Linky-linky [Some of everything, part 2]
Nov. 13th, 2008 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gerisullivanClick 1
A quirky bit about my computer illustrated the subject of a post in Miss Conduct's blog yesterday. I hadn't noticed the eight choices of gray/grey until resetting the background to minimize the possibility of embarrassment when we used my computer as the back-up for the slides in the Ig Nobel prize ceremony. No, I haven't a clue as to why they're all there. Something in my settings, no doubt.
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My friend Alice Sanvito has started a massage blog, Ask The Massage Therapist. I was pleased to find useful information about massage I can do to help relieve some of the achy bits associated with the bone in my foot that broke a dozen years ago. The blog is for both beginning and advanced massage therapists as well as folks who receive massage. Alice has been a massage therapist for 17 years, and continues to study and advance her knowledge. She studied Russian massage techniques...in Russia...and Cirque du Soleil hired her on the last time they performed in St. Louis. She knows her stuff and writes beautifully, too. Highly recommended.
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Typographer extraordinaire, good friend, and nice guy John D. Berry also has a blog, Easily Amused. John Boardley over at ilovetypography.com had a quick bit of fun with Photoshop in response to John's pre-election riff about the possibility being chosen Barack Obama's Minister of Typography. Scroll down for it, reading the other interesting stuff along the way, or pop over to Libertango's journal just to see the poster.
Last click du jour
I Love Typography pointed me at some beautiful letterpress cards made and sold by Typoretum in the UK. I was quickly reminded for the second time yesterday that I must immediately raise my impulse purchase resistance levels if I am to have a hope of maintaining the financial progress of the past several months through the shopping season ahead. In particular, I had two packs of these gorgeous red and gold notecards in an online shopping basket, ready to buy them to send to clients. It's a business expense, right? The dollar's doing better against the pound, right? They're gorgeous, and certainly worth the $3.50 or so each that they'd cost by the time I paid for shipping and PayPal's exchange fees.
And none of that meant I should buy them. I have perfectly suitable cards that I can send to clients already in inventory. Just because I wouldn't have to pay income or self-employment tax on the cards didn't mean it made financial sense to buy them. Better that I send that $35-40 to creditors to pay down debt, presuming I can scrape it up in the first place.
So it goes. I removed the cards from the shopping cart, and cheered the fact that I had done so. I'm pleased to share their beauty with you electronically instead. It will come across best if you've seen genuine letterpress work before, which many on my friends list have.
(I don't believe this needs to be said, but just in case, this is emphatically not a plea or hint for someone to get the cards for me. This is a celebration of their beauty and the fact that I had the good sense to resist temptation and pass them by. If they were to show up in my mailbox as a result of this post, that would make me less able to share similar experiences in the future. Thank you.)
A quirky bit about my computer illustrated the subject of a post in Miss Conduct's blog yesterday. I hadn't noticed the eight choices of gray/grey until resetting the background to minimize the possibility of embarrassment when we used my computer as the back-up for the slides in the Ig Nobel prize ceremony. No, I haven't a clue as to why they're all there. Something in my settings, no doubt.
Click 2
My friend Alice Sanvito has started a massage blog, Ask The Massage Therapist. I was pleased to find useful information about massage I can do to help relieve some of the achy bits associated with the bone in my foot that broke a dozen years ago. The blog is for both beginning and advanced massage therapists as well as folks who receive massage. Alice has been a massage therapist for 17 years, and continues to study and advance her knowledge. She studied Russian massage techniques...in Russia...and Cirque du Soleil hired her on the last time they performed in St. Louis. She knows her stuff and writes beautifully, too. Highly recommended.
Click 3 & 4 and/or 5
Typographer extraordinaire, good friend, and nice guy John D. Berry also has a blog, Easily Amused. John Boardley over at ilovetypography.com had a quick bit of fun with Photoshop in response to John's pre-election riff about the possibility being chosen Barack Obama's Minister of Typography. Scroll down for it, reading the other interesting stuff along the way, or pop over to Libertango's journal just to see the poster.
Last click du jour
I Love Typography pointed me at some beautiful letterpress cards made and sold by Typoretum in the UK. I was quickly reminded for the second time yesterday that I must immediately raise my impulse purchase resistance levels if I am to have a hope of maintaining the financial progress of the past several months through the shopping season ahead. In particular, I had two packs of these gorgeous red and gold notecards in an online shopping basket, ready to buy them to send to clients. It's a business expense, right? The dollar's doing better against the pound, right? They're gorgeous, and certainly worth the $3.50 or so each that they'd cost by the time I paid for shipping and PayPal's exchange fees.
And none of that meant I should buy them. I have perfectly suitable cards that I can send to clients already in inventory. Just because I wouldn't have to pay income or self-employment tax on the cards didn't mean it made financial sense to buy them. Better that I send that $35-40 to creditors to pay down debt, presuming I can scrape it up in the first place.
So it goes. I removed the cards from the shopping cart, and cheered the fact that I had done so. I'm pleased to share their beauty with you electronically instead. It will come across best if you've seen genuine letterpress work before, which many on my friends list have.
(I don't believe this needs to be said, but just in case, this is emphatically not a plea or hint for someone to get the cards for me. This is a celebration of their beauty and the fact that I had the good sense to resist temptation and pass them by. If they were to show up in my mailbox as a result of this post, that would make me less able to share similar experiences in the future. Thank you.)
