WEEK ONE OF THE PRESEASON WOOOOOOOOOO….
Who’s ready to watch sixth-round draft picks from Middle Tennessee State run into undrafted guys from Cal-Poly and Mount Union?! This is our methadone for the four weeks, before our six month heroin bender begins.
24 teams (that’s 75% of the league; MATH!) play tonight. Here’s the rundown:
CLE-NYG
CAR-BUF
CHI-CIN
PIT-PHI
NOR-JAX
TB-MIA
WAS-NE
RAMMIT-BAL
DON Ts-GB
500s-Andy Reid’s BBQ
OL DOUBLE Js-SF
Clots-SEA
Get after it, bitches.
Here’s an amusing story that will warm everyone’s heart:
I was working in my studio designing pipe bombs when I recalled my first library card that my dad took me to get when I was five years old. I could even picture the type-face that my name was written in, which wasn’t too hard to find: it was IBM “Orator” which was available on Selectric typewriters that used interchangeable balls. I found out that it was even the font that Stanley Kubrick chose for the computer displays in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
So I look for a download of it and I end up buying a font called “64-SRC Regular” for $49, but after I install it I realize it’s “based on” Orator but not the same. Dammit! So I look again and I find “Orator Std” for $35 and I download that, but when I try to install it the Font Manager on my computer gives me a warning about duplicate fonts.
I just spent $84 nonrefundable bucks on a fucking font I already owned.
Here’s a sample sheet of the IBM Selectric “Orator” type face produced by an actual typewriter.
This will help you to better visualize my exciting story.
Here’s some screens from “2001.” Wait! That’s not Orator! It’s close but not the same!
Turns out the font in the movie is 64-SRC Regular. Or vice versa, I dunno. They’re the same though.
I’m pretty sure no one is ever going to read any of this so I’m going to go back to my design work because it’s due tomorrow.
But first, here’s another “2001” frame, a very Kubrick symmetrical composition. The computer screens were actually 35mm slides back projected onto frosted glass on the sets, because computer graphic displays like this didn’t even exist at the time. The animated graphics were traditional animated artwork projected from 16mm film.
i work in the print industry, so totally get the fascination\annoyance\pain of fonts and typesets.
32 years in the industry.
Way too many people are reading too much into Canada’s empty tweet against Saudi Arabia. Canada still sells them weapons and don’t intend on stopping. Just like they have no intention on questioning why Saudi Arabia is on the UN Women’s Rights Commission.
The real question is why MBS threw a temper tantrum when he knows this is all just troll concerns
FOOTBALL IS *technically* BACK!
Isn’t that the best kind of back?
There’s a full Total Gym song. It is not sung by Chuck Norris, even if he’s at the beginning and the end of the commercials.
My medicinal drug card expires at midnight so I just placed a YUGE order to get me through the couple months til I feel like renewing again.
Langley Falls is part of Hampton, VA.
Source: Senor googling the ZIP code.
Jesus birds!
OK, now that you’ve switched the pic, my comment looks silly.
No, it’s even better.
*Already used Jesus Birds (TM) below.
another double-header tomorrow night? Ass to ass!!
YEA- Wait, what?
On the positive side, it was only 104 here today. It was supposed to be 111, but the smoke reflected back a bit of the heat.
Damn smoke is giving me a headache. Time to drink!
Didn’t really need an excuse, but it’s nice to have one.
What city do you live in? Calgary’s air had been worse than Beijing the past few days
We’re in Eastern Washington. We don’t have a local fire, but they are all around us.
sometimes I get a headache from the drink, and have to drink even more to power through
/my eyes have been itchy as fuck in Raleigh, NC
I’ll join you.
SKOL!
OK, I have not been keeping up on football at all. Which is my only excuse for finally realizing that I should stop looking for Richard Sherman on the field.
he’s there right now! FOAR teh Tomsulas (sideline)
oh yeah, looks like the Redacteds’ new rookie tailback likely shredded his knee tonight. FedEx turf?
OK, just got an ad for the International Bigfoot Conference. I did not know that was a thing, and I am intrigued.
GET READY BITCHES
This is gonna end up as one of those Wile Coyote things, right? Trump is gonna hide in the rocket to escape from Mueller, then Mueller is going to be the one who lights the fuse and shoots him into space.
I would pay 20 American dollars to see that.
Is there any thing sadder than a guy wearing sandals? When I was nine I spent a summer wearing sandals because my mom bought them for me and I didn’t have a choice, but I haven’t worn a pair since.
What’s that you say? You enjoy wearing sandals? Well don’t let my personal opinion stop you, you sad sack of shit.
I wear boots, as god and Tony Lama intended.
Boots are great in hot weather. An with shorts.
And if you really want to look stupid, you can tuck your jeans into them!
drops teh panties every tiem
Can I get a “deadass”?
I can see why you don’t like them with your tiny feet.
My feet are perfectly normal
I wear sandals on the beach, in the shower at a public place and In my house for support. How do you not wear sandals?
Imagine how many cities and towns could get drinking water instead of creating a Green Lantern Corps
My company’s PR releases are….
Interesting.
Another dead 49er.
You think Dok is at the 49er game? Throwing bags of piss and shining laser lights at the Cowboys players bench.
If you replace “shining” with “shooting,” then most definitely.
I mean, be a shame to let perfectly good bags of piss go to waste…
Well, that certainly sheds even more light on to why Jay doesn’t like the rain.
Jaylon Smith is playing like a guy with two working legs. Progress!
/Ryan Shazier looks for downvote icon
Passing interference? Massive gaps in coverage? It’s like last season never ended.
When you said “passing interference” and “massive gaps in coverage” I thought you were talking about my cell service provider.
nice
2 dead 49ers in 1 quarter.
“That sounds about right.”
— Lead Prospector
170 year-old mining jokes? Nice.
“well done, cocksucker!” – Al S., Deadwood, SD
speaking of, Al’s gotta be a geographically relocated Jets or Stillers fan, yeah?
/noes footbaw wasn’t really a thing then, but work with me here
He was a dishonest fuck (far worse in real life than the series) who abused women and was generally a miserable SOB, so I’ve gotta say Steelers.
yeah, I gathered HBO took some liberties on the “lovable rogue” angle.
In the tradition of every cinematic western ever.
Except Rustler’s Rhapsody.
I guess 2 hours of nothin’ but blackout drinking and/or rape wouldn’t sell too many tickets
If you’ve never seen the RiffTraxx version, rectify that ASAP.
So Bengals maybe sort of good or Bears maybe sort of bad?
Early optimism!
Plot twist: Both are shit!
So who the hell else here is covered in a haze of yellow smoke? And not the fun kind.
Ours is more grey. Couldn’t see the high rises downtown today and I live very close.
Vegas is getting all the LA fires smoke. It’s making for unique sunrises.
The haze here is more like the color of a cheap ’70s sci-fi, b-movie and smells like ozone.
Weird red hazy sunset in L.A. at the beach today, and there is nothing but ocean out there. Smoke is coming from somewhere. I assumed it was Japan but maybe it’s closer.
Waste from Fukushima catching the ocean on fire. At this point we just need to accept the inevitable giant lizard rising out of the depths to curbstomp our coastal cities.
It is ok the earth is flat it will take the monster a long time to walk around.
And by then Space Force will be operational and we’ll all be saved. And then have cake.
[Starts leaving rotting fish carcasses throughout Carson, CA]
It was pretty weird here this afternoon. Didn’t smell like smoke, but odd “clouds”.