And we live to fight another day.

Mal ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


flea - Apr 07, 2011 7:48:23 am PDT #2167 of 30001
information libertarian

Font geeks, can anyone tell me off the top of their head what the title font on the page is? [link]

Also, can anyone explain to me why photoshop got so complicated? I want to do some really simple stuff that I could have done in 1995, and it's so freaking complex!


Amy - Apr 07, 2011 7:50:39 am PDT #2168 of 30001
Because books.

Looks like Ariel, maybe bold, to me.


Maria - Apr 07, 2011 7:50:41 am PDT #2169 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Soldiers are essential, but won't get paid until the shutdown is over. Since this Friday is the halfway point in the pay period, they'll get a paycheck for one week instead of two. It's going to screw up the financial lives of a lot of enlisted soldiers. They're already paycheck to paycheck in the best of times.

I have to admit that the system is kind of fubar.

It's totally fubar, but I can't see a way to fix it that gets a buy-in from all concerned parties.

Fingers crossed that the latest earthquake in Japan is relatively minor in terms of damage.


amych - Apr 07, 2011 7:58:04 am PDT #2170 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

can anyone tell me off the top of their head what the title font on the page is?

Depends on the fonts you have installed on your machine, but:

font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif;

In other words, your browser looks for Helvetica Neue first (which is well-known but not universal), then falls back to Arial, and so on down the list.

I'm only vaguely afraid anymore of my tendency to play spot the wordpress theme and then go straight to the css for that theme.


Typo Boy - Apr 07, 2011 8:00:38 am PDT #2171 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

It's totally fubar, but I can't see a way to fix it that gets a buy-in from all concerned parties.

And yet, even with the Fubar, Medicare works better than most private insurance. Government contracting with all of its screwups manages to get roads built. Having done contract programming in both the private and public sector, I would say both are fubared in their own way.


flea - Apr 07, 2011 8:00:55 am PDT #2172 of 30001
information libertarian

It looks pretty good in Ariel, bold, on the graphic I'm making. Thanks. (I did know it was a sans-serif font!! I can learn from you people!)


DavidS - Apr 07, 2011 8:01:50 am PDT #2173 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Anyone know when the next onerous task day is?

Let's find out...

The Random Date Generator says:

Thursday, April 14th


lisah - Apr 07, 2011 8:14:10 am PDT #2174 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

Having done contract programming in both the private and public sector, I would say both are fubared in their own way.

Also my experience (not as a programmer but IT contractor anyway).


Consuela - Apr 07, 2011 8:21:27 am PDT #2175 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Having done contract programming in both the private and public sector, I would say both are fubared in their own way.

Yeah. When I was in consulting, the worst jobs were always the ones with private companies involved, because they didn't understand the process and had utterly ridiculous deadlines.


§ ita § - Apr 07, 2011 8:24:27 am PDT #2176 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

::redface::

I just sifted through the papers in my folder, and somehow I shoved a fanart draft in there by mistake when I packed this morning.

It could have been worse. There could have been more nudity, and I could have discovered it with other people around. But...still. I need to be carefuller.