4 Burst results for "Lauren Epsom"
The Stuttering John Podcast
"lauren epsom" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"They both were villains in Colombo. And you like that. And I don't know if you know this. My favorite director, Steven Spielberg, directed an episode of Colombo. How do you like that? How do you like that? Well, four more minutes and I'm out of here. I'll end there at 2 o'clock. But yeah, tell us the balls and talking Tina. That's right. to Chucky. I would think kinky streets Colombo had a nice Peugeot. Well, you know what, it's funny about that. Colombo, when they cast him, he was like, he felt they would give it his character too many quirks with the raincoat and the cigar. And, you know, they thought they were giving them too many quirks, but then when they, they originally had want them to be in like a nice car. But he looked down at the universal lot and saw that Peugeot and said that's Colombo's car. And I'll tell you this, there were two different cars that Colombo drove. Shorty, when I loved these shows with John just shoots the shit with us. Yeah, that's why I like doing them. I'm gonna do them on Thursday though at like two. And don't forget ladies and germs, I will be back here. Tomorrow at noon with the original show the stuttering John podcast and then right after a beer on the balcony with the former porn star. And it should be a lot of fun. She's a friend. And I'm going to enjoy talking to her about life and love. And she's married now. And she's one of the sweetest people in the world. I think it's gonna be a very interesting beer in the balcony. Then I have a beer at the Barclay on Monday with a well-known comic and then I'm gonna have another one, I'm not maybe on that Tuesday with another comic. As I really drive it home for these beer on the balconies for Christmas and you know and then but you know I'm starting to book more and more interesting guests and you know what I love interviewing people. So it should be really good. Lauren, epsom, with the badge, Lorne, Michael's ex-wife, Rosie, is related to Superman created Joe Schuster, Rosie's dad, Frank Schuster, of Canada's beloved comedy team of Wayne and Schuster and Joe was first very interesting. There's so many coincidences in so many interesting things in Hollywood. George the boss was a very nice man in real life. They had another brother teddy all from Long Island, New York..
This Week in Tech
"lauren epsom" Discussed on This Week in Tech
"I'm saying maybe a little more Couple stories before we go and thank you all for being with us And thank you panelists for being with us One-storey before we go a harry. An are residents of the bay area. I just wanted to point out this story in the new york times this week. Headlined tech workers who swore off the bay area are coming back. Anybody who has been in the bay area or san francisco or anywhere in the surrounding for any amount of time remembers. How many they actually they remember when they lose track of how many times the bay area in san francisco is declared dead. I have lost track. It happened when i moved here in the early nineties. It happened in the late nineties during the dot. Com crash happened in the late. Two thousands during the financial crisis. It happened again during the idea that everybody's leaving the bay area and everybody's leaving san francisco and they'll never come back and everybody who's here goes Probably not and then when you set your watch wait for it. Wait for it. Oh here's the piece about how they're not actually leaving or if they did leave. They're coming back. I you know. I don't really have a lot to say about this other than it always happens like this. This is just how it is. This is san francisco is a city and this is a region founded on the gold rush People russian to get rich and some of them stay and some of them go and it's kind of a weird place but there's value to be here and so every time i'm just saying if you see san francisco declared dead again take the under. It's probably not going to happen. And some of the people who did move like move to san jose if your new home is forty five minutes away from your old one you really have not made a big life change A lot of the people move to To to reno or or truckee which is right on the nevada border which is not quite the same or having a vacation house up there and relocating temporarily like it's not california's a big place to so people can relocate out of the city centre to a place where maybe they can afford a house Which they've been doing for many years since time and memorial know tons of people have moved up to truckee tahoe. That's that's not a nutrient. So i'm just saying San francisco's never over. It's just never over. Everybody will always think it's over. It's never over. It always comes back. It always will. It changes all the time and people do leave but new people come and that's just how it is so anyway Really a dog bites man kind of story. The tech workers are back and finally last story. My friend glenn fleishman is Really interested in lots of quirky things including old type. He recently bought a replica of gutenberg. Bible it's glenn you if you know you know you get it but this story is so good and i wanted to point out to people. It's a story from antigone. Journal dot com. It is called. Laura epsom filler. Fail killer tale if you've ever done any desktop publishing or seen weird things post on the internet that don't make any sense you might wonder. What is lauren epsom. Dole or sit on it this strange. Latin ish text isn't quite right for latin. Where did it come from. Why is it here. Well this story tells all and the story is really pretty great because it turns out. They're also great pictures of like Bags of food packaging. That never got. The actual tax law is filler text when the regular text isn't ready so you have a bag. That's food and drink. Laura simpson dolar. Saddam it sounds great family special laura some dolar saddam it the idea there. Is you replace that with the real text later. Sometimes people forget but it's a great way for designers to maka page and see what it looks like taipan. This story though is amazing because it finds that this particular order of latin occurred in a very particular book that was an addition of cicero that was published in the early twentieth century that that was widely distributed. And probably somebody somewhere in the late sixties because that's what originated. It is not from time immemorial it is not from the time of the romans and does not from the time of gutenberg. It's from the late sixties. Somebody was like oh we should probably have some fake texts to put in there just in case and they picked up a used copy of this latin by cicero and they dumped it in there and then changed it. The other great part of the story changed it to add some more english issue punctuation and word endings so that anybody knows latin looks up and goes. This isn't latin. This doesn't make any sense. And they found the actual literal page number in the cicero Book the in this particular edition that contains the source text. And there's actually a sort of a second page a little later that they kind of glommed. I i love this stuff. They're like like the fact that somebody on the internet went to the trouble to find out the origin of laura epsom text. Boy it gives talk about our first segment. This is what gives me hope for humanity that this kind of this kind of stuff is going on. That's great company. That did was lecherous at which some of us get nostalgic about because they made these sheets of rub on letters which before desktop publishing richard useful Yeah and so. They needed some some greek texts. We call it. Greek text even though it looks latin. The idea of filler tax now modern modern journalism students in the like no that we generally use things that are misspelled words so that our spelling checkers. Catch them things like. Tk you see that. A lot or lead spelled led or deck spelled d. e. k. Or other words that are should be real words but they're misspelled so that everybody knows that's not right. You shouldn't put that in the newspaper tomorrow. You shouldn't post that on the website but back in the day letter set needed some sort of generic text and anybody who knows what is. It's just like i feel like this is such a great origin story. I assume that this was an ancient printing practice into. That's the late sixties in london. Hope i remember. I took a. I took latin as my as my language in high school..
