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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Ask Wednesday: What is the aging editor doing this week to keep his brain adroit and agile?

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Harder than it looks

By Morris Dean

After considering learning Norwegian or taking up C# programming in web framework ASP.NET MVC5 using the Object-relational mapping technique Entity Framework 6 for SQL Server (Azure) databases, with the front end stack Knockout + jQuery + Underscore + Bootstrap 3 to try to qualify for a job opening in a Coy Lee Pittman startup company, he decided to try something really challenging and therapeutic – he'll master two-thumb typing on his Motorola Droid.
​Two-thumb typing's harder than it looks;
you can't learn it just by reading books –
    you've got to stretch your fingers,
    train your thumbs to be real ringers –
they have to learn to move as though they're hooks.
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Copyright © 2014 by Morris Dean
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Posted by Moristotle at 6/11/2014 12:00:00 AM
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  1. MoristotleWednesday, June 11, 2014 at 6:46:00 AM EDT

    Here's a fun project for keeping an aging brain young and agile.

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  2. EdWednesday, June 11, 2014 at 9:06:00 AM EDT

    The first part I have no idea what you are speaking of and the second part---well I'd be in a nursing home before that happened. A young and agile brain needs a young and agile body. To this day my brain still thinks it can do things that the body will just not go along with. (Smiley face would be here if you would ever put them on the blog.)

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    1. MoristotleWednesday, June 11, 2014 at 9:38:00 AM EDT

      The programming stuff was quoted verbatim from an ad Coy Lee Pittman put on Facebook to try to find someone qualified to work for his company. Maybe I should have explained this.

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  3. EdWednesday, June 11, 2014 at 10:05:00 AM EDT

    I still would not understand it, only that Mr Pittman is looking for someone who does. Maybe Mr. Cantor can apply for the job,

    I noticed you did not address the smiley face.

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    1. MoristotleWednesday, June 11, 2014 at 4:35:00 PM EDT

      I'm not sure I CAN add an option to add emoticons. I'd have to provide a full range of them, out of respect for freedom of expression. Me, I'm almost always smiling. <smile>

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    2. Tom LoweWednesday, June 11, 2014 at 7:14:00 PM EDT

      "Don't worry, be happy"? So, opposable thumbs mean you rule the intertubes?

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    3. MoristotleWednesday, June 11, 2014 at 9:32:00 PM EDT

      Tom, "don't worry, be happy" strikes me as being approximately as facetious as was my "almost always happy."
          And "opposable thumbs ruling" seems a nice (and very subtle) allusion to Christianity's alloting humans an immortal soul to rule over purely material animals. However, remember that apes and chimps also have opposable thumbs; 2-thumb typing is only a manually alternate technique - it imparts no authority.
          Can I be any more obscure? <wink>

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  4. ChuckWednesday, June 11, 2014 at 5:46:00 PM EDT

    Emoticons are easy ;>} : ^o :=@

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