I could be wrong, but I think that Stymie is a closer match for the body than Rockwell, particularly due to the serif on the middle arm of capital E (and F). I think that Stymie also matches other details as outlined in the comparison page on Identifont (http://www.identifont.com/differences?first=stymie&second=ro...)
Ohhhhh! REALLY good catch, I think you're right. Matches all of the features!
There's some really neat uses of it on Fonts In Use. [0]
Also a new-jersey based foundry specimen book, from a few years before publishing this catalog. [1] There's a non-zero chance that these samples were originally what convinced the original designer to go with this typeface, if we believe the designer also worked in Corning New York at the pyrex office.
When I had first heard about this, it was the only anti-MSG argument that sounded even remotely plausible, but it seems that nowadays commercial MSG is made by bacterial fermentation, which means that they would also have the preference for L-oriented amino acids.
Here is an overall history of MSG production, including chemical synthesis (now obsolete). Even when they were doing this, they screened out the D-glutamate and re-synthesized it to maximize L-glutamate production (might not have been 100% effective, as apparently it involved doing optical screening of the crystals)
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/90/3/728S.full
Disclaimer - I am Japanese American, so grew up with Ajinomoto MSG, dashi, tomato sauce, parmesan, Doritos, etc. as part of my diet, so am biased toward skepticism on this topic.
Interesting - the metafilter referenced elsewhere on the thread had a pointer to a paper about D-glutamate vs L-glutamate. Apparently, bacterial fermentation generates a fair amount of D-glutamate, but this is true of "naturally occurring" fermentation (such as in cheese) too.
The abstract claims foods to which MSG is added directly contained lower amounts of D-glutamate than foods where the MSG comes from fermented foods. I wonder why? Maybe due to better optimization / control for L-glutamate production in the bacteria?
Way back in the early nineties, when I was in college, I went to go visit my friend at his school. He had class, so I went to the library to kill a few hours. I dug through the (rather ancient) CS section, and pulled some books to read. Two have stuck with me:
One was __The Mythical Man-Month__ (the old one, not any of the reissues). That put into words so many things that I felt about computer programming, if nothing else the humanness of programming as a pursuit.
The second was __Software Tools__. Even then, whichever version I encountered was ancient (I was learning C in school). It didn't impact me quite as much as TMMM (which I think i read most of in the library), but it was enough for me to remember and pick up a used copy a few years back.
I still haven't read it, so I'm glad you reminded me about it.
As far as a modern book, the one that seems closest to me is __The Practice of Programming__.
I just noticed that Understanding the Apple IIe also got a re-issue from Call-A.P.P.L.E. in 2024 (print edition from Lulu) - https://www.callapple.org/books-3/understanding-the-apple-ii... .
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