Some of the day was good. My stomach ulcer continues to recede, so that I’m back to eating mostly as before (but no cold-brewed black coffee or spicy stuff); everything else rolls on in crisis as before, but it’s familiar crisis, and leaves a bit of time for my work and writing. In preparation, three postings on recent cartoons: a Bizarro, a Rhymes With Orange, and a Bob Eckstein (all of which made me laugh in delight on first viewing, all of which illustrate nice points about cartoons, language, and culture).
Then came a comment offered about yesterday’s “Cat people” posting:
Is there a way to view this such that it can be read? The writing is too small to be read, even when embiggened by multiple zoom in steps.
I could read it, with my impaired vision, as it stood, and it was quite clear with one zooming (I’d warned people that embiggening might be necessary). No one (else) had complained about legibility, and several people commented on points in the text, so they’d clearly read it.
Hours wasted in fruitless discussion on the legibility issue. One low point:
Reader: As you can see, …
AZ: Look, you have to understand that I CANNOT SEE WHAT YOU ARE SEEING. You see what your software does with the file I posted on the hardware you’re using; I see what my software does with this file on the hardware I have.
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