{"id":77746,"date":"2021-05-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77746"},"modified":"2021-05-02T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T18:15:15","slug":"i-blame-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77746","title":{"rendered":"I Blame Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My handwriting is atrocious.   This dates back to elementary school, and it crosses all styles, from the cursive they tried to teach me and that I tried to practice into high school, to the regular mixed-case print I painfully adopt when filling out paperwork, to the all-cap scrawl I picked up working in radio when it was a convention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet I do most of my note-taking by hand.  I find it helps me to retain things in memory better.  I usually transcribe the important notes to a Notepad file when I have spare time, but the written word just stick better with me.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But at best, unless I&#8217;m being <em>very careful &#8211; <\/em>as in, just about doing calligraphy (which, by the way, I&#8217;m pretty good at), my handwriting is barely legible even to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article &#8211; along with a fascinating explication of the history of the modern pen &#8211; explains why.  <a href=\"https:\/\/getpocket.com\/explore\/item\/how-the-ballpoint-pen-killed-cursive?utm_source=pocket-newtab\">It&#8217;s the damn ballpoint<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which might at least impart explain why I almost always use Paper Mate &#8220;Flair&#8221; felt-tip pens for my note taking &#8211; for the best combination of speed and low stress on my hand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My handwriting is atrocious. This dates back to elementary school, and it crosses all styles, from the cursive they tried to teach me and that I tried to practice into high school, to the regular mixed-case print I painfully adopt when filling out paperwork, to the all-cap scrawl I picked up working in radio when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77747,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77746\/revisions\/77747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}