Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Good Morning to YOU

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

ZAP

Working with making patterns in Illustrator:

NYU FAIL


http://gawker.com/5159003/the-painfully-ridiculous-end-to-the-nyu-revolution

"they won't want water bottles... they drink corporate water."

LOLOLOL what an ignominious end to this disaster of a sit-in.

A great follow up written by a blogger who was able to be inside for most of the "protest":
Of Secret Meetings and Meager Eating: My Final Thoughts On the Kimmel Occupation"

I am horrible about regular posting lately with work interferring... but this should help.

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Click on the link to go to my new favorite site Zoo Borns which is only pictures of cute baby animals sent in from zoos.

AMAZING.

Monday, February 16, 2009

BUSTED



just practicing PS stuff...

OSAKA BANG!



This is a great Monday morning video... instant mood improval.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Old Timey...



So i learned when i was a substitute teacher that kids these days are really really stupid. The education system is a huge black hole, and for some it seems to do more harm than good. My wife found this gem on the high school teachers forum, and it's mind boggling.

Someone found an old exit test from 8th grade from a Salina, KS school. This test is from 1895 according to this e-mail forward. They transcripted the test, and here it is below, with comments.


8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS - 1895

Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of capital letters.
2. Name the parts of speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define verse, stanza and paragraph
4. What are the principal parts of a verb? Give principal parts of "lie,""play," and "run."
5. Define case; illustrate each case.
6 What is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation.
7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time,1 hour 15 minutes)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts/bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find the cost of 6,720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per metre?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance of which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank C heck, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.


U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865.


Orthography (Time, one hour)
[Do we even know what this is??]
1. What is meant by the following: alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u.' (HUH?)
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e.' Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup.
8. Mark diacriticall y and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Correctly use the following in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane , vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.


Geography (Time, one hour)


1 What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas ?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of North America.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba,

Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers. 10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth.

OOOOOOH



Below is a video of one of Pantone's fantastic rooms. I was able to crawl through one of these at the Whitney museum once upon a time. So much fun... it is like a giant psychedelic womb.



via Apartment Therapy.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Llama



Created for a work project.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Perfect!

Actual news headline: "Masked Man Robs Convenience Stores With Klingon Sword"


Actual quote from story:
"He also demanded money from the store clerk. The clerk refused and the robber "transported" himself out of the store on foot."
Leave it to a Star Trek fan to get made fun of in a news story about him robbing convenience stores.


LOLPLATE

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If only it were real.

Link courtesy of R Stevens via Boing Boing.

Mine!



You are looking at my handwriting font I just made for free. Took all of 5 minutes because I was trying to make sure that i wasn't working too hard at making it look fancy, and keeping it true to life.

I am sad about my T being all jacked up, but too lazy to fix right now.

Try it yourself @ yourfonts.com

The site was borked for awhile earlier today, but seems to be back online.