Cold Owl

     I don't know any typographers; I've never made a font in my life; I wanted to do something new that I hadn't done with computers before. I never really considered typography seriously, until I watched Helvetica. Up until watching that documentary, I was completely oblivious of the idea of typography being an art form and oblivious that typography could be done with computers! I mean, sure,I use fonts all the time, I just never realized what I was using.

    I guess fonts and typography were so common to me that I never considered it to be something that I could try. They are as if they are given building blocks that one would always have when typing.

    My curiosity for creating fonts became serious when I saw a teacher's notes. Her writing is so immaculate, I just thought of how awesome it could be to have that type of writing for my own math notes. Figuring how I'm sure I could incorporate a font into LateX, I could have my own little touch to my typed up math notes (well I suppose a teacher's touch). I hope to show off this font and another font of a friends before the end of summer.

    Imagine the outskirts of a sprawling American city becoming a ghost town. Cities like this have depended on cheap costs of transportation. As soon as transportation costs rise, the design of of the city becomes more costly to it's resident. Commuting distances must become shorter to counter transportation costs.

    Transportation may become so expensive that people will begin to move closer to work. This reduces the cost, but if a large sample of a regional population take this action, we might suburbs and residential districts turn into ghost towns. An inflow of people to urban centers creates a change in suburban densities and urban densities. Suburbans will approach rural densities and urban densities will grow super-urban.

    I imagine that the the ghost suburban towns could be reclaimed by farming communities or returned to parks and forest restoration projects. Until real fuel alternatives for transportation, such as hydrogen, become a viable and accepted for practice, this is what will I think will occur to many cities, especially my own Los Angeles.

Stanley Cup Champs.

Thats right!!!! woooohhoooooo!!!
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Dow Chemical will raise the price of all plastic and chemical products by 20% effect June 1st. The company blames the U.S. Governments poor energy policy for the price increase. "For years, Washington has failed to address the issue of rising energy costs and, as a result, the country now faces a true energy crisis, one that is causing serious harm to America's manufacturing sector and all consumers of energy," Chief Executive Andrew Liveris stated.

It seems that I should look harder for that crude oil price data to see if there is a correlation to oil consumption, oil supply, and oil price.

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