Total Motorcycle Community Forums

Lol I like to freak people out by staring at them while typing, and even when I make a mistake I go back, fix it, and keep typing while staring at them. Gets 'em every time!

Ok, I touch type, but I winced from the posts because:

1) When I took the course in High School, it was still called "Typing" and the first year it was actually on a TYPEWRITER with a ribbon!
2) My first year of college I actually TOOK a typewriter with me... I HATED waiting in line in the computer lab... and I often typed all through the night.
3) When I DID bring a computer to school in my junior year, it had 256k and dual 512k floppy drives, and DOS. No pointing and clicking, you actually had to use the command prompt!

and, MOST annoying of all...
4) I still could do 100 wpm, but with this damn cast on my hand/arm, I can't even get close! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I'm not a fast typist...cannot touch type....that's why I drive.

zeligman wrote:1) When I took the course in High School, it was still called "Typing" and the first year it was actually on a TYPEWRITER with a ribbon!

Yeah? Well, when I went to High School, "digital" meant using your fingers! And a "cell phone" was the payphone in the hallway just outside the jail cell. The clocks still had big hands and little hands and twice a year they would all spin at the same time when the Principal adjusted them for daylight savings. And a "computer" was the nerd in Math class who you went to when you couldn't figure out a problem with your pencil and paper - he could do it in his head!

ceemes wrote:Learned touch typing back in High School long before the advent of the PC.

Amen, bro. I see your High School and raise you one Junior High!

When I was 12, summer before 7th grade, Mom "made" me take touch typing in summer school. All the other 12 year old guys were out doing fun things, and there I was stuck in a classroom.

That's OK, Mom was a wise person. When all those other guys were writing out term papers longhand a few years later, I was knocking them out on a typewriter in one-third the time. (Yes, I said "typewriter". An all-mechanical device using a cloth ribbon, as God and Smith Corona intended!! In those days electric typewriters were for wimps (and rich people.))

Jeepers! What was life like before dinosaurs guys?

storysunfolding wrote:Jeepers! What was life like before dinosaurs guys?

We have seen much and witnessed many changes. It makes life interesting.

I used to have roller skates that needed a key.....

blues2cruise wrote:

storysunfolding wrote:Jeepers! What was life like before dinosaurs guys?

We have seen much and witnessed many changes. It makes life interesting.

I used to have roller skates that needed a key.....

and they had four wheels, in a box pattern, not inline!

storysunfolding wrote:Jeepers! What was life like before dinosaurs guys?

Interesting and varied. More focused on people and relationships and not so much on "things".

A few years back my mom transcribed a journal my grandfather had kept - she was the only one who could read his handwriting. It covered 1927 to 1932. They were working-class, and during those years grandpa crossed the line into small business ownership. They lived in Merchantville, NJ, at that time a small town but within commuting distance of Philadelphia.

For most of that time they didn't own a car. No need, public transportation went everywhere. The first couple of years they didn't own a radio. They had interesting lives, they didn't lack for diversion. They read, probably visited the library twice a week. And bought books too, mostly second-hand. They played card games and board games, they visited friends and neighbors and relatives, they attended lectures, went to movies (silent) occasionally. They joined clubs, church, civic groups, etc. They worked hard, but they seemed to understand better when "enough was enough" and the importance of leisure time. And they ate well, too (it's a wonder they didn't all die of ateriosclerosis, cholesterol apparently hadn't been "invented" yet!! )

I grew up in a family of six kids (at home) and my father earned less than people were making on welfare... yet some how we still all got an allowance, summer holiday trip to various locations throughout the province and country, never went hungry and lived in a not bad neighbourhood. I nremember picking up bananas for mom, 10lbs for $.99, jeans were $6 maybe on a lucky day we got a pair of $10 GWG's, I won't even mention the cost of gas...