Archive for October 19th, 2008

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Oct

My Favourite Post Secret This Week

   Posted by: Caprica    in Post Secret, graphic

Nightmare

Nightmare

I’m not sure that “favourite” is the right word for this Post Secret postcard.

It certainly is the one that resonated with me in the most intense way.

Regardless of  your politics, if something as terrible as this post card implies were to happen, it would be  an earthshaking event.

I’m from Illinois and because of this I’ve had my eye on Barack Obama’s ascent perhaps a bit more than  folks for whom he is not their state senator.

I’ve articulated  this fear–that someone would be so fearful and hateful as to do great bodily harm to him. I can only imagine what it must be like for those that love him, knowing that it is a possibility not only now in the heat of the last few weeks of the campaign, but if he becomes our 44th president. The danger will remain. Sadly, there is a precedent for both candidates and sitting presidents to be assassinated. This postcard illustrates an ever-lingering fear that I hope never becomes a reality.

On a much lighter note: Here are a couple more Post Secrets that I thought were fun. Please visit the Post Secret website to see many more.

LOL. I can just imagine someone doing this.

When i first started to read the text of this Post Secret I thought it would end on a (justafiably) bitter note.

Instead she ended with a little laugh–completely unexpected–that’s why it’s fun.

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19
Oct

I have a confession to make

   Posted by: Caprica    in blogging, me, software

I have a confession to make.

I am the world’s worst typist.  No, truly I am and I am willing to admit it. Though I did learn to type many years ago, it didn’t really take.

I skated through and it really shows when I’m at the keyboard trying to compose and I spend more time fooling around with the keys and correcting my errors than I do spending time actually thinking about what I’m composing.  Or I end up spending 12 or 14 hours in a day on doing both– putting a lot of time into my composition, then more time doing the corrections.  This obviously was frustrating for me, but I hadn’t really thought of an alternative to just putting up with it.  However, what I’m doing at the moment is using Dragon Naturally Speaking, Edition10 and I’m getting to really like it, in fact, maybe even lovin’ it. Sorry, couldn’t resist.  This software frees me from the keyboard and that’s truly liberating.  I’m not all hunched over– my shoulders are not tense.  My mind is able to focus on the subject at hand, which is composing and relaying that to the screen.  So I can publish it and it’s really that simple, though I was making it very complicated for myself. I’m totally jazzed to be able to make my life more simple and make blogging much more enjoyable!

I read the NYTimes.com each day and that was where I first heard of Dragon 10th Edition. This New York Times Review is quite entertaining.

I have spent quite a bit of time with Dragon and I can vouch for the fact that it can be quite fun. Take the test. You know you want to!

Take the Dragon NaturallySpeaking typing test!

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Preferred

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