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a New Year's message I was forwarded via email
Monday, January 7th, 2008 05:37 pmMy Wish for You in 2008
May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet of $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires and may happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had forget your home address! In simple words ............
May 2008 be the best year of your life!
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On another note, back at work today I noted how when I use the Home/End/PageUp/PageDown keys, I don't really have a clear mental idea of where those keys are or even which one I'm pressing. When typing or scrolling through a document, I just think of where I want the cursor to go, and my fingers automatically know which keys to press to make that happen, without me consciously thinking about it. It's part of the amazingness of typing... I've posted in awe about that before. But this does make it difficult to consciously learn a new layout, when I don't even have a clear mental idea of the old layout.
I was also thinking that this must be what it is like for musically gifted people - they must be able to think of the sound of a tone or chord, and their fingers automatically know which piano keys to press, or which flute holes to cover (etc.) in order to produce that sound. Whereas someone who has to consciously think about it (if they are even able to correlate sounds with certain keys), would find it difficult to play live made-up-on-the-spot music.
May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet of $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires and may happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had forget your home address! In simple words ............
May 2008 be the best year of your life!
.
On another note, back at work today I noted how when I use the Home/End/PageUp/PageDown keys, I don't really have a clear mental idea of where those keys are or even which one I'm pressing. When typing or scrolling through a document, I just think of where I want the cursor to go, and my fingers automatically know which keys to press to make that happen, without me consciously thinking about it. It's part of the amazingness of typing... I've posted in awe about that before. But this does make it difficult to consciously learn a new layout, when I don't even have a clear mental idea of the old layout.
I was also thinking that this must be what it is like for musically gifted people - they must be able to think of the sound of a tone or chord, and their fingers automatically know which piano keys to press, or which flute holes to cover (etc.) in order to produce that sound. Whereas someone who has to consciously think about it (if they are even able to correlate sounds with certain keys), would find it difficult to play live made-up-on-the-spot music.
