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Post number 6109

silusGROK — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:17:13 -0800

Jack's back! Woohoo! ...looks like he's decided to pull a "click and mortar" on us: his new site is a supplemental to his zine. Very exciting. Welcome back, Jack!

By: Skot

Skot — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:31:32 -0800

Yet another site written in teeny-weeny eye-strain-o-vision (stolen with thanks from Matt Groening). I really just don't visit sites that require chafing my corneas on the monitor. (My eyesight sucks, so I don't know if this is just strictly my problem or what.)

By: tiaka

tiaka — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:39:07 -0800

Yes, it is rather small, no? I seem to be lost on your Matt Groening reference though. I don't really follow blogs, so, was he away? or? Btw, is it strange that he reminds me of Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters? Mefi seems to be big on that, remind you of Dave, who is incredibly hot, dontyouthink?

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:59:24 -0800

Tiaka, Eye-strain-o-vision was from a Simpsons episode, no?

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:59:28 -0800

What is the deal with tiny print? It seems to be the latest thing in web design. Did I miss a memo?

By: TurkeyMustard

TurkeyMustard — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:12:11 -0800

Supplement to "wagnc"? How do you pronounce that? Wank?

By: Skot

Skot — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:29:18 -0800

Actually, I lifted "Eye-strain-o-vision" from one of the Life In Hell books (can't remember which).

By: terrapin

terrapin — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:38:55 -0800

Jack looks like Bob Geldoff to me. :) And I agree. The tiny font—especially combined with the 3 columns—make the site extremely hard on the eyes.

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:54:10 -0800

eye-strain-o-vision is a technique used to make sure only 1337 people can read your site, as their eyes and been honed on hours upon days upon weeks of consistent CRT conditioning. ph33r |v|4D 3y3 57r41|\|!

By: silusGROK

silusGROK — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:10:16 -0800

Is everyone that's complaining about eyestrain on a Mac? I use a Mac for all my surfing, and I'm used to squinting on just about anything designed for "reasonable" viewing on PCs... *sigh* Thank heaven for the font tweaking feature on both Netscape and IE.

By: cCranium

cCranium — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:54:25 -0800

Nah, it's a mite smallish for my preferences on a PC also. Mind you, I've also got my resolution cranked, so it's probably much smaller than a normal person's. :-)

By: gleemax

gleemax — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 12:45:50 -0800

I hope Jakob doesn't see this.

By: Dreama

Dreama — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 12:55:34 -0800

Damn, is Jakob on MeFi now? Doesn't he hate the non-standard colour scheme enough to stay away? In any case, I agree on the eye-strain comments. Is 1024*768 so unusual for PCers these days that the teenyness of 10pt (or whatever) isn't contemplated?

By: pikachulolita

pikachulolita — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 14:05:47 -0800

i don't really mind the font size, but there's no way it's 10 pt. i've got my mefi prefs set to 8pt and that's a lot smaller. i think it's font size=1 rather than a style sheet pt-system of sizing.

By: pnevares

pnevares — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 14:16:26 -0800

not 10pt, 10px. (from what i can see in his CSS)

By: sunnyd13

sunnyd13 — Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:04:18 -0800

This is sort of on the subject. I'm not able to make a front page post yet. But it looks like Megnut is gone. The pioneers are falling.

By: thirteen

thirteen — Fri, 02 Mar 2001 13:18:13 -0800

Hey! Me and Jack have the same birthday 10 years apart. And we both like the same grape flavored indie rock, must be an Aries thing.

By: frykitty

frykitty — Fri, 02 Mar 2001 13:55:27 -0800

"I just don't have anything good to say anymore. So I'm not going to say anything at all. 030201." From Meg's source. People take breaks. Most of the time they come back, like Jack did. I bet Meg comes back when she has something good to say. :-)

By: harmful

harmful — Fri, 02 Mar 2001 14:11:07 -0800

I saw that comment as well. Seems like another reminder that some good folks lost a lot more than just a job.