Qwerty revisited
The beginning of the Boston ATypI conference was marked by "A Return to Clam Chowder", one of the most moving social events of that 1999 edition. Although we were all carried away by emotion, we all remembered how generous New England helpings usually are, and everybody got MUGS instead of BOWLS.
Exercise 1:
Change all the color keyboards on the IMacs in the Olive Room. No Imac should end up with a matching keyboard (not so easy as it sounds).
I leave it up to the community for exercises 2, 3, 4…
A remark (from an AZERTY person just flown in from France via Belgium) Last year, in Lyon, I never realized that the conference's newspaper had to be typed on AZERTY keyboards by persons who were used to QWERTY keyboards. This year I'm typing this on a QWERTY keyboard and I retrospectively get a notion of all the pain and tears that last year's opus surely didn't fail to generate. It took me about twenty minutes to type these five lines of text and I'm a fairly fast typer. Hey, friends, congratulations, better late than never.
Sophie
