Gym followed by a walk. No wonder my little legs are aching. A walk with Daughter is more of a route march. I have to keep saying, "Slow down!"
Apparently the blame is being laid at the feet of the golf club who did something with pipes. I don't think the golf club is to blame for the number of dead seagulls on the beach though. Or the decapitated seal. Recent stormy weather I suppose washed them up.
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I notice that the American State Department is cancelling Times New Roman font. Secretary Blinken has told the department to adopt Calibri in its place.
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Today is the Feast Day of St. Fillan. The saint of mentally ill people, it is said he had a glowing arm called Mayne and a magic bell that flew through the air. (Thanks to Rev Richard Cole on Twitter for that nugget of information.)
5 comments:
A glowing arm and a flying bell? Yowza!
St Fillan sounds pretty interesting.
I have no idea what font my blog is in. Maybe I should know that. I don't remember choosing one.
Indeed, Debra. The gods have no chance against a saint with a flying bell!
Boud, I use verdana for my blog but when I'm writing something elsewhere I use Calibri. Or Garamond if I want a serif font.
Hmm. Can you explain to me how Calibri font “creates a more accessible Department”?!? I am completely stymied on how this can be so.
For me, I tend to find Times New Roman more readable in a hard copy book. Yet most of my documents that I write and print (syllabi, etc.) I have used Arial for many years. I have taken to using Calibri on my PowerPoint slides because (at least to me) Calibri looks a bit “cleaner” and more “fancy” in some fashion when I have brief statements on PowerPoint slides.
Yet, while Calibri also seems ok on documents, I would have to say it is a bit distracting to me in a paper form book.
But….. still….the idea that Calibri creates a more accessible anything…. seems like hyperbole and rubbish to me. It is fine for some upper management person to decide a font for their agency….no problems with that….but the claim of more accessibility….. seems to me almost Orwellian.
PipeTobacco
PipeTobacco, I agree that I think we need Times or another serif font in books as the reading flows more easily. I find Arial a bit 'harsh'. Someone somewhere probably got paid a lot of money to work out the most accessible font.
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