My Opera2010 07 27
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:35:40 PM
There's something to be said about the tendency to stick to habits. Recently switched from bar soap to liquid body wash soap (the bar soap was creating some nasty-hard-to-clean soap build-up as residual soapy water drained from the soap tray and onto the wall). Anyway, for the first few weeks, I squirted a dollop of the liquid soap onto my hand and without thinking, put that straight onto my hair like it was shampoo. And that's after I had already washed my hair.
Getting back onto habits, recently also got an iMac for a project. Don't have the space cleared out for it yet, so it's temporarily sitting in front of the PC monitor, and the PC gets used via vga cable to the TV. I'm a habitual keyboard shortcut user, and I'm having the dangdest time adjusting to the differences between Windows and OSX shortcuts.. Some shortcuts are easily translated (e.g., copy: Ctrl-c becomes Command-c), but the Command key is placed next to the space bar (where the Alt key resides on a PC keyboard). Doesn't help that the tiny Mac keyboard doesn't have proper home/end/PgUp/PgDn keys. To do the same thing requires using the arrows while holding the Fn key. "Quickly" selecting text and moving the cursor around with keyboard only now requires juggling the Shift, Fn, Option, and arrow keys.
BTW, this was written on the PC, on the TV, without a mouse. That's without a mouse for everything, not just editing text. I looked all over and can't find the damn thing; it's probably in one of Donnie's hidden stashes all covered with drool. That kid really does take after his zodiac animal.
BTW, I'm typing this on
Getting back onto habits, recently also got an iMac for a project. Don't have the space cleared out for it yet, so it's temporarily sitting in front of the PC monitor, and the PC gets used via vga cable to the TV. I'm a habitual keyboard shortcut user, and I'm having the dangdest time adjusting to the differences between Windows and OSX shortcuts.. Some shortcuts are easily translated (e.g., copy: Ctrl-c becomes Command-c), but the Command key is placed next to the space bar (where the Alt key resides on a PC keyboard). Doesn't help that the tiny Mac keyboard doesn't have proper home/end/PgUp/PgDn keys. To do the same thing requires using the arrows while holding the Fn key. "Quickly" selecting text and moving the cursor around with keyboard only now requires juggling the Shift, Fn, Option, and arrow keys.
BTW, this was written on the PC, on the TV, without a mouse. That's without a mouse for everything, not just editing text. I looked all over and can't find the damn thing; it's probably in one of Donnie's hidden stashes all covered with drool. That kid really does take after his zodiac animal.
BTW, I'm typing this on
