h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Thanks for the pics, BB. I'm feeling a little right now. I'd fit right in, what with my glasses and all.

As for the shenanigans going on here, let me just say that I didn't see anyone raise their hand when asked if they enjoyed getting wound up. Except those 2 hooligans in the corner.

You type with both hands?

Noggin

And I forgot to welcome you, Noggin! Please forgive me.

Do you use the hunt and peck method, Noggin? The STBX does that, and I get frustrated when I watch him try to type things. I actually thanked my mother for forcing me to take a typing class in high school.

I forgot to say hello too, Noggin. We have crossed paths before though, I remember remarking on watching Noggin on tv

I sort of learnt to use both hands for typing years ago when messing about with Dad's typewriter and Mum's Pitman typing book. I didn't half get told off for touching the typewriter!

I have a strange typing style. Its a combination of hunt and peck and two-handed. Not entirely touch, but enough so that I don't shame myself while surrounded by my fellow geeks.

* waves hello in Noggin's direction *

So, given my advanced age, do you think it is possible for me to learn to type with more than one finger per hand, plus the odd thumb action?

I would so like to be able to play a fuller part in this place, and I always feel that my typing speed holds me back.

I have this four finger style. I've never learned to type and I can type quite fast with those 4 fingers so I guess I won't take any class either. Too old to learn new tricks.

I type with a graphics pen tucked under the first finger of my right hand and that affects which fingers I use for particular keys. When I'm using the uni computers, where I have a mouse and no graphics pen, I find I have lost the ability to type normally.

Hi Noggin *waves*

Thanks for the Pics.

Is there a place where the London meet ups are planned, I would like to go to one, but I would need to make some major plans and would thus need some forewarning.

I'm all for a US meet-up, even if it's just Salonistas.

Courtesy
*invoking the shun*

The shun?

Hmmmm... A US Salonistas meet-up, huh? I like the idea!

Acknowledged

Slept all day after completely failing to get any sleep on the coach in either direction. Got up at 5pm and after eating, have spent the last two and a half hours on hootoo backlog...

Had a brilliant time at the meet! Great to see those I've met before again and properly talk to you (Bald bloke, agcBen, Titania, GreyDesk, Phil) Wonderful to have met those I haven't met before (Z, Egon, Solnushka).

Egon is 6'8", I seem to remember him saying. He absolutely towers above me (I'm 5'0"!).

I don't think I disgraced myself, but I must have been a little inebriated because I mentioned my age a couple of times and said I was older than I am (not that age till May!) Still, hopefully no one will remember such details if they were drunk too!

The Science museum was lots of fun, even though we ended up spending the whole time just on 3 floors of the Wellcome wing (most of it in the digitopolis section) well, Titania and I did anyway, by half past four we'd lost the others! Here's a link - don't know if it'll work though:
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wellcome-wing/ww_frame.asp?site=2d
I made a web page that's supposed to be on the Science museum site but it wouldn't recognise me when I went to login to view it

I talked to Phil and MC about meets up North- I will definitely try to make it to the next one

Meeting people was really fun. Did I say that already? Probably. What's very odd is that everyone was completely diferent AND exactly the same as I'd imagined.

I use two fingers and two hands but I go jolly fast. I suspect the vigour with which I attack the keyboard is responsible for deterioration of several keyboards under my supervision. I'd like to claim these facts as responsible for my innaccuracies, but...

Have spent all afternoon working on my portfolio and thinking that I should have done more paperwork last week. Oh well.

Oh and hi Noggin! *Waves enthusiastically*

Greetings Noggin!

Thanks for the picture link. It is spectacular to apply faces to names. Everyone in that photo is a friend of some time together in this conversation, and it is great to be able to see how far my mental preceptions are.

I believe that I have had my say about the purpose of communication and the value of this conversation. Saying anything more would be redundant.

*feels guilty* Sorry, Noggin! Meant to say hi, but I kept forgetting. Its been a strange day...

Yes, sorry Noggin, pleased to meet you and welcome

Hey there, Noggin! Pleasure to meetcha. What's the word?

I'm always in favor of US meet ups and Salonista meet ups. But I've got this sneaky suspicion that they'll always be set up too far away for me to attend. That's the price I pay, I guess.

Oh, and I learned to type on a Commodore 64 while playing Zork I: The Great Underground Empire and Zork II: The Wizard Of Frobozz. Since it took so darn long to save on the truly floppy Floppy Disks of the time, I never bothered to save which meant that I always had to re-work myself up to the same place every time I started again. And since those are pretty big games (especially when you figure in various aspects such as mapping The Maze, The Coal Mine, and The Forrest), I was always in a hurry to get past the stuff that I knew how to do.

As a result, I've got a pretty decent typing speed. I have no idea if my typing style is the "correct" style, but I do know that I can type faster than a lot of people from my grade year who took the classes on it.

And I'm going to write this before I hit the "post" button once: apologies if this posts twice. Those XML errors have been coming pretty strong on my end.