Other Stuff I've Been Doing Lately

I helped a friend write a book. No; that’s too grandiose. I helped her with some of the editing. In the process, though, I took the equivalent of an introductory course in typography. The only problem is that this cartoon now applies to me:

Everywhere I go, I notice the typography. I find rivers in medical journals. Papyrus makes me gag. Comic sans just annoys me. I even notice typography where there is none. Case in point:

We recently re-arranged our family room from this:

to this:

My reaction to the bottles on the top shelf:

They need to be kerned.