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Cake day: February 26th, 2025

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  • In most restaurants, right next to the candy machines. Theaters, bowling alleys, bus stops, gas stations, hardware stores, most stores actually, usually near the entrance, sometimes outside the front door.

    Fucking everywhere.

    I’m not nostalgic for them, I’ve never smoked, and I was happy when the bans started. My god, we used to put up with that in theaters and restaurants, hard to believe.

    I remember back around 1984, I was flying on stand-by, which meant I could only get a seat if there was one free just before takeoff. There was one seat available, and it was in the smoking section. I had already spent the previous night in the airport and I was anxious to get home, so I took it. Fortunately, I was exhausted and fell asleep soon after takeoff and slept the entire trip. It took a full day to get that crap out of my lungs, I could smell it the entire time, it was disgusting.



















  • I use GIMP, Blender, Inkscape and Scribus. I’m retired so it’s just for personal projects now. I’ve donated to all of them.

    I was required to use Adobe products professionally, just because they’ve become the de facto standard in graphics, as we all know. I much preferred, and used Corel Draw over Illustrator and InDesign. Corel Draw does everything the other two do combined, and because it’s integrated, it’s more convenient and there are several features that make it superior. Unfortunately, it isn’t taught in college courses generally. Whenever I could get a new hire to really try Corel Draw and take the time to learn it, they fucking loved it. I converted three people in my time as a graphic designer.

    Some people wish that Inkscape were more like Illustrator, I say they should copy Corel Draw.