I’m sure the freight company is backlogged with holiday messes, but we stand a chance of getting cabinets maybe tomorrow.
We MAY have located the cabinets, and they MAY be in town…
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The shippers are keeping your lives full of exitement and uncertainty, aren’t they? When will your handy carpenter man have time to install them, and can he shuffle jobs at short notice when they do arrive?
Off topic, for Raesean, for your active travel colleagues, in case they haven’t seen it already: an article about Activating cities enumerating the advantages of designing and adapting cities for active travel, with a lot of scientific references (a link at the top leads to the bibliography, and to the original PDF article in City Science).
It is a problem. Scott can’t keep holding place for us forever.
Hanneke, thank you for the pro-walking + bicycling article on urban planning! I will definitely pass it on to folks.
Break out the castanets! There’s gonna be cabinets!
Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Cabinet Tuesday?
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Stellaris Cherryh update:
Cherryh will not be 1.9, as 1.9 will be a humanoids art update, named after Pierre Boulle. Will Cherryh be 1.10? No:
Normally it would be 1.10. Cherryh is going to be 2.0, but only because of the huge scale of the changes in it, not because it would naturally follow 1.9 (version numbers don’t work that way). –Wiz, Game Director (Stellaris)
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-95-humanoids-species-pack.1056888/&sdpDevPosts=1 (somewhat down the page–permalinking the one message is problematic).
I believe you will be only the second living author to be used as a release name, the first being Kennedy: not JFK, starter of Apollo, but Alexis Kennedy, a Stellaris event-story writer. (Banks was Ian Banks, I think the only non-author.)
Stellaris has released an ebook before–DRM protected on Steam–so cross promotion is, I suppose, possible. Compact Space might fit best with 2.0’s FTL changes, but hooking people on Foreigner to get them to buy the 20 following books seems like the biggest payout. Whether to contact Paradox now or wait until 2.0 Cherryh is fait accompli… (If, of course, this isn’t all going on in secret.)
(Feel free to edit or delete this message if it’s impolitic!)
Lol! Well, I shall certainly try to stay alive, given the honor.
Oh, the suspense! The intrigue! The twists and turns! Where are the cabinets? When will they arrive? Will Scott be free to install them? Will our intrepid protagonists CJ and Jane finally have a finished kitchen at last?
Stay tuned — same baji station, same naji channel!
It’s a very sci-fi problem. The Quantum Cabinets. You know where they are but not when they will arrive.
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/product2.aspx?number=172301322
I’ve wanted one for quite a while, now. It’s just a gleam in my eye at the moment, and I’m not really wild about the available font choices, but I could redesign with a better font and would contribute it for Closed Circle to sell if that is cool with all concerned. Comments? Better color choices? (Black on red?) Objections? BCS? Anybody?
Me like bigtime!
One hopes the cabinets will arrive in time for Scott to install them before the New Year. You are remarkably patient, with a torn up kitchen for the past 2 months.
Apropos of very little, the Big Island is having blizzards right now on the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. One is glad our tame astrophysicist is based on this island; being at the observatories over there must be harsh right now, if they haven’t given it up as a bad job and evacuated.
Snow on the valcanos; someone must be selling tickets.
Only amateur astronomers peer through eyepieces any longer. They don’t even use glass plates in the digital age. One can make pbservations in Hilo.
“W. M. Keck Observatory reported 90% of observations were remote by 2002, many from their facility in Waimea, on the plateau north of the mountain, and automation allowed control from California.”
p.s. I was up Haleakala on a tour bus in 2014. Saw a brief glimpse of a couple domes from the visitor center, and then it all socked in, saw 50′ or so down the canyon.
There are still people working on the mountains; it’s not completely automated yet. Our tame astrophysicist still goes to the top of Haleakala periodically to gather data and poke at the telescopes (Faulkes and PANSTARRS), and sometimes the machinery breaks down or needs maintenance. He’s still miffed that the software was changed out a couple of years ago so he can’t do observations on the fly any more. Pity, that was a big draw; we would set up a live telescope feed program at the library and let the kids drive the telescope. Then he would post the pictures we took on the observatory’s website.
Oh, certainly. That’s why they maintain Hale Pōhaku, AKA Onizuka Center for International Astronomy, “down” at the 9300′ level. Technicians are required for general maintenance on site. The scientists themselves, or likely a couple of grad students, would be the ones to install, adjust and maintain their instruments at the site, but that done observations can be over the internet in jammies and slippers if so desired. 😉
The first part of that paragrah at Wikipedia, q.v., was:
“The harsh conditions of the observatories require ongoing maintenance, with technicians and construction workers being common residents. Originally any astronomer wishing to use the observatory needed to stay at these facilities to physically be present during the nights they were assigned to use the telescopes. Although first-time users of the observatories are still encouraged to actually travel to the summit to familiarize themselves with the instruments, most observations can now be done over the Internet. Often the work is done in teams, with a staff of two at the summit, and others connected by teleconference at Hale Pōhaku, the University of Hawaii at Hilo, University of Hawaii at Manoa, or the researcher’s office.”
Guess who’s gonna be the one down in the office–not the grad students! (14,000′ is not to be trifled with.)
Oh my, yes!
Oh my, yes!
As you may know, I have been working freight-to-floor recently. I have decided to make Christmas T-shirts. They will say,
“COAL
one size fits all”.
Since I’m Gramma now, this should be good for a laugh…
Our problem is time to do the updating. If you want to create your own space on CafePress to do it, I hereby license the copy and a few others.
Shejidan already has a Hani font.
But I ordered CABINETS not CLARINETS. Maniacle Laughter.
