On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:26:49PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sat, 07 Jun 2003 02:23:19AM -0700, Paul Johnson insinuated: > > I mostly hate the MS "natural" keyboards with a purple passion. > > Yeah, they have a nice angle that keeps your wrists fairly nice and > > straight horizontally, but the steep angle of the damn things tend > > to encourage you to bend your wrists backwards, which is A Bad > > Thing. There's a reason wrists don't have much travel in that > > direction, nature did *not* design human paws to bend backwards, > > much less for extended periods. > > it all depends on how you lay it out -- i tend to have the keyboard at > the edge of my desk or on my lap, so my elbows are lower than the > keyboard. if the keyboard is then tipped towards me, i get a nice > flat forearm-wrist-hand thing going on. i guess this thread is > demonstrating well that it's really all a matter of personal > preference, and that what works for some may be what's causing pain in > others. > > </nori> > > -- > .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu > /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ > // \\ @ maenad.net > /( )\ www.maenad.net > ^`~'^ > get my (*new*) key here: > http://www.maenad.net/geek/gpg/7ede5499.asc > (please *remove* old key 11e031f1!) > > >
// ...and for me, dvorak makes all the difference in the world. (i think i recall your having that covered, as well.) kthxbye. b. // -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
