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Even the best have a worst

It's good to know even the best among us have a part they're unproud of. It's not that I feel any better about UWaterloo using PeopleSoft to power their products, its that I think less about NYT. Burn :)

AND logo simplification

Brands are simplifying. Clean curves, bright colours – 'web 2' is mainstream! More serifs have been dropped from corporate identities than I would personally like, but sometimes it turns out well like the TLC logo to the left.

One stations logo has thus far avoided corporate reduction – it already makes clever use of negative space (but not this clever). Three letters in the space of two! A&E. Luckily we CS'ers got their back. Behold the bitwise AND simplification of A&E. Think of all the ink they'll save.

And it's packing the field – on my morning

Normally I don't read in the morning. My apartment – my room – is perfectly situated, backed by a high school football field. None of the noise most houses in the city put up with. Everyone so unaware of it, so used to it. Except during the day and only on weekdays when I'm behind a computer in some other building where it doesn't matter.

Today I decided to read. Having bought a book yesterday and being not finished my current book it needed to be done. Today was also the first day of the year my window was left open all night. I woke up unreasonably early and my room mates would likely not surface for a few hours. The birds had woken long ago (their morning songs had finished) and so there it was, a perfect morning. Only the squirrels trying to break into the neighbours garbage could be heard.

At some point I become aware of a noise, distant. Sounds like a generator and chain saw, permanently set in reverse. It is a ground rolling machine. The kind with no wheels, just big drums. And it is packing the football field. Slowly. On my perfect morning. The nerve. My only consolation is that I'm still sitting in my bed reading, not driving a boring old packing machine around a football field on a Sunday morning.