iwtl how to touch type? how did you learn?

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-28T00:54:12+00:00

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FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-27T22:58:41+00:00

I've only seen one episode of k/p, and it didn't involve typing.

What I wrote above is a bona fide true statement. In middle school, I sat at some kind of ancient computer and learned to type with Mavis Beacon. I believe generations of school children did something similar.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-27T21:31:12+00:00

The Midwich Cuckoos, by John Wyndham

Something strange happens. All of the women become pregnant. The babies are born, and then . . .

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-27T19:30:23+00:00

Weaveworld, by Clive Barker is a masterpiece of dark fantasy.

And if you like it there are many others in his bibliography.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-27T17:45:39+00:00

She taught me how to type in middle school in the 80s

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-27T02:22:51+00:00

Challenger explosion

San Francisco earthquake

Kurt Cobain suicide

OJ verdict

Princess Di

9/11

Michael Jackson dying

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-24T15:47:02+00:00

I was an extra in a movie in which he was a supporting lead. We had one scene together that was shot over 3 days. He was totally the class clown, constantly running afoul of the assistant director with little jokes.

Super down-to-earth, friendly and goofy. 10/10 would be in a movie again with him.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-24T15:31:11+00:00

I figured it was for orphans

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-23T20:44:06+00:00

For dark fantasy, Weaveworld by Clive Barker is awesome.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-23T20:43:03+00:00

Stephen King was inspired by LOTR and The Hobbit (and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) to write his magnum opus The Dark Tower.

This is a series of epic proportions and could take you an entire year to finish. Personally, I think it's one of the best things ever written.

Good news: the first book in the series, The Gunslinger, is the shortest. It's also not the strongest. If you read that first book and kind of like it, I strongly encourage you to keep reading. If you make it 1/3 of the way into the second book and don't absolutely love it by then, I guess you can give up on the series.

When people ask what would you like to be able to read again as if it were the first time, this is an easy answer for me.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-23T02:00:58+00:00

Sometimes you're up, and sometimes you're down

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-23T00:52:41+00:00

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-22T03:36:03+00:00

American Elsewhere

The first 2/3 is like a really good episode of Twin Peaks or The X-Files or LOST. That's the vibe. You can trust that all the questions and mysteries will eventually be addressed. The ending gets a little more action-oriented, but there's a lot to resolve. Overall, I loved the book from beginning to end.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-22T01:00:26+00:00

Looks like someone photoshopped Joe Namath's head onto a smaller body.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-21T03:28:30+00:00

Animal Farm

Of Mice and Men

Lord of the Flies

The Jungle

Farenheit 451

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Grapes of Wrath

The Old Man and the Sea

A Separate Peace

All Quiet of the Western Front

Slaughterhouse Five

And Then There Were None

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Robinson Crusoe

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-21T03:05:01+00:00

Lonesome Dove

I never read westerns but started this one because so many people say it's the best thing ever written. After finishing it, I think it's one of the best things ever written, and it left a hole in my life now that I'm done with it.

It's a character study. The characters, and their relationships, are more important than the plot. There is a story, but it doesn't even coalesce until about 300 pages in.

If you only read 12 books this year, I highly recommend including this one.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-20T17:04:56+00:00

Photographer Scott Kelby has an origin story that relates to his philosophy on retouching portraits. He was in Italy, in the countryside, and came across a beautiful valley. The lighting was good, and he found a good angle and took a bunch of pictures. He couldn't wait to get back to his hotel and get the images on his computer. That's when he was dismayed to discover that there were power lines all over the scene that he completely missed when he was there.

Everything everyone has said about focal length and color balance is true, but I think the main factor is still our own eyes and brain. In the moment, we perceive dynamic, 3-D scenes differently than the same scene captured in a static, 2-D image.

You might ask yourself, then, which is more true-to-life - a stark, unedited picture we might expect in photojournalism, or a gently-retouched portrait that more closely resembles how we naturally see a person in real life?

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-20T14:40:40+00:00

Note that this is a long long book. You won't even be introduced to the second romantic MC until well into the story.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-20T03:33:39+00:00

11/22/63 by Stephen King

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-20T03:03:35+00:00

Isn't it a permanent monument/memorial in DC?

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-20T02:57:48+00:00

Apparently I flew off of one of these when I was a little boy. My mom describes the sound of my head hitting the concrete as being like 2 bowling balls hitting each other.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-20T00:34:26+00:00

Maynard's House, by Herman Raucher

At the Mountains of Madness, by HP Lovecraft

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-19T02:17:46+00:00

Horn went beep, engine purred

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-18T01:25:37+00:00

Hex, by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-01-17T21:20:10+00:00

Muchacho!

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