Born on a mixed subsistence farm in rural Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Moved to Ontario in 1967 to attend University at what was then Waterloo Lutheran University and moved to Oakville, Ontario in 1971. Without intending to live up to the name became a letter carrier the following January and have worked for Canada Post ever since. I retired in August of 2008.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Recent Discoveries

As the saying goes, live and learn.  Until I read a cartoon recently I had no idea why a typewriter keyboard was configured qwerty, etc….  Apparently it had to do with arranging frequently used keys on a mechanical keyboard so that they wouldn't jam when both were struck in sequence. 

 

I don't personally plead guilty to having a lead foot but I just read a very good reason for not speeding in Reader's Digest.  Fuel efficiency drops drastically when your speedometer exceeds 60 miles/hour; therefore any time you might save at faster speeds is more than eaten up by the time you have to spend in more frequent gas tank fill-ups.  It also makes the trip more expensive.  Lateral thinking if I ever heard it. 

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