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Thats a decent idea. Only problem is if you get them before they get the money you gotta wait for the payoff. And most of that money will probably go toward paying off student loans for the first few years at least. I'm convinced doctors have to be paid so much because they have to pay off all those loans.

What's the going rate for an overweight gigolo these days? My gigoloing would be a lot like Deuce Bigalo's.

for a sugar mamma. I need money and I need it bad.

Guinness=bread in a bottle.

I have an Irish flag permanently embedded beneath my skin. Does that count as wearing green?

Oh! CSS! Haha. I was waiting for some code to show up. I was kinda hoping mine was gonna be code too.

After seeing it--holy shit! But you asked me to. In 1994, in San Francisco, Albert-Jan Pool and Erik Spiekermann took a cab together from the ATypI conference to the airport. Spiekermann knew that Pool’s employer went bust, so he told him that if he wanted to earn some money with type design, he should have a look at fonts such as OCR and DIN. At the same time, he invited Pool to Berlin to discuss the idea in detail. One year later, FontFont published Pool’s typeface FF OCR-F, followed by the family FF DIN. Spiekermann had the skill to point out an empty space in the market. Digital DIN fonts were available at that time, however, only in two weights and solely in pure geometric shape. Pool designed a family of five weights, he added true italics and also some alternative characters, such as the “i” with a round dot and the lower case figures. With time, five weights of DIN Condensed were added, as well as Greek and Cyrillic versions. The shape of the new FF DIN differs from the original mostly by thinner horizontal strokes and by more fluent curves. Despite its primitive, technical look and the clear reference to the German motorway signboards, FF DIN became a phenomenon. The typeface has even pervaded book and magazine typography, and it found its place in posters of cultural institutions. With this in mind, Czech design magazine TYPO asked Albert-Jan Pool for an interview about FF DIN when they met him at the Typo Berlin conference in 2005. Postcard promoting FF DIN by FontShop In your lectures at Typo Berlin, you described the evolution of the FF DIN typeface. So, was it created to fill in a gap in the market? It is part of the story. Erik Spiekermann saw the old DIN typeface on the market in two weights and he noticed that several designers began using it. And he thought: “why is this happening?” These were leading designers, he saw them going on and he thought: “Hm, we should do something about it. Why do they use this unusable typeface? Let’s ask someone who can make something useful out of it. Then it might work even better.” Postcard promoting FF DIN by FontShop And aren’t you thinking about expanding it into more styles? Creating FF DIN Serif, FF DIN Round... I am working on the rounded version. I am also working on stencil, on extended, on monospaced. There are many things being developed. Is it still fun for you to stick with one concept and expand it? On one hand, type design is creative. You think of something new and try it out, and find out what it should be like, but at the same point, the production process starts. For example, when you have an “o”, you might make an “e” out of it, or when you have an “n”, you might transform it into an “h”. The work must thus be perfect from the very beginning, because otherwise, if you decide to make the font a bit wider, you’d have to start all over again. You must be aware of what you are doing from the very beginning. It is unlike many other professions — for example, when you work on an advertising campaign, you may keep changing the motifs. The executive officer says: “We will not bring this up. It is just impossible.” And two weeks later, the ad must be on TV or on billboards. Grids that match FF DIN You took a German sign typeface, extended it to a family, and now you can see it in works of typographers all around the world. You can find FF DIN in newspaper headlines, flyers or even books. How do you feel about having responsibility for spreading German culture, German geometric style? There is not that much responsibility, because a typeface cannot lead to a disaster, I hope. I do not work for those who deal with atomic energy, for example, and my work could not lead to the invention of a nuclear weapon. A bad typeface does not really hurt. Compared to warfare, my work brings no serious responsibility. I think FF DIN serves certain needs. For example, the designers of Geo Magazine use FF DIN, also its black version, combined with Collis, a very sophisticated text typeface, created by Christoph Noordzij, one of my old schoolmates. Alphabets This shows a great contrast — FF DIN is very mechanical, very bold and striking. So there is one typeface that serves reading and a second one which suggests information, suggests legibility This is the principle of information design — you read a traffic sign and you accept it as pure information. You don’t need to think it over again. Berlin is Berlin, what else could it be? The simplicity invites people to get into it. If you would set the whole magazine in a sophisticated text typeface, people would think that it is aimed at very educated people, that it would be too complicated, and that they could never understand it. So, the typeface serves certain purposes, and therefore it is good that it exists. You say that FF DIN “tells the truth”, that it is a serious neutral typeface, that it is something that works in Germany, but it wouldn’t work the same way for example in Britain, because they use a more decorative style. A preliminary