On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 21:18:07 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 05:59:13 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 05:36:35 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:

If you're a touch typist, simply dot the F and J keys with a mound of
epoxy or fingernail polish, or superglue a rounded piece of broken key
to the tops. If you're not a touch typist, shame on you. You should
have learned that by now. When computers came out, I sure was glad I
took typing in 9th grade.

Boys weren't allowed to take typing when I was in school, until my
senior year. I wasn't about to drop a shop class, to be in a hot
classroom with a 70+ year old screeching woman teacher. You could hear
her to both ends of that floor.

Mine was an old hag, too. Blonde, 30ish, (sexy, and beautiful as
hell, but not to a 9th grader.) Right around my senior year, I looked
back on her as a goddess. Oh, no screeching, either.

Back then, one couldn't buy Mavis Beacon software to teach yourself,
either. It's $4 on eBay now/$7 via Amazon Prime, if anyone wants to
learn new tricks and save themself a lot of headaches.
I heartily recommend it.

Free typing software online:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=free+typin...&t=ffnt&ia=web
just switched to a logitec MX3200 I had on my pile. This one seems
to fire on all the keys without a hammer and I can read all the keys
so I should be good for a while. I washed the other logitec - can't
make it any worse and I have had them work after a good wash-out.
Someons spilled something on it at the insurance office..

As long as you have them unplugged until they completely dry out, they
can be OK. The worst is pop. All that sugar turns into glue which
can pass electrons.


When I went to high school we had academic, commercial, and tech.
Commercials could not take tech electives, tech could not takr
commercial. 5 year in any stream could take French or Latin, 4 year
could not take latin - 4 year academics took French if I remember
correctly. I took 4 year tech with double major in Auto. Cut a year
off my apprenticeship.

We can't be havin' dem techies be gettin' any cout, eh? Those fArts
and Hoomanities bigots don't have any idea how much squeak and savvy
it takes to become an auto mechanic.

--
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy
is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our
creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
-- Gilda Radner