Right or left handed

[Freethinker]

Originally posted by: IrishEyes
How funny.

FreeT, my daughter just read yourpost and thinks you are rude!

So the Court's overturing the COPA hit home eh? :-)

As long as you are letting her slum, why not let her personally type that she does know that you do not believe the entire Christian/ Jesus/ God thing is absolutely the truth. That there is the distinct possibility that it is all just made up. You've admitted it before. And you've admitted that you teach your children the same thing. (To question). So there shouldn't be any problem with her actually showing this to be the case.

[Tormod]

I always thought (okay, kick me for being ignorant) that Arabs were left-handed since they happen to write the other way (right-to-left, last page first etc).

But then I learned this:
"When passing or taking food, Americans must remember to use only the right hand. In the Middle East, the left hand is used for purposes of personal hygiene and is not offered in any way to someone else. If you are left-handed, you will especially have to remember to be careful to observe this custom; otherwise you may insult an Arab. Practice taking a handful of rice with your right hand and rolling it into a small ball and then eating it. "

from here:
http://wrc.lingnet.org/mehosp.htm

...and found it amusing that it only reminds *Americans* to worry about left-handedness. The rest of us, of course, always remember these things.

Tormod
(leftie)

[Tormod]

Okay, to be on-topic: I am left-handed, have played musical instruments since I was 6 (I'm good at learning a piece of classical guitar music by heart but can't for the life of me remember the chords for a complete song!), I like computers and gadgets, I have absolutely no technical skills when it comes to fixing cars and understanding how cables should be wired (except computer wires...).

I have a deep interest in science, especially the philosophical aspects of it, like cosmology and numerology. I like graphic design, writing and composing.

And I am competitive...I hate having been away for 10 days only to find Freethinker will hit 1000 posts before me.

For what it's worth...Unc, let us know what you come up with.

Tormod

[GAHD]

interesting... ooh! BTW WELCOLM BACK TORMOD! you'll have to start a thread and tell us about some of the fun things you did on vacation

I myself have yet to learn to truly play instruments, but I can recite a lot of lyrics, and tap out the rhythum of songs I know. I like to think I'm mechanically inclined, I leared how engines worked by taking them apart(lawnmowers at first, moving up to larger ones). Wiring is relatively easy, but I do make some mistakes and I've shoked & burned myself more than once. My computer know-how is limited to most commercial software packages; BATCH files; limited C, C++, and Python programming, hardware setup(from the old days where you chose your own IRQ&DMA), and home-brew network security.

[Freethinker]

One more post

[Freethinker]

Got to beat Tormod, another post ! :-)

[Freethinker]

I'm right handed

[Freethinker]

I have played guitar since before teens. I have a fairly good "technique", can run up and down the neck, fingers flying. Especially with Rock and Blues. Can pick up a song/ play along in seconds.

But can't play more than a handful of songs by myself to save my life!

[Freethinker]

I can fix ANYTHING mechanical. I have an innate ability to just "understand" how things work by looking at them. e.g. I fixed a washing machine once, guessing it was a bearing at a certain point, before I took anything apart. I went to the store and boought the part by seeing an exploded diagram, not having any idea before hand what the mechanism looked like. Just by how it acted.

[Freethinker]

I love puzzles and other mind challenges. I used to "enjoy" doing math while in school, just to do it. Electronics caught me early on and I have designed and built many items myself. Can fix electronic items the same as mechanical. I usually troubleshoot before opening the unit. "Remote Voltage Measurement Viewing"! :-) My education started when it was tubes and transistor flip flops.

I started doing "programming" with toggle switches. But when kernals. "operating systems", ... took over, I lost interest in understanding the actual code that deeply. I did some "Basic" programming and even compiled some stuff in C. But I find this too removed from things I like now. Coding of anything serious is too extensive for me to justify manually coding it. Like GAHD, during the "command line" days of DOS, I wrote tons of batch files to do things. I can whip up spreadsheets in my sleep. I was linking doc and ss files to programs when software company's said they could not do it. I have literally designed TV stations and video/ audio production and editing suites.

But I am right handed.

Nature or Nurture?

My father had similar abilities as do most of my kids.