• Keyboards and typing

    From Joe Mackey@1:123/140 to Daryl Stout on Fri Sep 6 06:00:02 2019
    Daryl wrote --

    Ah, remember the days when needing a new keyboard and the hunt for a
    place that even sold them? And the prices! Sheesh.

    Really.

    I usually keep a replaced keyboard in reserve "just in case" after I can
    get a replacement. I must have five or six of them.
    As Fibber McGee used to say, "Some day I gotta clean out that closet".

    Plus, the classic 3 fingered salute. <G>

    I used to get those a lot in parking. I called it the "You're number
    one!" wave. :)

    Now its just cut and paste.
    Life is good.

    This is true...although you find some who have to just retype everything...they want to do it the hard way.

    Years ago I was helping a woman write a grant. Those are long and repetitive. One will write the same thing over and over every few pages. If a grant were edited and all that taken out they would a fraction of the size.
    Anyway, this woman had no idea what "copy and paste" meant so it typing
    the same thing over and over and over, like the old days.
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Joe Mackey on Sun Sep 8 10:04:00 2019
    Joe,

    I usually keep a replaced keyboard in reserve "just in case" after I can
    get a replacement. I must have five or six of them.
    As Fibber McGee used to say, "Some day I gotta clean out that closet".

    I loved the sound over radio when he opened that door, and everything (including the kitchen sink) fell out...with a foghorn at the very end
    -- never mind "Not funny, McGee". <G>

    Plus, the classic 3 fingered salute. <G>

    I used to get those a lot in parking. I called it the "You're number
    one!" wave. :)

    LOL.

    Years ago I was helping a woman write a grant. Those are long and
    repetitive. One will write the same thing over and over every few pages. I JM>grant were edited and all that taken out they would a fraction of the size.
    Anyway, this woman had no idea what "copy and paste" meant so it typing
    the same thing over and over and over, like the old days.

    Was she blonde?? :P

    Or, what do you call a redhead (brunette) between 2 blondes??

    An interpreter. <G>

    Daryl
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  • From Joe Mackey@1:123/140 to Daryl Stout on Mon Sep 9 08:00:04 2019
    Daryl asked --

    Anyway, this woman had no idea what "copy and paste" meant so it typing
    the same thing over and over and over, like the old days.

    Was she blonde?? :P

    No.

    Or, what do you call a redhead (brunette) between 2 blondes??

    An interpreter. <G>

    What does a blonde who dyes her hair black have?
    Artificial intelligence.
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Joe Mackey on Tue Sep 10 16:16:00 2019
    Joe,

    What does a blonde who dyes her hair black have?
    Artificial intelligence.

    ROFLMBO!! :D Maybe we need a blonde jokes echo on the backbone. <G>

    But, if Janis Kracht is a blonde, there goes that idea. <BG>

    Daryl


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  • From Nancy Backus@1:123/140 to Joe Mackey on Mon Sep 9 09:35:00 2019
    Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 09-04-19 06:59 <=-
    Nancy wrote to Daryl --

    the Bahamas are being hit hard,

    I once had the idea of retiring there. The weather and all seemed perfect. Except for the occasional "wind storm".

    As can be easily seen now, one does need to pay attention to those
    occasional "wind storms".... especially when occompanied by heavy
    rain..... ;0

    Perhaps our keyboards are older and therefore built better

    Ah, remember the days when needing a new keyboard and the hunt for a
    place that even sold them? And the prices! Sheesh.

    Fortunately, not something I've needed to deal with... it's always been Richard's balliwick... :) And somehow or other, he keeps being gifted
    with cast-off computers...

    all the keys are still quite visiible on my keyboard

    One time during my deep cleaning I ran a damp rag of spic-and-span
    and bleach over the keyboard to clean off the keys that aren't often
    used and shortly after half of the letters disappeared. :)

    Ooooooppss! I thought there were instructions warning one to only use
    water in that damp rag.... or using one of those "miracle" fabrics for
    cleaning things.... ;)

    I've become somewhat of a touch typist

    I am as well, provided I keep looking at the screen.
    Just remember those home keys! :)

    I don't really keep my fingers on the home keys... and will use either
    hand on either half of the keyboard... But, I do look at the screen, so
    I see what I've typed... and can correct on the fly... I guess
    somewhere along the line, I've managed to memorize the keyboard itself,
    so I can figure out where the finger should have been when I've
    typoed.... and I do look at the keyboard from time to time still... :)
    Still, I'm more a touch typist than not, now... :)

    She put a piece of paper over the keyboard so that I couldn't see the
    keys any more

    When I used a typewriter something I wrote often looked like I had
    the keyboard covered. :)
    I learned to type on a upright manual and never got the hang of
    using an electric. I have a bad habit of resting my fingers on the
    keys and often it would come out like thisss.

