I like Papermate myself. Pencil is not permanent which can be a problem for some work, but for figuring is probably the best answer here
The no pressure bit screams fountain pen with high quality ink. Hook up with one of the writing implement forums. Be amazed at what some people think of writing utensils.
Phil
My mother, now aged 85, learned to type using a printed picture of a keyboard, and exercises very similar to "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing". Its true there is no record of what keys you actually press, etc, but she could type a lot faster than I ever could, and is using an IPad as I type this.
My point is: stop being obsessed with technology: anyone in the third world can have a photocopy of a picture of a keyboad, and probably has the motivation to try and learn with it. Once a week, use a real machine to test their progress if you have to. (Yes I have visited third world countries).
I am not nearly that old and I remember sitting at a desk in high school with that picture printed on the desk top in a study hall. They did not use them for regular teaching anymore, but the idea is to provide a means to memorize the keyboard and finger positions.
The image was actually carved into the desk and had a slight texture to it. You had to have a pad of several sheets of paper in order to write with a pen or pencil. Seriously low tech. You have several examples on site and can have local craftspeople make up a few dozen in a few days. Heck, you could have the STUDENTS make up some using a keyboard stencil and paint!
I never took typing and type faster than most people I know. Touch typing is not as useful in most fields, except where large quantities of text information needs transcribed directly into the machine. Programmers use such a non-language language that touch typing is less useful than a secretary, transcriptionist or author find touch typing.
Phil
I know a professional and semi-professional photographer who use this scheme. They state that data cards "go bad" if they are wiped and reused too many times.
Specifically the semi-professional photographer stores her working files on her computers and uses an on-site backup scheme that I believe is simply data mirroring to a USB drive. After the files are copied and mirrored, the original data card gets stored in file cabinet at her parents house.
Phil
Some probably will, but I expect your siding is already well grounded.
I had aluminum siding on my old house, it was grounded in several spots (plumbing for garden hose spigots, electrical inlet and meter, AC unit, grounding spike, probably at a few other points too), and phones, pagers, etc did not work well inside. It was kinda nice most of the time. My wireless was very low strength, but usable, on the front porch in front of the picture window, and as expected very strong inside.
Phil
living room 4
3 bedrooms 6
kitchen 2
dining room 2
breakfast area 2
den 2
Right there is 18
Add in my personal wishes for basement, garage, and workshop gets 24.
Interesting thing is I don't use my wired network for computers, generally. I have TV's on them. The new systems use a connection for each device, so TV and blue ray are 2 ports. I use wireless for most of the computers.
No, I do not have this many TV's or computers. This is how many connections I would like in my house.
Phil
In Ohio it is "Mean high water" or something similar. If you own floodplain (like I do), then it is public access. as long as they are not hunting (fishing is the point), not littering, and not stealing your stuff (burning your firewood, happens to my neighbor all the time) there is nothing you can do.
There is a group who kayak through and pull up on my property all the time. Normally it is not a problem, they pack up and take everything with.
They are not permitted to access from anywhere though, they have to go to a bridge access (public road meeting public right of way) or some other access point. They are not permitted to walk down my driveway to get to the river.
Phil
A slow connection after a rain means your phone line has a damaged casing and gets water inside. I worked at a store with this problem we would loose phone, data, credit card processing....horrible.
They eventually had to replace the whole trunk from the building to the pole.
Phil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
Seems like a different input technique...
Phil
If you CAN do this on the clock and at the office, bring it up at the next review as performance that "exceeds expectations" and talk about a new position, job description, and associated pay raise. Loosing the rights to your creations is part of being employed, but compensation of some type should be expected.
However don't talk yourself into the unemployment line either, unless you really feel you need to change employer that quickly.
Phil
If you own land, even a little, you have over 5000 cubic meters, unless your deed specifically denies mineral rights, then you need about 1/4 acre to have your "empire" not fit in 5000 cubic meters.
Phil
Well, really it matters little to me about the optical drive. In the last year I have used an optical drive once to read the CD which contains the service manual to my garden tractor...in PDF format...if I consult this manual more frequently I may just have to put the file on the laptop.
Phil
I learn to sleep through it. My wife is on call very nearly 24-7 and gets called multiple times every night.
Her phone vibrates, then does a loud alarm, sorta like a Hollywood submarine dive alarm. The vibrating phone on the nightstand usually wakes her, but not always. She reacts to her phone immediately, but not to other noises. If I need to wake her up for some reason it is easier to call her phone, then get her attention.
The key is you need to pick an alarm that you will respond to immediately, but your partner will tend to ignore. Then have the alarm become something that will wake the dead so your partner can kick you out of bed.
Phil
Old machine, 2GB IS maxed out. My other machine has 3GB because I don't want to pull 1GB to get 4GB...yet. Replacing the machine will probably occur first since 4 GB would be maxed out.
Phil
I see slightly into the infra-red end of the spectrum, and proved it repeatedly in film photography class. When we were rolling negatives for small batch developing in full darkness I could see my classmates, and if they dropped something I could pick it up and take their hand and put the whatever in their hand.
The downside is my resolution in IR requires total darkness, and is very very faint. I didn't believe that I was doing it until I had several experiences with it and some conversations with classmates. I have met another person who also reports a similar experience, so I have to believe it is not terribly uncommon, just uncommon to recognize and not all that useful for most people. I would be unaware of this ability if I never took film photography.
Because your experiences in the UV end of the spectrum are obvious enough during full light I expect that projecting a large rainbow from a prism on a wall and having several people mark the lowest and highest portions of the spectrum will give you results you will find useful. Have them also mark individual color bands and you can calibrate the setup to other people in a repeatable manner.
Phil
nail gun
hammer, bigger may be better
screwdriver, there are cool, powerful magnets inside and the aluminum chassis is recyclable for cash
steel wool on the platter once taken apart (not really important by that time)
Firearms, play safe
Phil
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.
