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Source: College Humor |
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Learn how to use both of these wonderful characters in a delightfully humorous fashion. |
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And I bet you other technical communicators out there will also notice.
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Source: http://www.xkcd.com |
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Illustrator is one of Adobe’s two vector graphics editing programs, and it evokes feelings of hatred and love in equal measure. The power of its many tools is often overshadowed by the long startup time and crashes. The basics of using vector graphics can even get lost amongst complex, super-specific tools with names like extrude and bevel, AI_Dilate_6, or color halftone; but the basics allow you to make some very interesting and useful shapes. Shapes with circles can be daunting because arcs and degrees of rotation are not easy to eyeball. This tutorial will cover the basics of excluding, intersecting and uniting as well as anchor points, guides and rotations: all of them with circles. |
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I know this isn’t really related to us, but I’m pretty sure any blog with the word “technical” in its name would be breaking some kind of law if it didn’t at least mention the recent iPhone saga in passing. That disclaimer aside, I’m not sure why I’ve been following the missing iPhone so intently as I don’t have an iPhone, or even a smartphone, but this has been really interesting to me. One thing I know for sure is that I’m not a big fan of Gizmodo. And not just because of how they ran the Apple engineer who “lost” the iPhone into the ground! Read this quote:
Come on, Gizmodo. “Thousands of millions?” That’s what we call billions. Sheesh. |
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This person has a unique coping mechanism when confronted with bad grammar. It’s a pretty funny read, so why don’t you just click on this link alot. |
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I know you’re asking, “Why are you showing a screen shot of an iPad book? I’ve seen that commercial a billion times already.” Well, that’s not an iPad book. That beauty was created in InDesign! |
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Weird Al Yankovic shows us that the grocery stores have had it wrong this entire time. No, it should not be “12 items or less.” It should be “12 items or fewer.” Thanks for the grammar lesson, Weird Al! |
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People occasionally accuse me of focusing too intensely on things like grammar, lexical choice or the tone of a message. But leave it to an oblivious journalist to show how this kind of intensity needs to be practiced. I was watching the local television news the other day. During the sports section, over a montage of passes from Drew Brees to various New Orleans Saints receivers, the sportscaster said, “And a Super Bowl win would give the struggling city of New Orleans a much needed lift.” Cringing, I shook my head in disbelief. He really said that? Here is a visual representation of New Orleans before the much needed lift from a Super Bowl win:
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