{"id":625,"date":"2007-08-10T06:13:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T10:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=625"},"modified":"2007-08-10T06:19:47","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T10:19:47","slug":"thumbs-and-common-sense-whittled-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs (and common sense?) whittled away…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, I admit, I’m a big guy. And strangely, the more frustrating thing about being a big guy is, I have big hands, with big fingers and big thumbs. In my geekyness, this can sometimes pose a minor annoyance when dealing with the tiny little keyboards on today’s smartphones – the Treos, Blackberries, and even iPhones of today’s connected world. Even so, I do manage to get by, somehow, and I manage to not let my clumsy thumbs get the best of me.<\/p>\n

Never thouhg, have I been motiviated to consider what someone else with a similar problem did to resolve the matter – surgical “whittling” of his thumbs, according to the North Denver News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“From my old Treo, to my Blackberry, to this new iPhone, I had a hard time hitting the right buttons, and I always lost those little styluses,” explains Martel. “Sure, the procedure was expensive, but when I think of all the time I save by being able to use modern handhelds so much faster, I really think the surgery will pay for itself in ten to fifteen years. And what it’s saving me in frustration – that’s priceless.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Uhm, this guy DOES realize that the iPhone has corrective text algorithms built-in, right? It’s saved me from having to correct some nasty typos on my phone… and saved me a lot of money and (I imagine) surgical pain.<\/p>\n

Maybe we should stop considering modifying our bodies to adapt to technology, and make the technology adapt to us. I mean, we could always complaint to gadget makers that the keys need to be made just a little bit bigger…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, I admit, I’m a big guy. And strangely, the more frustrating thing about being a big guy is, I have big hands, with big fingers and big thumbs. In my geekyness, this can sometimes pose a minor annoyance when dealing with the tiny little keyboards on today’s smartphones – the Treos, Blackberries, and even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}