📷 Micro.Blog April Photo Challenge #4: Foliage. The Horseshoe at the University of South Carolina.
Remember when you had to manually set the RAM limits on old versions of the Mac? Microsoft may be bringing it back for Edge.
📷 Micro.Blog April Photo Challenge #3: Card. Ace of Spades.
Panera closed an old location near us and built a brand new building. We ate at the new location tonight. It’s nice, but is significantly smaller, has kiosks for ordering, a drive thru, pick up area and outdoor seating. It seems like a post-COVID design, with less emphasis on being a community space and more focus on ordering ahead and picking up to-go orders.
📷 Micro.Blog April Photo Challenge #2: Flowers. My wife’s amazing new sunflower tattoo, by Carly at Ophidian Tattoo in Columbia, SC.
📷 Micro.Blog April Photo Challenge #1: Toy. A vintage Micro Machine. Tiny, but with tons of detail.
Is it just me or are people and companies extra April Foolsy this year? Sigh
I just added another retro tech shirt on Cotton Bureau: 1.2 MB: The 5.25 in floppy disk.
Inherent. Indestructible. Permanent.
Almost 100 years ago, in the middle of the Industrial Revolution, typographer Eric Gill 1 wrote “An Essay on Typography” and addressed the tension between art and industrialization:
“But tho’ industrialism has now won an almost complete victory, the handicrafts are not killed, & they cannot be quite killed because they meet an inherent, indestructible, permanent need in human nature.”
I’ve been thinking about this as the internet fills with AI-generated garbage and popular social media sites are monetized by hate.
Inherent. Indestructible. Permanent.
While Eric Gill never imagined the internet, I think his statement applies just as much to our modern world as it did in the Industrial Revolution. Much of the internet might become cheaply-produced, AI-generated, SEO-approved content, but people all over the world who care about creativity and writing will still produce great work and share it.
I’m probably being naive, but I’m still hopeful that the human...
I’m not sure how I feel about the Canva acquiring Affinity. They were both battling Adobe, but their products are very different.