A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

@emptysqua.re

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Senior Staff Research Engineer in the MongoDB Distributed Systems Research Group. Photographer, Gunks climber, Zen Buddhist. Blog: https://emptysqua.re

The priest, Jo An Sensei, with his hands in gassho. An altar with a flower is in the foreground.
A group of Zen practitioners at a dining table eating from black lacquer oryoki bowls.
A small zendo with four people meditating in front of a fire in the fireplace.
Left column This is The Times New Roman, designed at Printing House Square expressly for use in The Times. The size you are now reading will be used for the principal sections of The Times. The several complementary sizes are equally well proportioned for the respective services in the paper. The new fount will be employed on and after October 3, 1932. The Times, for generations the best printed paper, will, by present-day optical standards, be the most comfortably readable journal in the world. All the new founts have been tested by the highest ophthalmic authority. By this adjustment of its columns to the needs of the contemporary reader, The Times believes that it is anticipating a general public demand which sooner or later will be made upon journalism at large. The improvement in the ease of reading may be immediately seen by a comparison of this column with the adjoining matter set in a similar size of the superseded fount. ⸻ Right column This specimen of the superseded fount is intended to illustrate, by comparison, the superior legibility of the fount used in the left-hand column. The design of the type used for the composition of these lines originated more than a century ago, when reading habits were different. It is evident that there must be changes in typography as long as our social habits are open to variation. When it was founded, The Times was largely read in coffee-houses; in the nineteenth century it came to be read in trains; to-day it is largely read in cars and airliners. Reading habits, dependent on social habits, will not remain constant. Neither must newspaper typography remain constant. Advances in English craftsmanship have now made possible the designing and engraving of the supremely readable fount to be seen in the adjoining column. The use of the fount in which these words are set will terminate in the issue of The Times for October 1, 1932.
A few lads wearing the UK flag or the St. George's Cross flag as capes face a line of British police in riot gear with plastic shields on a rainy London sidewalk.
A shirtless male climber balancing on a nearly vertical rock wall.
A climber's foot in a climbing shoe on the rock, with a drop of blood oozing from a scratch on her ankle.
Liza prepares to jump for the final hold of the route
A cartoon I generated with AI. On one side, an office worker is startled by the minotaur that appears on her desk. On the other side, Theseus, holding a sword and a ball of thread, is startled to find a monitor in the cave at the center of the maze at Knossos.