The Games We Play
Lately, the misses has been taking my ass back to the ‘Jack of Club’s School for Challenged Card Players’. Her game is Gin and she’s on a hot streak that can only be classified as merciless. On most nights, our mini tournaments will end after I’ve lost my eighth game in a row. As I am no fan of losing, even when money isn’t involved, I usually do something childish – throw cards across room, make wild accusations of cheating, misdealing, feeding me too much booze, etc. But seriously folks, I need a new strategy cause it’s getting ridiculous. I taught her the game not two months ago and now I’m beginning to regret it. Fortunately I think my luck will change after I purchase this typographical deck of cards put out by the P22 Type Foundry. Never has there been a prettier deck of cards. Fonts come save me.

While I’m at it, the Apple computer historians over at Folklore have a nice piece of history about the creation and naming of the first Apple font sets. Boy do I remember abusing a 14 point Geneva back in the old college days. That font single handily saved me hours of work on those twenty plus page papers. It was almost scary how quickly Geneva could turn a slacker effort fourteen pages into an epic twenty one page polemic blast.

Also, a funny video as metaphor for life.