Random Thursday
Category: Random Thursday...
Posted Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 11:01 AM [GMT-6]

A brief collection of trivialities assembled while contemplating the idea that 34° (F) seems mercifully warm...

  • Don't know about you but when I'm sick, the Food Pyramid contracts to the bare essentials: NyQuil, hot green tea, and thumbprint cookies (shortbread with pecans, and dollop of chocolate frosting in the middle). If only NyQuil came in chocolate flavor...

  • I'm sure your weather is worse than mine right now, but I'm thankful that we're above the freezing mark for the first time since last Friday. I've decided that I hate winter. As I said in a comment over at Janie's place, I'd make a lousy Alaskan or NoDak. I don't know how Julie puts up with it, and I've never even had to use the back seat of my car as an adjunct to my freezer.

  • Abbye, on the other paw, is a big fan of cold weather, and for a dog who despises rain, she's remarkably comfortable with snow. I hope to post photos later today demonstrating that fact.

  • I'm usually less than enthusiastic by the flood of "Best of..." the past year's whatevers that accompanies each new year -- unless, of course, it's a look back at the year's best fonts.

  • If you're contemplating a knee replacement -- and, really, who isn't? -- you'll be interested, I'm sure, in watching the live webcast of this procedure, streaming from Odessa's Alliance Hospital via OR-Live.com next Tuesday, January 23, staring at 6:00 p.m. CST. Dr. William G. Reilly will demonstrate the "minimal incision total knee replacement" technique. Coincidentally, I'll be meeting with Dr. Reilly on the 22nd to discuss a new website for his practice. Anyway, I watched a bit of a webcast from Alliance last year -- it was a minimally invasive cardiac procedure using the hospital's DaVinci robotic surgical system -- and it's a fascinating look inside the operating room. If you're into this sort of thing -- and, really, who isn't? -- mark the date on your calendar. I'll bring the Junior Mints.*

*Oh, this is too easy...but extra credit for the first person to identify the source of this reference.

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Seinfeld episode, Elaine's ex-boy friend's surgery witnessed by Jerry & Kramer.

Posted by: buddy at January 18, 2007 01:13 PM

I'm a total font geek, but I don't think any of their Best of 2006 fonts would have made my list. On the other hand, I've been slobbering over American Scribe for years and have never quite been able to rationalize the $39 price tag. I did buy Texas Hero, back in the mid-'90s, but it was about half the price, then.

Posted by: Foo at January 18, 2007 01:16 PM

Nice catch, Buddy.

Foo, $39 is a small price to pay to be able to forge the Declaration of Independence. I think you could recoup that investment on eBay in no time.

As far as the BFO06, DearJoe 4 is actually more intriguing than you might surmise by looking at the sample. But Zaner is dang nigh illegible, and I've always tried to avoid that in a font.

Posted by: Eric at January 18, 2007 01:41 PM

Mac isn't a fan of rain (in fact he's the exact opposite) but if Abbye likes snow - I wonder what Mac would think...

Posted by: Rachel at January 18, 2007 05:35 PM

Pictures, I want snow pictures. I'm stuck out here in California tending to a sick 32-year-old son and am missing the glorious snow in Midland (or so I am told by my husband, who is home minding the home front).

Posted by: Nancy at January 18, 2007 10:45 PM

Rachel, it's hard to predict how dogs will react to new situations, isn't it?

Nancy, perhaps you should just drive to Malibu. I think they got more snow than we did! ;-)

Posted by: Eric at January 19, 2007 06:58 AM
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