The band that did a hugely viral video the treadmill video has just released a new song with a pretty cool video. I wonder how many times they had to practice this to get it in one take. Check it out.
Someone showed this to me on Facebook the other day and I have seen it on the air a few times. It is pretty funny.
I found this online today. It is the idea that there are only 26 letters in the English language but we have 45 different symbols to represent those letters. Our conventional alphabet contains 19 letters having dissimilar upper and lower case symbols (such as ‘A’ and ‘a’) and 7 letters (c-o-s-v-w-x-z) having symbols that are identical. So Bradbury Thompson came up with a radical idea in 1950s call “Alphabet 26″. With Alphabet 26, he proposed a plan based upon the logic of consistency, proposed that of the 19 letters that have dissimilar symbols 15 letters should use the uppercase designs [black letters below] and 4 letters should use the lowercase designs [green letters]. The other 7 letters already have identical symbols [blue letters].
I find this to be a very interesting concept, specially as I see Audrey (my young daughter) start to learn to read and she sometimes struggles with the different letters. Although I do see some fault in it because we often read words by their shape, not just the letters. So if we were to accept this system of writing it would cause everything to look like it was written in ALL CAPS and we would lose the shape of words making it harder to read words.
OK, I have been wanting to do this for a while, but I found a webpage where they did it pretty cool.
This is something I just found. I guess I need to add it to my wish list of cool letter “A” T-shirts.
He He He!
So I took Audrey & Jane to the Fathers and Son’s camp out. I have taken Audrey before, because I like to go camping and I don’t get to do it enough. So this time at the camp out someone brought a zip line. Audrey wanted to go on it and I tried to talk her out of it, but she insisted. Audrey had so much fun that she went on it two more time. I was so proud of how brave she was to go on the zip line.
Typography is cool. It is interesting to see the kid drawing the letters next to the professional painter. It makes me think of how Audrey draws her letters. It is interesting to see how some of her letters turn out.
I got a new car. It is a 2009 Mini Cooper S in Pepper White. I picked it up this weekend and have been having fun driving it around. We even got the whole family in the car and drove around a bunch. It is probably not a long trip car, but it sure is fun to drive around town. I will be posting pictures as soon as I can get a chance.