To the darling slaves of psycho-babble .

P.S. I tried to leave wider spaces to illustrate my point , but they have not come up on the screen . Never mind .

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Rock Steady

Some old school secretaries type Lowercase-L for One. That's a pain in the ass for analysis programs.

It is a pain in the ass today, too, as there are several Windows monospaced fonts that make a "1" and "l" look exactly alike. Which font did the idiot webmaster make the corporate passwords list in? This one shown below, which displays alternating '1's and 'l's.

He also used some Flash trickery to prohibit text copy and source views. We spent much of our time getting locked out of systems and waiting for resets as we had to guess.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by Tse Moana

I just couldn't fathom why anyone would make a typewriter without a one.

Usually "portables"...to save weight. My dad had one just like this one:

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

The word is psychobabble. You should see a doctor about having your hypen removed.

"Does anal-retentive have a hyphen?" --Alison Bechdel

No , just a sort of hymen .

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by Buddug

P.S. I tried to leave wider spaces to illustrate my point , but they have not come up on the screen . Never mind .

If
                       you're inclined

                           ...to express yourself so typographically 

        (and typewriterly; like Don Marquis' cockroach Archie, 
        who communicated by jumping on typewriter 
        keys and could thus only type all in lower 
        case, observing "i never learned to shift for myself"...) 

 -- and thus require high visual fidelity to your keying --
 
 I    d o    r e c o m m e n d   t h e   < c o d e >    tag.

[afrayedknot]

Originally Posted by Ibram

Yeah, beestie... kind of like a rabid Tool fan.

hey now

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by Buddug

... but to be fair to old Clodfobble , Cervantes did try to blur the lines between the writer and the fictional characters he created . Mise en abyme and all that , if you will excuse my French .

I was really impressed by Ed Ames' reading of "The Impossible Dream". Do you know if Cervantes liked Ames' version better, or Jim Nabors' rendition?

[Rock Steady]

I join and found companies that compete with Google. Is that DonQuixote-esque enough for the Bud?

[Rock Steady]

In the 60's I grew up using a 1910 Underwood No. 5. By 1971 I was using Teletype 33 over 110 baud modem.

[kerosene]

I am still reeling from the fact that I had always thought it proper to put 2 spaces after a period, and one after a comma. In fact, I remember getting deductions on high school term papers for such debauchery as using only one space after a period. Have I now entered an alternate universe? Worse yet, had I entered an alternate universe, previously and just now noticed? If so, when did life as I knew it change? Holy shit! What happened to my pants?!?

[Undertoad]

I never learned not to put two spaces after a period. Incredibly, HTML corrects that, by default. You can put ten spaces after the period if you like, it doesn't matter.

[Ibby]

You technically are s'posta, I think, but I don't cause im a lazy bastard, and dont care enough to remind myself to do it.

[bbro]

Originally Posted by case

I am still reeling from the fact that I had always thought it proper to put 2 spaces after a period, and one after a comma. In fact, I remember getting deductions on high school term papers for such debauchery as using only one space after a period.

Same here, I still do it, just by habit. If I don't, it seems smooshed together to me.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

"Does anal-retentive have a hyphen?" --Alison Bechdel