Re: [NTLK] You know your a Newton power user when.........%26In-Reply-To=%26lt;v04210108b9478cf18eb7@[24.164.64.186]>

From: Johannes Spielhagen (gottjott_at_gmx.de)
Date: Fri Jul 05 2002 - 16:07:00 EDT


> >1. You use the back-light as midnight illumination to change your
> >child's diaper
>
> >2. You start to pick up Fred's Accent/Dialect
>
> > 3. When you are half asleep with a snoring spouse , you tap them on
> >the forehead with your fingernail to get them to stop.
>
> >4. ... you're standard answer to almost any bare facts question is
> >"I don't have the slightest clue, but hang on for a second - ah,
> >there we are" by now.
> >
> >5. When you start writing your abbreviations on a piece of paper and are
> >waiting for them to expand... (this happens more and more to me
> >lately, to the point that I'm developing my own shorthand, so to
> >speak ;-)
> >
> >6. You keep writing on your 17" monitor and get really surprised
> >when nothing shows up on the screen.
> >
> >7. Youwriteonthecomputerandforgettohitthespacebar.
> >
> >8. You drag highlighted items to the left boarder of the screen to put them
> >in one of the 9 clipboards. BTW, why did no freeware programmer realize this
> >drag to the screen boarder feature?
>
> >9. When you try to beam an address card to the solar powered angle screen
> >calculator sticking out the top of your wife's filofax.
>
> >10. You are writing something down on paper. You make a mistake and
> >scribble it out, and wait for it to disappear.

As a graphicdesigner I have a wacom tablet with my Mac. Recently I tried to
write some text on the screen and was pretty puzzled when it didn't work.

But this may work soon...

Johannes

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