    That once in a while happens with the computer keyboards for me... but
    it doesn't seem to be all the time that I rest a finger on a just used
    key.... only sometimes... :)

    on a computer, in a nice text editor, it's easy enough to fix the
    typos on the fly
    When I got my Commie in the mid '80s I wrote people that soon they
    would get letters from me without typo's.
    Ah, the days of snail mail.
    I used to be in regular correspondence with about a dozen people and
    each letter was individual (adding/subtracting things of interest to
    that person). And typing basically the same thing over and over and over... Now its just cut and paste.

    The text editor of the computer makes that so much easier... ;) But
    one still can individualize it to fit the receiver... :)

    ttyl neb

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  • From Joe Mackey@1:123/140 to Nancy Backus on Thu Sep 12 05:26:02 2019
    Nancy wrote --

    shortly after half of the letters disappeared. :)

    Ooooooppss! I thought there were instructions warning one to only use
    water in that damp rag.... or using one of those "miracle" fabrics for cleaning things.... ;)

    Instructions? Who needs instructions? :)

    keys and often it would come out like thisss.

    That once in a while happens with the computer keyboards for me... but
    it doesn't seem to be all the time that I rest a finger on a just used key.... only sometimes... :)

    What I hated in college was having to type a paper of some sort (report,
    term paper, etc) where no typos or erasures were allowed.
    I would get all the way to the last line (it always seemed), make a typo
    and have to start all over again.
    Kids today have no idea how easy they have it.
    Something I have a bad habit of doing is skipping a word. I'm typing as
    I think and seem to think faster than that I type and editing the letter
    before I send it I'll find I missed a word somewhere along the way.
    And there are times the wrong word is used. Both of cases can sometimes completely change the meaning of whatever I wrote. (As some around here
    will make note of. <g>)

    The text editor of the computer makes that so much easier... ;) But
    one still can individualize it to fit the receiver... :)

    My letters are, and where, personalised as well. Some people I
    correspond with are interested in this but not in that, so I just skip over that and
    write about this.
    Some people are aware of the names of people I write about so mention
    them by them, to others they are merely a unnamed person, unless its important to mention their name.
    But in general about 80 per cent of my mail is copy and paste. :)
    Joe
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  • From Nancy Backus@1:123/140 to Joe Mackey on Sat Sep 14 17:31:00 2019
    Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 09-12-19 05:22 <=-

    shortly after half of the letters disappeared. :)
    Ooooooppss! I thought there were instructions warning one to only use
    water in that damp rag.... or using one of those "miracle" fabrics for cleaning things.... ;)

    Instructions? Who needs instructions? :)

    They can be useful at times.... <G>

    keys and often it would come out like thisss.
    That once in a while happens with the computer keyboards for me... but
    it doesn't seem to be all the time that I rest a finger on a just used key.... only sometimes... :)

    What I hated in college was having to type a paper of some sort
    (report, term paper, etc) where no typos or erasures were allowed.
    I would get all the way to the last line (it always seemed), make a
    typo and have to start all over again.

    That's how my sister eased me into the world of computers... I was
    typing minutes for an organization, and they had to be typo-free to be submitted to the next levels up... She heard my frustration, and
    suggested I use her computer's text editor instead of my typewriter...
    She was right... it was much less hassle to be able tp fix the typos
    before printing out the perfect hard-copy... :)

    Kids today have no idea how easy they have it.
    Something I have a bad habit of doing is skipping a word. I'm
    typing as I think and seem to think faster than that I type and editing the letter before I send it I'll find I missed a word somewhere along
    the way. And there are times the wrong word is used. Both of cases
    can sometimes completely change the meaning of whatever I wrote. (As
    some around here will make note of. <g>)

    Well, yeah... :) Sometimes we can figure it out, and sometimes it's
    harder to tell.... but either way, one needs to mention it... ;)

    The text editor of the computer makes that so much easier... ;) But
    one still can individualize it to fit the receiver... :)

    My letters are, and were, personalised as well. Some people I
    correspond with are interested in this but not in that, so I just skip over that and write about this.
    Some people are aware of the names of people I write about so
    mention them by them, to others they are merely a unnamed person,
    unless its important to mention their name.

    That works nicely, then... :)

    But in general about 80 per cent of my mail is copy and paste. :)

    That can save wear and tear on the brain... and fingers.... <G>

    ttyl neb

    ... If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

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  • From Joe Mackey@1:123/140 to Nancy Backus on Mon Sep 16 07:54:02 2019
    Nancy wrote --

    typo and have to start all over again.

    That's how my sister eased me into the world of computers... I was
    typing minutes for an organization, and they had to be typo-free to be submitted to the next levels up

    I am reminded of one time I volunteered, for some reason, to work on the monthly newsletter for the small church I was attending at the time, 50+
    years ago.
    Somehow I was talked into typing up the newsletter which used a wax (I
    think) sheet. The key made an impression on the wax which was used on the ditto machine. Sometimes a typo could be "fixed" but one could always tell a mistake had been made as that cha
    I hated that wax paper with a passion. :)
    I did love the smell of the ink and often sniffed the paper. Did that in school as well.
    But usually in school when a test was given the questions were written on
    the blackboards so paper wasn't wasted.
    I was so envious of the handwriting of those nuns. It just flowed.

