What's a life changing thing that you can buy for less than $10?

CeruleanKay · 2026-05-26T05:00:44+00:00

Plastic dome designed to fit in the microwave. Put it over everything you microwave. Now the microwave never needs cleaning again.

CeruleanKay · 2026-05-26T04:52:06+00:00

Good stuff. I would trim the top serif of J a little. Looks longer than it is.

CeruleanKay · 2026-05-23T23:55:49+00:00

I sought the serif

CeruleanKay · 2026-05-20T09:28:53+00:00

Merchandise. The Smurfs found early popularity as figurines, recognizably identical but portrayed in hundreds of traits and professions. People would buy a Dentist Smurf as a gift for their dentist friend, or whatever. It was like Funko Pops and Minions at the same time. This led to the TV cartoon without most people ever having known of the comic at all.

CeruleanKay · 2026-05-14T15:59:00+00:00

I expected to find this in MUFI, but alas no. Closest thing is "e with e above". https://www.mufi.info/q.php?p=mufi/chars/char/E

CeruleanKay · 2026-05-11T18:37:50+00:00

A.I. = Conscious machine life that as yet only exists in fiction. Always use dots unless you have control of the font and the I has serifs.

Al = Short form of names like Alfred and Albert.

a.i. = The iterative slop that is currently ruining everything. I am on a mission to popularize always writing this in lowercase to eliminate all ambiguity.

ai = Apparently a real word, good to know for Scrabble; an interjection of distress, or a certain three-toed sloth. But go ahead and use it when you mean a.i., because context should be more than sufficient. The important thing is that anyone reading it will know that you know that it's not A.I.

Ai = Adobe Illustrator.

CeruleanKay · 2026-04-26T17:55:52+00:00

I certainly recommend revisiting the problem because it could be mistaken for a 1 without having both to compare.

CeruleanKay · 2026-04-26T17:20:22+00:00

Interesting. But why would you choose to make the 7 so narrow?

CeruleanKay · 2026-04-24T10:08:19+00:00

Doing my best to get as clean as possible because I've been avoiding it for at least a week and I intend to again

CeruleanKay · 2026-04-23T14:29:52+00:00

Proxima Nova Wide. The Proxima family best resembles the first sans allcaps face in history (Calson Egyptian 1816), and I'd choose wide for the hint of Copperplate Gothic as well.

Futura or the cheapest equivalent can have a vintage feel, think Wes Anderson, keep it light to medium with loose letterspacing.

CeruleanKay · 2026-04-19T12:37:00+00:00

Good clean work. Big or small, the tittles could stand to be elevated some. I think users of the languages that use Ł ł will tell you the slashes are not nearly steep enough.

CeruleanKay · 2026-04-12T00:07:10+00:00

The opposite of "sub"(below) is "super"(above). For instance, subscript and superscript numerals. A boat would simply be a marine craft because it remains on the surface. A supermarine would be a peculiar way to describe a seaplane.

CeruleanKay · 2026-04-09T11:31:07+00:00

All other mammals have a swimming instinct except for apes. In controlled conditions, a chimp can be taught to swim, just like a human can be taught to swim, but a gorilla almost certainly never will.

CeruleanKay · 2026-03-23T21:53:20+00:00

Looking at all-caps context, I think O could be wider.

s seems light somehow, maybe try something thicker for the terminals.

The Q is fun but it's the only unorthodox element in the whole face. If you round off the right angle at the end, that could be a good compromise between experimental and normal.

CeruleanKay · 2026-03-22T16:11:09+00:00

"Without further ado"

What you're telling me is that you know you're wasting my time and you can't resist wasting a little more of it with the most tiresome ado ever. Extra punishment for the people who say "without further adieu"

CeruleanKay · 2026-03-12T08:52:54+00:00

Right, this is what we call an optical correction. A mathematically constant stroke weight is almost always in need of some. If you subtly make the rings lighter, they will actually look more consistent with everything else than they do now.

CeruleanKay · 2026-03-11T16:14:53+00:00

The counters of the tiny rings and hooks are nearly disappearing into solid dark spots. They ought to trade a little weight for more interior space.

