The text shown above is set in Tribute, a type family designed by Frank Heine in 2003. It is available in PostScript Type 1 and OpenType versions from Emigre.
The chocolate (not shown) was a large bar of Belgian dark chocolate squares with praline centers. I placed it in the refrigerator because even with the air conditioner set to 76 degrees all day, the chocolate was liquefying in my desk drawer.
Note to self: NEVER steal chocolate from anyone with a firm command of Open Type.
I set this with the PostScript version, actually. We don’t have any OT fonts at work, since what’s the point—it’s not as if Quark 6 can do anything useful with them. Have you tried playing with any OT fonts in Quark 7? Can it take advantage of them, finally?
Maybe I’ll buy Tribute OT for myself today . . .
Well, Hello Ms. Amos!
I DID NOT steal your chocolate, my dear. I don’t even really like chocolate.
But to answer your question:
“Herself” does not go through my costume box. But occasionally she is presented with items from it that I think she might like – after all the concept of second-hand clothing is that a naked “somebody” has potentially already been in it…and we have dry cleaners in this hood ‘o BKLYN.
More often however, I buy her new stuff specially for herself.
State vs. Church, if you know what I mean…
Drink soon?
JMG
(For those of you wondering what the hell James is talking about, he’s a fine photographer whose specialty is mostly-naked ladies. He blogged [not work-safe; you can Google it yourselves, you pervs] about buying vintage clothes for his shoots, and I asked if the missus, a cherished friend and former colleague of mine, ever benefited from this practice, or [facetiously] if she balked at the idea of wearing clothes that had previously contained naked ladies.)
Someone stole my apple from the newsroom fridge two months ago (I was in the middle of one of my diet attempts, and had been looking forward to it), and I discovered this happens a lot on the dayside. (Nightside, where I used to work, there weren’t enough people around to get away with it.)
So I wrote a note expressing my disappointment in my co-workers, and on a big sheet of proofer paper made a “Fever Chart of My Discontent.” The vertical axis showed “opinion of [newspaper’s] employees,” with the top of the line as “honest, trustworthy” and the bottom as “horse (and apple) thieves.” The horizontal axis was from January to June 2006. The line was a relatively high plateau and plummeted to the bottom at the end of June.
My department loved it. I posted it on the fridge, and someone in upper management left a note next to it saying I must sign my name or it would be taken down. Not wanting to be punished twice, I just let it stay there until said Fridge Nazi removed my protest. But it made ME feel better. :-D
I suspect some of our most inspired designs have been in the form of tracts and posters addressed to our colleagues. I’ve posted many a sign over many a sink reading, “If you’re tall enough to read this, your mother doesn’t work here,” and at one job we created a “hysteriometer” to represent our boss’s mood. (The whole dial was red, of course.)
The sign above was posted toward the end of the day on Friday, so probably nobody saw it. But all day today, as each person has come to the kitchenette for one thing or another, they’ve been popping their heads in to share their own stories of missing food. Apparently we have a kleptovore of some seniority in our midst.
You’re probably right. This ‘tract’ was posted at DO a little while back; it’s pompous, but it looks nice. Sometimes playing around will result in the most attractive thing you do in a day!
To answer your earlier question: yes, Quark 7 does finally have OpenType support, it’s still not as elegant as ID’s (natch), but it works. If you can get Quark 7 to run without crashing long enough to get anything done. Which I cannot.
My, what a whiner you are, Derek. It sounds to me as if Quark 7 is full of useful features! It encourages creativity by increasing the amount of time you spend thinking instead of clicking, as you wait for the program to relaunch. It also encourages revision by forcing you to recreate whatever work was not yet saved at the time of the latest crash. I think the problem is you, sir. Get your attitude in gear!
Heh. Actually, while I wait for the evil little monster to relaunch (takes a bit: the ol’ G4’s showing her age), I go to the next room and have a cookie to pass the time and calm down. I wonder if I can sue. QUARK MADE ME FAT, etc.
Hmm. So you’re not finding that XPress 7 makes you “extrememly fast in production” and helps to “get you home on time while getting out of your way and allowing to truly design and be exceptionally creative”?
Well, I’m sure they’ll get it right for Quark 8.
In the year 2012.
It “gets out of my way”, all right. It gets out of my way so hard my QuarkRescueFolder has 23 items in it after an hour’s work. (Astroturfing, indeed. That poster got one thing right – it does “act like Brad Pitt in Troy”: poorly.)
A Houston Chronicle article on stolen office lunches got written up on Slashdot, of all places, because IT people were mentioned as among the least likely to steal people’s stuff. Most likely? Accounting.
As someone who finds her workplace a uniquely difficult one in which to get to know people, I found this interesting:
God help the eight out of ten people who want to feel like part of a team at my company. They’d have to get walkie-talkies, or something. It’s really not a bondy place, at least on my side of the building. Maybe in the more populous north wing, there’s an active team spirit, but for my part, I’m glad I already have a chummy professional society, albeit one with a pitifully undermaintained blog.
The revenge stories are nice. I’m thinking I might sacrifice some really bad chocolate to the Fridge Troll.