mornings

or, The Glamorous Germanic Life of An American Girl In Berlin — Part I Some strange radio ad that sounds like a creepy nightmare. This is the first thing I hear in the morning, since 1) the normal clock alarm scares the crap out of me, 2) I changed the station from BBC because I [...]

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when my love of seattle meets my nerdiness for fonts

Found this blog entry from someone today about Verdana + Seattle: http://www.seattlerepresent.com/culture/what-font-is-named-after-seattle/ It turns out the font Verdana is actually named, or perhaps inspired by the city of Seattle. The font, which was designed for the Microsoft corporation, was named Verdana because of the combination of the adjective verdant and the name Ana. Verdant means [...]

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f#*&ing offend me, if you please

Last week I read an article from Seattle in the NY Times about the indie-hip rock star conservative pastor of Mars Hill Church, Mark Driscoll, long a thorn in the side of liberal Christians. The article was entitled “Who Would Jesus Smack Down?” and talked about Driscoll’s unorthodox methods of condemning sin through shocking sermon [...]

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