When I took typing in school it was considered only by those that were striving to be secretaries. I was the only male in the class (I was also taking a data processing class so I thought it would be good) My, times have changed. But it was good for meeting women.
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Facebook wasn't a thing yet when I was in high school, and I wasn't really much of an internet user until many years later. I mostly took typing for being able to write documents, and at the time it was a very valuable skill to have
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I have been riding my bike non-stop since I got it fixed and loving it. I ran across a beautiful juvenile rattlesnake on Saturday while out riding. It must have just molted because its scales glistened in the sun with a metallic quality. The rattle was only 2 or 3 centimeters long and its body looked plump and healthy. There was a group of people who were all stuck in a traffic jam as we let it cross the bike path. When I finally got past it, I ran across a woman with a dog off the leash and warned her to keep the dog near her if she continued in the direction of the snake. She noped out and headed back the way she came. 
I also made Yoshi! Unfortunately, the pumpkin was already starting to rot and its insides were very dry and tough so carving it was a chore.
I watched the Grinch's Halloween Special and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
I also made Yoshi! Unfortunately, the pumpkin was already starting to rot and its insides were very dry and tough so carving it was a chore.
Spoiler :
I watched the Grinch's Halloween Special and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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Facebook wasn't a thing yet when I was in high school, and I wasn't really much of an internet user until many years later. I mostly took typing for being able to write documents, and at the time it was a very valuable skill to have
I wasn't actually referring to Facebook! By the time I had typing classes (middle school) I was already actively posting in a Halo fan fiction forum, which is when and where I started being online a lot. I didn't get a Facebook until years after that (2008 I think). I've never done much political arguing on Facebook, I never liked it as a format for debate, forums with quote function spoiled me
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Rave: I'm almost done editing my second chapter.
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We got a major revision for a paper, which I was sure would get rejected.
So it will now end up in a journal which is way better than I had expected.
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We used to have this typing program that we took lessons in weekly at school. But I never really have been able to. I am actually typing this with two fingers and trying not to look at the keyboard. I'm being moderately successful since I've been using the same one for over 3 years. But it is slow. I technically know to type by touch but it's infinitely harder.
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I'm going to rave about pro wrestling, so tune out if that's not your thing.
So, this is a still image from the recent WWE show, Friday Night Smackdown.
For context, this Friday, WWE staged an "NXT invasion" event, in which performers from their development brand, NXT, interrupted the usual Smackdown show and demanded matches with the performers.
At the end of the show, the NXT wrestlers, lead by the brand's showrunner, Paul "Triple H" Levesque, assembled on the stage to issue a general challenge to the rest of WWE. The above image depicts Triple H with his arms around the current NXT Women's Champion, Shayna Baszler, and current NXT Champion, Adam Cole. What is cool about this image is that it presents the the male and female champions of a pro wrestling brands on an equal footing.
Women's professional wrestling has historically been treated as a novelty or cheesecake act, but over the last decade or so, through the effort of some extremely dedicated and talented female wrestlers, this has changed drastically, and women's divisions across the board are dominated by serious and legitimate performers. However, women's divisions are still treated as less as less prestigious and less important than men's divisions. An imperfect analogy might be made to the way that, in boxing and MMA, certain weight classes are treated as more important than others. On WWE's two main brands, Raw and Smackdown, the women's championships are treated as tertiary titles after the primary and secondary titles on each brand.
The above therefore represents something quietly ground-breaking, the presentation of the male and female champions as peers, as equally foremost among Trips' large, angry children. Naturally, I don't want to place too much weight on what is, at the end of the day, a stray screencap from a longer segment, and I don't think it is a wholly accurate picture of where pro wrestling is in 2019. But as a symbol of where it's heading, I think it's pretty poetic. Pro wrestling may still be goofy fake dance-fighting, its audience may still be predominantly rednecks and children, and the most powerful man in the industry may be a sociopathic carny, but you still sometimes gets cool moments like this.
So, this is a still image from the recent WWE show, Friday Night Smackdown.
For context, this Friday, WWE staged an "NXT invasion" event, in which performers from their development brand, NXT, interrupted the usual Smackdown show and demanded matches with the performers.
At the end of the show, the NXT wrestlers, lead by the brand's showrunner, Paul "Triple H" Levesque, assembled on the stage to issue a general challenge to the rest of WWE. The above image depicts Triple H with his arms around the current NXT Women's Champion, Shayna Baszler, and current NXT Champion, Adam Cole. What is cool about this image is that it presents the the male and female champions of a pro wrestling brands on an equal footing.
Women's professional wrestling has historically been treated as a novelty or cheesecake act, but over the last decade or so, through the effort of some extremely dedicated and talented female wrestlers, this has changed drastically, and women's divisions across the board are dominated by serious and legitimate performers. However, women's divisions are still treated as less as less prestigious and less important than men's divisions. An imperfect analogy might be made to the way that, in boxing and MMA, certain weight classes are treated as more important than others. On WWE's two main brands, Raw and Smackdown, the women's championships are treated as tertiary titles after the primary and secondary titles on each brand.
The above therefore represents something quietly ground-breaking, the presentation of the male and female champions as peers, as equally foremost among Trips' large, angry children. Naturally, I don't want to place too much weight on what is, at the end of the day, a stray screencap from a longer segment, and I don't think it is a wholly accurate picture of where pro wrestling is in 2019. But as a symbol of where it's heading, I think it's pretty poetic. Pro wrestling may still be goofy fake dance-fighting, its audience may still be predominantly rednecks and children, and the most powerful man in the industry may be a sociopathic carny, but you still sometimes gets cool moments like this.
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That was four hours ago. Now I'm almost actually done.
I swear I didn't procrastinate....
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No, but sitting in Off-Topic and refreshing every 30 seconds probably is.
Traitorfish
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You lost an opportunity to drop a That '70s Show quote there, TF.
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Only every 30 seconds? Step your game up!
Traitorfish
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Rah is less than a decade older than me, and I can assure you that touch typing was the only way kids could pass their typing courses. I remember the girl next to me in Grade 10 being utterly humiliated when the teacher taped a piece of poster board over the keyboard so she couldn't look at the keys when she typed. I think she was puddling along at maybe 10-20 words/minute at most. This was before we were allowed to use modern (modern for 1977) typewriters. The ones I learned on in Grades 9 and 10 were ancient. In Grades 11 and 12 we were allowed to use electric typewriters.I was going to say this, lol! I can't remember the last time I actually looked at my keyboard while I'm typingI could write on my computer blindfolded ... but to be fair, rah grew up in the days of cuneiform, so he wouldn't have learned to type from an early age like you and I did
For me, typing was an extremely valuable skill to have. I turned it into a home business that lasted 12 years until health issues made me stop.
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