Steve Harvey’s insensitive joke about Asian men didn’t offend me. I heard worst as a kid. I just find it ironic for a Black man to be dismissive about race. He should understand the pain of racism unless he has forgotten about Black history. Even if he’s not a racist, being ignorant about another smaller minority group makes him a racial bully. Chinese is not the only Asian population. Think before you joke.
During his eight years in the White House — in a noisy era of information overload, extreme partisanship and knee-jerk reactions — books were a sustaining source of ideas and inspiration, and gave him a renewed appreciation for the complexities and ambiguities of the human condition.
I can’t wait to read his memoirs in the near future.
Wasted two hours this morning in court and ended up losing the case for the speeding ticket. Even though I presented my evidence and made the case, the judge took the cop’s position over me. What more can I do? He did reduce to a $40 fine plus court fees. It was a learning experience and will help me prepare for the next time.
I hope I won’t get another ticket in my life, but how can I avoid it if the cops are out there to get me? I also find that some cops are hypocrites too. They have no problem stopping you for small mistakes even though they don’t follow the law themselves. I have seen several times when the cops flashed their lights to get pass the red light and turned them off like nothing happened. They made u-turns when the sign indicates no u-turn. They don’t stop at the stop sign and yet they would have no problem stopping us for stopping at a stop sign a second too fast.
As long as I am on the road, this is what I have to deal with. I am not going to let them get to me. I have earned the maximum of 5 safe driving points in Virginia so my record is still pretty good.
Jokes were a superior way to tell the truth—that meant freedom for everyone.
But by 2016 the wheel had spun hard the other way: now it was the neo-fascist strongman who held the microphone and an army of anonymous dirty-joke dispensers who helped put him in office. Online, jokes were powerful accelerants for lies—a tweet was the size of a one-liner, a “dank meme” carried farther than any op-ed, and the distinction between a Nazi and someone pretending to be a Nazi for “lulz” had become a blur. Ads looked like news and so did propaganda and so did actual comedy, on both the right and the left—and every combination of the four was labelled “satire.”
David Remnick on John Lewis:
The sacrifices that Lewis has made for his country and for the cause of justice are manifest in the scars on his skull. It is a safe bet that he will not be wounded by any tweet. And there are those who know well what he has done to advance the cause of justice and human rights.
Take that! You ignorant piece of shit.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Einstein’s book clears the muddying of advertising and editorial content. She delves into native advertising and provides real case studies to help us differentiate sponsored messages and actual content. With the increase of fake news and online tracking, we are being advertised and manipulated to death. This book is an informing and important read even if you are not in the ad industry.
In her second Netflix special, Kirkman delivers both style and substance. From period to Jesus, meditation to abortion, and fingering to catcalling, she is brutally honest and sarcastically hilarious. An enjoyable watch.
David Jonathan Ross just released his hyper-stylized typeface called Fit, which designed for maximum impact. He shares:
I drew Fit with an expansive range of widths…. Beginning with the impossibly narrow Skyline style, each character grows by 3600% (on average) to reach the gargantuan Ultra Extended. In between these ridiculous extremes, you will find a family rich in panache and expressive potential.
One of the exciting things about Fit is the support for Vietnamese right from the start. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to contribute my input into the Vietnamese diacritics. Because Fit is such a unique typeface, incorporating legible Vietnamese accents while maintaining its proportion was one of the challenges.
Although Fit is not meant to be read, David has done an excellent job of making the Vietnamese accents as clear as possible. One of my favorite accents he drew was the tilde. The first time he showed me it was barely unrecognizable as a tilde. I suggested a solution, but it was not so great. Then he came up with design that is not only legible but also fitting.
It was such a great pleasure collaborating with David on this typeface. He did all the designs. I just provided my advice. When David asked me what would be the use case for Fit and I immediately thought of old Vietnamese vinyl records. As a result, I redesigned old vinyl records using his new typeface. If you design Vietnamese album covers or Vietnamese entertainment marketing materials, make sure to include Fit in your font collection.
Thanks to David for letting me to be part of this stellar typeface. I am looking forward to working with him in the future. I would love to see Turnip and Fern support Vietnamese.
Ở nhà dạo này rất nhiều tiếng la hét. Vợ hét chồng. Chồng hét con. Con lớn hét con nhỏ. Con nhỏ hét lại con lớn. Cha mẹ hét nhau. Nói không ai thèm nghe cả nên phải hét. Đánh thì tội nên hét. Hôm Chủ Nhật vợ nói mình không nên hét nhau nữa nhưng rồi cũng không làm được. Hai thằng lớn nói nhỏ nhẹ không bao giờ nghe. Mấy tháng nay công việc quá căng thẳng nên về nhà tôi cũng dễ nóng giận. Nhiều lần tự đè nén lại nhưng cũng không được. Sẽ cố gắng.
Hôm Chủ Nhật tôi muốn đưa ba đứa đi mall chơi nhưng hai thằng lớn không đi. Thế thì tôi chỉ đi với thằng Xuân. Thấy nó chơi ở playground rồi ngồi trên xe lửa hớn hở làm tôi nhớ lại kỷ niệm của hai thằng anh lớn. Mới đây mà chúng nó đã không còn chơi như ngày xưa nữa chỉ lúc nào cũng muốn iPad. Những ngày cuối tuần mở mắt ra câu đầu tiên là iPad. Nói nó để từ từ đánh răng ăn sáng xong rồi chơi làm chúng bắt đầu la hét. Khi được chơi bảo tắt thì cũng nổi điên. Tôi muốn dẹp hết cho xong thế mà mẹ nó lại chơi thêm một cái iPad mới.
Thằng Xuân thì chưa biết chơi iPad nên cũng đỡ. Bây giờ hai cha con đi chơi với nhau cũng vui là gì nó dễ ăn. Cái gì nó cũng ăn được không kén chọn. Nó cho tôi lại những cảm giác lúc hai đứa kia còn nhỏ. Bây giờ còn nhỏ thì hơi cực nhưng mai mốt lớn mới mệt.
Giờ nghe những chuyện con cái ở tuổi thanh thiếu niên khiến tôi thật lo âu. Tương lai không biết chúng nó ra sao. Tôi không mong mỏi điều gì cả. Miễn không lầm đường lạc bước là tôi vui rồi. Cũng không cần giàu sang, không cần nổi tiếng, không cần ông này ông nọ. Chỉ cần tụi nó có được một cuộc sống bình thường là tôi mãn nguyện rồi.