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By spacejack (Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 05:27:01 PM EST) Parkdale, Mixed Case (all tags)

Parkdale sketch #6, in defense of Mixed Case.

There's a bird's nest in one of the unused doorways of our building:

It's a little hard to see the bird, but this is very realistic, because the bird is hard to see in real life too. Fortunately there's an arrow to help point it out.

In Defense of Mixed Case

i think the all-lower-case advocates are communists. if you think about it, under their system, no letter may ever strive to be any taller than the others. the only exceptions are the ruling elites: b, d, f, etc. these letters never earned their height, they were merely born into tallness. and look at what happened to i and j. these two letters were beheaded for attempting to rise up; to be different.

Now let's look at the Mixed Case system. Here, ALL letters get their chance to shine. Sure, some letters are more frequently capitalized than others, but that's only because they provide a better product for which there is more demand. Under this system, the best, most hard-working letters rise to the top, naturally, but all letters are given a fair chance. Mixed-case letters lead freer, happier, more fulfilling lives.

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I AM A REPUBLICAN AND I ENDORSE ALL UPPER CASE! by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #1 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 05:35:35 PM EST

Really, all $whatever case simply indicates a lazy mental attitude -- or childish trendiness.

Sadly, I'm not liking this rendering as much. Overworked methinks. Not that I could do half as well mind.
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There is absolutely no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
Kha-Nyou

CAPITALIST! by spacejack (4.00 / 1) #2 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 05:42:39 PM EST

I kind of agree on the drawing... though I thought the biggest problem was that the bird is completely lost and even the nest doesn't really stand out at all.

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: Brush and ink by calla (2.00 / 0) #21 Sat Jul 01, 2006 at 02:11:47 AM EST

will do that to your work.
Typically, I'll use brush and ink for the dominant objects in my drawing, then use a regular fine point pen for the lesser objects.
It helps add depth.
Give it a try - you don't have to be a brush pen purist.
"Are Linux chicks worth it?" fencepost
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Surely by yicky yacky (4.00 / 2) #3 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 05:42:40 PM EST

All-Upper-Case == Champagne socialist rather than rebuplican.

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Done.
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: And by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #5 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 06:30:40 PM EST

stop
calling
me
Shirley.

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There is absolutely no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
Kha-Nyou
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Do you really by ad hoc (4.00 / 1) #4 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 06:06:14 PM EST

work in the Milky Way?
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Close friendships and a private room can offer most of the things love does.

Indeed by spacejack (4.00 / 1) #7 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 07:29:59 PM EST

Both the galaxy, and the alleyway that runs beside our building. Although I'm only working in the alley when times are really tough.

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I got no time for private consultation ... by Ignore Amos (4.00 / 1) #12 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 08:49:19 PM EST

... under the Milky Way tonight.

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Meet me by ad hoc (4.00 / 1) #13 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 09:43:13 PM EST

in the lounge.
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Close friendships and a private room can offer most of the things love does.
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: "Hang a left ... by Ignore Amos (2.00 / 0) #23 Tue Jul 04, 2006 at 03:44:46 PM EST

... at Jupiter"?

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MAKE MILLIONS WHILE YOU SLEEP by komet (4.00 / 2) #6 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 06:39:10 PM EST

Seriously, I need a graphics artist. What are your rates?

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<ni> komet: You are functionally illiterate as regards trashy erotica.

: Seriously? by spacejack (2.00 / 0) #8 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 07:36:56 PM EST

You can email me at my gmail and tell me what you're looking for. To be honest I don't do a whole lot of pure graphic design as it's not really my forté. If you're looking for a great designer I can hook you up, though if you're just looking for competent design I can usually manage that. I can also do illustration work if it's within my stylistic range. Or I can hook you up with some great illustrators for other styles.

