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  Probably 25 pounds of winter coats. Entirely too many, I know, but ya got yer Carhartt chore coat, a second Carhartt barn coat, a running jacket, a rain coat, a puffer coat, puffer vest, K-State hoodie, Chiefs hoodie, long car coat for suits (wool blend), waist length peacoat (see Redford, Robert; Three Days of the Condor), Ariat hoodie that’s pretty old and good for chores. A second Ariat hoodie because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Oh, windshirt, too. Kind of like strata revealing my various careers from C...

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  @dtm Blue heelers are about the toughest little dudes I’ve ever been around. Fearless.

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  I would still like to be able to set the volume of a HomePod by percentage number in a Shortcut instead of the slider control. I know EXACTLY what number is right for NPR in the mornings or the ocean mediation sounds should be and wish to programmatically set the volume and play either. #ios27 #shortcuts

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  CBS Sunday Morning seems like a cozy watch with coffee and a pastry, but like 60 Minutes and The Evening News it is increasingly a mouthpiece for TFG. Little interstitial moments are right leaning and today we get a puff profile of JD Vance with Robert Costa. Another sad moment.

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  This is a conversation I had with the Siri app a moment ago. It does work like a “chat bot”. I could’ve interacted via voice too, but typing was better suited for me in this case. Siri as an answer agent is damn good at least for this instance. #ios27 #siriAI

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  I have been obsessed with this advert since it came out in 1987. It is fairly rare based on my internet searches and finding a good scan is impossible. This is my first go at recreating it with a cleaned up scan of the photo and then resetting the text. The graphic designer did some funky shit with the Apple Garamond typeface. They both stretched it vertically and then slammed the kerning very tightly. I have a version of Apple Garamond, but not all the possible weights and styles they might’ve...

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  I'm stopping here with this version. I have the photo enhanced to my liking, although if you compare you can see that I removed a window strut/frame that straddled the two-page spread originally. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The typography of the original is just all over the place. I bet Steve Jobs hit the roof if he took time to examine it. Didn't use an em dash in 9–5 in the original, but that glyph maybe wasn't in PageMaker in 1987? Again, the kerning and word spacing in the original...

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  @vmstan I'm having issues with this setting screen. I created my alias in my new instance and then came back here to move my followers and it is failing. I've double-checked the password and new handle repeatedly.

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  I’ll be moving this profile over the next 24 hours before this instance goes dark at the end of the month. Please give me a follow as I’m having issues with the redirect functionality. @danmorgan@social.danmorgandesigns.com

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  I have been on Mastodon for several years, and my last #introduction "update" was over 900 days ago. Time for a refresh. I am or have been a farmer, agronomist, graphic designer, software developer, a dad, and a liver transplant survivor. Now, I have pivoted HARD in my third act and am going to open a pool hall in downtown Manhattan, Kansas—home of my beloved Kansas State University Wildcats. :ksu: #emaw https://vincentspoolhall.com #introductions #Apple #gen×

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  I never thought I’d be furniture shopping for a bar and pool hall. But there I was yesterday at a restaurant supply showroom (turns out there is such a thing) sitting on a variety of tall bar height stools to see which I preferred to sit while shooting pool for an entire afternoon or evening. Trying to achieve a balance between looks, comfort, and durability is a design challenge and oddly tickled my designer brain in new ways.

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  “It seemed to me that I had several of more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.” —Henry David Thoreau (I can relate.)

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  Until I get actual architectural renderings I’m playing with Photoshop and Final Cut Pro. Royalty free music from Pixabay. Hand edited the Capital “H” at @gedeonm suggestion. Does look a ton better.

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  I need a Ned Ryerson. Starting a new business the size and scope of a 10,000 sq fr pool hall with bar, grill, and basement speakeasy requires at least a half-dozen different insurance policies. I categorically hate the topic but won’t be underinsured when people are relying on me.

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  We have a local plumber named Dick Ray. I can’t help but giggle uncontrollably. Like a classic Batman TV show villain. “Look out Robin, he got his DICK RAY.” Zzzzzzaaaaapppp

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  @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party @mwyman@mastodon.social

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  @mason@partychickens.net I know in all honesty I don’t miss those old operating systems and Macs, I miss how the made me FEEL. I created my personal website as a near pixel perfect homage to System 6-7 and HyperCard and I dearly loved doing it. But I do remember wishing for colors a bigger screen, a laser printer, etc. I have all those things now, but it don’t feel the same way inside as when I was 18 with a Mac SE/30. That’s what nostalgia feels like, I think. A warm happiness of being in the m...

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  @Firr@mastodon.social @lisamelton@mastodon.social I THOUGHT THAT WAS FIGMENT! (Excellent use of Alt Text)

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  I deactivated all my job opening notifications on LinkedIn today. Officially giving up and pivoting to opening my own business. I’m no longer “unemployed” as counted by the Federal Government statistics office. Fuck all you recruiters and headhunters who age discriminate. There’s a special circle of hell for you all.

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  Print designers: how did you learn about paper stock types, finishes, and weights? Or do you bother yourself with those details? I infinitely curious about the entire workflow and need a primer on this. @glennf #design #letterpress

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  #maythe4th

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  Finally a beautiful day after a solid week of sub 70s weather! Hiked nearly 3½ miles in the timber and up on the prairie at the arboretum. Got some sun. Smelled some fresh air. Got dirt on my legs. … got bit by mosquitoes … #hiking

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  For @gruber@mastodon.social. I was musing this morning about how certain technologies get adopted in an ad-hoc way and suddenly become extremely important and ubiquitous. #markdown

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  I’m putting together my equipment list to outfit the pool hall project proposal. I will use top quality billiard balls from one of two companies, most likely. What I’d pay, however to be able to design my own balls and pick the typeface for the numbers. I’m so freaking picky when it comes to typography that I even want to pick my own font for the NUMBERS on billiard balls. 🎱 #design #billiards

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  Maybe I’m fucked up, but Santos is one of my favorite characters. Nurse Dana, of course. And Dr. McKay. (She was an absolute psycho on Dirk Gently) #ThePitt

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  Method: I took a high resolution png from the web and turned it into a vector, simplifying the colors in to six distinct ones, as the png had shades or dithering.

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  @LeslieBurns@esq.social @trabern@mas.to People today seem to think the ‘80s was all neon colored polyester clothes and big hair. What I remember was gray concrete colored existential dread of nuclear war started by Reagan. I feel that same way today. Cue up “Land of Confusion”.

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  @gedeonm@mastodon.social I saw both Westworld and Live and Let Die WAY WAY too young. I was terrified of men with hooks for hands and of course the melted face Yul Brynner. 70s #GenX kids. I tell ya.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116337015253122494 Begun the Satellite War has.

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  The closeup is the first photo I snapped of a statue “The Scout” in Kansas City near the WWI Musuem. I took a series of other ones but I captured the “skyline” (KC’s skyline is kind of meh) pretty well under the horse. The profile shot is a better representation of what he’s doing but the drop off is sudden and hard to capture well with the downtown in the photo.