Posted on 09/18/2019 5:59:05 PM PDT by beaversmom
So are music in schools, matching pitches, and rhythm exercises..
The last hope for cursive handwriting was: the Apple Newton.
Cursive gave better handwriting accuracy with faster input than printing.
Alas, “egg freckles” was cursive’s last gasp. It’s dead, it just hasn’t stopped moving yet.
Handwriting practice is also a good way to be more prepared to keep business records and continue business correspondence after, say, a nukefest—a possibility in our future. Our computing and communications infrastructure is increasingly fragile.
Interesting article. I seldom write in longhand any more. The only time I do is when I’m talking on the phone and want to record what I’m being told.
I keep a daily log on my laptop, just because it’s so easy. One of the best features is it allows me to easily search to quickly find out what happened when. Honestly, writing longhand now just feels like a chore. When communicating with people now, I usually test with my phone.
Amen to that. Our brains are too wired to these keyboards now. I can still sign my name longhand with no problem, but if I have to do something like personalize a Christmas card, my writing looks like I have some sort of palsy, and it’s frustrating. What will people be doing a generation or two from now, leaving a biometric thumbprint to say, ‘Happy Birthday’? Scanning a barcode to see what the sender typed?
-PJ
What prgram do u use to keep a daily log?
Recently I came across a handwritten letter from Mom to Grandma shortly after I was born. It goes into some detail about the way I took DC by storm on day one. Fat chance ever finding or seeing that if it were an email. Fat chance this entire post is true.
Just a basic Numbers spreadsheet on my Mac laptop. I actually prefer Excel, just because I spent of lot of time learning it, but my Windows desktop is upstairs and I’m not able to move very well these days.
and also math ... weightlifting for the brain
I have had a bunch of surgeries on my hands, and it got to the point I couldn't write more than a half a sentence before my hand began to cramp up and become claw-like, and the legibility of my once neat handwriting began to become nearly illegible.
I found a place that would make a font out of your handwriting (I think it cost about $100 15-20 years ago) and you filled out a form and sent it to them, and they would send you back a font!
I wrote one and printed one...can you tell which is which? (You probably can, but it is pretty damn close)
I rarely write anything by hand, and write all my letters and cards (yeah, I'm old school...I still write and mail things...probably a holdover from my military days where I used to write a dozen letters in a sitting) and I sent a card to a woman I used to correspond with when I was in the Navy, composing it with my font and printing it on the cards I make.
When I saw her, she remarked that she had forgotten how neat and tidy my hand writing was (this was 40 years after the fact...she still had my letters!) and was astonished when I told her it was a font that mimicked my handwriting...:)
That's the giveaway-it is a little too level and even, but the characters are faithful!
After watching Game of Thrones, I re took up letter writing, I have my Quills, fake parchment paper and my sealing wax. I write to the grand kids. They like to get the letters. I also started a journal. All in all its very soothing and fun. Im not a great speller, so theres only my manual spell check, which can go awry at a moments notice. Lol
After watching Game of Thrones, I re took up letter writing, I have my Quills, fake parchment paper and my sealing wax. I write to the grand kids. They like to get the letters. I also started a journal. All in all its very soothing and fun. Im not a great speller, so theres only my manual spell check, which can go awry at a moments notice. Lol
Bump
When the Newton came out, I jumped right on it. In my job, I had to keep little “books” in my pocket full of notes, settings, filters, instructions and such for various medical imaging I was doing. I had to be up to date and do it right every time, but sometimes you wouldn’t do something for several months, so I had thet little book I carried in my back pocket. When a setting had to be changed, out came that little black book, and eventually, it got so full and filled with cross-outs and things written in margins that I couldn’t find anything.
Right around that time, the Newton came out. I bought one immediately, and had a custom leather holster made for it. It was a good thing I wore a lab coat, because it would have been unbearably geeky to wear it around in the open!
I know others may have viewed it as a toy, or a useless/unreliable novelty, but it changed a lot of things for me. The Newton had what was called a “soup” memory, so as long as I tagged my notes with the right keywords, I could find things instantly!
At the time, that was unbelievable for me. I even got a little keyboard, and I took it to meetings. At that time, I was pretty much the only person who had something to take notes on in meetings, and people still remember that “little computer” I had.
I went through about four of them before the technology overtook it and Blackberries and those other small handheld things passed it by. But it recognized my handwriting (which was well suited to it as you can see from the post above)
I went to Palm Pilots, and went through a boatload of those, and it was not nearly as useful, even though it was more widely compatible.
I still have one of those old Newtons up in a cabinet...:)
Now, they are replacing the paper slips with little screens no larger than smart phones, and I'm supposed to sign my name with my finger. I can't get anything close to resembling my signature on those things, so I just stopped trying. Shouldn't the chip in the card be enough?
And the clerks don't seem to care, either. So in hindsight, what's the point in signing, except maybe to verify the tip amount?
-PJ
Now that there are hackers for ransom that attack businesses, many businesses are finding it is really hard for them to do mundane tasks that have to be done, like adding to files, bookkeeping, ETC. It is possible to do things old school, by hand to be recorded so it can be put in the system when the system is back up. The problem is most employees have no clue how to do things by hand on paper.
Most of the businesses are back up in a few days but it truly cripples a company to have computers down even for a few days.
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