Brown Motion

As I type my blog today I decided for no particular reason to research a bit about the style and design of the letters that are being printed on the sheet.  The letters showcased a 'typeface' aptly named during the days of ink printed on paper, is now represented and commonly referred to as the 'font' used in writing.  The typeface had to be literally cast from metal in foundries across Europe and used to hammer the inked reverse face on to paper sheets to produce the final result. Recent bon mot from my favorite comedy writer, the late PGW, crossed my reading glasses - "There's some raw work done at the baptismal font, Jeeves." Nothing to do with writing but naming of children, this religious article or piece of furniture is named as such perhaps due to the fact that it represents a fountain.  A fountain from which the future will flow.  Who knows? The reference to the font minus the digression is what I zoomed in on.  The typeface options...

My blogging hit a milestone - 13,000 views to date - I know I will be the first to say its another meaningless number but I am the one doing the writing so I am allowed to make exceptions. So then why I write is not because there are readers as much as it helps to get feedback from the blogosphere on how they perceive the commentaries, but to satisfy an innate need to vent, pontificate without repercussions, or simply to ensure that my brain is still coherent enough to articulate thoughts. As I write this blog, coincidentally I finished reading one of Andy Rooney's last books titled 'Out of My Mind'.  Master of puns and astute observer of the human condition he ranks amongst one of my favorite writers.  In the preface he wrote - "How much do I have to say that anyone cares about reading?   If you write for a living you have to put modesty out of your mind.  One thing I know is, that you can make an essay out  of anything.   There a...

This cliche of 'watch what you eat' has been beat to death in health conscious locales such as Northern California.  Of course it is a good idea to watch what you eat otherwise you end up like Mary. She did not see what she was eating and she swallowed a pencil.  It was 2B since she was gabbing with her friends and not watching what she ate. She swallowed it intact with the eraser and ferrule.  The lead however broke in the process and the coroner ruled lead poisoning as cause of death.  Actually that to me was debatable because technically there is no lead in the pencil but graphite. Softest known form of carbon which makes a pencil write.  But it was proved wrong by the ME who indicated lead as the root cause.  Now the sharpened end had a point so maybe that did her in.  Tore her gut out as she swallowed the implement whole. Moral - Even a good eraser cannot undo a stupid act.