In theory, I'm a fan of the graphic tee. In reality, I think the whole trend has gotten out of hand and while next season will continue to promote patterns, the whole saying and caption genre has simply worn itself out and will come to an end.
It was not my intention to offer any sort of fashion prophecy with this blog and I believe that's the first time I've ever done so. Weird.
Right, so graphic tees. I've admired them from afar but never bit the bullet and bought one. Until recently. I saw it, laughed out loud, tried on a size too small because my size wasn't available, and decided owning it as a too tight sleep shirt was worth $10. It's a plain white fitted women's tee with bold black text that reads:
i am > you
Why do I love it? Irony. How is it ironic?
1) Little miss low self esteem is wearing it
2) I'm wearing something with a math symbol on it. A shiver just ran down my high school trigonometry teacher's spine. I have no business.
I heart it.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Video killed the font-loving star...
Lately I've noticed I have a hard time concentrating on reading. In this era of self-diagnosis, I swear I'm ADD. I just don't have the attention span to get through much anymore, even a magazine article. I find it pretty depressing.
Still, one phenomenon that drives me crazy is how video has replaced print on the web. I will actually avoid clicking on an interesting headline online if I see it brings me to a video link. I'd rather read.. well.. skim the content. I find the idea of having to sit through a video about it incredibly annoying. It feels like too much of a commitment, if that's possible. Not to mention the fact that it usually means I have to sit through an advertisement first.
Today I finally wanted to teach myself on to put a watermark on a Word document. I'm sure some of you think it's absurd that I don't know how to do this, but I've just managed to avoid it up to this point. But there were a couple of documents I was working on today that were simply better served with the shadowy "DRAFT" embedded in the background; one a letter written under my boss' signature and another a proposed job description.
Since I'm still learning Office 2007, I had to rely on the "Help" feature to figure out how to do it. As I awaited the appearance of the text box providing the appropriate instruction, guess what appeared instead...
A video demo.
Are you serious? I now need a video to go to Page Layout - Insert - Watermark (totally wrong sequence, by the way, proving the video taught me nothing)? And I need a narrative scenario as to why the gentleman in the video needed to go through the exercise ("Bob sure didn't want this document to be distributed as a final copy.")? Absurd.
I know I'm going to lose this battle, and my attention span is already ahead of the game, but I nevertheless begin to mourn the slow disappearance of the written word.
Still, one phenomenon that drives me crazy is how video has replaced print on the web. I will actually avoid clicking on an interesting headline online if I see it brings me to a video link. I'd rather read.. well.. skim the content. I find the idea of having to sit through a video about it incredibly annoying. It feels like too much of a commitment, if that's possible. Not to mention the fact that it usually means I have to sit through an advertisement first.
Today I finally wanted to teach myself on to put a watermark on a Word document. I'm sure some of you think it's absurd that I don't know how to do this, but I've just managed to avoid it up to this point. But there were a couple of documents I was working on today that were simply better served with the shadowy "DRAFT" embedded in the background; one a letter written under my boss' signature and another a proposed job description.
Since I'm still learning Office 2007, I had to rely on the "Help" feature to figure out how to do it. As I awaited the appearance of the text box providing the appropriate instruction, guess what appeared instead...
A video demo.
Are you serious? I now need a video to go to Page Layout - Insert - Watermark (totally wrong sequence, by the way, proving the video taught me nothing)? And I need a narrative scenario as to why the gentleman in the video needed to go through the exercise ("Bob sure didn't want this document to be distributed as a final copy.")? Absurd.
I know I'm going to lose this battle, and my attention span is already ahead of the game, but I nevertheless begin to mourn the slow disappearance of the written word.
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