Robert L. Peters

31 January 2014

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with lots of rules and no mercy.

Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)


29 January 2014

Kung Hei Fat Choy!

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Best wishes for the Chinese/Lunar New Year!

(It’s the year of the wooden horse, same as my birth year).


28 January 2014

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)


27 January 2014

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day

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(across the United Kingdom)

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on 27 January every year in the UK. It marks the anniversary of the liberation in 1945, by the Soviet Union, of the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, towards the end of World War II. The Holocaust (or Shoah in Hebrew) claimed the lives of six million Jewish men, women, and children between 1933, when Hitler came to power in Germany, and 1945, when the Nazis were finally defeated.

The commemorative poster shown above is by my friend Dan Reisinger: “This is a photo of an authentic yellow Star of David we were forced to wear prior to deportation—preserved in my family since 1944.”

(Thanks to Iva Babaja for the link).


26 January 2014

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Amy Carmichael (1867-1951)


25 January 2014

The Typographer's Glossary

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A FontShop publication on ISSUU, here.

Thanks to Erik Spiekermann for the link.


24 January 2014

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

—Oscar Wilde


23 January 2014

In case you've forgotten…

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22 January 2014

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Ernest Becker (1924-1974)


21 January 2014

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)


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