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I thought I couldn't touch type for the longest time. Turns out, I just needed to teach myself. Shame I spent three years being forced by the school to use Mavis Beacon... *shudders* Ultimately, I don't think exact form matters (for example, my handwriting, if I hold a pencil "correctly," is completely illegible) so long as the final product works.
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Saltah'na
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Really, in this internet day and age, the more you post on sites like this, the more one can do touch typing after a while. It's all a matter of practice. That and knowing the positions of all the keys on the keyboard.
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Lincoln Logs were a blast, when used with other toys.
I also had some little peg like things that could be fit together like legos, they were about an inch long. I built my first stardestroyer out of them.
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Yeah, I never really grasped lincoln logs. YOu can build a house. That's it. And it has to be a square house too. When I was younger, my parents really pissed me off by getting me MEGA BLCKS instead of LEGOs. THe only Legos I got were the ones that came as a set to make a specific thing like an AT-ST, or a harry potter castle.
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You didn't have a good set of Lincoln Logs, I had a set that had a variety of lengths, so I could build L shaped places.
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Well yeah an L shape Wooooo. Magic. Even worse, the things I built werent inscale to anything I owned, so my GI joes couldn't battle it out in authentic valley forge style
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I had a ton of those little green plastic army men, they were pretty much to scale, if you ignored the 2 or 3 foot diameter logs. Which at that age didn't bother me at all.
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Daniel Butler
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I type 180 wpm on average, faster if I need to. I was doing 120wpm in keyboarding class when I was 14. I don't know if it's just a talent, or what, but I hardly had to do anything to learn touch typing...I just sort of did it. I can't write by hand worth a crap, though; I get horrible shooting pains up my arm and nobody can read it. I probly have dysgraphia or something.
I had TinkerToys, Lincoln Logs, an Erector Set, and about 10lbs of Lego blocks, all scavenged from specific sets - I'd build the UFO or whatever and then tear it apart to invent my own ship/dinosaur/whatever. Every single time mom took me somewhere, I'd cry until she bought me a Lego set... B)
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I had Lincoln Logs, Tinkertoys, and Legos. I still have (or rather my son now has) the Legos. Oddly enough, I'm a structural design engineer, and I've never had an Erector set.
And my son, who's in second grade, is now learning to touch-type. I didn't get that until high school, and it was an elective course. I suppose the massive number of personal computers now kinda makes it essential.
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Next thing you know they will be teaching warp theory in third grade.
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I took touch typing in third grade. I learned it, decided I hated it and forgot about it. I might regret that next year. We had to use these rubber "key condoms" to stop us from looking at the keys. If I have to hand a paper in, I type it up, but things for me, or things that are just checked for credit I hand write. Not that anyone can read it. People complain because my G's look like 8's...
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Between my house and my grandmother's (guess that counts as communal property for all the grandkids) I had:
Legos, Lincoln Logs (real wood ones), Tinker Toys (real wood ones), Brix Blocks, Bristle Blocks, Erector Set and these little plastic blue pieces that looked like steel I beams. You hook them together to build skyscrapers then placed the plastic panel "skin" on the outside.
Lincoln Logs were great with other toys. Star Wars figures, army men, Hot Wheels. Besides an L shape you could build any style of structure that had 90 degree angle walls.
And the little 1x1 log pieces made quick and efficient cannons.
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I have a set of those little blue plastic I beams. Got it from a garage sale. DId yours come with a "riv-o-matic gun" that shot the rivets into the beams?
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