Li turned 7 years old this past Monday, and based on something I saw Friday afternoon, it would seem that the time has come for one of those important father/daughter "talks". I was doing some volunteer computer tech support at Li's school on Friday afternoon. She had left her research paper on Argentinean pampas deer open in MS Word on one of the computers in her classroom. (She had saved it -- of which I was proud -- something not all of the students in her class have apparently learned, based on my observations.) One of her teachers found me sobbing uncontrollably under the computer table... Li's entire paper is set in ... [gasp] Comic Sans. The horror, the shame... I was so unprepared.
While MS Word probably does not deserve anything better, Comic Sans is a horrible thing to do to Argentina, pampas deer, and research papers. Yes, even 1st grade research papers.
(This entry is based on a Facebook post I started on January 10, 2014. Most of it is true, aside from the "sobbing uncontrollably under the computer table" bit.)
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