8 posts tagged “vox hunt”

Share one of your favourite quotes.

I don’t have an all-time favourite but these would rank in the top 20.

Show us the very last picture you took. No cheating!

This was last Saturday, at the home of Lucire beauty columnist Nicole McKinnon and her husband Paul. Paul likes his American cars and in his garage is a 1977 Ford Granada with a 302 Windsor V8. Neither the German nor the American Granada was ever sold in New Zealand, so this car is unusual here. He was surprised I knew what it was and that I could enter into a decent conversation about these old intermediates and the Mercury Monarch twin. He even says it is less heavy than I had believed, and that he can get reasonable mileage out of it.
   However, it might have to go so Nicole can have a more practical car for herself and their daughter, Hannah.

Show us your favourite font.
Submitted by [this is connie].

You mean favourite typeface. There is a difference (font implies type style and point size).
   Believe it or not, it’s not one from my own company’s range. I have always liked Helvetica and the Swiss school of design, and decided to improve on the design for Lucire. The typeface is called, predictably, Lucire. A 2006 advertisement follows (it’s the headline typeface).

The above was a re-type again. Why is Vox shutting down when I click ‘Save’?

This is National Headache Awareness Week. Show us what gives you a headache.

Warning: this may also give you a headache.

Show us the URLs in your browser’s pull-down address bar.
Submitted by Jack Yan.

Considering this is mine, I should answer it:

   Nothing embarrassing, though John Caswell’s old URL got a 404 (the fifth one on the list). Lucire was visited, of course, to see what the team had written to the blog; one press release about Tissot; a few colleagues’ blogs; one contractor; this blog itself; the server at work; the Jack Yan & Associates photo library; and, strangely, two visits to Blogrolling to update my main blog’s blogroll (I seldom go to Blogrolling—say once every three or four months?).

Audio: If you could sing like anyone, living or dead, who would you choose to sound like? Share a song of theirs.
Submitted by aa.

Easy: Matt Munro. I don’t have his range these days but I sing along to his CDs when I can.

Finally, instead of a magazine cover, a search for my name on Google Images returns a picture of me. Those surprised by their results last month during a Vox Hunt might find things have changed.

The latest Vox Hunt, found on Brenda’s site, is: what’s the first image that comes up when you Google your name?
   I have never participated in one of these Hunts before, but strangely, the first is of a magazine cover I published two years ago. It shouldn’t even be accessible to Google: we had a week where the image server was unprotected and that must have been the same week Google indexed our site for its images’ section.