2. FDR is famous for saying, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." One subject of a scientific study, "The Woman Who Can't Feel Fear", might beg to differ. "SM", as she is known in the literature, does not have a functioning amygdala:
"It's a little bit as if you would go to this region and literally scoop it out," Antonio Damasio, another neuroscientist who studies SM, told Invisibilia hosts Lulu Miller and Alix Spiegel. [minor format edits]At least one close brush with a thug might tempt you to see an advantage to her condition -- but for the fact that it got her into that encounter in the first place.
3. No sooner do I write about overcoming the limitations of blogging with a virtual keyboard than I hear about TextBlade, by WayTools, "a folding QWERTY keyboard the size of a pack of gum". For ninety nine bucks, you, too can have one by March.
4. Speaking again of time management for writers, a commenter pointed me to a post on the subject that I found to be both practical and encouraging.
-- CAV
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Today: Fixed a formatting glitch.
'QWERTY keyboard the size of a pack of gum'
ReplyDeleteDoes it come with surgery to install smaller fingers?
Steve,
ReplyDeleteHeh! That will be a concern for many, but I am fortunate to have, as a classmate in a biology lab once called them, "surgeon-like" hands. I'm already used to a netbook as my primary laptop, so the transition won't be hard for that reason, at least for me.
One thing I will look at, though, is keys. If it's missing too many, that could be a deal-breaker for me.
Gus