sj - it is officially called a "pointing stick". Not a nipple or a clit as others have called it.
I adore George (my laptop).
Dawn: Are you kidding? Dr. Keiser: I never kid about my amazing surgical skills.
'Bring On The Night'
Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
SuziQ - Aug 10, 2006 3:11:40 pm PDT #8070 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Gris - Aug 10, 2006 3:17:55 pm PDT #8071 of 10001
Hey. New board.
I can't deal with laptops and their tiny little keys!
Again, you say this, but it isn't really true. I've gotten so used to the keyboard on my powerbook (and, before that, my iBook) that my hands feel lost on a full-sized keyboard. Whatsmore, the laptop keyboard gives me FEWER RSI issues - i can program on a laptop all day with no major pain, whereas the sides of my hands are hurting like a bitch right now.
Cass - Aug 10, 2006 3:26:35 pm PDT #8072 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Just remember, even though we prefer them in pairs, often they prefer to be alone.Oh, like me!
-t - Aug 10, 2006 3:27:22 pm PDT #8073 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I use my laptop a lot for the convenience of being able to be way from the desk (or I did while it was working well), but I've never been able to transfer my touch typing skills from the full size keyboard to the smaller.
Easy enough to plug a keyboard into the laptop if I'm not balancing it on my knees, though.
Emily - Aug 10, 2006 3:28:50 pm PDT #8074 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Again, you say this, but it isn't really true.
No, no, I think he really can't deal with them.
Oddly, I'm having some issues going from an IBM laptop keyboard to a... what is this, an iMac? Anyway, this keyboard. Not sure why -- they would seem to be the same size. The keys are a little flatter... dunno. What I miss is my split keyboard. That was nice.
DavidS - Aug 10, 2006 3:36:17 pm PDT #8075 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Uhm, please don't interpret JZ's request for reading material as an invitation to send us all your paperbacks. (This is not directed at La Bug, but to anybody in earshot.)
We've spent months culling books from our shelves to get rid of bookshelves to make room for baby furniture.
There are still dozens and dozens and dozens of not-yet-read books here.
She could certainly use a few trashy novels to bide her time, but honestly, all I've been doing for the last several weeks has been hauling books to her Dad's basement for storage, or donating them to Goodwill or selling them to Half-Price books.
In sum, Some Books would be good. Lots of Books (right now) would be bad.
Signed,
Tired of Hauling Away Books
vw bug - Aug 10, 2006 3:53:49 pm PDT #8076 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Um...I said I'd pick a couple of my favorites. I'm not sending all six milk crates.
Besides, that'd be really expensive, and I'm kinda broke right now.
billytea - Aug 10, 2006 4:25:56 pm PDT #8077 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I need to find the study I read that actually shows people who have a more cynical view of life tend to actually be...not right, exactly, but more aware than people who are more optimistic.
It's mentioned in Seligman's Learned Optimism. That could be the place to start.
Yeah, but the optimistic people live longer and are happier in their bubble of inaccurate optimism.
Hee. This is in the book too.
I've been working at home unofficially one day a week with my manager's blessing & he just asked his boss if I can keep doing that and he said no. I know a lot of people have it way worse but this commute is too much for me 5 days a week. It's just getting worse and worse with the traffic.
Oh, yuck. Stoopid boss. If he doesn't get that your manager understands your position better than he does, he probably deserves for you to leave. I actually had an interesting conversation with my boss yesterday in which it emerged that I actually have the right to work from home, within work constraints of course (e.g. I can't attend client meetings at home). I shall be making use of this.
DavidS - Aug 10, 2006 4:30:12 pm PDT #8078 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Um...I said I'd pick a couple of my favorites. I'm not sending all six milk crates.
That's fine!
Typo Boy - Aug 10, 2006 4:40:04 pm PDT #8079 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Again, you say this, but it isn't really true. I've gotten so used to the keyboard on my powerbook (and, before that, my iBook) that my hands feel lost on a full-sized keyboard. Whatsmore, the laptop keyboard gives me FEWER RSI issues - i can program on a laptop all day with no major pain, whereas the sides of my hands are hurting like a bitch right now.
Whereas with exercise and six asperin a day and injections of cortisone twice a year I can manage to type fairly long on a normal keyboard - but will be in agony after twenty minutes on a laptop. Note though it has to be a normal keyboard on the small end. So called ergonomic keyboards, even large regular keyboards kill me too. You know the ultimately cheap Dell keyboard you get if buy a dell and don't specify what keyboard you want? The perfect keyboard for me.