Timewaster's Guide Archive

What's the kerning on this line so we don't have to break that word, but without making it appear too small in relation to the rest of the paragraph?

TRACKING, not kerning! Shame on you!

Tracking is letter spacing over a whole line or paragraph or document. Kerning is letter spacing between two specific letters (done differently from the letters around them).

Kerning is most often an issue in headlines or chapter titles or other areas where the text is really big and the font's idiosyncrasies really stand out.

HoM, they can change that for a reprint, can't they? I definitely agree with you on that. Couldn't convince them to change it on the blueline?

That doesn't seem to me like something a typesetter would do, actually adding words.

Legend? Did that have Lloyd in it? It had Tom Cruise...and unicorns...

My family rented that years ago and had to turn it off halfway through.

The Last Unicorn was produced by Rankin/Bass, the same people who were responsible for all those stop-motion animation Christmas specials like Rudolph. The animation was done by Topcraft, the studio that later did Nausicaa and later became Ghibli, same studio that did Mononoke and Spirited Away. As far as I know though a Japanese dubbed version of The Last Unicorn was never made.

(Rankin/Bass and Topcraft also did The Hobbit and The Return of the King, and some of the people involved went to the studio that did Thundercats and Silverhawks.)

do I say that?

I usually say I'm looking for a tall one...5'11" is about the low end of what I'm looking for... >_>

They say the books are much better. Haven't read them or watched it myself, though.

Arucard? "Alucard" is "Dracula" backwards...

Puerto Ricans are US nationals, not US citizens. Pretty sure Alabamans are citizens.

The olympics are great. I loved the opening ceremonies with those statue people.

It's about showing US superiority? Oh my word.

For me the olympics are about rooting for the people with underdog-like stories on one end or on the other end seeing people dominate and get world records (no matter what country they're from).

It USED to be about the USA vs. the evil empire USSR, but that's just not important anymore.

That's really odd. It didn't use to be that way. You needed quicktime in order to use iTunes, but not the other way around.

It's remotely possible that they're doing it for licensing reasons, so that QuickTime and iTunes are considered 2 components of the same program, and so they don't have to pay double to the MPEG licensing association.

It's not used in the way it used to be: where Seventies were the equivalent of the Stake Missionaries, but Seventies (Like the First Quorum of Seventy) are still set apart as seventies.

Right...they're set apart as Seventies, but not ordained Seventies. There are no ordained Seventies anymore (though I met one on my mission, who went inactive before the time when the Stake Seventies were done away with, so he was never ordained a High Priest--but if he were to become active again, I'm sure they'd get that taken care of). The members of the first through sixth quorum of seventies are all ordained High Priests (though there's probably some among them that are ordained Patriarchs).

Members of the First Council of the Seventy were ordained High Priests during the stewardship of David O. McKay.

Not that this is important nowadays, but I said it because of the posting above that listed Seventy as a priesthood office above High Priest.

---Yeah, there are six Presidents of the Seventy right now, but there are usually seven. One of them passed away recently. It's expected that a new one will be sustained at the October general conference (along with 2 new Apostles to bring the number back up to 12).

The important things about the church organization are that it's directed by revelation from God and that it's the same everywhere in the world (an LDS church in one part of the world is run the same way as an LDS church in any other location).