From: MDWRIGHT1@aol.com
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:16:29 EST
Subject: Wrist Pain
To: jwz@jwz.orgI was ready to be informed about your wrist pain and possible cause of the pain. I can tolerate a lot of things but to use a verb in the wrong way (F...) is more than I can tolerate. That is the one word I never tolerate. I know you don't care if I never see your sight again but you did note you had not been getting the attention you had at one time, so I'm suggesting it could be the word is out on your use of verbs,
Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape in the new year.
Well, I guess you're fucked now.
Somebody's copy of Net Nanny isn't doing its job.
Not only is he late, he can't spell (sight?). Plus, he writes in sentence fragments and passive voice. Despite his objection to your use of verbs, I suspect English is his second language based on this email.
... I suspect English is his second language based on this email.
too much credit. He's probably just an idiot.
I don't think you're allowed to count pointing and grunting as a first language.
Know some Marines, do you?
I know you don't care if I never see your sight again
But misuse of nouns is perfectly ok, apparently.
god I didn't even get that till you pointed it out, I thought he just spoke engrish
The internet must be a never-ending source of test cases and research examples for psychologists, psychotherapists and neurologist.
That's actually a pretty good article, dated though it might be. I'd love to get a keyboard like the Kinesis Contour. I might have to dig around a bit and find the modern equivalent, or possilby a used one.
Did you mean like this Kinesis keyboard or something else?
For the record, here's what JWZ wrote.
What I would like to find is the keyboard pictured here:
That chair is awesome. As someone who types WAY TOO MUCH, I can appreciate that.
Agreed. I love me my Kenesis Essential keyboard but my wrists still hurt. :-(
The only solution I found was leaving the computer industry, and even now, three years later, I have to be careful.
I've got an interview at a tech startup tomorrow - on some level this makes sense, I'm sure...
I had it and used it for a good five years or so until it started dying. It was way overpriced (like $500, not including a chair) and had a few minor problems, but was overall great. Then they redesigned it, renamed it the Freestyle, and ditched the chair mount version due to "too little demand."
I've been using this which is good as far as more traditional split keyboards go, and definitely a lot quieter, but I still wish someone else made a chair mount keyboard. I only ever found one and it was one of those freaky designs where you'd have to teach yourself to type all over again.
Gaah, that new Microsoft Natural keyboard is crap. The rev-1 Naturals were pretty good, but everything they've put out since has been mushy garbage.
Got that right. I'm not sure what model my MS Natural is, but I got it in 1996 and it's still with me. I tested a couple of other 'boards a year or so ago when I found that it and my new KVM switch didn't play well together, but there's nothing out there as sturdy, including MS's own keyboards. I finally decided I liked the old keyboard enough not to mess with the KVM switch. It's the only Microsoft product I've ever been enthusiastic about.
Weird thing -- in early 2002 I got an ergonomic Dvortyboard for work (I had just been hired for a job that required some work in MS-DOS and they were wary of software solutions), and it matched the Natural's layout and action. Naturally they stopped making them shortly thereafter.
I'm still using an old Microsoft Elite. I do a lot of transcription for closed captioning. I'm pleased to see the prices have come down, and variety has gone up, since the last time I went keyboard shopping. I'm due for a new one this year - I give the current Elite about six more months before something goes haywire.
What does it say about your operating system when you have to certify that your keyboard is "Certified for Vista"? I mean, it's just a keyboard. Ok, it has a few fancy buttons. But, c'mon!
I bought that keyboard thinking 'hey cool! A scroll stick between sections would be neat' - turne out it was a useless sodding zoom - and with no simple way to remap the function.
Also, this keyboard is way too big. Nowadays I tend to stick with laptop-esque slim keyboards - who am I kidding, I don't touch type.
As of a year or two ago, Kinesis was still selling the Evolution, but only in a track-mount version, not arm-mount. It looks like no more.
That's odd. It's a wireless device, isn't it? You'd think there would be more of a market for it. I've seen a lot of these keyboards marketed as more of a novelty. Whatever happened to the one that projected a keyboard like a grocery store scanner?
There's so much that could be improved in the way we interact with these machines. The standard QWETRY leaves much to be desired.
I think I'm ready for my keyboard-cortex implant now.
I hear F...ing is one of those "Easy ways to stay in shape in the new year."
Plus, it beats sending crazy emails.
"Well, fuck, thanks for your fucking reply. It made my fucking day and I was so fucking glad to hear from you. My fucking wrists hurt from replying to fuckers like you."
Fucking fuck-ity fuck fuck!
Fuck that.
Previously...
Did you ever get the jwz@aol.com address in the end?
Nope. And whoever has it has never signed on to AIM.
"...I'm suggesting it could be the word is out on your use of verbs,"
Apparently, people who read your site/blog know what words you use.
I find it amusing that wrist pain is a little less serious than language.
Sounds like the first commenter to this post, who quickly got pwned.
It's getting harder to tell the morons from the broken robots.
Broken robots are sexier.
Fish! And Plankton! And Proteins from the sea!
"Use a verb in the wrong way"? Was it used as a noun? "Wrist pain is a fucking!" Adjective? Adverb? I don't understand.
Yeah, it's pretty hard to use "fuck" incorrectly, it works anyfuckingwhere.
I assume he's okay with it used literally. I.e., "F---! I f----ed up my f---ing wrist when I was fucking my sister."
What a sight!
Ask him how well he tolerates "cunt".
well, fuck.. i guess that explains why no one reads my fucking posts!
"I know you don't care if I never see your sight again..."
Is that possible? I thought the only sight you can see is... your own...?
You realize you are going to be getting emails like this when you're past retirement age?
Except they're going to be increasingly like "duh... why don't you get implants?" or "Surely you would have euthanized that clone when it became non-functional?"
I think everyone secretly wishes they had a lame reply to a post they made so many years ago.
Lame? The word is out on your use of verbs. That's not lame, that's surreal.
my bad
Laurie Anderson ftw
I think "The word is out on your use of verbs" is begging to be randomly tossed into party conversations.
Actually I was unaware of your verbal abuse. I was ready to be informed about your use of verbs and possible cause of the verbs. I am very disappointed because I haven't learned a fucking thing.