the ap reports on the demise of cursive handwriting.
"If you need to relay information immediately and have just a half-second to grab anything, maybe just a napkin, penmanship is so valuable," Sull says. "It doesn't rely on batteries or power. It's like breathing -- it's always with you."
mmmm, not quite. you need something to write with, and something to write on. in my apartment, finding a computer is much easier to do. also, i can read what i type. that's not necessarily the case for written things.
"Cursive was so character-defining when I was in school," says Amy Greene, whose 9-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son prefer keyboards to cursive in their Palo Alto classrooms. "The way you wrote something was considered part of your inner being, your core, your worth. ... Now it's considered an anachronism."
first of all, you're insane. the way i remember it, the 5th grade teachers lied to us when they said that we would have to do everything in cursive in middle school and high school. by 10th grade, i could only remember the simplest of cursive letters.
i wish someone would make these people use roman numerals for everything. they would probably be fine with getting rid of cursive if they missed a precious episode of "according to jim" due to their roman numeral remote.
(i wrote that before it was on /.)
i tried to do a small desk reorganization, and it snowballed into a full-fledged room relayout.
before i could do any rearranging, i decided to keep almost everything as it was. except i threw out some stuff.
yesterday i got new wheels for my rollerblades since one of them is "flat" - it's not round any more but has a flat part. i can't get the bearings out of the old wheels.