Word on the street, Four button designs this year: one to represent parades,one to represent the ice carvers, one to represent the legend (having both kings on one button) and lastly one to represent the medallion hunt...
I will have buttons ready for sale on November 28 at the public unveiling at Rice Park... who will be buying from me so I can order enough stock?!?!
Winter Carnival Buttons officially go on sale to the Public Thursday at 8am!
But you can get yours Wednesday night from yours truly after 6:15pm :smile:
Who is planning to be out and about and wants to buy early?
I will be in Rice Park for the unveiling at 6pm, then will be hitting a few bars selling until 9pm... I then will be around all day Thursday & Friday to meet up with anyone.
Congratulations! You have successfully registered your 2013 Winter Carnival Button on-line!
Your confirmation # is: 16980
Asked for buttons for Christmas. Didn't get any, so I got a pack today (sorry to those selling them, I'm way too spur of the moment to arrange a meeting to get them). All set to go get my 10,000...
So I had my button but put off registering it until this morning after reading a story in the PP yesterday saying it had to be registered by ll:59 pm on January 20. Looking at the card for the online registration address I saw this: Mail in the official registration form for your 2013 Winter Carnival Button or register online at winter-carnival.com by Friday, Jan. 18, 2013
I left a call for John Brewer who wrote the story and sent a copy of the article to my email. So am I covered for when I find it?? :pbpt:
Yes, once I started my registration online it gave the date as 11:59 PM on the 20th. "whew".
I had to laugh looking at my first post on this subject and seeing when I first typed 11:59 I used the lower case L. I really am old. We were taught on typewriters that didn't have a numerical 1 key so we used the lower case L. Once in a while I regress. :sillygrin:
Well, if I double space on my phone's keyboard the next letter typed is automatically capitalized. That's enough proof for me that double spacing is still correct. Although this forum strips one space out.
That's like changing religious sayings that have been around for years and then making one feel out of touch if they're not with the times. While I understand and clearly remember the l 1 thing. The double space thing doesn't compute.
CM you don't double space between your sentences? I don't understand how and when that became a rule it's like new math or something. You can't just change the rules on grammar!
Doesn't that give you a capital for every word when you space between each word? A double space on mine inserts a period and shifts to upper case. Standard end of sentence and beginning of the next behavior.
If you google this whole deal, it has mostly to do with typesetting and how typewriters had the same space devoted to each letter whether it be an i or an m. Then it was thought that having two spaces between sentences allowed for a more visual break for readability.
Now with computers, the various letters take up space differently. The i and the w are different widths and the period being just a dot takes such a small space that two spaces between sentences for readability is obsolete.
For me, I can't make myself do anything but two spaces between.
The first typewriter I used was one of those old black Royals.
Then my first job had a manual typewriter which was okay until I got promoted into a job with an early version of the electric typewriter. We had letters to write with many copies - remember onion skin? I was so used to pounding keys that I had a heck of time with the easier touch of the electric version. The one person who was training me in must have thought I was going to be useless. I spent more time erasing all those onion skin copies.
I finally did get used to it and eventually we got new IBM selectrics. I loved that machine. I could type a hundred miles an hour on that. And we could switch out the little type ball if we needed a different font. Great fun.
Then I got promoted again and didn't have a typewriter for that job. The next promotion there was typing involved again but though it was electric, nothing as nice as those Selectrics had been. Of course that job also had an electric calculator. That had several vertical rows of numbers 0-9 that you used to input numbers and then do the next step and watch the little wheels in the windows work out the calculation.
IBM Selectric II here. I still see them in some offices around.
Maybe that's why I still like the old Model M springbuckle computer keyboards too. They were modeled after the selectric IIs, built like frickin tanks too.
11 pm
I wanted 16069.
I did get
16096
16097
16099
16100
I raise my hand too JL - I know we will be hunting together for a bit somewhere along the lines.
I will have buttons ready for sale on November 28 at the public unveiling at Rice Park... who will be buying from me so I can order enough stock?!?!
:grin:
But you can get yours Wednesday night from yours truly after 6:15pm :smile:
Who is planning to be out and about and wants to buy early?
I will be in Rice Park for the unveiling at 6pm, then will be hitting a few bars selling until 9pm... I then will be around all day Thursday & Friday to meet up with anyone.
Anyone else need buttons? We could meet for a Happy Hour some place...
5pm - 5:30pm at Gordies
If you are stopping by please text me to let me know 651-334-9680...
Your confirmation # is: 16389
We still need to hook up KAT. Where will you be tonight?
I was working Bingo last night -
Tonight I will be at the Landmark Center volunteering at the carnival office until 8/8:30, then will be stopping at Gordies on my way home.
Thursday open...
Your confirmation # is: 16980
Asked for buttons for Christmas. Didn't get any, so I got a pack today (sorry to those selling them, I'm way too spur of the moment to arrange a meeting to get them). All set to go get my 10,000...
I left a call for John Brewer who wrote the story and sent a copy of the article to my email. So am I covered for when I find it?? :pbpt:
I had to laugh looking at my first post on this subject and seeing when I first typed 11:59 I used the lower case L. I really am old. We were taught on typewriters that didn't have a numerical 1 key so we used the lower case L. Once in a while I regress. :sillygrin:
Tater - I still use the two spaces between sentences. I can't stop myself. To me it looks awkward to only have one space there anyway.
There is a new deal where there should be only once space between sentences now.
Now with computers, the various letters take up space differently. The i and the w are different widths and the period being just a dot takes such a small space that two spaces between sentences for readability is obsolete.
For me, I can't make myself do anything but two spaces between.
Then my first job had a manual typewriter which was okay until I got promoted into a job with an early version of the electric typewriter. We had letters to write with many copies - remember onion skin? I was so used to pounding keys that I had a heck of time with the easier touch of the electric version. The one person who was training me in must have thought I was going to be useless. I spent more time erasing all those onion skin copies.
I finally did get used to it and eventually we got new IBM selectrics. I loved that machine. I could type a hundred miles an hour on that. And we could switch out the little type ball if we needed a different font. Great fun.
Then I got promoted again and didn't have a typewriter for that job. The next promotion there was typing involved again but though it was electric, nothing as nice as those Selectrics had been. Of course that job also had an electric calculator. That had several vertical rows of numbers 0-9 that you used to input numbers and then do the next step and watch the little wheels in the windows work out the calculation.
Interesting, I hadn't thought of the double space for a sentence rule since then. Never used it either since then, I was such a rebel, lol.
Maybe that's why I still like the old Model M springbuckle computer keyboards too. They were modeled after the selectric IIs, built like frickin tanks too.