{"id":4109,"date":"2006-11-29T13:28:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T19:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/11\/29\/ambi-me\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T15:36:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T20:36:34","slug":"ambi-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/11\/29\/ambi-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambi.Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went for a bike ride this morning &#8212; an amazing thing in itself, considering it&#8217;s the end of November and the temperature was in the upper 50s (our <em>high<\/em> tomorrow will be 20 degrees lower than that) &#8212; and I got in the usual stream-of-consciousness zone that makes cycling the same route over and over again not only bearable but pleasurable.<\/p>\n<p>One of the zoned-out thoughts that occurred to me is that the art of operating a 10-key &#8220;adding machine&#8221; by touch is probably a dying one. I can do it; I&#8217;ll bet <a title=\"The Shallow End\" href=\"http:\/\/the-shallow-end.blogspot.com\/\">Gwynne<\/a> can, as well. But I&#8217;m not sure that the presence of the numeric pad on most computer keyboards is sufficient to ensure that skill gets passed along to the next generation.<\/p>\n<p>I then started considering how I used an adding machine; one thing led to another, and you&#8217;re stuck with the following, which may be used by some to argue against Intelligent Design and by others as proof that God has a sense of humor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I tally the checkbook with the adding machine using my right hand&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;but I pencil the total into the check register using my left hand.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">I throw a baseball left-handed&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;but I bat right-handed.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">I hold and shoot a pistol with my left hand&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;but I sight through my right eye (another way of saying that that&#8217;s my dominant eye).<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">I use a mouse with my left hand (OK, I&#8217;m actually ambidextrous, mousily-speaking, but prefer the left side)&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;but I use the touchpad on my laptop with my right hand*.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">And for a seasonal flourish, when I wrap a gift, I use left-handed scissors&#8230;&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;but I pull tape from the dispenser and apply it with my right hand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: .9em;\">I think this gets us back on track with our minimum daily requirement of Content Free\u00ae posts. I&#8217;ve also put this in the category of Memes, so feel free to regale us with your own limbic proclivities.<\/p>\n<p><em>*My theory is that it has something to do with the electrical current generated by my body. The cursor skips crazily when I use my left hand, but it&#8217;s much better behaved when controlled by the right. I&#8217;ve posted about this before. You do remember, don&#8217;t you?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising the bar for trivial introspection. Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen-sink","category-memes","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8812,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions\/8812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}