The author discusses the campaign-defining disaster made by 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination candidate Mitt Romney's trusted aide Eric Fehrnstrom. She says that Fehrnstrom's comment has been understood as reinforcing the tendency of Romney to struggle on important issues. She adds that ...
put a limit on knock off pare off more ❯ “Even if the grass is greener on the other side, somebody still has to cut it.” Verb ▲ To gather by cutting pick cull harvest pluck reap garner gather collect crop gather in take in mow glean strip bring in pull dig draw ingather har...
In May 2012, a hand-drawn sketch of weapon-wielding, martial-artist turtles sold at auction for $71,700—it had been drawn in 1983 as the prototype for a new adult comic book series called “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” The grown-up subject matter was later softened for children and ...
Etch A Sketch Ieatflower // Wikimedia Commons Etch A Sketch In 1960, the Ohio Art Co. paid French electrician Andre Cassagnes $25,000 for the rights to his new invention: theEtch A Sketch. Released in U.S. markets just in time for Christmas, the aluminum powder drawing toy was an in...
On the eve of the 2012 political conventions, let’s examine five social media lessons the Presidential Campaign has given marketers and business executives regardless of their political views. While several candidates garnered media attention with their discussion of Etch-A-Sketch do-overs, the real...
Khamenei is not Mitt Romney. He will not etch-a-sketch away that statement drawing out a pro-nuclear Islamic stance when it suits him politically because it won’t. If he were to say atomic weapons are “pro-Islamic” he would be one unemployed autocrat real quick. ...
If you're picking up birthday gifts for the kids, that Malibu Barbie is $1.94, which is cheaper than that expensive etch-a-sketch which will run you a hefty $2.83. Oh, and you've been talking about moving. How about a house that's brand spanking new? You'll have to do some serio...
30 or 60 times a second. This is called araster display. Other CRTs, such as those used in oscilloscopes and insome early arcade video games, directly plot an image by tracing lines on the phosphor screen with a single electron gun, more like an electronic Etch-A-Sketch. These are calle...
GNOME has serious draw issues. I do not care what they are related to– it should be fixed. I know the jump to Cairo probably caused a minor setback in this area, but that’s all irrelevant. There’s no excuse as to why GNOME’s redraw is so slow compared to i.e. KDE’s. ...
Even if only a limited number of intermediate steps are shown here, it is good practice to invest the effort to draw detailed small-stepped cross-sections (including, e.g., resist masks). It would not be the first time that an incompatibility of a process step with some layer opened ...