Although I am glad if you get them today – tuesday.
Hopefully the cabinets will show up and be perfect.
Clarinets and Castinets? Is the band getting back together?
@WOL – About the t-shirt graphics and fonts –
I note that the white lettering shows up well against dark backgrounds, but can wash out somewhat against lighter backgrounds such as the bright red t-shirt. (1) Is it possible to provide a dark graphic for some shirt colors and a light graphic for others? (2) Or extend the box down so the text is in the box.
You could consider rotating the text 90° clockwise or counter-clockwise, and placing it to the left or right of the circular seal. Also, I don’t recall if Patanadi Aerospace has corporate identity colors, but with a suggestion from CJC, you might use those for the logo and lettering. Possibly atevi would consider three colors to be most fortunate, or one color in shade and tint and another in bright or jewel-tone (slightly dark). Just because humans view the sky as blue doesn’t mean atevi would think of aerospace colors as cyan or blue. Would they choose a blue-violet or deep red-violet, for instance, or a dark sea-green and light sea-green? Apparently, both Chinese and Japanese color-words traditionally consider “blue” and “green” to be a single color somewhere in the middle, more toward our cyan or blue-green. Just some thoughts for color choices. (I’m trying to keep from making the choices for you, since you’re doing the artwork.) And I’d say CJC might have a preference on the color scheme; and might have other ideas entirely on what direction to go for those. 😀 This can add to the fun.
I went looking for other fonts. Somehow, not a lot in my existing collection suits an atevi aerospace company quite the way that fits best, although I’ve included a couple that might work. I didn’t find free fonts that quite suited it either. So here are some possible recommendations. I’ll note that single weights / styles cost less, but you can sometimes get special sale prices on full font packages, and I didn’t include a couple which might be good, but were too pricey IMHO in package deals without a big discount.
I had in mind either a model railroad / train set, or perhaps tea, something suited to the 19th century or the WWI / WWII era, as some starting points, or scripts or other calligraphy that might work. Several scripts or blacklisters were too fussy with their capitals to feel those would be legible enough. This narrowed down a few choices that might have worked.
I came up with many choices in many directions and one mention I’ve realized I need to look for.
On FontSpring.com
Simeon AS by astype – squarish unicase, somewhat uncial, similar to Uppsala and Walhalla;
Applewood by Aerotype – Tuscan influence suited to mid-19th century trains or shop signage;
P22 Morris set (Troy and Golden and Ornaments); – great Lombardic and old style influenced fonts by Morris Fuller Benton, early 20th century arts and crafts movement; MFB and father or son are the same pair who gave us Franklin Gothic, the Century types, and some others;
Great Western by FontMesa – similar to Chevalier / Chevraye, an old banker / railroad / stagecoach / letterhead / signage design;
Tea Time JNL by Jeff Levine Fonts – hah, slightly Versal and late 19th / early 20th;
Ohitashi by Typodermic Fonts – squarish and modern and seen on some hair care salon products;
Cal Rustic Black or Cal Rustic Capitals by Posterizer KG – a historic handwriting style from the Roman Empire, before the invention of lowercase forms;
Cal Bakerly by Posterizer KG – a calligraphic script which could harmonize with either Cal Rustic;
Adelon Serial by SoftMaker – flare serif similar to Dragon or Baker Signet, etc., with italics;
Uptown JNL by Jeff Levine Fonts – stylish early to mid 20th century look;
Crestview Six JNL by Jeff Levine Fonts – like Binner but different;
Griffon Bold by Dharma Type / Flat-It – has more flared, larger serifs than Copperplate Gothic;
On MyFonts.com
Simeon 2D by 2D Typo – a calligraphic script based on Armenian (?) historic models, but the caps may be difficult; if this suits, you could use caps from another font;
Ondine by URW++ – wide calligraphy nib, somewhat Carolingian but modernized;
Ghiberti LP by LetterPerfect – neat style suited to the flapper / Art Nouveau / Art Deco eras, but actually based on historic Renaissance Florentine alphabets, interesting;
Note: several of the major font vendors (Adobe, Bitstream, Monotype, etc.) have gone to “subscription” font purchases, which I don’t like, even though I like their fonts. So where possible now, if I do need something, I avoid the big-name makers and go with smaller studios / indie designers.
Note Also, related to FontSpring.com, there is FontSquirrel.com, which offers a range of free fonts, though some link to FontSpring.com or to third-party websites. These are reputable and offer good choices.
Let me know which, if any, you choose.
This also has me thinking ahead for original font ideas, and reinforces a couple of ideas I had sketched out.
EDITED TO ADD:
Lisbeth Display by TypeTogether – the Display style is quite different from the others, and interesting and new, so I added it, a calligraphic style with a 60’s/70’s vibe;
I have since done some other designs using what I think is a better font, with red letters and baji-naji symbol on black, since black and red are Tabini’s heraldic colors. (The brain is a strange and wonderful thing — when I was typing the above sentence, instead of typing “Tabini,” the name I started typing was “Toranaga” — an “equivalent” character from the book/miniseries “Shogun” . . . . !) The type font I used was “Vein” (https://www.dafont.com/vein.font) which I selected because it had that “brush-stroke-y” feel of the characters in the baji-naji symbol. see: http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/product2.aspx?number=172325345
Aha! I see. That works better than the previous design. 🙂
@WOL Patanadi is one of those words that got spelled numerous ways…. I remember it being Patinandi in one book not that way in others…. What I really want is a Mathematicians Guild shirt or Kabiutera in Training.
I’m not sure our tame astrophysicist would get the reference, but for a while Cafepress had Atageini shirts. I was sorely tempted.