Top Notch Inc.

I Miss My Friend

noreply@blogger.com (J.R. Top) — Sun, 1 Jul 2018 20:36:00 -0700

My friend Justin Bradley passed away suddenly in early October of 2017. I miss him dearly.

That is all.

Love to you all.

Of Portly Men with Mid-Sized Dreams - Travel Log 1

noreply@blogger.com (J.R. Top) — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:55:00 -0700

Well folks,

I'm travelling across the South and Southwest this summer, I will be writing a lot more about the adventures of these coming months as they happen.

2:30 a.m. and More Booklets.

noreply@blogger.com (J.R. Top) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:21:00 -0700

Whilst I sit here at my laptop in the shop, I have a million wonderful things in my brain that would be great to blog about, but now they are gone. Instead I watch stand-up comedians on my Netflix instant cue and watch drunks amble down the street discussing their latest crazy party night. Not too bad really. Now here's a picture of a Darth Vader disco ball.

The fine modern art of the Booklet... Also, why I think Little Richard is awesome.

noreply@blogger.com (J.R. Top) — Wed, 7 Apr 2010 19:08:00 -0700

So I've been making booklets for the last three nights, here's how we do it where I work at.

Step one, take your magic digital files, .pdf'

s mainly, and put them together in Adobe InDesign or what have you and send them to a fancy digital press (a.k.a. Expensive full color copy machine) with a folder/ saddle stitcher (Those big staples in your US Weekly magazine) attachment. Like this one below.

Step one: Retrieve booklet from kludged cardboard box booklet collector.

Step two: Go to the ancient beautifully old manual swing cutter as pictured below.

Step three: Grab the uncut booklet.

Step four: Make your cuts, as you can see in the picture above we've got three cuts to make to trim it down to correct size and nothing but image on the front.

Boom! Finished booklet and some great motion to help strengthen your back or give you a static injury.

Now onto why Little Richard is awesome -

Little Richard is awesome, some say the Architect of Rock and Roll, and I'm inclined to agree.

This is why he's awesome...

At the copier, making booklets...

noreply@blogger.com (J.R. Top) — Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:51:00 -0700

That's right folks, I will be blogging my random thoughts throughout this week. I'm making booklets, or I should say the "Digital Press" that we have at my work is making them while I make sure it keeps running. I should be done tonight around 2:30 a.m. Sometimes when I'm bored things like this happen...

I only hope...

I don't have to work until later this afternoon, so I thought, "Why not start a blog?"

noreply@blogger.com (J.R. Top) — Mon, 5 Apr 2010 11:44:00 -0700

So I guess this is it, another thing in life to get around to doing later. Here's what I hope to do with this thing the kids call, "A blog."

1. Improve my writing skills. - I graduated from Hannibal-LaGrange College in 2004 with a lot of english under my belt, and in the years after have lost my penchant for proper grammar and the like. Thank you internet spell check.

2. To get random interviews with various folks on audio... or in the written word.

3. To amuse myself more than I already do.

I'm a man of large and varied tastes, so there will be a lot of randomness posted about my fleeting interests and my ability to procrastinate learning anything too meaningful out of them. So, be expecting music, film, cooking, video games, car repair, DIY cd making, Printmaking, computers, etc...

I hope whomever stumbles upon this will find something worthwhile to read or start looking into, then hopefully study it further and get back to me on the subject.

Sincerely,

J.R.