Month: October 2003

Just wanted to give you a heads up that from now on, when I think of Don Zimmer, I’m picturing Tor Johnson from Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Interchangeable, no?

I love fonts. I don’t use a lot of fancy fonts because, well, I’m a little scared of them. I’ve taken enough UI design and usability courses to know that it’s not all about the fonts I like, it’s all about the fonts people can read.

And I’m no fool – I don’t want to overwhelm my readers and send them into Fun House spasms. Keep it to only a couple of fonts and faces – so if you’re going to start using bolding, or different sizes, that’s it, baby. Oh, and what of the whole serif vs. san-serif discussion?

Sure, I could find someone somewhere who would tell me it’s perfectly okay to add a little more oomph to my page. But like I said, it’s a big scary fonty world out there. I don’t want to pick the wrong one(s). I’m not looking to uglify my life – I don’t want an “Ugly Site of the Day” award. But if I had my way, I’d load up on fonts. New ones everywhere. This place would look like a crappy diner menu.

I’m just sayin…

They sell the New York Post in our cafeteria (along with the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and the Boston and Worcester papers) and I picked it up because of the photo on the cover, showing Nelson and Garcia, who they say will be charged with something related to the Williams’ attack. I turned to page 4 because that’s where the full story was, and the sidebar caught my eye. I have to assume it was an editorial, but it didn’t appear on the editorial page, it was on page 4 with the other news. And the following snippet caught my eye and lodged in my skull. I paraphrase, because I didn’t want to have to buy that nasty piece of trash just to get the quote correct.

“the grandpa was hurled down by the nasty, millionaire punk.”

Uh, wow. Grandpa. Well, I guess if he’s a grandpa he’s 100% innocent. Grandpas never do anything bad. Or wrong. Or stupid. I like that we’re referring to him as a grandpa. He’s probably too soft to be holding the position he does, then, right? Unfriggingbelievable. Every time I think I’ve calmed down enough to get past that game, I read something like this. You know, if some wacko takes it upon himself to somehow hurt Pedro to avenge “Grandpa”, every single person who wrote trash like this Post “journalist” should be held accountable. Cause sweetheart, when you write stuff like this, you’re no better than anyone else who got involved in the skirmish out on the field. Takes a punk to know a punk.

I’m going to link you all to a great summary of “the Incident” over at The House That Dewey Built, a baseball fan’s blog. I think his opinions hold more weight than mine, even if they are similar. I also didn’t have the back story to understand why some people are rabidly calling for Pedro’s head, practically canonizing Don Zimmer. I should point out, for the 400th time, Pedro didn’t seek out and charge Don Zimmer, kids. And as I pointed out on someone else’s blog, one of those video shots shows that half the reason Zim fell is because of the forward momentum and lack of balance he had.

Anyway, what bothers me most is when I read that people forgive Zim’s attempted assault on Pedro simply because he’s 72. That is just wrong – you can’t draw a line in the sand and say “oh, he’s 72, that’s on the “do whatever the hell you want and nobody can touch you” side of the line.

Michael Bloomberg, you big honking idiot. How DARE you say Pedro should have been arrested but refuse to comment the attack ON Pedro, OR the way the bullpen ganged up on the groundskeeper. If that happened in New York you would have arrested the perpetrator? Well wouldn’t that mean Zimmer would have had his only comfy seat in the back of a cruiser as well? I cannot fathom this turning a blind eye simply because Zimmer is 72. Outrageous!