Sunday, April 28, 2024

Remembering the Slide Rule

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This came up as a thread in the “Off-Topic Observatory” of the Cloudy Nights discussion board for amateur astronomers. People have all kinds...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

ChatGPT and the Historical Forms of Academic Dishonesty

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  In one criminology class, our professor said that 80% of people are honest 80% of the time; about 20% of the goods on the market have no c...
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Hermann Zapf on Alphabets

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Hermann Zapf's legacy remains today in the typefaces offered by Microsoft Word: Optima, Palatino, and Zapfino. Other platforms deliver M...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

HOW TO KEEP TEENAGERS FROM READING AYN RAND

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The Ayn Rand Institute created a guide book for high school teachers who want to bring Anthem into their classroom as an assigned reading. ...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Fossils and Stars

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FOSSILS AND STARS The Texas Science and Natural History Museum held its 85th anniversary birthday party on Sunday 21 January 2024 and we wer...
Sunday, February 11, 2024

Goudy by Bernard Lewis and Goudy in His Own Words

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Twice Frederic W. Goudy lost his life work to fires that destroyed his offices and workshops. Disheartening as they must have been, we have ...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Frederic W. Goudy by Peter Beilenson

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I wish that this story were more interesting. I am willing to believe that the life of Frederic W. Goudy was prosaic and yet could be made h...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Words into Type

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Sir Robert worked hard and well to make himself a king and then wanted to unite his realm under a single banner. So, he called his vassals i...
Saturday, January 13, 2024

LOST IN TRANSLATION

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Hola Yeah, mama was kill, but I record our child. I'll find appointment wait I'm in bed for stuff on your list and at Quadro qua de ...
Saturday, January 6, 2024

A Musical Joke

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I found the book by serendipity, misshelved among works on Typography in the UT Fine Arts Library. I brought it home and then opened it to r...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Books Read and Not Read in 2023

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This past summer, I read  The Left Hand of Darkness  and  The Dispossessed . I also read  The Time Machine ,  The Invisible Man , and  The W...