years, 3 movies and a cartoon later, and George Lucas
has blessed us with the original idea for the Star Tours ride. Supposedly the newly revamped Star Tours
will have enough different scenarios that you would have to ride it up to 100 times to see everything!!!
I cannot wait…
LINK
I was out shopping and came across these gems… Stance Socks. So colorful and fun!!
They use the same colors on both socks, but they don't have the same pattern.
Fresh and Funky, as well as super comfy! Check them out here:
STANCE
Here are another couple of cool shopping sites:
[manly-man shopping]
UNCRATE
[hot deals on brand names]
GILT
[for fashion forward & retro types]
High Snobiety
[for creative types]
Handy-Eye Supply
Great article about typefaces - published back in 2002, but still relevant.
“What font is used on the Absolut Vodka bottles”?
“Can you identify the font used in the new Star Wars movie”?
“Do you recognize the font in the attached PDF“?
They're NOT Fonts!
I get questions like these daily. I don’t mind them. Fact is, I enjoy the challenge. What I don’t like, however, is the nomenclature.
It seems that just about everyone is using the word “font” when they are referring to a typeface. “Fonts” and “typefaces”
are different things. Graphic designers choose typefaces for their projects but use fonts to create the finished art.
Typefaces are designs like Baskerville, Gill Sans or Papyrus. Type designers create typefaces. Today they use software programs
like Fontographer or Font Lab to create the individual letters. A few still draw the letters by hand and then scan them into a
type design application. Fonts are the things that enable the printing of typefaces. Type foundries produce fonts.
Sometimes designers and foundries are one and the same, but creating a typeface and
producing a font are two separate functions.
A little history may help. John Baskerville created the typeface design that bears his name. Creating the design was a
multi-stage process. First, he cut the letters (backwards) on the end of a steel rod. The completed letter is called a “punch.”
Next, Baskerville took the punch and hammered it into a flat piece of soft brass to make a mold of the letter. A combination of
molten lead, zinc and antimony was then poured into the mold and the result was a piece of type the face of which was an exact
copy of the punch. After Baskerville made punches for all the letters he would use and cast as many pieces of type as he thought
he would need, he put the type into a typecase. The resulting collection of letters was a font of Baskerville type.
Over the years, there have been hand-set fonts of Baskerville type, machine-set fonts, phototype fonts, and now digital fonts.
Currently, there are TrueType and PostScript Type1 fonts of the Baskerville typeface. There are Latin 1 fonts of Baskerville
used to set most of the languages in Western Europe and Greek and Cyrillic fonts that enable the setting of these languages.
All these fonts are of the Baskerville typeface design.
Maybe it's OK for the folks that set the neighborhood church's newsletter to call them fonts; but those of us who claim to be
typographers and graphic designers should refer to our tools by the correct name. So, what font is used on the Absolut
Vodka bottles? I don't know. But I can tell you that the name “Absolute” is set in the typeface Futura Extra Bold Condensed.
by Allan Haley October 21, 2002
