Just in case you ever wondered about the blackness (B) and hardness (H) ratings for pencils, I have provided for you this really handy chart.1
As an illustrator, I have a fascination for pencils. Not that I’m a pencil snob. Probably many other illustrators would have a good laugh at my meager collection of pencils. And pens. But I have great aspirations. :)
I’m an admirer of the minds behind GeoMemes, and I was visiting their site recently and noticed that they had embedded the advertisement below. It’s not something I would expect to find on the home page of their website. But as the tech nerds at GeoMemes point out, something important is happening this week.
Thanks @oliveridley for the free range, chocolate covered Saskatoons! They are… berry good. #saskatoons
It’s two thousand years since the birth of Christ; the zero year. I think it’s time to free ourselves from the Christian calendar…
I was surprised to learn recently that an important paper that forms the basis of the intellectual underpinnings of the austerity movement is wrong. But more importantly, I discovered that Google needs to do a better job indexing webpages…
Many of us hate writing our own bio pages. And here is a good example of what can go wrong if you write your own. I’m not providing the text here because I sincerely hope he deletes it and starts again. And to be fair, at least he didn’t lie about his credentials.1 I admit…
Lots of seals out here today.
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