Leah
I’ll send you a mail to explain.

Alec — Well, since you hate long winters (according to your website), I guess you wouldn’t like Cape Breton. It’s beautiful all year round, in my opinion, but our summers are what bring the tourists. Thanks for the welcome, and I look forward to being a certified Type Nut and/or Nerd… I’m sure it’s grand no matter what it’s called.

LaurenMarie — I’m with you on enjoying having access to real live type designers … it’s pretty cool.

John — This is really going to make me stick out as naive, but… what image directory? The way I got these smiley faces to work was by copying and pasting the source code. Am I missing something totally obvious here? (It wouldn’t be the first time. )

Leah (formerly known as the lurker)
“De-lurk”. That’s one for me to remember. Well, good too see that you did indeed de-lurk. Welcome to iLT.

I didn’t think those smilies were so great; but I didn’t think those bright yellow Messengeresque ones quite fitted in. I just opened the original smiley pic’ — from the images directory — and used some punctuation marks. Anyone is welcome to use them.

Paul
That’s a good question. I’ve never counted, but it’s 20 hours a week, plus (including time to research and write the articles, answer email inquiries, comments, etc.). I may have to slow down a little over the next two weeks as I’ll be in the UK on business.

Lauren

…how do you keep up with these lightning fast conversations?!

That’s easy: sleep deprivation ;)

PS: off topic, but just had to mention it. Hamish has just created a gorgeous scrabble-esque iLT wallpaper.

Kris, ah! Ligature. That’s the word I was looking for. Still trying to memorize all these type terms. You’re point is well taken about listening to a 3 second clip and dismissing the whole album. I’ve never thought about it like that before. I hope you don’t feel put out (or put off) by our comments. I’m really impressed that you came over here to discuss with us! It’s neat to have a type designer among us and I’ve been very interested in your replies to everyone. I hope you stick around! I think we can all learn a lot from you. Thanks for stopping by :)

Alec, Type NUT. I am not a nerd, thank you! ;) Glad to have you back!

I read Williams’ book years ago and really liked it. It was a nice introduction to the subject.

Anyhow, welcome on board. Stick around and soon you’ll be a bona fide type nerd!

Regarding John, thanks to his blog I got into typography and I love. One thing, John - how many hours a day do you spend on the blog (with all email replies etc.)?