The URL of the day is for Das Keyboard. I can't take credit for having found this today - I just have cool friends.
Anyway, it made me think of three things:
1) The show-off geeks at my college used to move the keys around on their keyboards - not the functionality, just the printed letters - so their keyboards would have clever phrases in the middle of them. Who me? I never did that... naaahh. Not me....
Especially not at the computer lab I worked in. (most keys pop off quite easily with a butter knife - then snap right back on)
2) I had one professor in college who made the switch over to a dvorak keyboard. He was a philosophy professor and was convinced it was the way of the future. He and I had debates about how much the manual typewriter tradition would carry over - so far, I'm winning (do _you_ have a dvorak keyboard? do you even know what I'm talking about?) but I think the bet goes out another 40 years or so.
3) I'm still missing the s key on my laptop. It doesn't bother me much anymore.
Books: So far the majority of readers of my shortstory have said they liked it with no complaints. One admitted to getting bored within the first two pages. Another said they got too chatty near the end. So far the science fiction editor hasn't weighed in.
Anyway, it made me think of three things:
1) The show-off geeks at my college used to move the keys around on their keyboards - not the functionality, just the printed letters - so their keyboards would have clever phrases in the middle of them. Who me? I never did that... naaahh. Not me....
Especially not at the computer lab I worked in. (most keys pop off quite easily with a butter knife - then snap right back on)
2) I had one professor in college who made the switch over to a dvorak keyboard. He was a philosophy professor and was convinced it was the way of the future. He and I had debates about how much the manual typewriter tradition would carry over - so far, I'm winning (do _you_ have a dvorak keyboard? do you even know what I'm talking about?) but I think the bet goes out another 40 years or so.
3) I'm still missing the s key on my laptop. It doesn't bother me much anymore.
Books: So far the majority of readers of my shortstory have said they liked it with no complaints. One admitted to getting bored within the first two pages. Another said they got too chatty near the end. So far the science fiction editor hasn't weighed in.
2 Comments:
As a matter of fact, I do use the Dvorak keyboard layout. I made the switch in 1995. Every time I get a new laptop I pop the key caps off and move them around.
By Adam Cadre, at 12:57 PM
Wow -- never seen a keyboard like that -- how cool! I'm almost tempted...
By david, at 3:08 AM
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