I took typing because my only other choices were Home Ec and study hall. It was my very best high school decision.
Wesley: Feng Shui. Gunn: Right. What's that mean again? Wesley: That people will believe anything. Actually, in this place, Feng Shui will probably have enormous significance. I'll align my furniture the wrong way and suddenly catch fire or turn into a pudding.
'Conviction (1)'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Ginger - Apr 16, 2012 6:18:40 pm PDT #11511 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Tom Scola - Apr 16, 2012 6:20:40 pm PDT #11512 of 30001
hwæt
Zamir FTW!
Zamfir FTW! The dude can play the hell out of the Pan flute.
vw bug - Apr 16, 2012 6:23:01 pm PDT #11513 of 30001
Mostly lurking...
Zen, that font post from Erin was on twitter, I think.
I love reading all the test typing. I've missed you guys!
askye - Apr 16, 2012 6:23:33 pm PDT #11514 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I'm typing with my eyes closed to see how well I can do it. I ofetn make mistakes but usually it's because I have a brain freeze and forget where a key is, or at least think I don't know where a key is and really I do.
There's a cool typing game aI can link to where you practice typing quotes and phrases from books, poems, tv shows and movies. In cluding stuff like Firefly and Star Trek and Emily dickinson.
Here it is - Key Hero [link]
Liese S. - Apr 16, 2012 6:24:37 pm PDT #11515 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Touch typing is why I have to have a phone with a physical keyboard, and that's just thumb typing. Typing traditionally I learned my great speed and relative accuracy (I do correct a lot, but on the fly, and it's still faster than lots of people.) by text based mmorpgs. To this day I sometimes accidentally type "parry" because it's one of the most reflexive combat moves in my hack & slash.
quester - Apr 16, 2012 6:28:24 pm PDT #11516 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Typieng with my eyes closed, but I have to spell words out to yepe them. It slows me down a lot.
Not too bad...
Atropa - Apr 16, 2012 6:28:36 pm PDT #11517 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I spend all day being overwhelmed with new job information, and you people start going on about touch typing?
Fine, this sentence is typed with my eyess closed. However, I will not try to sew on any buttons with my eyes closed, because that's just asking for trouble.
DavidS - Apr 16, 2012 6:30:53 pm PDT #11518 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I took typing and shorthand for two years in high school. Often I was the only boy in the class. This did not suck for teenaged me.
Plus, I can type 95+ wpm.
amych - Apr 16, 2012 6:31:13 pm PDT #11519 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The font post was from erinaceous on twitter, unless there's ANOTHER font I have to buy tonight.
I typed this with my eyes open, but rapidly falling asleep.
Cass - Apr 16, 2012 6:31:33 pm PDT #11520 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
My last supervisor was a very fast typist, but I was less impressed when I saw that every 5th keystroke or so was a backspace.
I just incorporate the backspace. I clearly learned to type on a keyboard not a typewriter. I know there's a backspace there.
Dude. Do you not know what home keys are?
Not so much, no. I think learning to "type" with it always being a keyboard is a very different learning experience than having done so with typewriters as well.
Once again my decision to not take typing as an elective in high school bites me in the ass. (I had to google "home keys.") Good job, proto-feminist 14-year-old Steph. How far has that art class gotten you?
I opted out of typing as well. But I took a computing class. Which, I'll admit, still served me better. But I shouldn't have opted out of whatever could have taught me to sew a button.