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Subject: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Rapparee Date: 19 Dec 11 - 09:11 PM my right arm's in a cast because i tore my right distal bicep loose and had it repaired last wednesday. it's both a real and virtual pain to use upper case, so i'm giving most of it up and typing hunt'n'peck. please feel free to insert upper case where ever you think it's called for, and forgive typos. thank you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Bobert Date: 19 Dec 11 - 09:24 PM Man, geese, oh pete... Hang in there, Rap... I loadin' up my tools and we'll be there in a couple day to do some serious surgery... Get drenkin' 'cause I don't do anesthetics... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: ranger1 Date: 19 Dec 11 - 09:32 PM Your excuse is better than mine, Rap. I usually end up typing in lower case because I have a cat lying on one arm and across the laptop keyboard. |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: ChanteyLass Date: 19 Dec 11 - 10:11 PM ouch. if you can't use caps i won't either on this thread unless i forget. heal. |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Bill D Date: 19 Dec 11 - 10:21 PM FirstCap, a program that can control many capslock functions. (and, Rap...no sword play or grizzly wrasslin' till that gets better, ya hear?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Dec 11 - 10:57 PM THE ALTERNATE IS TO USE CAPSLOCK ugg. get well soon, buster! |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: EBarnacle Date: 19 Dec 11 - 11:02 PM Hello, Archie! I've had my arm in casts since Aug 4 and I agree it's no pleasure. Amazing that so many things demand two hand--like tuching in yer trousers, using the arrow keys, etc. Isn't it fun to relearn how to use a mouse with your left hand? Hang in there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Dec 11 - 11:40 PM aargh! it is shocking to think that HE WHO MADE US ALL |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Dec 11 - 11:40 PM has been reduced to such a circumstance! it got me so upset that i hit the enter key before i was done typing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: gnomad Date: 20 Dec 11 - 03:09 AM Nasty, hope you heal well, and quickly. I just tried simulating your typing conditions using my left hand only, and it is slow. In bed I quite frequently type one-handed on a 7-inch netbook. The under-size keyboard makes spanning almost any two keys easy enough, but left-handed is a whole different world of problems. |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 20 Dec 11 - 03:52 AM I taught my self to use mousie in my left hand 18 years ago when I permanently damaged my right hand by over typing. I remember the mouse scurrying across the screen & going everywhere except where I was trying to send it. Good luck in hunting & pecking & getting left hand to do more then usual. I hope doctors fix it up on Wed. & you get rid of your plaster asap sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: EBarnacle Date: 20 Dec 11 - 08:41 AM Oh, yeah! Buttoning shirts and cooking. |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Bobert Date: 20 Dec 11 - 08:59 AM So, Rap, I guess you won't be doin' no skeet shooting on Christmas Day... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Rapparee Date: 20 Dec 11 - 09:05 AM handguns, bobster. i can shoot pistols left-handed [really!]. my late little brother could accurately shoot shotguns, either hand, from either hip. nobody wanted him in their duckblind for some reason.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: JohnInKansas Date: 20 Dec 11 - 01:04 PM Someone once told me that typing left handed was easy if you just imagine you're playing a fiddle. It sounded reasonable until I tried to play a fiddle once upon a time. ... John |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: gnu Date: 20 Dec 11 - 03:02 PM "Isn't it fun to relearn how to use a mouse with your left hand?" I didn't know Rap was left-handed. Ahhh... hmmm... don't all right-handed persons use their mouse with their left hand? And vicey versy? No? If so, how odd indeed! |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Bill D Date: 20 Dec 11 - 03:16 PM There's a setting to reverse the mouse buttons if one wanted to do it left handed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Midchuck Date: 20 Dec 11 - 04:36 PM I move the mouse from one side to the other and switch hands, every month or two, so as to avoid overuse injury to the wrist. Doesn't seem like any big deal. I'm strongly left-handed, but play guitar right-handed because I didn't know I had a choice when I was learning. As a result of that, I fire pistols larger than .22 right handed, because the tendon between the thumb and first finger of my left hand has gotten shorter from all the years of mashing the frets on down, and recoil bothers it. P. |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: gnu Date: 20 Dec 11 - 04:48 PM Bill D... "There's a setting to reverse the mouse buttons if one wanted to do it left handed." Why bother? My mouse works fine in my left hand and my right hand is free for writing, using a calculator or whatever instrument I need to use. Just makes common sense to me. (Yeah, I said it.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: EBarnacle Date: 20 Dec 11 - 05:12 PM Yeah, but left handed keyboards are still rare. When you cannot use your right hand, you have to reach across to use arrow keys and such. |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 20 Dec 11 - 05:23 PM Given the circumstances, you have permission from The Grammar and Punctuation Police to temporarily abandon upper case. However, I've been asked to inform you that excessive use of abbreviations will not be tolerated. Anyone so lazy that he feels compelled to type "2" instead of "to" should have his genes removed from the pool before they have a chance to infect future generations. |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Bill D Date: 20 Dec 11 - 06:30 PM r u sur they cn do tht? |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: EBarnacle Date: 20 Dec 11 - 06:40 PM 2 late |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 20 Dec 11 - 07:10 PM archy had the same problem, though for a different reason. expression is the need of my soul i was once a vers libre bard but i died and my soul went into the body of a cockroach it has given me a new outlook upon life... |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Joe_F Date: 20 Dec 11 - 08:21 PM When I broke my elbow, oh, 35 years ago, I had to solicit an emanuensis for copyediting, and masturbate with my left hand. |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: Rapparee Date: 20 Dec 11 - 08:36 PM i done got me a ba in english and half a graduate degree in the same. i can shoot left-handed [with a pistol] good enough to get by. screw the grammar and spelling police! they'll never take me alive, see? |
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Subject: RE: BS: phooey on upper case! From: EBarnacle Date: 20 Dec 11 - 09:28 PM That's the Archy I was referring to. Chronicaller of the beauties of Mehitabel the reincarnated cat. |
