A font is a computer machine-generated letter style.  *edited for accuracy - Thanks Narfi :)*

A hand is a particular style of calligraphy.

Please to stop referring to the difficult-to-read fonts on scrolls and C&I work, as you are implying that calligraphers are using computers to make pretty letters.  Most of us worked too damn hard to not get ( Read more... )

My husb sends me a message this morning, from Canada.  He went home for Thanksgiving.

"Guarantee I am having a worse morning than you.   Lost green card and passport."

*cue 2 hours of silent panic before*

"Never mind.  Found them in secret compartment of van I didn't know existed, much less ever put things in."

The end of this, my husband will

Sometimes, it's hard to remember why we do this, given the propensity to relegate it to a "hobby" or an unimportant pastime.   It's easy to forget the intangible, rarely seen benefit to being part of the SCA.    It's easier to roll our eyes at listserv drama, and snark those things that annoy us and drive us crazy, like coke cans and camp chairs, ( Read more... )

Urge to LIVIA SMASH rising...

Laurel told me to behave myself..

... But.. but..

.. SMASH!

This is what I secretly fear will happen every time I give my apprentice sister my documentation.

http://www.explosm.net/comics/2083/

P.S. Other comics in this particular webcomic can be crude, distasteful, shocking, and somewhat horrible.  Read at your own risk.

My laurel's been poking me to put my stuff up on the household website.   At Pennsic, my lizard-faced rat fink apprentice sister stuck my website address on my display so that people would know where to go look post-Pennsic, which meant I *had* to actually do it this time.

(The look on my face the first time someone looked at my display and said ( Read more... )

( Read on .. if you must. )

1.)  I will not snark others, no matter how much they deserve to be snarked.  This includes any comments on garb, or elf ears.

This one was rough.  I think I made it to Tuesday.  And I'd also like a definition on snarking.

If something is categorically, obviously bad, is it snarking to say so, or is it only snarking if its nebulously bad in some way ( Read more... )

1.)  I will not snark others, no matter how much they deserve to be snarked.  This includes any comments on garb, or elf ears ( Read more... )

I really do.

I got a call today from a collection agency for my maiden name (which Verizon hasn't used for 2 years), for a collection account from Verizon.
The last time they called, I actually did call Verizon to ask them Wtf was up.   They said nothing was up, adn they had no idea what I was talking about.

When we changed our account so that foklens  was ( Read more... )