I don’t know what it is, but I seem to actually start my on-the-side personal projects when I’m at my busiest. Maybe I’m just more focused; I don’t know. Regardless, I’m finally taking time to learn to type in a Dvorak keyboard layout. Photomatt (please don’t make me type out links, this is slow enough) clued me in to this, and is the only person I know to actively use it. I like it so far for comfort, even if it is SLOW as I’m learning. To practice, I typed out the first thing that came to mind, tho poem I had to memorize in 7th grade. So, here is Jabberwocky, 14 years later.
Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wade.
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son,
the jaws that bite, the claws that catch.
Beware the jubjub bird and shun
the frumious bandersnatch.”
He took his vorpal sword in hand,
Long time the manxome foe he sought,
And rested he by the tumtum tree
And stood a while in thought.
And as he stood in uffish thought he stood,
The jabberwocky, with eyes aflame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood
And burbled as it came.
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack.
He left it dead, and with its head,
he went galumphing back.
“An hast thou slain the jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
Oh, frabjous day! Caloo, calay!”
He chortled in his joy.
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wade.
All mimsy were the borogoves
and the mome raths outgrabe.
(Lewis Carroll)
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It’s nice to know I’m not the only nerd out there.
Yeah, I’ve been trying to pick up Dvorak w/o killing my productivity at work too. My change has been instigated by some pain in my wrists & elbows, though.
Anyway, I wanted to let you know that I googled “Dvorak Tutorial” and got a bunch of hits – some of them have been pretty good. You might want to take a look.
May I be pedantic for a moment?
wade –> wabe
And rested he —> So rested he
And as he stood in uffish thought he stood –> And, as in uffish thought he stood
I too memorized this in seventh grade, at the request of my father who would often dare me to do things like memorize strange poems or algeraic formulae. This is, of course, precious memory capacity that could be used for something much more important…like commercial jingles from the 70s.
*sigh*
To continue
algeraic –> algebraic
(but I can spell manxome?)
BGB – no, thanks for the corrections. I knew some of it was off, but didn’t Google it first.
I swear, I’m going to Dvorak my enemies keyboards in the future. My boss used it years ago – no way I could switch after I finally built up my current speed “regular” typing.
i asked Matt on his blog if he had a Dvorak keyboard that i could borrow and he never answered me.
i know it looks no differnt than a querty keyboard but i’d like to see one. where did you get your keyboards?