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pre pi day qotd
Mar. 13th, 2014 10:26 amHow many digits of pi do you know offhand? At the max, how many have you memorized, even if you don't remember them now? How much effort did you put into remembering many digits of pi?
boozing it up. and I mean UP.
Mar. 8th, 2013 11:06 amLast night, my four (4) three-liter (3L) cocktail aging barrels arrived. Hooray!
Except, uhm, this means that I need 12L of spirits to start using them. If your typical bottle holds 750mL, this means I need 16 bottles, assuming I use the full contents of each. So, uh, I guess I'm investing in booze this weekend.
Except, uhm, this means that I need 12L of spirits to start using them. If your typical bottle holds 750mL, this means I need 16 bottles, assuming I use the full contents of each. So, uh, I guess I'm investing in booze this weekend.
transportation AND font geekery
Oct. 28th, 2010 11:57 amHere's a story for my transportation-geek friends AND my font-geek friends:
The Federal Highway Administration is requiring that new street signs comply with updated standards to use mixed case Clearview.
More about this here.
The Federal Highway Administration is requiring that new street signs comply with updated standards to use mixed case Clearview.
Mixed-font Clearview was readable from roughly 440 feet away, whereas typical all-cap lettering was readable only at a distance of 384 feet. By expanding the interior spaces of certain letters, Clearview also reduced halanation—the process by which letters blur together late at night. In darkness Clearview became readable at 387 feet, against 331 for the standard highway font style.
More about this here.