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you've mixed your metaphors by 256 (4.00 / 1) #9 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 07:49:06 PM EST

upper case letters are in fact more like the royal families of europe. holdovers from an older more decadent time and laughably impotent and extraneous in a world of modern ideologies.

feel free, if it pleases you to continue to support these parasitic puppet monarchs of orthography. but i, for one, believe in the simplicity and elegance of an egalitarian system of transcription.

consider, if you will: is it not perhaps true that if we did not burden our children with learning a second (entirely redundant) character set, that they could have with equal effort learned to read and write an entire second language?

and imagine the savings in data compression if basic ASCII could be encoded in 7 rather than 8 bits.

how can such waste be tolerated?
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: um..... by 256 (4.00 / 2) #10 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 07:51:39 PM EST

s/ASCII/ascii/
shaddup.
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: No, no, no by spacejack (4.00 / 1) #11 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 08:11:56 PM EST

Under the authoritarian rule of all-lower-case, the b's, the t's, l's and so on are like the Stalins, Kim Jong Ils and Pol Pots of the world. To put it another way, all letters are equal, except some letters are more equal than others.
7-bit ASCII is more than adequate for mixed-case writing with plenty left over. 7 bits should be enough for anyone.
Mixed case is nothing like royalty. One day you're a lower-case 'o', the next, you're starting a sentence. With a little hard work, any letter can be upper case.
Also, when I was your age (well actually, more like 5 or 6, before my dad would let me near his electric typewriter) we used to have to lift an entire carriage full of leaden keys with our bare pinkies. With modern electronic keyboards, shifting has never been easier.

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: thRow oFf yoUr ShacKleS! by ucblockhead (4.00 / 2) #14 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 10:53:45 PM EST

AnD tyPe LIkE delLeRiUM!
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are you calling me by LilFlightTest (4.00 / 1) #15 Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 11:26:34 PM EST

a communist?
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Dance On, Gir!

: That's right! by spacejack (2.00 / 0) #18 Fri Jun 30, 2006 at 09:35:41 AM EST

But you'd be a cute communist, one that we'd try to woo over to our side. Like in "Ninotchka".

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Diner advert by johnny (4.00 / 1) #16 Fri Jun 30, 2006 at 07:21:03 AM EST

On one of the bricks it says "Luncheon 06", which I take to be a very inexpensive, possibly hand-drawn advert for a place to get lunch for $6 or 6 pence or 6 euros or 6 shillings or 6 farthings or whatever the heck they use for money over there (which I take it it not round coins with square holes in the middle: that's ancient China -- I know that much!)

In a later diary installment you might give us a review of the food & setting! In return for which I'll tell you about the Blue Moon Diner in Gardner, MA, if you wish.

About upper and lower case letters, you are 100% correct and I think there is nothing more that needs saying on that subject.
Buy my books, dammit!

Hey there's a Blue Moon diner by spacejack (2.00 / 0) #17 Fri Jun 30, 2006 at 09:30:39 AM EST

here in the 'hood too. I'll try to remember to do a picture of it.

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Bom-de-da-bomp Blue MOOOOOOOOOOOOOON! by johnny (4.00 / 1) #19 Fri Jun 30, 2006 at 05:34:24 PM EST

http://tinyurl.com/j4jcj

http://www.agilitynut.com/diners/3.html

http://www.thepulsemag.com/Dining/diners.html

http://www.dinercity.com/maDiner/centralMA.html

Many are the stories my arteries could tell you about breakfasts consumed there.

Maybe one day I'll attempt to speak for them in a HuSi entry.

Buy my books, dammit!
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Dammit now I've got by spacejack (4.00 / 1) #20 Fri Jun 30, 2006 at 06:51:25 PM EST

an intense desire to watch American Werewolf in London.

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: Well lI want to see now by johnny (2.00 / 0) #22 Sat Jul 01, 2006 at 08:32:52 AM EST

a drawing of your Blue Moon Diner. They can be like sister diners across the seas, and exchange honorary ambassadors and such.
But probably we should hurry up. Gardner is a hardluck town and most businesses are hanging on by the proverbial fingernails. So you never know when the Blue Moon Diner might be relegated to the history books.
I lived in Gardner from 1983 to 1992 and we used to take our kids out to breakfast at BMD a few times a year for a special treat. If you are still mystified as to why Americans tend towards obesity, one breakfast there will answer any questions.
By the way, if you look at the photos you see the two newspaper boxes: Boston Herald and Worceter Telegram & Gazette. Note: No Boston Globe. I don't know what the London equivalent would be, but those newspaper boxes tell you that this diner is a real working class throwback, not just some quaint yuppie place trading on nostalgia.
Buy my books, dammit!
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