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March 25, 2016

You are right,” Nietzsche said, “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.”

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I’m with Nietzsche on that one.
Before the word processor and then the computer, I used to compose all my papers in longhand and correct them the same way, with many crossouts and additions. Once I was satisfied (or a few hours before the paper was due, whichever came first) I’d type it on my Smith-Corona, using whiteout or erasable typing paper to correct the inevitable typos. It felt like a laborious process, and it often was; I’m not the greatest typist, and Spellcheck was hardly a gleam in anyone’s eye. --neo-neocon サ Blog Archive サ Hand writing

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 25, 2016 10:42 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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"The moving finger writes and having writ moves on.
Nor all your piety, nor wit, shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it." Rubaiyet, Omar Khayyam, a Fitzgerald version.
The finger is writing with blood as we continue to stumble in our self-imposed white-out of denial of the obvious.
How stupid! How stupid? Wait and see.
The reason there is no one to blame is because there are millions more than one to blame -- and we don't.

Posted by: Stug Guts [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 25, 2016 3:20 PM

AutoCAD is like the perfect employee that does exactly what you ask it to do, instantly so you have to be very careful in what you ask it to do.

The learning curve is very steep and amounts to learning how to out think the computer, always staying several steps ahead of it, constantly bending it to your will and the vision in your minds eye.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 25, 2016 7:39 PM

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