Cleartype Team - Talking about new Fonts on Longhorn (Happy Birthday Video #4)

This is a great video. Anybody who thinks development is about computer science first and last should watch this.
I love hearing people who are obviously pasionate about there work. I also love hearing from people who come at a job from a slightly odd angle and bring a new perspective to it.
Bill fulfills both of those criteria
scobleizer wrote:Bill gave a short interview to the .NET Show. We have some other suprises coming in our second year, though. Hang in there!
A tour of campus is of interest, I'm sure, but should be seperate from an interview with Bill Hill about what nature can teach us about reading and typography. Granted that the interview seems to have started out with the idea that it would be Bill Hill
conducting a tour of campus, but once he went further afield I would have jettisoned those plans and let him loose.
A good single camera interview can make me feel like I'm there with the subject the same way a well-designed book disappears leaving just me and the content. Your interjections snap me out of that illusion as surely as bad hyphenation or a sudden font change
mid-sentence.
When I read your blog (which I do, a lot) I want to see you; in interviews not so much.
Geez. Lighten up.danguyf wrote:And it would have been, if not for Scoble interrupting him with useless ephemera, like what number a building is or telling Bill that he's going to get a close-up of a mountain.
Actually he was looking at me. I try to get subjects not to look at the camera. It looks weird when they do that, almost like they are pitching. He looks like he's looking at the camera cause I was holding the camera close to my face.
Longer videos are definitely coming. Most of the vids in April will be longer.
Who knew typography was so fascinating?
I was so excited to see the new Bill Hill movie that I misread the running time to be a bit over 1 minute rather than a bit over an hour. What a pleasant surprise.
Scoble...can you do me a favor - learn to talk a little less. I appreciate your enthusiasm but talking over Bill Hill is like blabbing on and on about the colors of the sunset when all we want to do is just soak it in.
Once we get through that, maybe we can address your ADD. Every time something caught your eye, you would snap over to reveal a passing jogger or bicyclist - essentially cutting off the presenter mid-stream.
Let's try and F O C U S!
Don't get me wrong - I think the Ch9 team does a great job...just don't disrespect Bill. Either of 'em.
Guess it should be noted the Bill Hill part of the video lasts 01:11:43 from the beginning. After that it seems the rest of the video is ..
Cleartype Team - Talking about new Fonts on Longhorn (Happy Birthday Video #4)
scobleizer wrote:That's awesome. You get the job!
bill hill wrote:This is an admirably insane effort to transcribe my Glasgow accent. I don't know how you managed to do so well, especially with uncommon words.
I'm talking about an animal's gait, not its gape, pace or rate.
And it's foveal vision, not full-view vision.
bill hill wrote:But in general I'm amazed. This must have taken forever.
dum de dum
scobleizer wrote:GeoffC: Thanks. I realize it. Glad to hear you liked it. It's always a risk to put up something that takes that much time.
rasx wrote:
It is a shame that guys like Bill Hill are probably seen as rare in corporate culture. As W2 or 1099 laborers, we are trained to forget that a corporation is a virtual person. Everytime Bill Hill steps "outside" into the laws of nature he takes off his virtual reality suit and renews his human incarnation---this is superior to just taking a vacation. Bill Hill needs to start a trend. Unlikely beings may return to days when giants walked the Earth and find peace and harmony.
Tsk, tsk.Bill Hill's Profile (Here) wrote:Last Seen:[...] Mar 2, 2006
Thanks to Bill Hill for teaching me some of the basic points to tracking. i wasnt aware that i had this ability that you speak about. but some how i gave it a try and wowzers, it works!
I had an oportunitie once to track some peoples foot steps once. and it was amazing to see that i could conclued/speculate alot about some people just by the lenght of thier stride, thier shoe size, even the type of tred they had on thier shoes. i got so cought up in it that it actualy was rather fun, something primal about it. It was almost excilerating to be down on the floor with my nose in the dust looking for the next step...
any way, thanks.
"Now if you think it's hard doing a lowercase 'm' at 9pt or 10pt, try doing utsu (鬱), which has 8 horizontal strokes. If you have 8 horizontal strokes, you need 15 pixels to show them all, right?
8 black and 7 whites between 'em. But at 10pt, you only have 9... or 14, or whatever. So what do you do there? Well the solution in the past was they embedded bitmaps. They had to do stroke reduction. Can't show all the strokes.
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The Japanese are just going to go ape. We've had incredible feedback from the Japanese government people looking at this."
My dad's a designer; he did some typography stuff back when we were in Japan. He does publishing and printing now. Sure enough, he went ape when he saw Meiryo.
Thanks, Bill.
Re-opening comments.
I miss Bill, he had the voice, presence and humility that made the seeming mundane and boring into the most fascinating and interesting talk subject.
Also did Bill predict the potential popularity of the IPhone / WP7? in this video.
Really enjoyed watching this. I remember Bill coming back and casually mentioning he'd gone for a hike round the campus with the channel 9 guys, but I hadn't seen it before. I'd really love to get copies of all his interviews if possible, he always told a good story and they are a great memorial to him. This is my favourite reminds me of so many of our walks together. Thank you.
Tanya (Bill's wife)