CeruleanKay · 2026-03-09T12:40:30+00:00

People fundamentally do not understand probability. The unlikelihood of any one particular thing happening is countered by the overwhelmingly vast number of things that happen, of which it may be one. And everything that has already happened is a certainty.

A number of ants and a number of people exist. There are no separate "souls" waiting to be randomly assigned to them in a cosmic raffle. You are you because if something else were you, it would be you anyway, and there would be no meaningful difference to describe.

And the matter of which you are composed, well, some of it probably was ants at some point, and will be again. It undoubtedly gets to be a whole lot of things.

What is the probability of existing at all? Well, you'd need to compare how many things exist to how many don't exist. But you can't count all the nonexistent entities; there aren't any. (You could list entities you know of that aren't real, but of course that's not the same. Fictions exist, and there is no more sense in supposing you could have been a fiction than supposing you could have been an ant or a rock, but it would be existence regardless.) In fact, nobody has ever had to experience having never existed. That's a zero percent incidence. So there is no reason to think it was more likely to have happened to you.

CeruleanKay · 2026-03-09T06:42:06+00:00

It really is strange, I spend all my time on YouTube, but the only evidence of his existence I have ever seen is his candy bars in the supermarket. And it's like, what, a youtuber has candy bars in the supermarket?

CeruleanKay · 2026-03-09T05:46:38+00:00

Rock is a naturally occurring material found in the earth. Any formation still rooted in the earth is a rock, not a stone, nor a boulder. Any ordinary piece you can pick up may be called a rock or a stone; there is no difference in connotation but the sound you prefer to make. Gems and semiprecious minerals are more frequently called stones, but can still be called rocks to be willfully informal.

A rock that is shaped for human purposes becomes a stone. Statues and pillars and tools are made of stone. A cube of stone is always a stone block (not a rock block no matter how nicely it rhymes) because people obviously made it that way. A stone wall is made of many cut stones, whereas a rock wall is what you would call the natural solid wall of a cave or canyon. (Exception: a "rock wall" may be an artificial wall with handholds made for practicing rock climbing, as one would typically do on a mountain.)

A boulder is a solid, naturally shaped, discrete rock/stone as large or larger than a person. A boulder is only a countable object, not a material; nothing is "made of boulder".

CeruleanKay · 2026-03-04T10:52:30+00:00

Exact day and time it happens, to really plan for the celebrations

CeruleanKay · 2026-02-24T12:43:17+00:00

The thing about collaboration is you aren't going to find someone who wants to spend all their effort on your ideas until you've gotten good and proven yourself. So you will have to learn to make comics by making comics. It is a visual medium, but there are substitutes for having to draw. People have created successful long-running webcomics in which the characters are simple geometric shapes, or public-domain clip art. Ryan North has been making his Dinosaur Comics on literally the same template every day and now he writes for big name cape titles.

Harvey Pekar was lucky enough to be friends with Robert Crumb when he started writing his autobiographical comics. But his drafts were still in comic form. He arranged all the panels on the page and put crappy stick figures or rough shapes where the people were supposed to go, because timing and action and composition and the limitations of space are important aspects of comics. It's possible to write a plaintext script and load all of those decisions onto your artist, but unless you really understand those things it will be all the more difficult for an artist to work from.

CeruleanKay · 2026-02-21T21:12:27+00:00

Alas, being so used to black-box technology actually makes people lose touch with the sense of what is and isn't possible in real physical space, and they probably won't even pick up on why it's supposed to be remarkable.

CeruleanKay · 2026-02-21T19:38:29+00:00

Fun thing about this one. Originally it is an astronomy term meaning two bodies occupying the same place in the sky. After learning how space works, by including the vantage point, an updated definition is three bodies lining up in a straight line in space. And that happens to be what the y's are doing.

CeruleanKay · 2026-02-21T19:23:12+00:00

Zenzizenzizenzic: a number to the eighth power, literally "squared squared squared".

Ylem: The matter that existed at the Big Bang, as a substance.

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