April 8, 2010
Coming from my new iPad
Holy crapad, I have a bit to learn.
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Hipad hipad hooray! Congratulations.
I’m going to make myslefw use it until I can really use it. Dssl
K Typing id s littler ids tougher. You get the gist!
Oh that Rick! He’s in his cups!
Maybe his I-cups.
Does it live upad to its hypad?
( i hope so. i want one)
I’md not in my cups, jut trying to touch type on this virtual keyboard.w “:hey that sort of worked outadf OKw.? OK maybe not so.
Give me a week ok? Wsdfpoxspka we’ll see if it gets better.
I like to think this is how you’d sound in your cups. It’s really fucking adorable.
I just wiped a cat hair off the screen and went to Saturn. Typing will take concentration but I’beta I can do ita one a these days.
I’beta u can do ita too!
awesome!
Kathy I’m sure this is toy how I sound in my cups. LDanny’ll tell you I’m pretty a dorble in my cups. I think Phil would say the sand.
Ok Danny just told me I’m having too much afun. I’m out for now.
Congratulations, darling Rick! And please type like this all the time–it’s delightful.
I’m back on the laptop, where the keyboard is somewhat controllable. At least in practice. I can’t vouch yet for the iPad’s usability. It is my first Apple/Mac product. It was fun, fun, fun. I’m just now learning. I was just starting to feel “the feel” of the virtual keyboard. It will take practice. Gosh, it is intuitive.
I wasn’t fond of “practice” at piano when ten years old. It is why I’m no piano virtuoso today. I’m a dabbler, I dabble. My sloppy keystrokes. (It feels like when I first learned to drive with a clutch. It was so alien at first, but eventually, I learned to do it without really thinking.) If I “clutch” the iPad it might become an extension of my mind one day. Think a thought and it is there for everyone. Not that every thought I have should see the light of day.
Still, it won’t edit for me. And it second guesses what I want to say. (It doesn’t ask, “Is this what you really want to say, Ricky?”)
I have to learn to control it.
Yeah you can’t really touch-type on the keyboard. People at work, it’s funny watching them play with it, because you see who taught themselves to type in unorthodox ways, and who had to/chose to go through a typing course at some point. People who have to put their hands on “asdf” and “jkl;” or whatver… they have a ton of trouble because they put their hands on it like it’s a real keyboard. But people who play videogames, or otherwise learned how to use a computer pretty young, who don’t type in any sort of “standard” way (myself, I use mostly my index and middle fingers on each hand, and can type about 90+ words a minute on a regular keyboard, but I never took a class, just have been typing since I was about six years old) seem to pick it up right away with very little errors.
It definitely takes some work to get used to the iPad keyboard. Notably, you don’t think about apostrophes or capitalization and just let it do those things for you. I’m kind of terrified at what that will eventually mean for my typing.
What msilver said. I can thumbtype considerably faster on a phone (qwerty or t9/word mode) than I canenter text on my ipoop touch, but it has improved since I learned to stop worrying and love the
bombautocorrect.Rick, I think Phil would say the sand, too.
How many iPads are going to be at #cfs2? That might be when I decide to buy one.
If I continue the spending frenzy that I’ve been in for the past few weeks, I’ll be buying all y’all one.
“I am buying things to fill an emotional void.”
Cindy, I’ll trade you a hug for an iPad.
That’s very sweet of you, Michael. At this point, nothing but a tryst with a coelacanth will do.
I buy things to fill emotional voids too!
Cindy if we bought them for each other, they’d be gifts then, and it would HARDLY count.
Exactly!
Not that this is here nor there, but if we all had iPads, we’d be able to play scrabble via bluetooth. I love scrabble in all its lovely forms.