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One thing I'm doing while stuck at home with the free time: cleaning and disinfecting all sorts of things. The headline saying 40% of those hospitalized for COVID-19 have been under the age of 54 was a bit unsettling. It's going to be one thing if finances get really tight from lack of business...

I've seen this font before, but just can't jog my memory correctly to retrieve the name of it. It reminds me of Officina Sans but that's obviously not it. TIA for any help. MyFonts' What the Font tool was of no help.

"Dixie Alley" is definitely a real thing now, a second legit tornado alley. I'm just hoping we have a pretty mild, not so eventful storm season this year. But it has been relatively quiet in my part of Oklahoma the past few years. And Lawton itself has been relatively lucky, this town hasn't had...

During the live coverage I watched (some of which featured news crews chasing storms) one storm was tracking near Graham and Jacksboro. Another one looked like it passed close to Bowie a while earlier. Montague County gets lots of tornadic storms. It's the opposite here. Sheesh, we get network...

I'm fairly tired from the noisy, stormy night we had. Big storms came roaring through town after 2:00am. There were several tornado warnings just South of the Red River in North Texas earlier. Our local ABC affiliate wiped out most of the network programming yesterday evening due to severe...

While the USDA, FDA, EPA, etc are not perfect, at least we have some safety mechanisms in place. China doesn't have much of anything at all. Nor do many other countries. Yeah, a slaughterhouse or hog farm in the US is not a pleasant place to visit at all. Try visiting one in Mexico. Or China...

Restaurants in my town are closed with the exception of drive-thru lanes, curb-side delivery, etc. At least some businesses have a sense of humor about it. I laid out this banner design this morning.

A vaccine is not going to be available until at least the middle of next year. This notion that a vaccine is fixing to go into distribution is bull$#1+. This outbreak is going to get considerably worse. The Spring Breakers aren't worrying about it at all. But the outbreak will get real for them...

The worst downtown my company saw during my time here was following the burst of the dot-com bubble early in 2000. Business was virtually dead for about the first half of the year. We ended up changing banks, going to one that was willing to work with us to keep the doors open. We didn't see...

Thankfully our company has been really busy the last several months. We have pretty healthy backlog of work, a good bit of it being volume jobs (re-branding for multiple store locations of one company, another company is building multiple new locations, etc). Some of the work is LED displays...

For those who haven't done it, this is probably a very good time to set up a mobile pay app in your smart phone. That would lessen the amount of touch happening at a gasoline pump. Some businesses are no longer taking cash. I'm pretty weary of buttons on ATM machines and credit card terminals...

Flexi is still stuck in the early 1990's with its type handling. It doesn't offer full support of the OpenType standard; many features are missing. If you want to use features like alternate characters, ligatures, true small capitals, etc you have to fire up a regular draw program with proper...

My concern is if customer traffic comes to a complete halt there won't be much need to keep the doors open. Supply chain disruptions are going to turn into a big problem if this situation drags itself out for too long. That problem will get even more complicated for anything that has to be...

The main thing they want people to do if they are sick is stay home. They should be doing that anyway if they merely have the flu. The masks might help contain some of the ejected particles when a sick person coughs. But someone who is sick will still be able to pass along virses and other...

It certainly seems like Hollywood screenwriters have done more "homework" on this topic than our lawmakers. Nevertheless I still couldn't put any trust in the gang that keeps on vomiting out the Enhance That Photo bull$#1+ in so many movies and TV shows. They bend the truth or completely...

The Johns Hopkins University map is looks pretty slick (it kind of reminds of the big nuclear war display in the 1980's movie War Games). Unfortunately some of the data is out of date. It's currently not showing any cases in Colorado when actually the case load nearly doubled from the 30's...

I'm praying this coronavirus thing burns itself out ASAP. I would very much prefer the case numbers to start dropping and make it seem like a relatively minor crisis in retrospect. Hearing complaints and outbursts like "I told you this wasn't nearly as bad as the flu" would be worth it. The...

The funny thing is outbreaks of infectous diseases with higher mortality rates tend to burn themselves out pretty fast. MERS has a pretty high mortality rate, between 25% and 33%. But outbreaks of MERS have been very short and sporadic. The illness has a rapid onset and quickly incapacitates...

I went ahead and installed CorelDRAW 2020 on my notebook PC at home. They really need to work on the preview visuals with how Variable Fonts react with the interactive sliders in the Text Properties palette. It really really sucks compared to the performance of the sliders in Adobe Illustrator...

One concern now from medical professionals is a growing question over flu-related deaths. Due to the sheer lack of coronavirus testing kits nation-wide some COVID-19 deaths may be going mis-diagnosed as flu-related deaths. The lack of testing kits may be allowing a lot of community spread to go...