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.
I actually flunked typing, algebra and Spanish I in High School. First Fs in my family...I was so proud.
I learned to type on my dad's old typewriter, using a How to Type book that I think once belonged to my grandfather. I was about eight, and I found the book in the basement, and I thought it seemed like a useful thing to know how to do.
Font post on Twitter, of course. MY PARALLEL WORLDS HAVE CROSSED. Okay, I am losing my mind, but not in the way I thought.
There may be something to note in the fact that I had fewer typos typing with my eyes closed.
My dad got ticked off at me because when planning my schedule for my senior year I chose physics over typing on the grounds that learning to type would save me money in college from not having to pay anyone to type my papers for me.
Then the school did something wacky that opened up another period in the day, so I got to take typing anyway. I got an A in physics and a D in typing.
I'm typing this with my eyes closed, and without editing. Let's see how I did.
Oh, hey, not bad. It was really slow, though. On a good day, I can manage about 30wpm.
I took typing, home ec, AND metal shop. But I'd been sewing things since I was ... seven or so? Because I needed to make witch and fairy costumes for my stuffed animals, it was the middle of the night so I couldn't go ask Mom, and one of my books had instructions on how to thread a needle and sew a basic stitch.
I was the person people were paying to type their papers.
I didn't take any of the classes my high school offered "girls" - typing, sewing, Home Ec - because they were for *girls* to teach us how to be good servants. I mean, "helpmates". I took German and physics instead.
God, Zen, you were making me worried I'd sleep-Tweeted!
The only font I can think that I've downloaded in the last 6 months is Bleeding Cowboy, and that's ita !'s fault.
Rosedale's is where I took Amy when she was in town for fencing! It's my fave!
In the world of, did my family actually do that, here is the text message I got from my sister today.
Happy b day...btw aunt May died
