Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
^^That reminds me. Scientists and graphic designers do not tend to overlap that much in my experience. I'm sure the posters I've made would make most people here flinch in terror. So... any pointers on what kinds of fonts and backgrounds to use?
I'm...not sure about background, honestly.
What fonts do you use most frequently?
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I pretty much only have access to the default fonts a Windows PC has both at home and at school. I used Arial Black and Tahoma on different posters for the subsection headings and Book Antiqua for the body text on both of them.
As for the backgrounds, well... I used Microsoft Office default gradients. Nothing too eye-searing, I'd hope. One was from light teal to light purple and the other was green to white. But from what I've heard on here, gradients are overused and look tacky on logos. I'd assume that's the case for poster backgrounds too.
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Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Global warming is regarded as a fact in like 99% of the world.
If you're talking about how the earth's climate shifts up and down over time, yes. Kind of hard to argue about that whenever you have evidence of it staring you right in the face such as in northern midwest North America. If you're talking about the concept that humanity's undue influence is affecting what is thought to be the globe's hair trigger on weather patterns and temperature, I think can explain some of the skepticism people hold.
First off, this whole thing didn't start off with fears of global warming. The very first Earth Day holiday focused not on earth becoming a sauna but fears that our pollution and waste were slipping us into another ice age, doom and gloom, woe betide humanity. We got over our fears of an impending earthsicle, as it was not much later decided that we were going to burn to crisp instead. Fair enough, at least they were consistent on the "warming" part for the past 35 years -- but not the magnitude. First it was a much more dire prediction, but now it's the possibility of the earth's global average going up a whole 1 degree C which according to the global warming gospel is enough to start a lot of ice melting and sea levels rising and all the dire consequences resulting from it.
Except Antarctica this year set a record level for the volume of ice recorded. This doesn't jive with the whole "global warming" thing one single bit. "Global average" and "global warming" are "global" which means worldwide, and Antarctica obviously did not get the memo. Someone needs to tell Antarctica to get with the program -- maybe they can catch up using that hole in the ozone layer that's been looming over the South Pole since time immemorial and scaring the piss out of everyone since the late 1980's.
Beyond that, there's this matter of "carbon credits" which means a hell of a lot of money -- billions and billions of dollars, worldwide -- are going to trade hands because of global warming concerns. No matter how it's explained away, there are governments, corporations, and people who stand to make a huge profit from this. I'll let that speak for itself. On a personal note, I find it odd how the same people who think that American and its UN allies running roughshod over the middle east this past decade was greed for oil, but countries and corporations trying to profit off of carbon credits is simply out of the question. Nobody would try to profit off of human fears regarding that. Everything else, sure, but not when it involves dear old Mother Earth.
As we saw this week with Sandy, and recently with Katrina, that humanity is still helpless to even abate a natural disaster, much less predict them. Nature is always catching us with our pants around our legs. Hell, we can't even accurately predict the weather a week ahead of us. Despite that and many other deficiencies we harbor in regards to predicting weather patterns, we think we know what the climate's going to be 100 years from now. We didn't stop there, either -- we not only credit ourselves for being the cause of the earth's weather patterns going tilt and heating up in the far future, but with the ability to save it. This comes of more of a testament to humanity's arrogance than anything else.
To that, I defer to someone who says it better than I can:
Iunno, the science seems sound for the most part for me.
Granted, I haven't really been keeping up on this issue, and I haven't read any peer-reviewed journal articles on it for the past 2 years or so.
Also, what do we have to lose? I mean, say that we go out of our way to stop this threat and turns out to be a non-issue.
Developing alternatives to fossil fuels, decreasing consumption and increasing fuel efficiency all seem like worthy goals in and of themselves, even if you take global warming out of the equation.
Global warming is regarded as a fact in like 99% of the world.
If you're talking about how the earth's climate shifts up and town over time, yes. Kind of hard to argue about that whenever you have evidence of it staring you right in the face such as in northern midwest North America. If you're talking about the concept that humanity's undue influence is affecting what is thought to be the globe's hair trigger on weather patterns and temperature, I think can explain some of the skepticism people hold.
First off, this whole thing didn't start off with fears of global warming. The very first Earth Day holiday focused not on earth becoming a sauna but fears that our pollution and waste were slipping us into another ice age, doom and gloom, woe betide humanity. We got over our fears of an impending earthsicle, as it was not much later decided that we were going to burn to crisp instead. Fair enough, at least they were consistent on the "warming" part for the past 35 years -- but not the magnitude. First it was a much more dire prediction, but now it's the possibility of the earth's global average going up a whole 1 degree C which according to the global warming gospel is enough to start a lot of ice melting and sea levels rising and all the dire consequences resulting from it.
Except Antarctica this year set a record level for the volume of ice recorded. This doesn't jive with the whole "global warming" thing one single bit. "Global average" and "global warming" are "global" which means worldwide, and Antarctica obviously did not get the memo. Someone needs to tell Antarctica to get with the program -- maybe they can catch up using that hole in the ozone layer that's been looming over the South Pole since time immemorial and scaring the piss out of everyone since the late 1980's.
Beyond that, there's this matter of "carbon credits" which means a hell of a lot of money -- billions and billions of dollars, worldwide -- are going to trade hands because of global warming concerns. No matter how it's explained away, there are governments, corporations, and people who stand to make a huge profit from this. I'll let that speak for itself. On a personal note, I find it odd how the same people who think that American and its UN allies running roughshod over the middle east this past decade was greed for oil, but countries and corporations trying to profit off of carbon credits is simply out of the question. Nobody would try to profit off of human fears regarding that. Everything else, sure, but not when it involves dear old Mother Earth.
