It has been a long long time since I posted anything. The main reason is not that I didn't have anything to write, it's just plain old JU lyadh [lethargy, for the college-lingo challenged people]. I hardly have a month left of college, so this is a very small incident that highlights the extent of my lethargy, for which I have the great JU culture to thank. This is what the name of my blog means, love of lyadh!!
Normal day, same old same old.. Me sitting in front of my computer. Tisfz asks me for a link to an image I posted on my facebook wall (a hilarious dig at Mafia Wars players) a few days back. This is what went through my mind in the moments that followed...
[ My posture at the computer table will help people visualize this better so I am trying to describe it to the best of my ability...
My left hand on the keyboard, on the left side. My feet spread below the table, one on the floor and one on the rod connecting two legs of the table. My right hand on the mouse. Thumb on the left side, 2 fingers on the body, 2 on the right side.]
-- Haven't bookmarked it.
-- Image does not have a name which I can type in my address bar and it will pop up.
-- Two options
1. google talk chat archive [rejected, gmail not opened, too much effort]
2. facebook wall. [approved, since my facebook page was open].
- Ok i press Ctrl+Tab with my left hand and get my facebook home page into view.
-- This is what it looks like roughly [I have used wiki's facebook 2010 page as a model]. The pointer is as shown.
-- How to get to my wall??
-- The most obvious solution -- 'Me' on the top right ['Me' stands for 'Profile', I use Facebook in Pirate language]
-- But that is too far!! I have to move the mouse diagonally [via path B] when I can do better. Any person who has a vague idea of the basics of geometry will know this.
-- Go straight up, via path A. Less distance. Type GA in the search box. My name will appear. Click on it. VOILA!!! My home page!!
Then the usual followed and I got the link.
The interesting thing about this is how quickly my brain processed the situation. It was almost natural. Path A might have involved more effort on the whole because it involved typing two characters and one more click, but it was the more atractive solution as I only had to move one finger of my right hand while path B meant exercising all 5..
Ironically I have put in a lot of effort to describe this... :P
What do you think?
More weirdness later...
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3 comments:
hehehe
I have a similar problem at times.
If I want to open a wiki page I could use the the wiki option in the firefox toolbar to directly search and open it. But changing it from google to wiki in the drop down menu is too much effort as I have take the mouse pointer all the way up there. So I google search it and open the wiki page from the search result.
lolzzz... looks like you really don't have anything to do, do you?
@Agentzero... I do the same... its more convenient... obviously
at times,when i used to look for information in wiki about certain films, which were not there in my hard disk, i used to follow a technique in which i didn't need to type. suppose, i wanted to look for an al pacino film. i clicked on italiano. Description about the language comes. From there, click on the hyperlink italian, from there to italian american, from there to al pacino, then to his filmography! and i'm there!
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