OT? -- Fred, guess what?!
I no longer have to type . . .
Fed up with that archaic method of communication, I finally broke down two weeks ago and went out and bought my first IBM "VVR" (Virtual Voice Response) Personal Computer (with "General Magic inside").
I simply talk and watch my words instantly appear across the screen, with General Magic's "On-the-fly Grammatical/Spell-check Feature" being a real aid to accurate sentence structure and spelling, and even word-selection choices.
For example, when I was entering an order for a stock the other day, Mary's sweet voice said to me, "Do you mean buy, b-u-y, or do you really mean bye, b-y-e, as in say bye-bye to your money?" She got me to thinking, "What the heck am I doing?" So I said, "Thanks, Mary, I meant bye." And immediately I was disconnected from my discount broker. Is that cool, or what??!! That one question from her saved me enough money to pay for my new PC several times over.
The entire voice-recognition/response system really works quite splendidly, and it also saves me much mental anguish over the possibility of carpal tunnel troubles down the road.
You really ought to get one and try it out, Fred . . . you'll never go back to the old-fashioned weigh of doing things again. (Mary, I said way, as in w-a-y, not weigh . . . please change the word, Mary . . . No, I don't mean change the word to Mary, Mary. No, I'm not merry, Mary, and no, Mary, I don't want to marry you. Hello? Mary? Mary, are you there? Come back!! I didn't mean to offend you!!)
Ahhh-h, the miracles of modern science.
Where's my typewriter?
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