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@kluurs OMG those are hilarious!!!!!!!!!!

@kluurs that's hysterical!

Thank you for all the time you put into keeping this place up and running!!

@Bernard said in Calibri v. Times New Roman:

can't believe that I wrote it was generally accepted that sans serif was easier to read in print! No, I meant serif was generally accepted as easier to read.

I actually wondered if that was a typo.

@wtg said in LOLcritters (winter hat edition):

check out Loki, too !

I missed that, very cute!!

@wtg those are all adorable!!!

Yours too, @adagiom

@Mary-Anna said in Calibri v. Times New Roman:

My guess is that they felt the difference because serif fonts were what they were used to seeing.

I imagine this is a huge part of it.

Once when I was reviewing cover letters and CVs, I remember one applicant who used an odd (to me) font that I found incredibly hard to read. It was so distracting that I stopped and looked at the font for a while, trying to get used to it. I also tried to make sure that what I perceived as a lack of readability wasn't making me judge the contents more harshly. It was a serif font. It still doesn't make sense to me why I reacted to strongly. But I did.

I always tell my students to use TNR, 12 point, 1 inch margins and to not right-justify.

Also, have I mentioned that I hate Aptos?

They started by bringing his gumbo to the hospital. Then they went out and helped find him a new apartment, right next to the restaurant, so the employees could always keep a watchful eye.

@wtg Looks yummy!!

@steve-miller wow, you all are making fast work of it! Looks great!

@Piano-Dad said in What news media do you pay for/subscribe to?:

Like most academics, I'm a bit spoiled by having library access so I don't actually have to pay for lots of news sources (WSJ, for instance).

Same. WSJ is definitely one that comes to mind, and also CHE. Those are practically on speed dial in my browser when I go to the library page.

@Piano-Dad said in What news media do you pay for/subscribe to?:

This is not a random slice of the population, you know

No, but I'm more interested in this population than a random sample.

@Steve-Miller yep, those are my complaints about WaPo and NYT.

@realplayer and @wtg my uni library provides access to tons of news outlets, but for whatever reason, they don’t have the Atlantic online version, which was why I ended up subscribing. I got one of those deals but I’ll have to decide whether to renew or not.

@wtg OMG!

Who would agree to that?? This is such a stupid, stupid idea!

@wtg said in This will do wonders for tourism:

a five-year social media history

Separate from all the other reasons (and there are many) why this is just wrong, logistically how would it even work?

I have no idea what social media I was using five years ago. And FB is so screwed up, sometimes I can't find a post I made yesterday when I want to go look at it again.

@wtg said in Let’s not get him started on Wordle scores…:

We could use some new members, but he doesn't sound like a good candidate for WTF.

Good call!!!

Oh good grief.

An area of Mount Zao's Jizōdake summit in 2010 (top left), 2013 (top right), 2020 (lower left) and 2025 (lower right) (Credit: Yanagisawa Fumitaka/ Tohoku Regional Forest Office)

@Axtremus said in Calibri v. Times New Roman:

the previous change to Calibri was a wasteful sop to DEI wokeness.

And changing back won't be wasteful? The cognitive dissonance continues....

Also the cruelty.

On a separate note, I hate Microsoft's new default font, Aptos. Hate hate hate it! And now, the default font for Japanese also looks horrible, and for many characters, doesn't actually look like Japanese but looks more like Chinese. Which is fine if you're typing in Chinese, but not good for Japanese, and I worry about the impact on my students' writing as well.

It's not super hard to change the default settings in desktop applications, but in browser versions, I can't get it to set my desired font for Japanese, so I have to go in and change it manually every time.

Thanks everyone! I wasn’t necessarily looking for more news sources, although this thread and the earlier one that @realplayer reminded us of are helpful.

I was more just curious about how many news sources people actually pay for.(actually, I included Pianist Magazine and that’s not news!

I imagine that in the past, most people (?) had a newspaper subscription and they had the paper delivered to their house. These days, very few people do that, and we have access to all this stuff online, but some of it of course is paywalled. …

@jon-nyc I am so sorry to hear that!

Air travel is so awful these days. Hopefully your new itinerary with UA wasn't too expensive, and suits your travel plans etc.