    But in general about 80 per cent of my mail is copy and paste. :)

    That can save wear and tear on the brain... and fingers.... <G>

    Often times re-reading the second copy and paste letter I will find
    errors I didn't see the first time around.
    The other day I noticed the first letter I had written I was talking
    about sampling all the food at an event so I wouldn't hurt the feelings of someone by not eating what they had bought.
    I noticed I had originally written "so I would hurt their feelings" not
    "so I would not hurt their feelings". :)
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Joe Mackey on Tue Sep 17 15:40:00 2019
    Joe,

    I hated that wax paper with a passion. :)

    With those ads on that wax paper, it was WORTHLESS in silkscreen
    printing to blot the excess water from the "developed image". Regular
    newsprint did a much better job.

    I did love the smell of the ink and often sniffed the paper. Did that in
    school as well.

    I too, sniffed the ditto fluid aroma on the test papers. It didn't
    affect me at all...at all...at all...at all...at all. <G>

    Often times re-reading the second copy and paste letter I will find
    errors I didn't see the first time around.

    That's why one needs a second set of eyes.

    The other day I noticed the first letter I had written I was talking
    about sampling all the food at an event so I wouldn't hurt the feelings of JM>someone by not eating what they had bought.

    So much for Robert Heinlein's TANSTAFFL...you got your free lunch. :P

    Years ago, at the area Sam's Club, when they were serving samples,
    we'd always seek those folks out. <G>

    Daryl


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  • From Nancy Backus@1:123/140 to Joe Mackey on Sat Sep 21 13:49:00 2019
    Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 09-16-19 07:50 <=-

    typo and have to start all over again.
    That's how my sister eased me into the world of computers... I was
    typing minutes for an organization, and they had to be typo-free to be submitted to the next levels up

    I am reminded of one time I volunteered, for some reason, to work on
    the monthly newsletter for the small church I was attending at the
    time, 50+ years ago.
    Somehow I was talked into typing up the newsletter which used a wax
    (I think) sheet. The key made an impression on the wax which was used
    on the ditto machine. Sometimes a typo could be "fixed" but one could always tell a mistake had been made as that cha

    cha? ;)

    I hated that wax paper with a passion. :)
    I did love the smell of the ink and often sniffed the paper. Did
    that in school as well.

    I remember those, the ditto machines and the mimeographs.... Daddy had
    his own mimeograph and would run off tests for his college Physics
    classes on it... so I grew up with the smell... ;)

    But usually in school when a test was given the questions were
    written on the blackboards so paper wasn't wasted.
    I was so envious of the handwriting of those nuns. It just flowed.

    It was part of their schooling, no doubt... ;)

    But in general about 80 per cent of my mail is copy and paste. :)
    That can save wear and tear on the brain... and fingers.... <G>

    Often times re-reading the second copy and paste letter I will find
    errors I didn't see the first time around.
    The other day I noticed the first letter I had written I was
    talking about sampling all the food at an event so I wouldn't hurt the feelings of someone by not eating what they had bought.
    I noticed I had originally written "so I would hurt their feelings"
    not "so I would not hurt their feelings". :)

    Good catch... totally opposite meanings... <G> And an easy enough slip,
    too... ;0

    ttyl neb

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  • From Joe Mackey@1:123/140 to Nancy Backus on Mon Sep 23 06:00:56 2019
    Nancy queried --

    on the ditto machine. Sometimes a typo could be "fixed" but one could
    always tell a mistake had been made as that cha

    cha? ;)

    Probably "changed the whole meaning of the sentence" since we were discussing missing words.
    Joe
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  • From Nancy Backus@1:123/140 to Joe Mackey on Tue Sep 24 16:46:00 2019
    Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 09-23-19 05:56 <=-

    on the ditto machine. Sometimes a typo could be "fixed" but one could always tell a mistake had been made as that cha
    cha? ;)

    Probably "changed the whole meaning of the sentence" since we were discussing missing words.

    I was thinking it was chad, since one could fix the mistake, but as I
    recall, since it cut the stencil, the fix wouldn'y completely fix the
    hole... ;)

    ttyl neb

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  • From Joe Mackey@1:123/140 to Nancy Backus on Wed Sep 25 06:11:40 2019
    Nancy wrote --

    I was thinking it was chad, since one could fix the mistake

    The same chad that caused all those problems in Florida in 2000?
    Poor Chad, always causing problems. :)
    Joe (hang him I say!)


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  • From Nancy Backus@1:123/140 to Joe Mackey on Sat Sep 28 22:37:00 2019
    Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 09-25-19 06:07 <=-

    I was thinking it was chad, since one could fix the mistake

    The same chad that caused all those problems in Florida in 2000?
    Poor Chad, always causing problems. :)
    Joe (hang him I say!)

    Um.... right.... poor Chad....

    ttyl neb

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