Word: manuals
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...pathetic, of course. But what's most pathetic about it is that it isn't their fault. As trivia freaks among us know, the standard "Qwerty" keyboard was designed for a specific reason. In manual typewriters, keys struck too quickly in sequence would often get stuck in each other. The designer of Qwerty handled the problem by placing keys in positions that slowed down people's typing. In other words, the keyboard is designed to be as inefficient and difficult as possible. By now, of course, Qwerty has outlived its usefulness by at least thirty years. And there in fact...
...Sirius is co-founder of the cyberculture mindstyle manual-magazine Mondo...
...blitzes. You've got your base defenses, your nickel Ds and your dimes, in which six defensive backs with incentive clauses for interceptions are waiting for you to blow a synapse and launch another clay pigeon. Meanwhile, you've got to learn your own playbook, which looks like the manual to the space shuttle, and know exactly what 22 guys are doing at all times when the only thing you can be sure of is that four of them, who happen to be the biggest and ugliest, are eager to tear your head...
Henry Rosovsky, former Dean of the Faculty and key player in the conception of the Core program, quoted the following from Howard Lee Nostrand in his book, The University: An Owner's Manual: "General education means the whole development of an individual, apart from his occupational training. It includes the civilizing of his life purposes, the refining of his emotional reactions, and the maturing of his understanding about the nature of things." Rosovsky stops short of saying that the purpose of a liberal arts education is to make students into good citizens, but neither he nor Nostrand is far from...
Jesse Peretz strikes hard with First Love, Last Rites, and for the most part, the impact of his work is felt in all the right places. A story of learning how to live and interact when you realize that you'll never be handed any instruction manual, Peretz endows his characters with the ability to learn and his audience with the ability to understand. This is a movie that really shouldn't be missed--even if the theater isn't air conditioned and you're feeling hotter than the sugar factory workers on a muggy bayou...