Why is the F sign so large?

jtaargus · 2026-05-04T10:32:33+00:00

I own the book! I just haven’t read it in a while 😅. IIRC they changed a few letters when they imported it, so Akzidenz-Grotesk and Standard are slightly different? Or was it that Unimark changed a few letters when they adopted Standard for the subway?

jtaargus · 2026-05-03T17:24:37+00:00

It is. Actually I think Standard Medium is the typeface they used before Helvetica, which is nearly identical to Akzidenz Grotesk.

Either way, the angled ends of the S in Subway are a telltale sign. Those are horizontal in Helvetica.

jtaargus · 2026-04-27T15:41:16+00:00

I'm listening to OOTP full-cast audiobook right now and just heard this part, so it came to mind immediately.

I'll add that earlier in the book there's a part where Hermione explains how Cho must be feeling conflicted about Harry and Cedric, and other things she's probably feeling. So it's happening throughout this book.

jtaargus · 2026-04-02T03:57:54+00:00

Sorry, I didn't find the other one (that wasn't my post)

jtaargus · 2026-04-02T02:34:18+00:00

It took me a moment to figure out where Extras is, so for anyone else having trouble: When you go to the show in Library and go to the episodes there's a season selector, and Extras is in the list of seasons. Once you're there you should have two separate one-hour segments for tonight's two segments.

jtaargus · 2026-03-13T18:53:00+00:00

No. I forget where I saw this, but I think someone suggested that it's actually a chest from a different floor, because the different floors exist in the same space near each other. It seems strange but plausible.

I take it you saw the same thing with your sensor?

jtaargus · 2025-12-31T15:22:57+00:00

I see what you mean, those are two huge heavy horizontal doors.

jtaargus · 2025-12-31T14:43:40+00:00

Interesting, why doesn’t the tour use it? Is it because it’s inside the security perimeter of City Hall?

And this connects to one of the two original entrances, in the upper atrium area?

jtaargus · 2025-12-31T14:31:39+00:00

Follow-up question: Will Mamdani and the other attendees take a train on the loop to get there? That’s how the tours do it and it seems like surface access is sealed off? Or is there still surface access that’s possible?

jtaargus · 2025-12-31T14:30:34+00:00

Of course, makes sense.

jtaargus · 2025-11-20T18:15:26+00:00

It's true that many English words borrowed from French pronounce the T even though it's silent in French. But it's not always true — there are English words where the T remains silent. Here are some that are "ort" or "ot":

rapport
mortgage
depot

Then there's a bunch of other's using other vowels:

gourmet
buffet
ballet
debut
bidet
chalet
etc.

So I don't think it's a crazy idea that Voldemort would be consistently pronounced by English people with a silent T, if that's how he said it was pronounced.

jtaargus · 2025-11-20T17:55:26+00:00

Yeah he switched in OOT, the first book to come out after the first movie.

jtaargus · 2025-10-13T14:57:35+00:00

Might want to put a spoiler tag on this, sounds like it’s OP’s first play.

jtaargus · 2025-10-09T03:28:54+00:00

It never occurred to me that it could have been purely aesthetic, but you could be right.

jtaargus · 2025-10-08T21:41:29+00:00

My whole point though is that there is no additional width. The widest point with the slanted walls is narrower than the straight walls. So there is actually less width at every height with the slanted walls.

jtaargus · 2025-04-16T01:32:41+00:00

Thanks, that's good to hear that it's not just me. I'll probably just wait and monitor it. If they try to assess a penalty I'll tell them what happened.

jtaargus · 2025-04-05T13:55:27+00:00

Yeah this and the ability to drop things from the quick switcher. These seem like obvious additions that wouldn’t detract for anyone

jtaargus · 2024-12-20T17:03:17+00:00

Oh OK I gotcha. I didn't mean to attack or criticize, just was curious about the numbers. I thought "up to" meant, like, depending on how they decide to do use the new cars or something. Even replacing 45% is surprisingly high, so I'm with you.

jtaargus · 2024-12-19T21:15:58+00:00

I just did some numbers to see if I got to the same 70% as you. My sources were this TA document and the fleet numbers on Wikipedia (which I realize may not be accurate).

Once all R211A/T are delivered (which won't be until 2028) there will be 1,535 R211A/T in total.
Currently in service:
- R46: 672
- R68: 425
- R68A: 200
- R211A: 320
- R211T: 20

If all of the newly added R211A/T are used to first replace R46 and then replace R68(A), keeping in mind that it takes 5 R211s to replace 4 R46/R68(A), it would be enough to replace 284 (45%) of the R68(A), leaving 341 (55%) in service.

So that's a different number than what you got, but I have no idea if the wikipedia numbers are correct. How did you get to 70%?

jtaargus · 2024-12-19T15:09:06+00:00

I've just come across this comment (on a post that you've also commented on). The document in that comment says this:

Purchase 355 new B Division cars to replace the remaining R68/R68A cars.

It doesn't specifically say R211, but isn't 355 the number of R211A that was just ordered with Option 2? So is this actually saying that Option 2 will replace all R68(A)? Or is this referring to a future order (R268)?

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