And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
When I worked for a university in the late '80s and early '90s, we purchased a print font that was created from the university's president's handwriting. We had to provide samples that included every two-letter combination, for example: aa ab ac ad ... ba ca da ... Aa Ab Ac Ad ... Zx Zy Yz along with numbers, punctuation, and a signature. This allowed the alumni association to send seemingly personalized solicitation letters to graduates.
30 years later, this tech is still used for the same purposes, but on a much wider scale. The only difference is that the ignorant and/or stupid advertisers use a shade of blue ink that's neven seen the inside of a consumer-grade Bic. I wonder if the advertising executives' accountants know that we don't actually have to read their laser printed cursive script on the envelope before we know that we can simply drop it in the trash because we know from the colour of the ink they've used that it is an advertisement?
All doctors fail in penmanship, worked for several doctors and reading their
ReplyDeleteperscriptions was a real pain in the butt.
Must work at the VA.
ReplyDeleteWhen I worked for a university in the late '80s and early '90s, we purchased a print font that was created from the university's president's handwriting. We had to provide samples that included every two-letter combination, for example:
ReplyDeleteaa ab ac ad ... ba ca da ... Aa Ab Ac Ad ... Zx Zy Yz
along with numbers, punctuation, and a signature. This allowed the alumni association to send seemingly personalized solicitation letters to graduates.
30 years later, this tech is still used for the same purposes, but on a much wider scale. The only difference is that the ignorant and/or stupid advertisers use a shade of blue ink that's neven seen the inside of a consumer-grade Bic. I wonder if the advertising executives' accountants know that we don't actually have to read their laser printed cursive script on the envelope before we know that we can simply drop it in the trash because we know from the colour of the ink they've used that it is an advertisement?