version of DIN 1451 from 1931 Yes, FF DIN is neutral, but it is not as neutral as Univers, because FF DIN has not been made perfect. It has a simple appearance. Its forms suggest that it is easy to read. And it is neutral and somehow objective. But that is the way how people look at things. When you tell people something about type design, they would always come up with the idea that Futura is probably the best legible typeface, because people understand how the forms are being made — this is a circle, this is a triangle…. People think that if they can understand how letters are being constructed, they can also read them easily, but that is nonsense. One doesn’t need to understand the way letters are made before one gets to read them. DIN Engrischrift compared to FF DIN There are two different views of FF DIN. People were used to seeing it for tens of years, but when I first saw it in a printed magazine, the typeface was new. It was completely different, so fresh, so new, so modern. And I think this is also the way it is used outside of Germany. Yes, foreign typographers use it for different reasons. It is new, it is practical, it has a certain quality, and it seems like it hasn’t been around until now. Designers are the sort of people who get fed up with what they are doing very easily. They are always looking for something new. Which is in fact irrational, because from the rational point of view, you could say: “Well, we have Univers, the family is bigger, it has been redrawn recently, its proportions are perhaps ideal, the form solutions are better, because there is no constructivist idea behind it. It is good, it works, why shouldn’t we use it forever?” But the public also looks for something new. It is always nice to have a new shirt, new shoes, a new computer. So they like FF DIN, because it is new. FF DIN (gray) and the original (outline) FF DIN is also used as a corporate font of the Czech National Theatre. It is perhaps odd that a traffic typeface is used by one of the most admired Czech cultural institutions which played a leading role in the national revival movement against German culture of Prague in the 19th Century. It is similar to the use of FF DIN in Centre Pompidou in Paris. I am sure that Ruedi Baur knew that he was using German Typeface. Pompideau One of my colleagues, a graphic designer, went to Paris for her holiday, and she came back saying: “Did you know that all the signs in the Centre Pompidou are designed using FF DIN?” She also brought a booklet on the Centre Pompidou by Ruedi Baur, that’s where I found the pictures for my lecture. I was about 13 years old when I first saw the Centre Pompidou. It has been on my architectural top-ten ever since, so seeing FF DIN there was fascinating. Besides that, Centre Pompidou is famous worldwide, so I wanted to use the pictures showing FF DIN in Centre Pompidou in my future lectures immediately. Energy So I called Ruedi Baur to ask him for the pictures and he sent them to me. I have been telling people about this, and this is how I came to hear about the discussion. Before Baur came in, there was a French designer who designed the interior and the guiding system. And many people didn’t like Baur’s changes. But I haven’t traced the discussion yet. I did not read any articles. I did not even discuss it with Ruedi Baur. Maybe Ruedi was a bit rude in taking a “German Industry Standard Typeface” for such a prestigious French place. But on the other hand, one must admit that it fits very well with the architecture. So, there are always several reasons for using a certain typeface: one is that it looks nice, second is that it is legible, and the third is that it goes well with the historical and cultural background. But if we weren’t brave enough, we would always use black on white and typefaces like Garamond. Then, people would not notice that things change. Not only the designers need new impulses, also the general public does. You only notice a change in the content when its appearance changes too — you would not believe that, for instance, a magazine has hired new journalists and has changed its editorial style, if the layout remained the same. People think these things belong together. In the same way, when two companies merge, people will only believe in the new beginning if the company gets a new name, a new logotype, so they can see it on their new business cards. Eastern European designers like the FF DIN typeface. It might be an answer to your question why so many car producing companies choose FF DIN for their advertising campaigns - an uneducated Czech designer who has some doubts uses FF DIN he cannot go wrong. Yes, just like the British printers were taught — “If in doubt, use Caslon.” But FF DIN is now something like Helvetica. Once, Helvetica was also new and fresh. Of course, there was Akzidenz Grotesk behind it, but the Helvetica family was bigger, it was available for more machines of the time, for more systems, it was licensed to several others. So it was new, it was available, it was nice, and it was promoted by many typographers so it became a kind of world-wide fashion. Just like blue jeans. More from Albert-Jan Pool * Encore Magazine interview * Typeradio interview * FF DIN: A history of the typeface Industrial Archeology – DIN, the first German Corporate Typeface? * The Constructivist Connection – DIN, Bauhaus and the New Typography * Siemens sets a Standard – DIN 1451 on its way up * DIN for All: From the Economic Miracle to Art and Vernacular Typography * How German is the DIN typeface? – Fahren, fahren, fahren at the Autobahn

That was epic. I would ask if the photos are gonna be on scotty's site but his photo's link is busted. Scotty if you read this your photos link is busted.

