x-height letters & xylophone tones

i like design and hip-hop.

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when i was in college i had a habit of getting drunk and buying useless shit on the internet.

[only1600kids]

[midtown120blues-deactivated2018]

to: [email protected]

subject: what the fuck

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[transitmaps]

Historical Map: 1977 MBTA Guidelines and Standards Manual - Graphics

A page from the 1977 MBTA Standards Manual showing the specifications for a map panel as installed at the entrance level of a station, using Kendall inbound as an example. Signage much like this can still be seen across most of the rapid transit network.

Interestingly, there’s no Kickstarter campaign to reissue this particular standards manual, perhaps because it wasn’t created by a famed Italian modernist designer and is typeset in the most basic manner possible, but there’s no shortage of fascinating information available in it: the PANTONE colours used for each of the rapid transit lines, for example, or why there’s no Yellow Line (the colour was reserved for bus services). Best of all, the PDFs are available for download from the MBTA’s website (Part 2 contains the graphics standards pages if that’s all you’re interested in).

Part 1 (8.5MB PDF)

Part 2 (9.3MB PDF)

Part 3 (9.6MB PDF)

[flyartproductions]

Tragedy is mad

Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy (1760), Joshua Reynolds / Sweatpants, Childish Gambino

[eelwithagun]

[spaceintruderdetector]

Compass computer for GRiD Systems. Designed by Bill Moggridge. Palo Alto, CA, 1982

[0p9]

that time nobody appreciated my jokes

[0p9]

texts from dad.

[kremlin]

[sciencefictioninterfaces]

More information http://4archive.org/g/res/42590842

“Spacecrafts use software to provide an interface to the astronauts. There’s a training version of this very software which simulates a flight. It’s what you see in the OP pic. It looks like some 1337 haX0r software since it’s been develeoped in the 60ies until at least 2002.”

[isabelaesthete]

[0p9]

what a fuckin grid

[mulaners-deactivated20160201]

[tiredgaywerewolf-blog]

Cat Mechanic : I’m actually called a Vet

Me : please check that there is enough oil in my cats engine

[teashoesandhair]

can we bang

Welsh is an interesting language, because there are multiple ways of saying ‘no’ depending on the frame of the question. If the question is asked to an individual in the present tense, for example, the grammatically correct refusal response would be different to the negative response directed at a question framed in the past tense. This is because the answer should use the relevant form of the questioning verb.

Some examples:

Wyt ti’n hoffi Eastenders? (Do you like Eastenders?)Ydw / nac ydw (yes / no - literally ‘I am [liking]’ and ‘I am not [liking]’)

Oeddet ti’n yn y stiwdio neithiwr? (Were you in the studio last night?)Oeddwn / nac oeddwn (literally ‘I was’ and ‘I was not’)

Ydy hi’n oer yn dy galon? (Is it cold in your heart?)Ydy / nag ydy (’it is’ / ‘it is not’)

Oes urddas ‘da fe? (Does he have dignity?)Oes / nac oes (’there is’ / ‘there is not’ - the literal translation of the question is ‘is there dignity with him?’ as this is the form of the possessive verb taken in Welsh grammatical structures, and so the response is formed accordingly)

Colloquially, affirmation or refusal can be expressed generically with ‘ie’ and ‘na’ (or ‘nage’), but these are not technically grammatically correct in every instance.

So, if I were to respond to your question using correct Welsh grammar, I would respond ‘ni allwn’. If I were to refuse to deign your query with an accurate response, I might say ‘na’, or alternatively I could fix you with a glare accompanied by a stony silence and the constant sound of a clock ticking in the background, marking down the seconds since you misplaced your dignity and counting down the moments left until it expires completely. It’s up to you; what emphasis do you place on grammatical nuance?

[horseysurprise-blog]

[firedrill]

[0p9]