There are times when it becomes abundantly apparent that I have been spending far too much time on the computer.
Yesterday afternoon I was preparing a "cheat sheet" for my statistics exam (don't fret; we were allowed one page of notes to bring to the test). I decided to write it up with a pencil rather than type it, and about 3/4 of the way through I thought "I'm thirsty, I think I will get a drink. I had better hit 'save' to preserve my work."
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
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If I read something on paper, e.g., finish a chapter in a book, I always want to click on "post comment" at the end ;-)
Have you ever had a dream about arguing with infamous creationist trolls? That one got me to step away from the Blogohedron for a few days. . . .
Blake; I haven't had that one yet. Most of my nightmares involve Billy Madison type scenarios in which I am not only expelled from college but am forced to repeat high school. You can probably guess why.
That's far better than smearing white out on your screen because you made a typo, as per the old joke.
I catch myself looking for the "find" button when I want to locate a passage in a book.
You must write tiny! A sheet in 8pt arial vs handwriting?
That's funny. Now if only I could have sent my kids' diapers to the recycle bin with a click. Fortunately they're way beyond that stage now.
ZOMGZ =gasp= ROFL =snort= MAO!1!!1!
I've caught myself thinking I should tidy my apartment up a bit so I'd have more free disk space.And wanting to save pictures I find in books onto my desktop.
I have found my self drawing something on paper, making a mistake and reaching out for 'Ctrl Z' !!
Reality's overrated.
I am always saying that I would love for there to be a Ctrl F in real life- also spell check.
I once had a T-shirt that said, "On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key."
Laelaps:
I think you're far from alone on that one. Tom Robbins's novel Villa Incognito has a character, a middle-aged man, who's happy he's finally "graduated from dream school".
The Ridger:
I bet the notes for a statistics exam would be full of formulas and graphs and stuff which it'd be simpler to do by hand.
Laelaps: I don't think I've ever done that particular one. But I have done some other things that are equally, well, daft.
Blake:
Your first comment reminds me of the reflex action of good Apple ][ geeks on hearing the floppy drive stuttering or some other symptom of impending doom. I forget the exact shortcut now, but it was something awkward like shift-command-escape-delete, and experienced geeks could hit it in a pure reflect action. (And beat the floppy drive before it destroyed everything!)
This is common knowledge, so excuse my mentioning this, but there are a number of applications that you can type in equations and have them rendered as an image or PDF, etc. (usually via LaTeX). LaTeXiT is one example.
Heraclides:
Funny you should mention that. . . .
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Laugh, for sure! That is so funny - and we've all had those moments!! Thanks for sharing the story, most of us could use a good laugh every now and again. :) Cheers, ctenotrish.