Fell asleep after working on a paper for grad school. Just woke up to a nightmare that I’d actually turned it in… And it is NOT ready to be turned in yet. So rough. Anyway, been a while since I had a grad school nightmare. 🤣 I’m going back to sleep.
This paper for my independent study is a mess. I’ve read a lot, and I like where it’s going, but combining everything isn’t going well.
Scenes from a roadtrip
When Liz asked me what I wanted to do to celebrate my 50th birthday, I told her that I wanted to go to a Cubs game in Wrigley. I hadn’t been to Wrigley since 1988 when we moved back to South Carolina. Liz and I decided to make it happen, albeit a week before my birthday. Instead of dropping one image at a time, I figured I’d take more of a photo essay approach.
I really do think there is something to this: How TV Trained Us to Be Conspiracy Theorists.
Setting prices for type
I’m changing my pricing strategy for my typeface designs
We got some breakfast Hot Pockets and they no longer ship with a paper “crisper” sleeve, instead recommending an air fryer for a crispier crust.
- A hot pocket fresh out of the air fryer is indeed crispy, but;
- It takes 15 minutes! Not exactly a quick breakfast anymore.
Excited that Cotton Bureau has finally added custom stickers. I added a few sticker designs, including my old film camera stickers.
Me: I really need to wrap up this paper on deprofessionization in the design industry so I can move on to working on my dissertation.
Also me: Digging FOUR papers out from past classes that I never did anything with and revisiting them.
Waking up to big F1 news. Christian Horner out at Red Bull. I guess losing to Nico Hulkenberg at Silverstone was the last straw. Is Max now more likely to leave for Mercedes? Less likely?
SbB Emote: A colorful faux emoji set built in Fontstruct
I built a set of adorable icons on Fontstruct.
Adobe's Project Indigo a home run in tough lighting
A quick comparison of two shots at a baseball game show the promise of Adobe’s computational camera app.
Fireflies baseball. A beautiful night to catch a minor league game.
My dad randomly asked me if I wanted the typewriter my grandparents bought him when he graduated college. He used it in seminary and his first call. Uh, YES! So I now have a Royal Safari manual typewriter. Seems to work well. Just need a new ribbon.
Watched the entire Cubs game today… 8 home runs. This team is fun to watch. Can’t wait to see them in person later this month.
Watching Cubs v. Cardinals on Apple’s Friday Night Baseball, which is actually on Friday afternoon for July 4. PCA with a great diving catch in the first inning. ⚾️
We’ve reached the part of summer break where one of my kids has decided they want to learn how to make bread.
Embracing old tools in new ways + two new Fontstruct designs
Experimenting with new features in Fontstruct, Photoshop, and Glyphs has inspired the creation of two new font designs, SbB Vertica and SbB Roundabout.
Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! Yep, the Mets are still paying him and will be until 2035.
Enjoyed this beautifully art directed and illustrated meditation on AI and art. Take a few minutes and spend some time with it.
My son wanted to play video games with me, so we pulled out the Sega Genesis Mini. All these years later, it’s funny how much I remember from playing Sonic and Streets of Rage II.