And were color coded by film type.

As a woodworker I've always regretted loaning my board stretcher to a neighbor, because he lost it.

My daughter, a nurse, complains that they are always out of neck tourniquets at the emergency room.

An old printer's trick was to get the new printer's devil (assistant) to look close in a dusty type case for type lice. Then bend down and look really close -- just as a blast of air from a bellows caused dust to cover his face.

The "User Text" example also shows the result of an Open Type font and the use of an Open Type savvy program.

Note the "Th" of This, the "st" in test, and the "of" are different character designs than those in the abcde... lines. That is the result of the option to use "contextural alternates" being turned on and alternate connecting character combinations be substituted.

As a printer for over 50 years, I like to refer to unique fonts as the "spice" that adds interest to typography just as spices add varying flavor to foods.

Font designers often use the "carrot" of a free font to get you to look at their other designs. It may be just one of an extended family of various weights, widths, and style that hopefully you will be enticed into buying.

Admittedly the fonts offered in the link you gave have limited but also very valid used to convey a mood for a project, whether it be a business card, rock concert poster, or a product label.

Good fonts are the result of an idea and a skill set to move that idea and art into a font. We use fonts every day but think little of them. Designers choose them very carefully to convey a message and perception about a product in advertising. A correct font for a book will allow for hours of reading without eye stress. You use an entirely different set of fonts to promote a plumber than the local lingerie shop!

It takes the skill of a Da Vinci to to create a successful font, whether it be something like the ubiquitous Arial or the most ornate script. If Arial wasn't well designed, we would have difficulty reading it and notice inconsistencies in the design. If the Script isn't well done it will make us feel like something isn't quite right but we may not know why.

The whole essence of typography is conveying the thought and feeling without the reader even noticing the font that was used.

The True Type Font (.ttf) is a result of Microsoft and Apple not wanting to pay royalties on Adobe's Type One fonts. First released in the early 90s, it quickly became the defacto standard for computer use -- but it had it's limits. The number of characters in the font was limited and additional fonts were needed for alternate characters, foreign characters, etc.

Over the last ten years, newer Open Type fonts (.otf) have taken over the market with their possibility of containing nearly unlimited characters and typographic variations -- limited only by your computer's memory and programs that can handle them. Some of those fonts are most likely on your computer right now and you don't notice them, but they are automatically used to display foreign languages and oriental texts.

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It's also why you add glycerine to to bubble blowing solution. Solutions with more glycerine do not "dry" as quickly and thus last longer -- and you can usually blow larger bubbles when the air is dry.

We have a range of cast iron skillets from 8" to 14" hanging on the wall rack. That covers everything except when a restaurant style egg pan is needed for a "low-fat over-easy egg." That is in contrast to "farm style" where there is the grease from the pound of bacon you just cooked to "float" the eggs in!

The main benefit of cast iron is that you can actually fry in it like using a grill at a restaurant -- an impossibility in a Teflon coated skillet. You can also "finish" something in the oven without worry -- or use one to bake some cornbread.

The cast iron when well seasoned is easy to clean up -- first wipe out excess grease with a paper towel, than swish clean under running hot water -- no soap! -- then back on the stove top to dry before going back on the rack. If something is really stuck on, fill with water and set it back on the stove to simmer a bit or use a nylon scrubber -- nothing more abrasive or you will remove the "seasoning" layer and you have to season the pan again.

Don't buy the modern Lodge and other brands, head to flea markets and garage sales looking for Griswold, Wagner or othere brands that are machined smooth and polished on the interior.

Of course, if you have one of those glass top stoves, cast iron isn't an option. As a side benefit you don't need a second set of pans for cooking over a campfire. We'll be doing just that when feeding about 50 family members at a campground in July.

The story of the W. Virginia sheriff reminded me of a central Kansas County Judge when I was growing up. Gladys was elected over and over and was well respected especially for her handling of cases involving youth. But the one thing that he had no tolerance for was drunken driving. It was well known that if you got picked up after 2:00 in the afternoon on Friday that you would be staying at the county jail until 10:00 on Monday when her court opened. Her instructions were that there was no bail for that offense and no exceptions.

A Kansas City businessman was traveling Highway 54 and was stopped and charged with drunken driving and transporting an open container. He was taken to the county jail and informed that he would be there until court opened on Monday. He was irate and called his lawyer who tried to get bail set by other judges, but to no avail. In court Monday he was fined the maximum amount plus some additional for contempt of court because of his language. He paid by check and was on his way.

But evidently he hadn't learned a thing — he stopped payment on the check!

A long holiday weekend was coming up, so Gladys waited and issued a bench warrant for contempt of court and had him picked up at work on Friday and transported back to her court. On Tuesday, he was hit again with full fines for contempt of court, transportation expenses, court costs and the additional proviso that all fines would be paid in cash and that he would remain in jail until the fines were paid. Once the fines were paid he was free again — but 275 miles from home — and no vehicle.

To blow the mind a bit further, consider what these three raw bytes of information are actually recording for each pixel. An 8-bit depth can record 256 levels of intensity of a color. With the three colors of light (RGB), that amounts to 16,777,216 possible colors for an individual pixel. The human eye can differentiate only a small fraction of those colors — that's why JPEG compression, even high JPEG compression, works just fine for most applications.

A pixel defines an area of the sensor and ultimately to a corresponding area on the viewing screen or print, not the color value of the area. The light and color information recorded for that "pixel" unit of the sensor can be as simple as on/off (black and white) or as detailed a color and intensity value as the sensor is capable of recording. This capability is referred to as "bit depth," referring to how many bits it takes to store the information for each "pixel" of the sensor.

From there it becomes pure math. Currently a a byte of storage space is comprised of eight bits. So a 10mg pixel sensor recording an RGB 8-bit depth would be: 10mg sensor x 1 byte (8-bit depth) x 3 (RGB) equals a 30 megabyte file before compression and the addition of the file header information.

Larger sensor sizes and higher bit depths just make the final storage requirements larger. Thank goodness for the skillful people who write the lossless file compression algorithms!

The key word here is uncompressed.

I thought about that when I mentioned "shades of grey" in my post, but decided not to go there — it takes too many megabytes!

As mentioned in several comments, the camera sensor density isn't a 1:1 ratio to the output file because several variables come into play. At the most simple level each sensor would only record black or white and each sensor could be recorded by one bit (0 or 1 [off/on] in computer terms). But we aren't satisfied with that we want shades of grey 8-16-32-64-128-etc.
Here we encounter how the computer stores information -- each byte is composed of 8 bits and 256 levels can be described per byte. But we are not satisfied with that – we want color, and that usually means three (RGB) and the full raw file size in bytes just tripled the number of cells on your camera sensor plus the file header that stores information about the photo.
Physically handling this huge amount of information is possible but we are impatient creatures and want it done instantly. Thus, camera makers use various systems to compress the file without losing any information. For example if a string eight sensors report the same color value then the file can say "repeat this value eight times" using fewer bytes than repeating the complete information eight times. Multiply this many thousands of time in a file and the space savings can be significant. All of the information is still there, but it just takes up less space and is faster to process but is still a lossless format.
This is in contrast to JPEG files where adjacent pixels are analyzed based on the quality level chosen and are permanently changed to an average color that can then be stored in a more compact form making the final file size much smaller.
The debate will go on about which system to use and sensors will continue to increase in density but it all boils down to what level of quality is actually necessary for the final use rather than fostering what in many cases is just bragging rights.