Speaking for myself only, I want affordable, high-quality healthcare for everyone, which is only achievable through changing the current system. If you’re curious what the Republican response is to that preference, check out that link. You’ll find that they’re looking to improve healthcare by… doing nothing but opposing Democrats no matter what.
Keep it up, guys. Through 2012, preferably.
Side note: the gem of a man who’s being quoted in that article is Frank Luntz, whose specialty is to put people in power in government by making words not mean what they mean and avoiding actually communicating about policy and issues. You can thank him for “climate change” as a euphemism for “global warming”, which, in classic spinster style, he’s now backed down on.
On Monday, after a long day of work and roughly a week’s worth of late nights, I came home and eased myself down on the floor with Blackbird. This was my way of hanging out with daughter while expending little to no energy. She seemed to like it, so I felt OK that I was not providing much in the way of physical activity. While I was languishing on the floor, someone knocked on our front door. I answered and was met by a representative of Alarm Monitoring Protection (AMP). He had a clipboard, an ID badge, and seemed a bit winded. It was around 6:30pm, so that makes sense. I’m sure it had been a long day.
We were both tired. But unlike him, I wasn’t trying to pay people to lie to their neighbors.
“For everyone who’s ever wished Clarendons had italics, everyone whose favorite slab serif is shy a few weights, and everyone who’s ever needed a slab serif to thrive in text: we designed Sentinel for you.”
Sign. Me. Up.
While I don’t use Clarendon all that often, largely due to its limitations, it’s among the first typefaces that stuck in my mind as a student. Its strong slab serifs and sturdy curves have always resonated with my design sensibilities and aesthetic preferences. That H&F-J were the ones who decided to remedy this makes my designer heart sing.
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In my experience, this is the way SEPTA operates. Which, if you think about it, means that even when trains are “on time”, they are still late by any other system’s measure. For example, Amtrak runs the way you would expect: trains leave at the time scheduled, rather than arrive at the time scheduled. Bear in mind that Amtrak and Septa are both housed in Philadelphia’s 30 Street Station. It’s not like SEPTA exists in some vacuum.
This is ignoring the strange way they handle late trains on their track displays: to simply add the minutes as they pass by, then suddenly jumping up to 18 minutes late once they get to around 10 minutes, so the train can arrive ‘early’ at 13 minutes late.
I’ve heard that late trains only get later. This means that once a train is late, it is then given lower priority than on-time trains, so the late train’s lateness doesn’t ripple outward to other trains. So what happens when all of your trains run late?
The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia’s Spark Showcase is a great way to see new work by small and nascent theatre companies. Five short works in one sitting pretty much guarantees that you’ll come away having seen some new theatre that you connect with. This year, you’ll even get to vote for the recipient of the Hotel Obligado Audience Choice Award for New Work.
But it’s one night only, so don’t miss out.
Full disclosure: The Theatre Alliance is my oldest client and one of my favorites. I’ve seen them evolve and grow stronger ever since I first started working with them. In a nutshell, they’re advocates for Philly’s diverse and robust theatre community, particularly those groups and individuals who don’t have the weight and budgets of more established theaters. The arts in PA are under threat, so events like these are vital to Philly’s arts and cultural future.
Put simply: over 13 days, 31 people died from H1N1. During those same 13 days, over 60,000 people died of TB. I’ll let you guess which disease got over 38x more coverage in the news.*
It’s all about context. Without it, anything can be portrayed as a crisis. Without it, we can let what truly matters slip through our fingers.
The movie is fantastic in every way. It’s a great movie in its own right and starts the Enterprise crew fresh. For this Trek fan, it was exactly what I needed from the franchise. A paraphrased conversation with my sister-in-law summed it up best:
Rebecca: “The whole time I was thinking ‘I’m watching Star Trek! This is so great!’”
Me: “The best part is that the whole time movie is pointing back at you, saying ‘I know!’”
