greek font society

Someone on Twitter posted "the Greek Font Society". It was through friendfeed so the link that was no doubt included was lost, so I googled it.

Many many Greek fonts, grouped by century. Apparently the greek letter Ξ has three forms: three disconnected lines, three lines connected by a single vertical strike-through, and three lines drawn with diagonal lines connecting them, as if the first form were written without taking the pen off the page. It's this last form that was present in the Refrigerator Magnet Alphabet that a co-worker brought me from Greece back during the 2004 Olympics project.

What I really want to see, though, are Greek novelty fonts. The kind used by Old West shows and Chinese restaurants, and heavy metal bands when they're not using English.

It must be strange to live in a parallel universe of letters, where Η is a vowel and only the Slavic people agree with you on what Ρ sounds like.

Golf on TV

George Carlin once said that watching golf on TV was like watching flies fuck. I don't know what he was going for with that metaphor, but it's probably the most relaxing thing on TV, or would be if not for the commercials. And when golf is on network TV, I know my grandparents aren't watching Fox News, the least relaxing thing on TV.

The Weather Channel used to be the most relaxing thing on TV, back before they cared about ratings and started running all those storm documentaries. You could just watch guys in front of maps, and then some charts with some smooth jazz behind it.

But if you have digital TV in Phoenix, you might be better off leaving on Channel 8-3, which has a slideshow of some of Arizona's best scenery, and the classical radio station KBAQ playing behind it. The actual radio signal of KBAQ is very weak, and hard to tune in.