Kottke Ride Home
"lauren epsom" Discussed on Kottke Ride Home
"All right. let's come back to the latin professor and publications professional richard mcclintock. He was not an early book. Specialist and in nineteen eighty two or nineteen ninety-four it was effectively impossible to search the corpses of old books. Some limited digitizing and databases were available by the mid nineteen ninety s but it would have been impossible to survey books across centuries for a bit of text. He relied on concordance is. It's now trivial. And no one is found in earlier citation than the nineteen sixties in nineteen ninety-four mcclintock said that he quote recalled. Having seen laura epsom a book of early metal type samples unquote but those would likely have been from the eighteen hundreds in any case in two thousand one however he told the straight dope for article they published on the subject that quote. He'd been unable to locate the old type sample in which he thought he'd seen lauren epsom. I spent a lot of time looking through nineteenth and twentieth century specimen books online and some in person and have not encountered that taxed though there are wonderful phrases invented to show off metal type and how they could be used price comics. Noted you could use google books and graham feature to find words that appear closer together and the chart for epsom is pretty spectacular. Arise that starts in the late nineteen seventies. there's one weird peak from nineteen eleven to nineteen seventeen however when you click through to examine those books. It's clear that some optical character recognition software substituted lorrimore if some dole dolar etc when it couldn't make a match in some cases particularly against decorative borders so the appearance in the nineteen in google books. Gram search is an artifact of the scanning and text recognition process finally to finish up placeholder. Texas also called dummy text and it's a form of greeting or replacing real tax to a something that resembles eh in some design programs. You can set a greek threshold. So that below a certain type point size instead of the computer rendering the type precisely. It shows greek text or areas of varying density. Greek king of course comes from the phrase. It's all greek to me meaning. Someone can't understand what's being said not a draw the circle back to its origin. That phrase comes from shakespeare's play the tragedy of julius. Caesar cassius did cicero. Say anything casca. I he spoke. Greek cassius to what effect casca nay. And tell you that on near look you in the face again but those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads. But for my own part. It was greek to me cicero. It always comes back to cicero. Who is brutally killed on the orders of mark antony and forty three just two years after writing his treatise on systems of good and evil yet obi wan like they struck him down any became more powerful or at least more omnipresent than they could ever have imagined as price wrote about his life for a long time. Cicero was everywhere while he remains everywhere in a weird and ironic fashion another time. I may tell you the story of a different accidental placeholder at two.
Kottke Ride Home
"lauren epsom" Discussed on Kottke Ride Home
"Its secrets more deeply than previously thought and man happily discovers one hundred and sixty bowling. Ball's under his house. Here are some of the cool things from the news today. It's almost certain. You've come across the latin seeming tax that starts lorrimore epsom sometimes appearing in places where actual sentences in paragraphs should be if you read latin however and note that i do not the text turns out to be a mix of latin sense and nonsense. This run of text has become a somewhat universal placeholder used because it has a cadence of letters and word links that make it an easy choice temporarily. Filling space while creating designs in latin characters used in english and most western european languages. It's supposed to be replaced with actual text before printing or posting to the web at doesn't always happen. The staff of antigone an online publication created to discuss the classics in context of the twenty first century received a letter from a reader that asked for an explanation of this texts origins particularly the chopped up latin that underlies it antigone recently published. Its reply with a detailed accounting of this familiar distorted text that i find more compelling than many previous examinations i was trained as a typesetter in the nineteen eighty s on photo typesetting equipment and began using a mac with all this page maker onepointoh in one thousand nine hundred five for typesetting and page layout lauren. Epsom was in the air as page maker had built in a run of that text as filler. I've read over the years. A few different descriptions of how warm ups became the standard. But the antigone explanation is the first. I've seen that truly ties together. The history of its use with a deep look at the particular. Latin texts used as source material. Richard mcclintock a latin professor who spent his career working in a college. Publications office is widely acknowledged as the person who identified the source of the law firm taxed. He said he founded in nineteen ninety-two. While looking through concordance for specific latin word that appears infrequently a concordance is a summary of all words that appear in a work useful in paper books before we had databases in nineteen ninety-four. The clinic wrote into the graphic design magazine before and after yes wrote in as on paper and magazine as an apprentice to refute the magazine's contention that laura epsom had no real meaning. He had tracked it down. Not just to a book but a specific edition of a book. The laura was aclu because the word had been clipped at the start of a page..