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April 08, 2007
J Sleeps 16 hours...
...just cause. I always tell people that my sleep habits are like the laws of motion, I will continue sleeping unless acted upon by an outside source. Well yesterday into today I slept for 16 hours. I guess it's just a gift I have. I love sleep. It's the only time I'm not out there being an idiot as is my usual.
I had dreams that I, like Zoso, got a brand new iMac. I'm thinking I need to put that on my priorities list. It has such a ginormous screen and all sorts of cameras and goodies. Not that anybody is going to video conference with me, but hey.
Now that I know how smooth BootCamp is, I may even spring for Windows when I get my new iMac.
Oh yeah, and from the deep corners of my subconscious memory, I had a dream somewhere in that 16 hours about a Dvorak keyboard. I guess at some point when I was younger I heard about the Dvorak layout in passing and it just resurfaced in my dream because I had no idea what a Dvorak keyboard was when I woke up from the dream. Out of curiosity if it was real or not I Googled it when I woke up.
I discovered that the Dvorak keyboard was indeed real and it refered to the difference in key layout which is supposedly more comfortable than the standard QWERTY layout that you and I are used to. It was developed by a Seattlelite during his tenure at U of Dub. Intruiging that I would have a dream about something so random, but hey, when you sleep for 16 hours I suppose you eventually run out of relevant things to dream about.
You can check out the Dvorak keyboard layout on wikipedia by clicking here
Posted by Decemberice at April 8, 2007 08:08 AM
Comments
Heh - when I worked at PNNL there was one guy who had Dvorak keyboards set up at his workstation. As far as I could tell, he was the only person in the entire Lab to do so.
It was annoying as hell to work on his machines, though I suppose it did make him more efficient.
A little piece of trivia, which may actually be an urban legend: Supposedly, QWERTY keyboards were specifically designed to slow down typing as typewriters at the time would often become jammed if you typed too quickly.
- Jeff
Posted by: Jeff at April 9, 2007 01:03 AM