Keyboard Reform

Capslock is the key that locks the capitalists on your keyboard. The old position for it on typewriters (big clunky mechanical machines like in the picture above - anyone remember how the black part of the ribbon would always run out before the red, what a waste!) was above the left 'shift' key, to lock it in mechanically with a 'click!' and the whole carriage would be in a slightly higher position (laugh if you want young ones) so a different part of the typeset would hit the paper through the ribbon. What the hell am I talking about?

Swiftkey looks irritating, like a person who tries to complete your every sentence before you finish it, who wants to live with [i]that[/i]?

I'm figuring it out. I do a lot of highlighting and deleting, so with my left hand I hold the left click button and my right hand directs the cursor on the screen. Then to delete I have to use my right hand to go waaay up to the top right corner of my keyboard and hit either delete or backspace (and both those keys are right beside each other, how redundant). For some reason my left hand feels more free at that point, is it just psychological? I tried reaching over and hitting the backspace key with my left hand like frikkin Liberace, didn't like that technique. So now I'm trying to use my mouse pad with my left hand more. I think this is good brain exercise; maybe it will help keep Alzheimer's at bay.

Touchscreen highlighting would be nice. Except for the environmental damage as everyone throws their old machines out, resources getting mined and shipped to China, and containers full of new machines shipped back across the oceans. How about re-routing a couple circuits on my current keyboard?