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Looking for a 19th Century Font
If anyone knows some good 19th century fonts please let me know...
Something like in this page.
Straight from the rogue's bonebox:
"The Rogue's Lexicon" circa 1859. Talk like a 19th C. scoundrel!
A new to me font… CourierPrime
From time to time I look at fonts.
This one looks interesting and fun. I should check out its character repertoire.
Following Journler — with Obsidian
Many years ago there was a brilliant piece of software called Journler for mac. In someways this software was like WordPress for local use, it connected with many of the Operating APIs (like for pictures). I thought it was amazing. It officially died in 2015. However, for note taking I recently found a tool called Obsidian. But the content of Obsidian is maintained in markdown. I wonder if it could take the same place as Journler. One interesting idea the use of graphing (network graphs) from notes and tables in those notes.
List of ethnic record lables
Here is a fascinating list of record labels which published songs from Ethnic groups around the world.
https://web.archive.org/web/20041211181248/http://ethnomusicologie.free.fr/labels.html
Audio CMS for archives
I must say this open source solution looks amazing and I need to try it out!
http://telemeta.org/category/projects.html
The playground
Modeling at Nîmes
Orange blossom cake
fougasse d’aigues mortes
We went to the southern French coast and they said that we should try the fougasse d’aigues mortes. We did. It was like an angel food cake with a sugar glaze. Much like a pineapple-upsidedown-cake, but made with orange blossoms.
Nîmes
While many in the world feel the pandemic is a disaster or a disruption, we have weathered the storm and found great things in this time. Hugh V was born just days before France shut down. Through that experience we met a mid-wife who blessed us beyond belief. Then I helped her move. At that event I then met her sister who invited us to stay with her and her husband in Nîmes. So during a school break we took a train with two kids and a stroller to a city we’d never been to before.
During our stay I got sick but thankfully it wasn’t COVID. We still trudged through mostly empty streets looking at restored architectural wonders, leaning about the linguistic and cultural diversity of the area, and visiting museums.
These experiences would not have been possible without the generosity of our French friends or the logistic persistence of my wife.
One of the fantastically fun things I started on this trip was sketching with my daughter.