Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.

...Magie was a writer and actor who supported her artistic pursuits with a career as a stenographer and typist, work that she hated. 'I wish to be constructive,' she once said, 'not a mere mechanical tool for transmitting a man's spoken thoughts to letter paper.

If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.

I've heard that but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight I'm learning a lot through my typist Peter.