What to do with my body after it dies.

Earlier I was reading a story about how the Navajo Nation objects to a private company using NASA to store human remains on the moon because of its status in Navajo cosmology (Sir Arthur Clarke's DNA is also being sent to the there). Aside from how classist this pursuit is it led me to thinking about how I would want my ashes dispersed. If I had the money it'd be cool to spread them into the Oort Cloud that way bits of me could possibly fall to Earth like meteors. I'd be turned into shooting stars. Very romantical.

rsmurphy wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 3:13 pm What to do with my body after it dies.

But psilocybin, thanks.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 3:35 pm But psilocybin, thanks.

Cool idea.

I need to buy property so I can be buried on it. No rotting with the hoi polloi.

Natural burial really seems like the way to go. Gotta check local laws regarding that tho.

penningtron wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:17 pm Natural burial really seems like the way to go.

Definitely. It's wild that birth and death, two naturally occurring human processes, can financially cripple loved ones and/or cause environmental harm.

Chuck my carcass in a bin bag for all I care, because I won't. Or do whatever is least upsetting for the kids, I guess. So roping my corpse to a lamppost for people to beat with sticks like a deposed dictator is probably out.

It would be a hard sell for anyone to claim cultural rights over the moon, being how it's been a central figure in every culture's mythology ever since humans discovered looking up.

Meanwhile, I saw that word "scaleable" in the other thread, and I was just thinking it was stupid for Dick Jones to be antagonistic towards the Robocop project, because Robocop was never scaleable. Robocop is a concept car, not a production model. He was good PR for the company and ultimately he would have helped them to sell more ED-209s.

Anthony Flack wrote: Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:00 pm Meanwhile, I saw that word "scaleable" in the other thread, and I was just thinking it was stupid for Dick Jones to be antagonistic towards the Robocop project, because Robocop was never scaleable. Robocop is a concept car, not a production model. He was good PR for the company and ultimately he would have helped them to sell more ED-209s.

Well he didn't get to see Robocop 2, where they try to do exactly that (build Robocops at scale).

Are their different typefaces for kanji and, like, Chinese characters? Korean? Like Futura and Gill Sans and shit like that?

enframed wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:27 pm Are their different typefaces for kanji and, like, Chinese characters? Korean? Like Futura and Gill Sans and shit like that?

There are. A couple of dedicated fonts come with the OS language pack / keyboard layout, but you can also set it to whatever you want (don't know if this has always been the case).

Below are a few examples. The first two lines is a font called MS Mincho which is the default for Japanese. Then you have Times New Roman for reference, then MS Mincho, MS PMincho, MS Gothic, SimSun, and MingLiu. I chose the Asian-sounding names I found but these are also forms I recognize the names of or that I remember having seen in use myself - or at least something close to it.





Here's an example of newspaper font, which isn't featured here I think, and I don't know the name of, but it's very typical. In the block letters on the lower left you can note the four "dots" in the first 鳩 character - these can look like either droplets made with a brush (like they do here), or like narrow strokes made with a pencil or marker (like in two of the examples above). Another example with a few different styles. The big letters have a more rounded look than the small ones.

Huh.

I guess that Vincent Gallo guy is an asshole still.. (open in incognito window to avoid paywall)

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