I have an idea for a flyer for the con which is based around a particular font.* I remember the font quite clearly and am quite sure I have it, but an exhaustive (and exhausting) search of my font files failed to turn it up ( Read more... )

Messing around with Random Oblique Strategies again:

What is the reality of the situation?

and
Just carry on

Very meaningful to me today, for various reasons.

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It's Raining Tacos, brought to you by Parry Gripp.

Is it even better that he's the lead vocalist and guitarist for Nerf Herder?

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So, I'm sitting down to do a bit of better-word-bracket removal. One of the first brackets to be removed is [Aubuson], which I needed to check was in fact the word I wanted. Since I remembered it from either Allingham or Sayers (or both), one of the search terms was quite naturally "aubuson peter wimsey". Which led to a quote in a Wikipedia ( Read more... )

Today's Google logo is fabulous!

I have for some time been wishing for a Dreamwidth comm called "there's a word for that", where writers could babble about all the almost-but-not-quite-right words they've thought of and the giant brain of the Internet would tell them the word they actually want.

Turns out there's a theremustbeawordforit tag at linguaphiles. It's mostly used for "What's this ( Read more... )

Apropos of nothing (though weirdly relevant to my last post), this has to be one of the best 404 pages ever.

And now, back to figuring out how long it takes to get from Ghazni to Peshawar on horseback....