Erica Fischer

Erica Fischer

@enf.bsky.social

She is awake. She is not in acute distress. She is well-developed and well-groomed. She is not ill-appearing. Behavior is cooperative. Thought content normal.

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Marcin Wichary
@aresluna.org

What was that word for nostalgia for times you didn’t personally experience? Because yesterday I visited the Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry & Technology, and I totally felt that.

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Erica Fischer
@enf.bsky.social

Highway 61 Revisited is a faithful revival of the 1961 Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs, including the long-forgotten Series A, and of the 1966 lower case. It is a protest against the ugly and inconsistent lower case and punctuation of the Standard Alphabets used on US street signs since 2009

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Matt Keeter
@mattkeeter.com

someone needs to turn the "places adjacent" infobox on Wikipedia into a really bad text adventure game YOU ARE IN MARTIN'S LOCATION > LOOK THERE ARE TWO PEOPLE HERE (ACCORDING TO THE 2020 CENSUS). TO THE EAST IS A GRAVEL PATH LEADING TO BEAN'S PURCHASE. > NORTH YOU WALK NORTH. YOU ARE NOW IN GORHAM

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Erica Fischer
@enf.bsky.social

It's not perfect, but I think it's getting pretty close now. How do I express the reformist, protestant, fork-of-the-last-good-version nature of what I am trying to do here? A recension, a corrective revival, a counter-revision? (And I hear rumors that FHWA has recanted on "s" and "w" themselves?)

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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen
@vanshnookenraggen.com

Love this! So much easier than Google Earth. Here's the unbuilt Bushwick Expy, I-78 as it would have been signed (continuing across Manhattan on the Lower Manhattan Expy). Note the branch to Hunts Point and the 3rd Queens-Midtown Tunnel tube.

Erica Fischer@enf.bsky.social

Vibecoded the map rubbersheeting tool I've wished I had for ages e-n-f.github.io/rubbersheet

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Ben Zotto
@bzotto.bsky.social

My thanks to the @computerhistory.bsky.social for publishing this book excerpt on the blog. Couldn‘t have written such a detailed book without the CHM. computerhistory.org/blog/sphere-...

computerhistory.orgSphere: A Pioneering Early Microcomputer, RediscoveredA new book made possible by CHM research reveals the untold story of Utah’s Sphere Corporation, makers of one of the original desktop all-in-one PCs. IT WAS DECEMBER 1975, and the future was being man...
Erica Fischer
@enf.bsky.social

Unemployment project #1: dragging the weird unnamed midcentury-but-much-older-looking-than-that ornamental sheet music title font into the digital age

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Erica Fischer
@enf.bsky.social

Unemployment project #1: dragging the weird unnamed midcentury-but-much-older-looking-than-that ornamental sheet music title font into the digital age

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Erica Fischer
@enf.bsky.social

My own collection has let me down, but thanks to ebay, I now know what the "Q" and "j" look like (Or maybe not really, since the B and P in Banjo Pete are from a different font, so the j might also be.)

Erica Fischer
@enf.bsky.social

Unemployment project #1: dragging the weird unnamed midcentury-but-much-older-looking-than-that ornamental sheet music title font into the digital age

Erica Fischer
@enf.bsky.social

I still want to know where the narrow lower case on the "Business District" and "Bayshore Fwy" signs on Page Mill Road/Oregon Expressway came from. Was there a whole family of California lower cases out there somewhere?

Erica Fischer
@enf.bsky.social

I didn't realize that my phone had been counting my steps every day for the last 10 years, but now I know how much the pandemic reduced my baseline level of physical activity, and how much getting a dog has increased it again

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Marcin Wichary
@aresluna.org

I was hoping for your help with something. (Please RT for reach.) Is there a particular font that’s instantly recognizable to someone who lives where you do, and appreciated/recognized/hated there, but completely unknown elsewhere? Road signs, street names, transit, infrastructure, stuff like that?

Erica Fischer
@enf.bsky.social

Also noteworthy for the extension of the Warren Freeway to downtown Berkeley along Derby and Oxford Streets and through the Gourmet Ghetto on its way to El Cerrito