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About Me Member Mad Scientist taejo18/Male/South Africa Recent Activity Deviant for 6 Years
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New arts, new font work, new stuff

Sat Feb 10, 2007, 2:55 AM
  • Reading: Dancing Naked In The Mind Field, Kary Mullis
  • Playing: Nethack
OK, so university's about to start. That means choosing courses. I am doing maths and computer science, and probably physics. I'm also tutoring the first-year Python programming course, for people who already know Java, which I took last year. This year's project is a Capture-the-flag game.

Font-related stuff: at the beginning of the vac I started writing a font-manipulation toolkit in Python, and I have written several utilities using it, including a small-cap generator (given two weights of the same font, it creates small caps for both). I am now awaiting the release of Python scripting in FontForge, to avoid duplication of effort.

I am also working on Satinwood Bold. Why haven't you seen Satinwood Regular yet? I am in a bit of a dilemma about releasing my fonts on dA. I don't mind putting photos and writing up, because the purpose of those is to be read/viewed. The purpose of fonts, however, is to be used, and I'm not sure how I feel about people using my creations on their documents without acknowledging me in any way. I also feel that I have a certain amount of talent in this field, and that my fonts have some value. If I put a picture in my gallery, I could still exhibit and sell it later. If I put a font in my gallery, I never can.

I am going to try and do some more art. Preferably pictures, since nobody reads my writing. I am inspired by having a picture selected as an Inspirational Photograph by PhotoLust (may I ask who nominated it?).

Well, that's all I have to say at the moment (and a good thing too, seeing the amount I've written).

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Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Cape Town
  • Interests: Stuff (I seem to have lost interest in eggshells)
  • Favourite movie: The Machinist
  • Favourite genre of music: If I like it, I tend to call it rock, even if it isn't
  • Favourite artist: Jesse
  • Operating System: Kubuntu Feisty
  • MP3 player of choice: Amarok
  • Favourite game: You just lost it.
  • Favourite cartoon character: Hat Guy (from xkcd)
  • Personal Quote: "You want [food] and sex, not thoughts like 'What's it all about, when you get right
  • Tools of the Trade: pen, paper, hammer, sickle, computer
  • MSN: maxrabkin@hotmail.com

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:iconartwyrd:
Thank you for the favourite and for watching me :)

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What you feel you attract.
What you imagine you become.
:iconcrazysheepie:
thanks for the fave max:)

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:iconsweetnausea:
well hello! that was a surprise...
i am alright, thanks, how are you?
:iconginx-me:
I visit from time to time.

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:iconcrazysheepie:
i swear i added you as a friend at least three times but you're never on my list >.<

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:icontaejo:
:( No wonder I don't get any comments on my (very few) deviations.

We're coming to the party on Sat, btw. I'll sms La later.

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Mian lotaĵon de prudent’

--from "Kion Ajn" by Persone
:iconcrazysheepie:
yay!
and i wont put my cake on a pottery plate this time ;)

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:iconttl37:
thanks for adding me to your faves
:iconacreblade:
saluton!
la libro estas sata(of) amo (damn i wish i had more nouns.)
la sata ru^go estas en amo. Thats rrrrright. the full communist is in love. Impossible you say? hard to beleive? perhaps out of the realm of possibility. naaaaaa.

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:icontaejo:
Pretty good. "Of" is "de". I thing "rugxo" only means the colour; "komunisto" means a communist). "En amo" is an English idiom: it's probably easiest to just say "la sata komunisto amas".

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"But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder." -- Homer Simpson

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