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Here's another thing that could happen (it may even be likely): the government will start printing money like crazy and use inflation as a means of driving down the value of that debt. Obviously there are many consequences from such an action. But it wouldn't surprise me if the government ended...

Actually it is worse. And it's certainly a lot worse than the typical seasonal flu. I've been harping on the potential numbers for a while. Government officials (Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Brix) have only started providing some potential numbers in the last day or two. They're now saying...

And I figured you would be at the ready to second-guess any response from me within minutes after I post it. I never said there wasn't another way. There's just one way that's far faster, more simple and direct: clicking a text option in a drop down menu underneath the selected/high-lighted...

Which features? All additional features which OpenType extends beyond the old 256 character limit from old Postscript Type 1 and TrueType fonts. The extended character set features will vary from one font to the next. Those features can include support for extra languages, including diacritic...

Here's a couple other observations on how Inkscape handles text. The application does support most of the extended features of OpenType. However, the implementation is very clunky (like much of the clunky Inkscape UI). Enhanced features can only be accessed in the Text and Font palette. There is...

It's better to print directly on flat acrylic using a flatbed printer after the parts have been routed. If you try printing direct on a large sheet and then routing afterward you run into two possible problems. First, the material registration on the routing bed compared to how it was originally...

News broke this morning that our small city had its first two confirmed COVID-19 cases. The Lawton City Council widened the scope of how many businesses had to shut down or greatly limit their interactions with customers (such as banning dine-in service at restaurants). I'm glad I got my hair...

Here in Oklahoma there has already been a run on guns and ammo. With so many people out of work, drawing unemployment, etc I guess there is a bunch of anticipation we'll see an uptick with some types of crime, like burglaries and robberies. If all but "essential businesses" shut down, I hope...

Doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc all need degrees and certifications to do their work. That should never change. But there are some "professions" or "trades" where the need for a degree can be disputed. The field of graphic design is still a profession to some extent. But it only survives as a...

I'm going to take the $1200 they send, deposit it and then not touch it unless $#!+ happens and I need it. It would be better accessing that money rather than liquidating savings, eating into the IRA or (God forbid) putting living expenses on credit cards. $1200 isn't going to go very far for...

I have very mixed feelings about that $1200 check. Some people are complaining that the government is doling out "free money." I don't for a second believe that it is "free." They're going to keep track of who got what and apply that to each person's future tax liability. Basically this thing...

It's one of the Brainreactor fonts. Neutronica Geometric. Edit: scratch that. It's close, but not the same thing. There is a "sub-world" outline version of Neutronica that looks very close, but the "S" is different.

One of our local liquor stores is making hand sanitizer based on a mix of 190 proof grain alcohol and aloe lotion. It's not cheap (around $25), but it's a decent size bottle. The stuff is strangely a little gritty (kind of like someone mixed some Go-Jo into it). But the high amount of alcohol...

I grew pretty angry hearing the President yesterday repeat (again) the same tired, false equivalencies between COVID-19 and seasonal flu as a rationale for states and cities to lift their emergency restrictions. He even had the gall to work in car accident deaths (36,560 in 2018) as a sales...

Really, all the counties in the DFW area, covering over 7.3 million residents, need to go into lock-down mode. The counties surrounding Dallas and Tarrant counties (Johnson, Ellis, Parker, Wise, Denton, Collin, Rockwall, Hunt & Kaufman) all should be doing the same as Dallas county. It would be...

You better read the fine print on that "upgrade" offer. I'm still running CorelDRAW X8 on my personal notebook at home and CorelDRAW 2018 on my work desktop alongside CDR 2020. I frequently see the pop-up offers, usually when I close CDR X8 or CDR 2018. The $249 "limited time offer" I keep...

Yeah, this crap about high taxes in other industrialized countries for so-called "socialized medicine" is a real non-starter. It is a FACT the United States has a declining life expectancy. The hateful, runaway costs of "free market" health care is one of the root causes. Most Americans just...

I'm way beyond just being annoyed with people who keep insisting the SARS-CoV-2 virus (aka the coronavirus) is no worse than the flu. It's #@%king wrong just in technical terms and downright irresponsible and negligent as a way of telling people not to be concerned. The fact remains this virus...

You're pretty much stuck with version X8 now. Corel no longer offers upgrades to perpetual license owners. It's certainly less expensive to not upgrade. But Microsoft and its updates to Windows are a wild card hazard in such an arrangement. Past updates have broken previous versions of...

The options with CorelDRAW now are quite onerous towards users. The subscription version is not worth $249 per year. The combination of there just not being enough compelling new features as well as the lackluster performance (including bugs that have spanned multiple product versions) just...