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Glenn researches and writes about the history of printing, focused particularly on newspaper comics and printing molds. Pre-order his book How Comics Were Made. He’s a long-time technology journalist, who contributes regularly to Macworld and TidBITS and writes books in the Take Control Books series. A former Amazon employee (1996–97) who used to eat burritos with Bezos, Glenn is more interestingly a two-time Jeopardy! winner.

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thomasfuchs, to random
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Samsung misspelled its own company name in the open source licenses of my range

glennf,
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@thomasfuchs I believe this means you now own the company

dbelson, to random
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"For sale: Typewriter shop, often used"
https://archive.is/2jGW6

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glennf,
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@dbelson @mwichary Congratulations on your new job, Marcin!

glennf, to random
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Good news! I have hit the word count for my book! Bad news! All the words are not yet in the right places!

glennf,
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@KraftTea Going to shake them up in a bag and find out

glennf,
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@carlmalamud make book | InDesign

glennf, to random
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Just acquired what I believe is the oldest extant flong (paper-like printing mold used to cast metal plates) of a newspaper comic strip—or any comic strip. This is from 1912. My research has found an earlier illustration (1891, alerted by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston) and plate (1896, Billy Ireland Museum at the OSU). It’s an early gag comic, just a few years after daily strips start (1903) and Sundays (1896 for sequential stories).

glennf,
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Flongs were made either (prior to this) from paste-laden sheets of tissue paper backed with blotter paper or (from about this point) a macerated wood pulp mixture hardened to a flexible sheet. Both kinds were considered disposable, and being made of paper, neither kind weathered well, either. Mold, mildew, insects, etc.

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This acquisition is part of my ongoing research for How Comics Were Made, a book about the history of newspaper comics production and reproduction, from an artist’s pen to the printed page. Crowdfunded in February, you can pre-order a copy—I’m finishing the writing while we rough out chapters and move into final design in the summer. Ships starting October! https://howcomicsweremade.ink/order

glennf,
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@bucknam Photozincography and pressure. See https://howcomicsweremade.ink/flong-quick.html or download https://howcomicsweremade.ink/pdfs/HCWM-preview-chapter.pdf – detailed explanation in the preview chapter for my book.

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@bucknam Very welcome! It is an absurdly complicated process. One of many! I have dug deep to find photos and examples…it's coming together very nicely!

glennf, to random
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Saw a clip of the Agatha series actors bragging that the show has very little CG. The magic was all…practical. Who cares? What is this obsession? CG is only an issue for the director and creative people on the movie and accountants, and if it distracts by looking unreal while watching a TV show or movie. An unhealthy focus that feels anti-VFX worker, when there’s so much VFX in media that nobody realizes. This series captures the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90raCNo&t=937s

glennf,
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I understand that for actors and post-production, having more real and in-camera elements makes their job easier? But it feels like an agenda by producers to have a drumbeat of "no CG, no VFX" for some reason—because of the toxic masculine social media film criticism culture’s weird VFX stance, which parallels the misogyny of that culture.

glennf,
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@tvaziri I am now attenuated to it (not as much as you and other VFX people, for sure), and it is such a glaring thing, like, “This movie has REAL SEX.” It probably doesn’t and who cares—I don’t need real death in a movie to experience that sense, just good moviemaking.

glennf,
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@dpiponi That’s what’s weird: they were told I guess to say this? They were pretty insistent.

glennf, to random
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Challenging Netanyahu? Sounds pretty antisemitic to me!

kepano, to random
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I started learning piano about six months ago and finally reached the point where I can play along to simpler songs by ear, it feels so good!

Last night I was grooving out to Escape from New York on my synth. John Carpenter is such a bad ass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3_QOVaBA98

glennf,
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@kepano fist bump! I had a big push last fall and then got busy but I play piano 10 times better than I ever did (which is still not great, but absolutely joyous)

glennf, to random
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Why is anyone left on Twitter?

glennf,
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@craiggrannell It seems like it doesn’t even meet the minimum bars!

glennf,
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@elCelio It’s a big mess. Hard to believe.

glennf,
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@stewf It’s weird: I go back and there's nothing there. A handful of people I know post. Most of the feed is garbage. Most of the people posting get garbage or spam replies.

SKleefeld, to random
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While this is indeed disappointing, I will note that She-Hulk was a member of the Fantastic Four back in the 80s and could easily show up in the upcoming FF movie(s).
https://screenrant.com/she-hulk-season-2-mcu-release-update/

glennf,
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@SKleefeld Yes, I don’t blame the workers but it still looked very bad.

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Heat pumps and induction ranges are two strong examples of products that are better environmentally and better products than their gas/oil competitors, for almost everybody. (EVs will get there, but they’re not there yet.)

Because carbon emissions are free, it’s important that low-emission new products be clearly better than the polluting status quo. It’s a high bar, it’s not fair, but I’m glad we have heat pumps and induction ranges as a model.

glennf,
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@timbray @waldoj @nlpbot An L2 is $1,250 from a reliable electrical contractor in Seattle including permits and parts. Our utility offers a $400 rebate. We may split with neighbor! We had a ~$15K electrical upgrade that made this possible…

glennf,
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@timbray @waldoj @nlpbot zillions of renters and people in apartments

glennf,
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@giflian Big transition coming in car:resident rations in buildings, for sure, accelerated seemingly quickly and suddenly by electric bikes. In most places, parking places are expensive, and some cities are getting wise in new building construction in reducing the ratio to allow for less-expensive housing and fewer expanses of garages, etc.

glennf,
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@giflian fabulous!!! I’m excited to see future solutions because they have got to be better than today’s!

drdrang, to random
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☃️ The Apple Watch should be a little more helpful.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/05/paddling-workouts/

glennf,
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@Drwave has not for me

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