The Frogurt Is Also Cursed

(LJ Knows Everything)

Yesterday on campus I noticed on the columns supporting the Math building, someone had chalked a symbol on each column. It looked like a V and an O superimposed.

This morning, I noticed the same symbol on the limestone trim around the doors to the Physics building. There was also a Buildings and Grounds department crew investigating it. When I got settled in my office today, in the daily campus news e-mail was a letter from the university president condemning some "very offensive graffiti painted on a tree trunk and chalked onto several campus buildings" and mentioning it had been removed. The symbols I saw on the physics building this morning were, in fact, gone when I passed by to leave this afternoon.

Anyone know what a superimposed V and O represents? I thought, based on the timing of me first seeing it the day after the election, it was something to do with that. Toni suggested it might be a gang symbol of some sort. Googling for what the symbol is was futile. The Googles do nothing. ;-)

[Edit: Got my answer. Apparently, as I was unaware, it was a symbol for anarchy used in V for Vendetta. So it probably was political. Probably some idiot undergrads thinking they were funny. Jerks.]

(From britgeekgrrl and elsewhere.)

Online journals are little filters that we each see every one else's lives through, the parts others choose to share with us. That said, we all think we are close, but really we seldom know a lot about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

That is, unless anyone has a better suggestion.

I have this several-page application for another fellowship through the American Meteorological Society. It's an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) document. There are spaces for writing essay answers to a few questions, and the instructions indicate to use the space provided, not a separate sheet. I don't have access to a typewriter, and no Word doc or similar version is available. I have the full version of Acrobat, but adding large chunks of text to an existing document doesn't seem to work very well. Exporting from Acrobat to a Word doc version completely mucks up the formatting. I just had a brainstorm and tried to open the PDF in Adobe InDesign (the successor to PageMaker) - no go. Won't even read it.

So, I thought, just for the hell of it, to try to open it in PhotoShop CS. It worked! I have to throw a new layer of white underneath each page as the white of the paper is imported into PS as transparent, but that's easily done. One thing I don't like, though, is that, when I print from there, the existing text looks fuzzy. I tried importing at 72 dpi and 300 dpi and it didn't seem to make a difference - PS must import the text as rasterized rather than as vectors. If I have to do it this way, though, at least my own text that I add in PS will be sharp.

Anyone have any alternative suggestions?