February 14, 2007
Choice and meaning
Choosing a Valentine card can be hard, as Cathy has been reminding us lately:
Advice on this subject is easier to give than to take:
But in fact, you don't need to be in a store any more, and you don't need drawing skills or good handwriting. A few minutes with an interactive graphics program and a bit of internet search, and you could create a nice-looking card expressing any sentiment you like. For example, you could start with this one from xkcd:
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Somehow, that doesn't make it any easier. This is one of those cases, like casual conversation, where it might really be true that constraint is liberating:
