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« on: 06 Nov 2012, 12:22 »

I'm new too, as I've only veeeery recently discovered QC, and even more recently noticed that there's a forum.

I mostly must wander around with my eyes closed.
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« Reply #1 on: 06 Nov 2012, 12:52 »

*Clears throat* Welcome! How do you deal with the bruises?

The veeeery is one of my favorite bird calls. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Veery/sounds
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« Reply #2 on: 06 Nov 2012, 20:49 »

Put de Lime in de Coconut and call me in the morning



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« Reply #3 on: 06 Nov 2012, 21:29 »

~I feel pretty~
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~I feel pretty, and witty and welcome to the forum.
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« Reply #4 on: 07 Nov 2012, 19:44 »

I mostly must wander around with my eyes closed.

And unfortunately, until you've passed the initiation round, your eyes must remain closed. Especially while you type your posts.

Try it. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

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« Reply #5 on: 07 Nov 2012, 20:12 »

"zrgkujhntrwiuzdklhser z;oei zs jkserisoerjas;o jaseriselitjrw"


Dammit!
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« Reply #6 on: 07 Nov 2012, 20:14 »

Gesundheit! 
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« Reply #7 on: 07 Nov 2012, 20:26 »

Whar is this I dom't enem

Damn, that's actually pretty close.
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« Reply #8 on: 07 Nov 2012, 21:05 »

Hows this for typong wigh your eyes colsed?
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« Reply #9 on: 08 Nov 2012, 05:43 »

I can do that. :P
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« Reply #10 on: 08 Nov 2012, 05:53 »

i N WEVER LEARNY RTO ROUVHTYUPE
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« Reply #11 on: 08 Nov 2012, 05:54 »

Actually, that was better than I expected!
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« Reply #12 on: 08 Nov 2012, 06:16 »

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog 123,456,789.0 times.
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« Reply #13 on: 08 Nov 2012, 07:33 »

Show off. 
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« Reply #14 on: 08 Nov 2012, 09:03 »

[close]He didn't claim to have done that with eyes closed. As I am now; And while the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog, he ran away rapidly.[/close]
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« Reply #15 on: 08 Nov 2012, 09:43 »

Son of a.............. Who are you people amd where dod you go to school>
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« Reply #16 on: 08 Nov 2012, 15:12 »

Yay i started a trend! And i can rtpe thid completely well with mr eyes closer.

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« Reply #17 on: 08 Nov 2012, 17:51 »

Son of a.............. Who are you people amd where dod you go to school>
Took typing at White Plains High School in 1953. When I completed the course, I was a bike messenger for Western Union. I told the manager I'd passed the course and please sir, could I have an inside job? Worked for WU in a bunch of Westchester County offices and a summer in D.C. Most of the machines we used then were duplex, and operators couldn't see the text they typed. Their fingers told them if they'd made a mistake, and there was a way of alerting the operator on the other end to the mistake.
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« Reply #18 on: 08 Nov 2012, 18:37 »

(eyes closed)

I took typing in 7th grade with Mr. Hoppe. I've been touch-typing since then - about 30+ years. If I don't just rush through typing, I can get through several paragraphs withoutrt errors.

I can only do this on the computer with a keyboard, of course.

(/eyes open)
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« Reply #19 on: 08 Nov 2012, 20:28 »

Did a typing course several years ago on, of all things, an electric typewriter.  Lost the knack of Touch Typing over the years, but got my speed and skill back up at a couple of  courses I did.
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« Reply #20 on: 08 Nov 2012, 21:45 »

I have a WHOLE bunch of stuff I typed up over 30 years ago. I thought I was on the cutting edge when I bought my Panasonic Word Processor back when I was in college. Unfortunately, the floppy drive on it no longer works, so all the stuff I typed up is no longer works - including, sadly, the letter I wrote to my future wife asking her for a date. :(
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« Reply #21 on: 09 Nov 2012, 15:01 »

I took a typing course in high school...between internet access, the teacher not being able to see what each student had on their screen, and 9/11 (the teacher was completely paranoid of foreign invaders), I didn't accomplish anything in that class.
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« Reply #22 on: 09 Nov 2012, 16:28 »

After computers came along, I discovered that the command line was the world's greatest nitpicker of typing. 
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« Reply #23 on: 09 Nov 2012, 16:57 »

Ah, but did you ever "RUNDY"?
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« Reply #24 on: 09 Nov 2012, 17:53 »

Is that like the Lindy?
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« Reply #25 on: 09 Nov 2012, 20:08 »

I think it's a unit of measurement of a rate of infestation and source of prurient pruritis: random underwear nits divided (by) years.
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« Reply #26 on: 10 Nov 2012, 05:46 »

If you ever coded BASIC on an Atari, you'd know what RUNDY meant.
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« Reply #27 on: 10 Nov 2012, 05:59 »

I wrote a program in BASIC for the Apple 2e in the 80s. It displayed a treble clef with a note on it. I entered the letter identifying the note. The program told me if I was correct. It was interesting, but I had enough on my plate then, including a dual career as copy editor and computer system operator. I never wrote another program and still haven't quite learned the treble clef. But now I'm a baritone instead of a tenor, and it doesn't matter.
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« Reply #28 on: 10 Nov 2012, 07:17 »

Ha!  I wrote one program in Fortran as the final project for a programming class in 1981...  don't even remember what it did! 

And I'm a tenor who can't read treble clef after spending my life singing bass, playing bass trombone, bass recorder, bass krummhorn, serpent, and other bottom-end renaissance instruments. 
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« Reply #29 on: 10 Nov 2012, 07:46 »

See, that was my problem too; starting out with a trombone. On the treble clef, I can find B in the middle and middle C below, and still count from those and hope no one notices. If I'd internalize FACE and Every Good Boy Does Fine it would help a lot. But that didn't occur to me until just a few days ago.
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« Reply #30 on: 11 Nov 2012, 14:41 »

Welcome, new person!

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« Reply #31 on: 11 Nov 2012, 16:07 »

Apparently s/he does walk around here with his eyes closed...only four posts? Bwahaha....gotta get in forum shape!XD
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« Reply #32 on: 11 Nov 2012, 21:00 »

*Sends for R. Lee Ermy*
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