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From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: No, nobody is left-handed (update on mouse silliness)
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.062646.22750@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 9 Apr 91 06:26:46 GMT
References: <1991Apr8.194705.1225@ico.isc.com>
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In article <1991Apr8.194705.1225@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
> [comments about assymetric mice deleted]
>Ergonomic design which is openly antagonistic toward 10% of the population
>is not ergonomic design.
>-- 
>Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
>   ...Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.

I'm left-handed myself, but can't agree with you.  I can use a mouse right-
handed with no problem, even on something tricky like the SGI flight
simulator.  I once set up a Sun I had all to myself with the left-handed
options, but found it too annoying to redefine things or change finger
patterns when using other workstations.  The left-handed options, IMHO,
border on fritterware.

Look, on the average, we're smarter and better looking than the majority.
We can put up with minor details more easily, too.

I play the banjo right-handed, as well, but some people wish I didn't.
This might have more to do with the instrument and my skill than my
handedness.




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