The rule of thumb for sign legibility is 1" character height = 40' visibility, i.e. 3" high lettering is legible up to 120'. Sans-serif fonts are more legible and most popular street / facility signage fonts are Helvetica, Frutiger, and Clearview. source: Mental Floss We got in around midnight last night (as evidenced by the "your Lyft driver is here" text at 11:45) and didn't wind down to sleep until after 1. Slept in til after 9. Unpacked, updated accounts registers and here I am. I finished 2 ... (...more)

Yesterday's fuel-up: 229.3 mi / 8.472 gal = 27.1 mpg

I figured something out about the AdvCap replay events... playing through replay events awards free Time Warp tokens that can be hoarded, presumably to spend en masse in a later event to help break into higher ranking tiers. My unthinking impulse has been to spend them during each event, once I unlock all the usual unlocks and upgrades, to unlock more MegaBuck exchanges. But at my stage of play, I've gilded all the Earth, Moon and Mars investments I'm ever going to - cashing a Time Warp to gain another Meg... (...more)

Finished binge-ing the Divergent trilogy this morning. Kind of eyebrow-raising how Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort starred in both "Divergent" (as Tris and Caleb) and "The Fault in Our Stars" (as Hazel and Augustus) in 2014. The story itself felt like wannabe derivative of Hunger Games: you've got your post-apocalyptic nation artificially segmented into "districts"/"factions". There's a readily-apparent failure of the central social artifice to deliver on its claims of stability and plenty. Nonetheless t... (...more)

Ever since I heard Louis Prima's "Shadrach" mixed in that electro swing mix I've been listening to a lot, it's been morphed and stuck in my head as "Vaprak, Mishnach and a wendigo". Because Vaprak, my main character in FFXI, named after the ogre and troll deity in Dungeons + Dragons. And wendigoes, undead foes based on the skeleton model, that appeared in a number of areas throughout the game. I was preoccupied a lot Thu into Fri with the impasse over where to move. We knew it was time, we agreed on poi... (...more)