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I love typography. If I had not been an engineer, I would probably have chosen to be a graphic designer. And when great typography combines with great texts, it can be very impressive.

In this case, impressively funny.

Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.

(shamelessly borrowed from Cori)

Those of you who have not done any blogroll or feed reader cleaning in the past six months will be glad to know I am still alive and well. It’s just that I have been very busy in the real world (and the francophone voluntary simplicity blogging world). Since my previous post here, I have :

• started a local barter network now boasting 55 members
• participated in the organisation of a 3-day music festival in my village this past August, with up to 3000 people on the Saturday evening
• left my job (a one-year parenting leave - that was one week ago)
• been to Martha’s Vineyard for my brother’s wedding in April
• but before that, visited New York City, then stayed with Emily + Bob in PA then with Dorr + Hobs in CT
• written the French subtitles for a fabulous BBC documentary about peak oil and agriculture
• built a composting toilet and a new version of the chicken tractor
• read (audio only) more Mark Twain, more P.G. Wodehouse, more Edith Wharton
• started being pen pals (with ink and stamps) with Emily
• relinquished the computer where I had all my feeds configured - hence my total radio silence
• only just reconfigured said feeds on my old laptop (the one with the broken hinge, temporarily patched with drywall suspension brackets and double-sided scotch tape)

That’s all for today - I have to catch up with my blogroll. Next post hopefully before March 2010…