Font trivia

Fascinating trivia tidbit of the day:

I just learned why sans serif is called "sans serif." You know those little strokes at the ends of the sticks that make up (Roman) type? The ones you can see at the bottom of "l" if you're typing in the LJ update window? The things that make the difference between lowercase l and uppercase I in fonts where they don't look identical*? Those strokes are called "serifs," and sans serif - you guessed it - doesn't have 'em.

My particular journal style doesn't have them either, so I don't know how well this post will make sense to people. In other news, the big library is deserted like whoa today, and I got my laptop! I will go home and play with it this afternoon; this morning is for research.


*oh, the irony!

New laptop!

Good god, this shiny new MacBook is REALLY SHINY. I downloaded Firefox and Yahoo Messenger and I'm looking at the GIMP page. I'm typing this from my new LJ clienty thingamajig. All I have to do now is get all the stuff I want over onto this computer :) I fear I'll never use my desktop again, but I imagine I will.

But not for schoolwork! *cue maniacal laughter*

At least not for a while. Anyway, I'm very excited about this laptop. I've got to play around with Pages (the word processor) more to see how it works, and go poking around Keynote to discern just what that program does. I think it's a PowerPoint-like presentation-designing program.

So far, the only problem I'm running into is that I can't get AirPort to connect to our wireless :\ Hopefully that's the wireless's problem and not the computer's, but since our wireless has ALWAYS been finicky, I figure that's probably it.

*goes to explore some more*