Der wohltempererierte tangent bord

090211: 29 wpm 3.4 mstk (9/75 wrds)

That is, 29 words per minute, 75 words five mistakes; that's my typing speed.

I've decided to become an acceptable touch typist after reading two different articles on the net.

One was about the lick^. The lick when you play guitar. First you do it fast, never mind the mistakes. Then slow, without mistakes. Last yo make it sound good. Lick it fast, lick slow, lick it good.

The other about how it's not acceptable for programmers to peck and hunt with two fingers when your job is about writing, code in that case.


The goal is to reach 60 or 70 wpm; 80 or 90 is a proffessional secretary, over 100 is wow as I've understood.

So I just type different keyboard patterns. For the left hand and the right hand. "My G.O.O.D. hand tattoed E.V.I.L. across its brother's fist/that filthy five they did nothing to challenge or resist". For index and the pinkie, the middle and the ring. "That's a long-suffering shackle, collaring all that rebel blood."

qwert yuoip qwert qwert yoip qaz ol. wsx ol. edc ik, rfvbgt ujmnhy ad infinitum, ad nauseaum.

Then pangrams:

Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex!

The quick, brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.

Gud hjälpe Zorns mö qvickt få byxa.

Buvez de ce whisky que le patron juge fameux.

Quel fez sghembo copre davanti.

Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den großen Sylter Deich

Höj bly gom vandt fräk sexquiz på wc.

Hövdingens kjäre squaw får litt pizza i Mexico by.


Soon I'll be ready for "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

We live in a giant hologram

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true&print=true

I wish I lived in a polaroid.

Shai Agassi electric cars

http://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/magazine/16-09/ff_agassi?currentPage=all

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/can-better-place-withstand-gas-pains


In a nut shell: how to switch to electric cars. Make recharge outlets ubiquiteous, at home, work, parcmeters, lamp posts. Further have battery switching stations in lieu of gas stations. Battery packs are owned by electricity selling outfit, analogy with cars/electricity and cell phones/paying plan, leading to the possibility to sell cars at heavy discounts in exchange for higher electricity tariff.

So, I also have those kind of ideas from time to time, like my plan for colonising space with structures weighing thousands of tonnes at a cost at least a magnitude of order five cheaper than the current price, i.e. its weight in gold; I'll make a slide show and put it on google docs someday, it involves NEOs and solar steam propulsion.

The difference is that Shimon Peres doesn't phone me and tells me -"Well, now what?" -"What, now what?" -"Now what we do to make that reality instead of just some speech?"