[ale] Today I put the keys back in order

[Charles Shapiro]

Ooh! At least you'll become expert at *typing of the Dead* (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead ) Available only on
winders, alas.


-- CHS

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> Back in the dawn of time (a/k/a my high school years) I ended up with a
> free period so chose typing just for the hell of it.  (Back then they
> were actual typewriters.  The only keyboards for computers were on
> keypunch machines and I didn't see one of those until college.)  I was
> horrible at it and only did about 30 WPM by the end of the semester.
>
> However, once I started working on PCs (actual IBM PCs mind you as well
> as an Adam at home) the typing put me ahead of many others and these
> days I type rather rapidly.  Amazing what 20+ years of practice does for
> one.
>
> What I've noticed though is more and more I do weird things like add "d"
> to the end of words that end in "e" (as if they were all past tensed
> er... tense) and also have a tendency to type the first word that fits
> the sound such as "their" when I mean "there" or "to" when I mean "two".
> What aggravates me is the grammar checkers will let that kind of stuff
> through with no complaint but then try to force me to change sentences
> with perfectly good syntax.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Richard Bronosky
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 8:28 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: [ale] Today I put the keys back in order
>
> After typing incorrectly for 25 years I finally got serious about
> touch typing. I took my favorite orthopedic keyboard (from datadesk)
> and sanded the ink off of the keys. It was the most miserable 2 weeks
> of my career, but I learned very quickly. In the following years I
> noticed that my performance on company issued laptops was terrible. I
> switch to a regular keyboard (which I also sanded) at my desk and
> found that I still had my speed. (I also found that I wasn't nearly as
> uncomfortable since learning to type correctly, so I've kept it.) The
> problem was the temptation to look at the keys on the laptop. I
> couldn't fight it. I couldn't sand them. I tried stickers, then
> white-out, but they failed. The solution was to pull the keys off,
> scramble them and pop then back on. You just have to make sure you
> transpose the F and J keys because of the nubs. I did that for a year
> and think I'm ready to try the temptress again. I'd suggest this
> exercise to anytone you know who REALLY wants to be an elite hacker.
>
> --
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>
> .!# RichardBronosky #!.
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