9 posts tagged “joco”
I've been a little distracted lately. Work has sucked hard this week and I'd been unable to go to my mail drop until today. There were loads of packages waiting for me; I've been ordering stuff off eBay for my various and sundry projects and also Boca Java had sent me another dubiously welcome crate of chai mix. Does anyone want some goddamn chai? I have too much now.
Anyhow, I get home and put my feet up when I get a call from my doctor. Last week's drama of using my vacation time to shuttle back and forth between diagnostic tests has finally ended, they found a cyst and a polyp, they'll have to be watched, blah blah further look into the polyp... oh and then my doc drops the bomb--she's retiring, effective IMMEDIATELY. As in, on Monday I have to find someone else to take me and my medical baggage on and discuss treatment options. My monkey is not pleased.
Anyhow so I spend the rest of the evening angsting and don't even bother to open my packages until right now. I got through my jewelry stuff and realized I ordered the wrong damn size for one set of stones and it's too late to return it because it's been sitting in my mailbox too long. Rargh! The last package is a large one, which I thought would be the sets of sapphire beads I ordered from that new vendor and I had literally ripped open one side of the box before I noticed that the return address said "Coulton".
Kind of amazing. :) I am greatly cheered. Thank you thankyouthankyou JoCo!
And sent off to Scarface this afternoon. I had muchel debate over which T-shirt sets to print this for, but decided that geeks would probably like the color range of the dark T-shirts the best, and so that is the plan now. It actually looks surprisingly good on the women's violet and Caribbean blue, and dashing on the reds for both men's and women's.
BONUS: here's a preview of what the shirts will look like, depending on which color you choose. Violet and light blue are women's only, red and black are for both, and the rest are men's only (why they have so little overlap between the two sets is beyond me).
Oh yeah, I went there again. Slightly more palatable not-quite-food-pr0n shot.
Don't ask me why the kumquats are involved. Never ask why kumquats are involved.
And with what was left of my energy, I spent it on preparing soup with homemade egg noodles and canned alphabet pasta.
Yeah, I went there. I went right there and I came all the way back. :) I apologize for the ugly flash; I'd redo the picture but my camera battery died right after I took this. *sigh*
It took a shit ton of searching on the Cafepress site to finally find the explicit answer to my question, but they won't print white on light-color shirts like they will for black. WTF, can't they just cram all the info on printing into one easy-to-read table instead of spending five paragraphs explaining what dpi is and then slipping in a single sentence about not printing white?
Anyhow, either I need to adjust my image to use on the dark-colored shirts, or use the original colored background on a white shirt--the latter of which will force me the shrink the size of the characters, which is less fun for everyone. I really liked the idea of having the sky be the shirt color because I think it brings out the Mandelbrot cloud quite nicely. On the flip side, I imagine that the wear and tear rate for the design on a white background is less than that on a dark one, where all the colors have to have white in them--but then that just means you have to buy another one sooner, eh?
I snapped this photo for the JoCo Flickr project since the sky today had enough clouds to show some color...
For something more season-neutral I can go to Ocean Beach and get an impressive vista of the rocks and the waves. I'm still on the mend from an infection so I think I'd rather go with Fox and have the luxury of him driving me while I nap on the way back and forth.
I also have soup cans at the ready for the "soup with noodles" bit, hopefully also to be done this weekend. As much as I would love to have an excuse to make some fancy-shmancy udon or make ramen á la Tampopo, I've decided instead to opt for the cheap-shot joke. You'll see.
The iPod nano: I asked for a red one. :) And to have it signed. I'm not sure how exactly JoCo is going to sign it, but he really should have not mentioned the whole "if you want to ruin the beautiful finish" thing because to someone like me, that's just an invitation. I already have my workhorse 80G Classic, so this one's going to be my test subject for some mods. I don't ordinarily have an urge to mod my electronics because I see them as tools and my workbench mindset prefers stark functionality for everything in the "tool" category. This, however, has crossed over into the "accessory" category and is therefore fair game. Don't be surprised if I end up enameling the case and hacking the menu to give me options in Quenya.
So this was supposed to be a post about the construction of my outfit for DGXV since I have some pics of it in decent lighting now but I just opened up my email and found a message from Jonathan Coulton... I just won the T-shirt contest! Holy freaking crap! I haven't even replied to him yet because if I answer now I'll be all OMGASDHJDFJHDFJALKH and that's kind of a bad first impression. When I get up from my chair I will be doing a jig all the way back to the lab.
ETA: okay, it looks like I'm just going to have to email him now because I have 1200 pages worth of paperwork sitting on my desk waiting to be released (I wish I was kidding). I'm not sure if I'm going to go home tonight, period. Eek.
But winning is still awesome!
ETAA: well, someone forgot to fill out the co11 0020 form for every last one of the batch records. I think my boss is supposed to do those now, but anyhow obviously someone totally missed the ball before handing me a two foot high stack of manila folders and I can't finish releasing any of this stuff until whoever is supposed to do it does it. It took me two hours to get to the point where I could find this out and by then I'd missed the last campus shuttle... I walked home and stopped at Whole Foods for some delicious spinach orzo salad. Now I'm tired and want to go to bed. And when I get up I'll have to go back to work. I still haven't replied to JoCo. I hate my job.
But winning is STILL AWESOME.
And there you go.
I decided to keep the colors relatively flat to save my sanity, and also, it just seems to look better that way with these colors. The teal background could be substituted with any other typical pastel shirt colors on cafepress or the such, hopefully.
Annnnnd this is where I start raging against not having my manual kerning. If this design does go to press I would like a chance to redo the letter spacing on this font. But you get the idea, and now i have to go to slee-I mean get ready for work.
