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I'm not a fan of Helvetica. Right now my font of choice is Candara because it is super-readable and looks good in print or on screen, is versatile with sizing, and the slight flare on the vertical strokes adds some style and character. I like Cambria as a semi-serif, but only for headings or to provide visual contrast in some way versus my primary font. For the few applications when the stylistic qualities of Candara aren't appropriate, I stick to Calibri accented with Cambria. Calibri is soooooooo much better than Times New Roman, more readable, cleaner, etc. Kudos to Microsoft for doing something valuable for society by raising the bar for readability and lite graphic design by making Calibri/Cambria the default style set. A+. Typing a paper or report can't be ugly using the default fonts/styles.

Old LA streetsigns used small caps, but everything from the last 30 years is proper upper/lower. And we are white on blue.

Clearview is the same font going toward all FHWA overhead guide signs because it is incredibly legible and easy to read, especially compared to Highway Gothic F. A mix of capital and lowercase is also much easier to read, and that has been known since the 1950s when Caltrans did that for their initial freeway signs. All caps is harder to read quickly because capital letters are BLOCK LETTERS --height and width is near-uniform, leading to looking more like a (in the case of white on green street signs) white rectangle until viewed up close. This is a good thing, and the savings of time in deciphering street signs will translate to savings in accident costs and congestion delays. Definitely worth the money.

I hope I one day have enough money to own one of these. It would be the perfect fleet companion to my late grandmother's 1980 Sedan de Ville that I've made clear to my father that I want to inherit. And a 2nd-gen Allante with the Northstar.

I am enjoying the CarHunters car commercials that are running on TV.

That was going to be my suggestion!

Northstar: did they put an armrest in the back seat? At LAIAS there wasn't one, and I told off the Cadillac reps about how stupid that omission was, especially since it only has 2 rear seats. For 40k. In a luxury car. With the wreath and crest.

Good grief. Glad to hear you're OK. By the way, a little birdie told me that Tramadol can be...uh...Nurse Jackie'd with lesser side effects.

Check this out it's so bad I can't stop listening to it...

Fixed.

Exactly.

God those gauge pods look atrocious. I'll wait for a final interior photoshoot before judging, though.

Because this really bears repeating. Especially after today haha

I don't have a problem with it...as you said, they're just words. Now I also have no qualms about saying them in public, though if I see small impressionable children I'll try to cut it back a smidge. It's an LA thing though...people really swear as much as Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie or the Kardashians in social situations. No joke...the f-bomb detonates quite frequently, even in professional settings.

Good news.

I have ALWAYS had a potty mouth, and I definitely got it from my hot-tempered father. Of course, I think it's funny when kids swear. Nothing is funnier to me than a toddler going "f@#k YEA!" when asked "Who wants to play on the playground?" on the first day of preschool...

Yea, many of the best ethnic restaurants only take cash. Also, I love cash because there's no paper trail. Money under the table is amazing.

Agreed. I really like this one as well. Good security, good design, great USA-sourced typefaces, etc. Now I don't MIND the vertical-orientation of the one proposal, but the design sucks. Money really is more vertical in life, and the different lengths of the various bills would be more accessible for blind people.

Well the packaging just says "made with sugar" and Pepsi certainly hasn't mentioned that beyond the sugar/HFCS switch, the formulas are substantively different from the HFCS versions in other respects.

That's actually it...the Throwback series are all old formulas from yesteryear.

OK, so you're not opposed to a much more softly-sprung Buick. I think for me the biggest mental hurdle is how a Buick HALO car will sell vs. an entry-level Cadillac on the same platform without either brand being diluted. Because I think Buick needs a halo car above the 30k price point.

Same. By the way, the latest issue of Throwback Mt Dew has the orange back in it. Still using the hillbilly package design, though.

Shop at Whole Foods and you can avoid it pretty easily. I've never seen HFCS in anything "organic."

HFCS isn't natural, some of it contains mercury from the method of manufacture, and sugar tastes better, lending caramel notes to the flavor instead of just a sickening sweetness. Regardless of what they call it, I'm not eating it, and the corn refiners association can go f@#k themselves for their factually incorrect ads. FACT: your body does NOT treat sugar and HFCS the same; they might both have 4 calories per gram, but they are processed very differently by the body, and yes HFCS has a much higher glycemic index value.