Tea cake? Do you mean cup cake? Must be a British thing. I hope you guys don't start serving tea cakes at the Sears Tower.

Whatever, naming rights bla bla bla. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to bring it to England. Wasn't there a famous London bridge that was taken apart and sent to America and reassembled somewhere out west? Correct me on the details if I'm wrong. I'm just saying there's a precedent... No, I don't think it got taken apart. I believe it fell down.

Jees, the building will still be there. It's not like we're actually going to bring it to England, you know (Actually, they're not buying it at all.) Whatever, naming rights bla bla bla. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to bring it to England.

Interesting, I did not know that. There has to be some building we can sell them that isn't the Sears Tower or the Hancock Building.

We want our building back. http://chicagoist.com/2009/03/12/marshall_fields_--_macys_willis_tow.php Can't you guys buy the Hancock building or something. On second thought you can't have that either. You guys can have the Chrysler building in NY.

I've also been told not to but thats really only for the first few days if I understood correctly. Part of the reason is because some people have allergic reactions and will get bumbs. When the tattoo heals there will be patches of the tattoo missing where the bumbs showed up from the allergic reaction. Oh and i had a friend that had an infected tattoo once. It took about a month and a half to heal correctly. I was wondering about continuing care for a tattoo. Do you use Lubriderm every day after the tat is healed? It seems like using lotion everyday has been making the color look more vibrant, but I do not want to do anything to hurt the image long term. Disclaimer: I'm not a tattoo artist or an expert on tattoos. I do know a bit about them from talking to my artist though. The lotion does seem to make the colors look more vibrant. I doubt it will hurt it however I would still recommend checking with your artist. The main reason for putting lotion on when it is healing, as I understand it, is that it keeps the scabs moisturized and from getting too thick and crusty. If they get real thick and crusty and they get scraped off somehow you run more of a risk of losing ink wherever that scab was. Anyone that has more knowledge on the subject feel free to correct me if I got something wrong.

Interweb-facebook and dz.com mainly but i'm always researching something skydiving- obviously porn Apple products oakley sunglasses- for me they're like crack. they always have cool new styles coming out. tattoos- almost as addictive as skydiving T.V Designing stuff- tshirts, posters, fonts, whatever spending money-not shopping, thats a chick thing. they're different. Affliction shirts and hoodies-just like oakley whenever you think you're done they come out with some cool new shit you gotta have

Then the proper phrasing would be the way in which you phrased it in your previous post. They were suffering from an attention deficit but not necessarily attention deficit disorder.

Just because they are temporarily suffering from an attention deficit does not make it a disorder. That's like saying I missed breakfast this morning and therefore I have an eating disorder. If he's going to make a claim like that I would like to see something about saves and the number of those people diagnosed with ADD. I highly doubt any such study or information exists.

I sure hope my Cypres never suffers from ADD! Especially not below 1,000'! The OP edited his original post from "I have a Cypress" to "What an ADD cypress is"... Not for nuthion' ...but I don't have a AAD, because I do a lotta demos. Given that most Cypres fires come from people suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder that leads them to be too caught up in what they're doing to pull at a safe altitude 'ADD' is a better acronym than 'AAD' just like 'AAD' is more descriptive than 'AOD'. I wanna believe you are being facetious but the stuff you threw in at the end leads me to believe you were serious. Do you have a reliable source you can cite that proves most AAD fires are caused by people with ADD not paying attention?

I've also been told not to but thats really only for the first few days if I understood correctly. Part of the reason is because some people have allergic reactions and will get bumbs. When the tattoo heals there will be patches of the tattoo missing where the bumbs showed up from the allergic reaction. Oh and i had a friend that had an infected tattoo once. It took about a month and a half to heal correctly.

No shit. For $250,000 a year I'd marry an anesthesiologist. You know, you might get lucky. I hear they actually let women do that job now. A woman would be nice but for $250K a year I really don't care.

I'm pretty sure it was 'waz up' like the old bud light commercials and it was awful because of that. I couldn't even make it to the end. That line is WAY to cliche and played out.

Archaeopteryx (the earliest known bird)

No shit. For $250,000 a year I'd marry an anesthesiologist.

Yeah, MN and WI seem to always get raped. We had a bad winter here in IL too but it looks like its over for the most part. 53 and rainy today then 30's-40's the rest of the week.

Yes please. You were offering free spankings right?