Saltmine U

We have our own zip code, for crying out loud, so you have to look at the campus map or directory to find the address you want.)  ---  Speaking of Saltmine U, I have to say that this last academic year has been rough. ...  My typical weekdays have looked like this:    4-4:30 a.m. - work out / panic that I've overslept and skip working out  4:30-5 - get ready for work / even greater panic because I've really overslept  5-6 - commute to work / drive in if I've overslept  6-8 - sort myself out, drink coffee, read and answer email, deal with any overnight crises  8-12 - meetings  12-1 - lunch  1-3:45 - design / more meetings  3:45-6 - commute home  6-10 - dinner with friends or family / cook dinner / work / collapse / work out if I missed it earlier  10-12 - wind down for the evening  Yes, that's four hours of sleep a night, roughly.

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a comment that really ought to be a post

So many things have to happen to make it in the arts (and by ‘arts,’ I mean all of them): You have to have the aptitude and talent for your art; you have to be disciplined enough to develop your skills; you have to get your ass in the chair and produce work; then you have to get your work seen; then you need to be able to follow through on deadlines and not shoot yourself in the foot by being a pain in the ass to work with; then you need to get paid well enough, and in a timely fashion; then you need either business sense, or enough common sense to hire someone you can trust to manage your business; you have to be able to keep on doing this for decades; and then you need to stay current, change, and grow artistically, in order to have a career, instead of being a fad. ... ™ And this idea that Real Artists™ are able to completely support themselves financially in every way, and have no worries, because they’re Just That Good and can turn jobs down… …well, that idea makes me stabby.

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Pantone changes PMS

To describe a color that you perceive as 'red, with a little blue in it, but not purple, but kind of dark, not a pastel,' is not only unwieldy, but another person looking at the same color will probably describe it differently. ... This is such a major tool that most designers have quite a few PMS colors memorized, and can give you a rough estimate of where a certain number will fall in the color spectrum; e.g., PMS 360-380 is the green-chartreuse range.

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so you need a typeface

The phone calls ran like this:   —The intranet's broken. —When you say, 'broken,' can you be more specific? —It doesn't work. —Okay, which bit isn't working, exactly? —I can't get to [obscure page that by uncanny chance, was only ever used by this person]. —Ah. ... I don't suppose you had a chance to read that email sent out a couple of weeks ago, in which we let you know that you'd need to upgrade your browser in order to use the new site, did you? —Oh.

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