Pinky Gone Driving Little tidbits not meant for human consumption

After reading this article on typography for the web, I've switched the font on Pinky Gone Driving. Typography and graphic design have always been interests of mine, ever since I was the editor of our high school's newspaper. Desktop Publishing (DTP) has always interested me ever since it became possible. The first time that I saw Quark Express I nearly crapped my pants. (Having a 4 month-old makes you talk like this.)

I've been making web pages for various purposes for a long time (HTML 1.0 anyone?) and I've tried to keep things as readable and visually interesting as I can. I have been teaching myself CSS for a while now and am just about to redo my ugliest current web page. Stay tuned. You'll be seeing more Sans Serif fonts, two column layouts and CSS styling.

I had an odd weekend marked by two unusual occurences. First, I saw Sy Safransky, the publisher of The Sun leaving the co-op the other night. I knew that The Sun was based in Chapel Hill, and that Sy was a local (his name's even in the phone book!) but I had yet to see him in the flesh. Thanks to a picture of him on the cover of some other magazine in the checkout line at the co-op I knew what he looked like and that resulted in my pleasant double-take on that fateful night. I considered going after thim just to say "Love your magazine, man" but decided against pestering him. Although, I probably blew my chance to see myself referred to by Sy in print as "some guy outside the grocery store".

The other unusual experience was an exceptional hand of cards. The game was Pinochle, which Lara and I have recently started playing at night after Rose goes to bed and we get our chores done. (It supplanted cribbage which was our previous nocturnal card game.) For the first time ever I got the double book, the highest possible combination of cards in the game. Diamonds was trump and I melded 166 points on the hand. Pinochle fans, you appreciate how cool this was. Everyone else will have to trust me on how rare this is. It was indeed an exceptional weekend.