[TR] needs repaired

[Patrick Baize]

OH Ya, missed 2,  left pinky for shift and right thumb for space bar. 
haha , so 5.

Patrick

On 1/31/2020 6:56 PM, Patrick Baize wrote:
>
> I never took typing in school. Later I tried to use "Mavis Beaves 
> teaches typing", didn't work. I have been writing software for over 30 
> years, I use 3 fingers, 1 on left hand, 2 on the right.
>
> Patrick
>
>
> On 1/31/2020 6:27 AM, DAVID MASSEY wrote:
>> I never took a typing class, I am self taught.  I remember staying up 
>> all night typing a report for class in highschool.  When I started 
>> working there was no need for an engineer to type.  Enter the 
>> desk-top computer.  Now I spend most of my time staring at a screen 
>> typing on a keyboard.  Who'd a thunk?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jpaynepbr <jpaynepbr at cox.net>
>> To: 'TeriAnn J. Wakeman' <tjwakeman at gmail.com>; triumphs 
>> <triumphs at autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Thu, Jan 30, 2020 9:07 pm
>> Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired
>>
>> In 1990, when I graduated HS, if you were going to graduate and be 
>> "college bound", you had to take a typing class.  It was Sr. year and 
>> it was "Health" one semester, "Typing" the next or vice versa.
>>
>> If you were "Vo-Tech" typing was an option, but "Health" was still 
>> mandatory.
>>
>> Same teacher taught both classes.  One of the most bitter and angry 
>> people I have ever met.
>>
>> The though of  "Health" class taught by an angry, frigid, humorless 
>> 60 year old woman still makes me wonder.  I guess if you had to 
>> manage the subject matter with a bunch of teenagers, many of whom 
>> were headed nowhere, after a few years, you would end up like that too.
>>
>> Typing was one of the most valuable skills I ever learned.
>>
>> My kids all had typing classes in public schools in 1st and 2nd grade 
>> post 2010.
>>
>> Time and technology change everything.
>>
>> I wish I could learn to type on a phone and manage the "autocorrect", 
>> that would be something.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Triumphs <triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of TeriAnn 
>> J. Wakeman
>> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:38 PM
>> To: triumphs at autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired
>>
>> On 1/30/20 6:23 PM, Bud Rolofson wrote:
>> > Exactly, I took typing in eighth grade because there lots of girls in
>> > that class and I was a horny 13 yo.  But my 50 yo typing muscle memory
>> > will always space twice after a period. Can’t help it.
>> >
>> > Busted.
>> >
>> > Bud
>>
>> I didn't take typing in high school because I didn't want to be 
>> pigeonholed as a secretary. In early years I went in to interview for 
>> a technical position with a degree in electronics & almost always was 
>> asked what my typing speed was. When I mentioned about a page ever 2 
>> hours or so, I got interviewed for the job I was applying for. I knew 
>> a woman with a Stanford masters in physics who in the mid 60s worked 
>> as a tech group secretary.
>>
>> During college when I needed to submit typed papers, I traded typing 
>> for either a homemade apple pie or a ready to bake homemade lasagna. 
>> I single space between sentences only on emails. That is because my 
>> mailer produces strange characters when I double space a sentence. 
>> The books I have authored are all double spaced between sentences and 
>> my reviewers have forced me to use oxford comas. They are not used in 
>> technical papers.
>>
>> TeriAnn
>>
>>
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