Rotting Slop
New member
felt like asking a question and running off at the mouth/keys. if you want to insult me for being boring and fatuous and long winded, go for it. That would really bum me out.
Anyway.....
How fast do you type? And do you look at the keyboard? How did you learn?. How much do you type?
Tell the truth. I will. People that have been in chat rooms with me can vouch for my numbers. Lot of people have commented on it. And, by the way, is there a chat room these days for this place? Haven't kept up with that stuff. If somebody wants to email me about it I'd be happy to drop by and do my best to infuriate everybody dumb enough to take me seriously.
I used to be pretty fast. I took classes in college, and worked at the college paper. And my first and last job was at a newspaper, and that's just about all I did for a little over three years. Type, that is. And I've spent an awful lot of time messing around on the computer in the last 15 years, on this sort of crap and on writing projects with which I have had, shall we say, quite limited commercial success. Still type at least a couple hours a day, though, usually.
Odd, though. Thinking about my job at the newspaper. Spanned the end of the seventies and early eighties, and it had converted to a computer system a few years earlier. Was kinda comical. Had a CPU half the size of a Volkswagen that had much MUCH less ram than decent cellphhone has now. If we had a long story we had to edit and save half of it before we could move on to the rest.
But anyway, we typed on IBM selectrics in addition to keyboards, using those expensive mylar transfer ribbons, then fed the copy into a scanner to get it into the system. Had a bizarre array of symbols we had to include before the copy to tell the machine what to do with it. The selectric was pretty amazing, mechanically, dinosaur that it now inarguably is. Little ball that moved around at roughly the speed of light. It always amazed me that they could get something like that to work trouble free for years, but they did. Myriad moving parts are a hell of a lot more troublesome than electronic stuff.
Anyway, I'm not much good any more. Have pretty severe carpal tunnel in my left hand and I've broken bones in both my hands a few times, usually on people's foreheads. 70-75 words a minute is about all I can manage now. A good 15 or 20 wpm below what I could when I worked at the paper.
Anyway. I was was just wondering. And rambling, as usual. Boring morning so far.
Anyway.....
How fast do you type? And do you look at the keyboard? How did you learn?. How much do you type?
Tell the truth. I will. People that have been in chat rooms with me can vouch for my numbers. Lot of people have commented on it. And, by the way, is there a chat room these days for this place? Haven't kept up with that stuff. If somebody wants to email me about it I'd be happy to drop by and do my best to infuriate everybody dumb enough to take me seriously.
I used to be pretty fast. I took classes in college, and worked at the college paper. And my first and last job was at a newspaper, and that's just about all I did for a little over three years. Type, that is. And I've spent an awful lot of time messing around on the computer in the last 15 years, on this sort of crap and on writing projects with which I have had, shall we say, quite limited commercial success. Still type at least a couple hours a day, though, usually.
Odd, though. Thinking about my job at the newspaper. Spanned the end of the seventies and early eighties, and it had converted to a computer system a few years earlier. Was kinda comical. Had a CPU half the size of a Volkswagen that had much MUCH less ram than decent cellphhone has now. If we had a long story we had to edit and save half of it before we could move on to the rest.
But anyway, we typed on IBM selectrics in addition to keyboards, using those expensive mylar transfer ribbons, then fed the copy into a scanner to get it into the system. Had a bizarre array of symbols we had to include before the copy to tell the machine what to do with it. The selectric was pretty amazing, mechanically, dinosaur that it now inarguably is. Little ball that moved around at roughly the speed of light. It always amazed me that they could get something like that to work trouble free for years, but they did. Myriad moving parts are a hell of a lot more troublesome than electronic stuff.
Anyway, I'm not much good any more. Have pretty severe carpal tunnel in my left hand and I've broken bones in both my hands a few times, usually on people's foreheads. 70-75 words a minute is about all I can manage now. A good 15 or 20 wpm below what I could when I worked at the paper.
Anyway. I was was just wondering. And rambling, as usual. Boring morning so far.