We all love you, shifty disco girl.
Nov. 24th, 2004 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaNote to self: There is a shift key on the right of the keyboard. Look, it's quite big, just below the enter key. You should consider using it.
Because, you see, I don't. I use the left-hand-side shift key pretty much exclusively. Obviously, if the key I'm shifting is on the LHS of the keyboard, this can involve twisting my wrist round awkwardly. If I do it too much (as I seem to have done in the last 24 hours) I end up with quite a painful sensation in the outside of my wrist.
Does anyone have a deliberate policy (or know what their accidental policy is) on shift-key use ? When do you use right or left ?
If you were typing a long string of caps JUST LIKE THIS, how would you do it ? When someone noticed a while back that I occasionally use capslock for this kind of thing there were howls of disgust and derision as if I'd been caught out shagging a donkey, or somesuch. Do you ever use capslock ? Is there an optimal length of a string of letters at which it becomes "worth it" to use the capslock key ?
Further note to self: Hey, there's a Control key over on the right, too! Who'd have thought it ?
Because, you see, I don't. I use the left-hand-side shift key pretty much exclusively. Obviously, if the key I'm shifting is on the LHS of the keyboard, this can involve twisting my wrist round awkwardly. If I do it too much (as I seem to have done in the last 24 hours) I end up with quite a painful sensation in the outside of my wrist.
Does anyone have a deliberate policy (or know what their accidental policy is) on shift-key use ? When do you use right or left ?
If you were typing a long string of caps JUST LIKE THIS, how would you do it ? When someone noticed a while back that I occasionally use capslock for this kind of thing there were howls of disgust and derision as if I'd been caught out shagging a donkey, or somesuch. Do you ever use capslock ? Is there an optimal length of a string of letters at which it becomes "worth it" to use the capslock key ?
Further note to self: Hey, there's a Control key over on the right, too! Who'd have thought it ?
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Re: The index of my index finger is 0, so I call it my first finger ?
Date: 2004-11-24 04:16 am (UTC)Sure you can.
Er, no I can't :)
Any theory which has the first finger and the fourth finger with only one finger between them is doomed.
I think it's confusion induced by seeing numbers 1-5 on piano music indicating which finger to use - but then discovering that most people call the forefinger the first finger, and attempting to reconcile these two views.
Re: The index of my index finger is 0, so I call it my first finger ?
Date: 2004-11-24 04:34 am (UTC)Re: The index of my index finger is 0, so I call it my first finger ?
Date: 2004-11-24 04:47 am (UTC)Ah. I suppose I should have written: Sure I can!
Any theory which has the first finger and the fourth finger
First finger...? Ah, you must mean the thumb!
Re: The index of my index finger is 0, so I call it my first finger ?
Date: 2004-11-24 04:50 am (UTC)But we've always known that