The Master bath project is nearing completion! I should be done all the tiling by the end of this weekend! Well except for one tile. Yeah! One… My estimate was exactly one full tile short, well actually I screwed up one cut, so I would have had exactly enough to complete if I hadn’t cut that one tile in the wrong direction… Anyway I’ll post pics soon when I’m complete, also I’ll get that video of the star field up soon.
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Bathroom Project
Friday, April 30th, 2010Walt’s Warning!
Thursday, April 29th, 2010What the heck happened to me last night?
Who is this guy?
How does he know my name??
What does he want from me??
What is the deal with my fonts?
Monday, April 26th, 2010Okay so when I first implemented these custom fonts on my site I thought they looked good, now They seem to look like crap. I don’t know if it is the monitor I am looking at but I seem to be left with pixelated crap that looks like these:
Now to compare how monitors render this font image here is the true type:
This crap!
and
This crap!
What is going on here? I suspect that it might have something to do with monitor resolution, but I’m not sure. Let me know is you have a Mac if this font looks okay or not? My theory is that is has something to do with Microsoft’s ClearType. I’ll look into this further but really if these font’s look as bad as they do on this monitor I’ll have to replace them with something that works better. I see why designers use JPGs for headings and other decorative fonts.
** UPDATE **
So apparently it is monitors are displaying these fonts differently. I have tried numerous scenarios (different windows editions, different browsers and browser editions… ) and it seems that it is the monitor is making my font’s look cheep. So if the first and second set of fonts look identical you have purchased a cheap monitor. However if the second set of fonts look considerably better, congratulations on a good monitor purchase.
On a side note, over the summer I will be changing the look and feel of this site and I probably won’t be using custom fonts like I did here. Also I’ll try to implement some flash to make my site flashy-er.
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010How about this game? You blow up stick people with rockets! That has to be fun!
Click here to play Destroy the Village
for more games check out http://www.freewebarcade.com
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Monday, April 12th, 2010New post
Friday, April 9th, 2010So I need some more stuff to write about. I have made some progress on my Master Bath, and finally all my tile and edging has arrived so I can start to finish it. Today I’ll be pulling out the cabinet and toilette to prep the floor for tiling then hopefully Sunday start the walls.
Next projects, in no particular order, fence rough landscape, patio and finish the deck. probably a new BBQ in there somewhere as mine is kinda in need of replacement. (out door kitchen?)
So when I’m not doing my projects what else should I be Blogging about? Let me know in the comments.
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