[geeks] A Bill & Geoff Conspiracy (was: SL=GAME?)

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:12:38AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:

> Yeah, I need to get around to that.. I still want to do 5wpm though.

Look up Code Quick 2000. It's a "multimedia" course that converts
morse code characters to words, so you can "get" them in the
part of your brain that still works :-)

Most people can learn many languages at age 2, a few as
teenagers and none as adults. I know someone is going to
say that they learned five dialects of Klingon and seven
of Romulan, three of Chinese and so on at age 50, but
a person who can do that at 20 is rare let alone 
aged 50.

I had been practicing with all sorts of courses and had
no luck. The ones I liked the best were the ones by 
Jerry Zilliac, but they never helped. After I did the
code quick course, his 35 wpm words course made a lot
of sense. :-)

The difference between regular morse instruction and code
quick, is that with regular instruction you need to learn
it at 5 wpm, and again at 13 and 20. That's why the 5 wpm test
had characters sent at 13 spaced for 5. 

With code quick, it makes the same sense at 5 wpm as it does
at 60.

My Aspberger's still gets me, I can't spell well, I don't
think in words, and get lost in the middle of a sentence.

I can't use a two contact keyer as I literally forget which
does dots and which does dashes and start sending both with 
the same finger.

> Oh, I'm no fan of BPL.  I'm not going to boycott Google because of some
> tech investments they've made, though.

Kids nowadays. I think all of the activisim of the 1960's died a long time
ago when the hippies all got computer jobs. :-)

Geoff.
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