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Someday I will Treat You Good

Jonathan Paul Doerr — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:28:27 +0000

The Beach Boys – Don’t Worry Baby

Jonathan Paul Doerr — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:59:52 +0000

the best best

My Q Problem

Jonathan Paul Doerr — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:35:16 +0000

I’m partial to 3, 5, and 13. Tell me what you think?

Teeth Mountain Are So Cool

Jonathan Paul Doerr — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:02:59 +0000

Thank you Baby Birds Blog for sharing this.

This Font Is Terrible

Jonathan Paul Doerr — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:22:27 +0000

It’s called ‘Calender’ and it’s my second attempt at a font. The first I abandoned, but if you were one of the two people I told about it, this new font follows a similar vein of inspiration. My goal in ‘Calender’ was to have every character be composed within a five by six grid. There are exceptions for sure, ‘N’ ‘$,’ but most fit in their little box just fine. It’s titled ‘Calender’ because I intended to use it to make a huge calender for myself for 2010, but here we are almost to mid-February. Story. Of. My. Life.

The font is not kerned yet, or rather, the kerning classes I used aren’t sticking correctly to the built font and not all the characters are done yet. I’m putting together the font in FontForge and making the glyphs in Inkscape. I’m releasing it under the SIL Open Font License for the one person who cares about its licensing. Tell me what you think.

Files:
FontForge Source File
OTF version of ‘Calender’ Font
If you would like the .svgs of the glyphs, give me a shout.

Freaknik is BACK!!

Jonathan Paul Doerr — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:42:17 +0000

Figurine – “Way Too Good”

Jonathan Paul Doerr — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:03:56 +0000

I’ve been on a Figurine kick for the past couple of days. They’re having a reunion show at the end of the month, which I’m super pumped about. Anyway, my jam of the moment!

Thinking About Stuff

Jonathan Paul Doerr — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:26:29 +0000

Considering starting to play poker for cash money at the casinos.

Am now a trainer at my job.

Have been eating really terribly lately. Need to go to the store and pick up some food I can cook.

Headache city right now.

Saw Atlas Sound at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum and it made me happy to live in LA.

Supposedly Figurine is playing in LA later this month, but I can’t dig up any info on the show. I really want to see them play.

Apple Cake

Jonathan Paul Doerr — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:43:12 +0000

3 cups flour all-purpose flour
1 cup white sugar
½ cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 ¼ cups vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups apples, peeled and sliced or chopped
1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a large bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients (flour, sugars, cinnamon, salt and baking soda) until thoroughly combined.

Whisk together the wet ingredients (eggs, oil and vanilla) and stir into the dry ingredients. Stir to just combine. Fold in apples and pecans. The batter will be quite stiff. Add 1/4 cup water if desired. [I've never added the water.]

Spread the batter into an ungreased tube pan or ungreased 9-inch-by-11-inch-by-2-inch baking dish. Bake 60 to 65 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.

Recipe via NPR.

Recommended listening:
Le Volume Courbe – “Sitting In Your Head”
Tomasz Bednarczyk – “A Bus-Ride With A Red-Haired Girl”
Beach House – “Saltwater”
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – “Gold Finch And the Red Oak Tree, The”
Akron/Family – “stoop consciousness”
Takagi Masakatsu – “Ketle 2”
Her Space Holiday – “Tech Romance (Matmos Remix)”

1982 World’s Fair

Jonathan Paul Doerr — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:35:30 +0000