Category Archives: technology

42 … or 34?

My new keyboard came last week, a Piantor Pro from Beekeeb, a two-person shop in Hong Kong. Quality work. But the keys are narrower than my fingers (on average), and the deep pinky stagger – offset of the pinky finger’s … Continue reading

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whither arrows

In anticipation of my next keyboard, I have been doodling layouts of the non-alpha layers, as one does. Today let’s discuss arrow keys.

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first day with Glove80

Typing this in a non-qwerty layout on a new ergonomic keyboard. Learning the alphabet anew is of course a challenge, as is getting to know the keys themselves. My pinkies want to rest on the upper row, and the upper … Continue reading

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concepts that are not quite writing

I was thinking about the notion of a brain interface that delivers text to a layer after vision: the user “sees” the letters at their most abstract, but not their graphic details. What would that experience be like? Could it … Continue reading

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oblique pedals

Pedaling a bicycle is painful for me, because a crooked hip makes the knee transmit force at an unnatural angle. But perhaps I could mitigate that (if I had any relevant skills) by making the pedals’ axis oblique, connected to … Continue reading

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all the world’s a wiki

I toy with the thought of converting this here website to MediaWiki (which my host supports), as I am more efficient at editing there than at writing raw HTML in vi. The wiki’s first articles would be: Two-dimensional design Hyperbolic … Continue reading

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there are domains and domains

keenspace.com, a free hosting service for comic strips, changed its name (not long after it was founded) to comicgenesis.com; but the old name still works, as do comicgen.com and (I just learned) toonspace.com and webcomicspace.com. Well, mostly. Mostly it doesn’t … Continue reading

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