As we saw this week with Sandy, and recently with Katrina, that humanity is still helpless to even abate a natural disaster, much less predict them. Nature is always catching us with our pants around our legs. Hell, we can't even accurately predict the weather a week ahead of us. Despite that and many other deficiencies we harbor in regards to predicting weather patterns, we think we know what the climate's going to be 100 years from now. We didn't stop there, either -- we not only credit ourselves for being the cause of the earth's weather patterns going tilt and heating up in the far future, but with the ability to save it. This comes of more of a testament to humanity's arrogance than anything else.
To that, I defer to someone who says it better than I can:
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Hello, Tools.
Today I found out I'm not doing nearly as bad as I thought I was in microprocessor architecture (again.) I've had this professor before, his classes are of the type to make people reconsider their major, but I'm doing pretty good according to him.
Also, what do we have to lose? I mean, say that we go out of our way to stop this threat and turns out to be a non-issue.
Developing alternatives to fossil fuels, decreasing consumption and increasing fuel efficiency all seem like worthy goals in and of themselves, even if you take global warming out of the equation.
Don't get me wrong, I completely agree with you on this. We've been to the moon yet somehow we're still using fossil fuels for energy and internal combustion engines to transport ourselves around. We haven't even developed a way to store energy for a household's nightly usage (from solar or wind energy) in a practical and affordable fashion. The fact that I consider global warming to be a load of bullshit doesn't mean I advocate or apologize 19th-century methods for energy production and usage.
Gosh darn it Halloween. Why do you have to be on a Wednesday? And occur when I don't have many people to hang out with? Oh well, mebe I'll watch a scary movie; though, I have been advised to hang out on Greek Row and watch the party goers make asses of themselves.
Corporal, could you explain how carbon credits work to me?
Basically they're like a tax levied against whoever or whatever produces greenhouse gasses and that money is supposedly used to "offset" the carbon produced by going into something green like (for instance) setting up a wind energy turbine. Now imagine this being done on a worldwide scale.
It sounds pretty good at face value if you buy the line that its effect will drive down carbon-producing energy dependency. Then you look outside and see that that in America, at least, people are still buying full-sized SUVs to cart their brats around in despite the increase in petrol prices just in the past five years. Then you realize not only is ours and the other governments having their hands in the middle of this, so are national and international corporations. Not such a rosy concept after all.
JZ: I'm hanging out with my parents and waiting for trick-or-treaters to come by. I understand my brother and his kids may be coming over, so there's that, too.
I have been advised to hang out on Greek Row and watch the party goers make asses of themselves.
This is actually one hell of a fun time. Then, in the morning, you can see them stumble into class with a pounding headache, bloodshot eyes, and whispering vows never let another drop of alcohol ever touch their lips from here on out, or at least until this coming weekend.
The upside is that I can go buy cheap candy on Friday.
Anon: Cuz candy is for losers when you can prove to your friends that yes indeed, you are capable of blacking out while wearing nothing but a pair of speedos.
Lee: See, if that would be fun for me. I love seeing children's costumes and possibly frightening them.
Forsythe: That sounds like a good dose of Schadenfreude, right there
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
I was solicited to sign up for the guest list of a Halloween party hosted by one of the fraternities at my school in both my freshman and sophomore years. I didn't see any kind of sign-up sheet this year, though.
I didn't accept either of the times I was offered, and I probably wouldn't have this year anyway. I am not suited whatsoever for those kinds of parties.
Gator: Yeah, from what I've heard of frat parties, they are just way too over-the-top for my liking. I don't mind getting drunk or other people doing so, but I'm not into crazy wild parties like that. Then again, I've vowed never to drink enough to black out (and have, thus far, successfully avoided any hangovers). And really drunk people, if you have to interact with them are not always very fun to be around.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
JZ: Yeah. Being an autismal spergman who dislikes large crowds, overly loud environments, and being around a lot of people I don't know doesn't help much.
I haven't been around a lot of drunk people. Unless my sense of judgment is really screwed up (which I wouldn't doubt), the most I see more than once in a blue moon is noticeably tipsy, but still lucid.
I'm not much of an alcohol person, and I suspect I may never be. I'm not even old enough to drink legally (in the US, anyway), and most alcoholic beverages I've tasted haven't been to my liking anyway.
I have a love/hate relationship with the idea of being drunk. On the one hand, I'll have the freedom to act foolishly and drink away my sorrows. On the other, liver damage, foolish actions and memory loss. The pros don't outweigh the cons.
Also, I'm pretty sure that I'd become a heavy drinker if I ever let myself touch alcohol. Self-control isn't always my strong suit.
I have never even had caffiene. I get root beer once in a decade, at most. Other than that, all I drink is orange juice and water.
"Aliroz lives in a backwards area"
If being twenty years behind the times is what it takes to make a valley like mine, I'll take that in a heartbeat. I'll take open-hearted over open-minded any day.
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My mom works here and is in charge of the party.
I have no idea whose idea the party was, but yeah.
Well my battery is about to die and I see no available outlets.
I guess I'll see y'all when I see y'all.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
*hugs*
She's stopped now.
How are you guys?
Anon: Cuz candy is for losers when you can prove to your friends that yes indeed, you are capable of blacking out while wearing nothing but a pair of speedos.
Lee: See, if that would be fun for me. I love seeing children's costumes and possibly frightening them.
Forsythe: That sounds like a good dose of Schadenfreude, right there
Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Also, I'm pretty sure that I'd become a heavy drinker if I ever let myself touch alcohol. Self-control isn't always my strong suit.
"Aliroz lives in a backwards area"
If being twenty years behind the times is what it takes to make a valley like mine, I'll take that in a heartbeat. I'll take open-hearted over open-minded any day.