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From: RS Wood <ra...@therandymon.com>
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Subject: Re: keyboard porn!
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:57:54 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2011-06-08, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 8, 10:09 am, RS Wood <ra...@therandymon.com> wrote:
>> On 2011-06-08, des...@verizon.net <des...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> I am a huge fan of my Kinesis Ergo and my Happy Hacker II.  They're good
>> for different reasons and I alternate between them.  The Kinesis was
>> $300 if I recall, attached to an $800 computer.  But man, worth every
>> dime - it is SO comfortable.
>>
>> It was tough getting it to work with emacs, but I finally came up with a
>> custom keyboard scheme that was comfortable.
>
> O, Happy Hacking keyboard. I cannot bear to hear that name. (how can
> you love Kinesis and also HHK?)
>
> Inspired by your post, i took 3 hours and produced:
>
> 〈The Idiocy of the Happy Hacking Keyboard〉
> http://xahlee.org/kbd/idiocy_of_happy_hacking_keyboard.html

Just goes to show you, to each his/her own: one man's trash is another man's
treasure.  I like the small layout, easy-to-reach ESC, and the lack of
function keys to me is a feature, not a failure.  

Happy typing!