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[jangofett287]

I was born left-handed, brought up and taught as right-handed, and ended up confused-handed.
So having the watch on the right hand made more sense, somehow... Somewhen...

I too am confused-handed.
My dad was born left-handed and promptly had it beaten out of him by the society at the time, and is now ambidextrous.
I on the other hand was born left-handed, but was taught with right handed conventions. (your right hand is the one you write with) I have also participated in several activities that are in some way set up for right hands or otherwise hand specific in some way (drumming, every modern keyboard (especially when applied to games), scissors) that have left me with a lot of right handed muscle memory. I wear my watch on my left wrist for example. This is annoying but its uncomfortable on my right for some reason.
The end result of this is that I switch hands a lot, but am not truly ambidextrous, and I struggle to remember which way is left.

 

[MattBaker]

I still haven't figured out left and right, I just know right is east on a map and left is west and then I have to imagine a world map.

Yes, it's easier for me to remember how a world map looks like than where right and left is...

And for the record: It's not a Mercator. It's a Robinson.

 

[Andy44]

A friend of mine is left-handed and plays guitar right-handed, because most guitars and basses are right-handed instruments and that's what he had to learn on. If you learn to play left-handed the selection of available instruments is severely limited.

And then there are the wierdos who play right-handed instruments upside down, like Dick Dale...he actually plays a left-handed Stratocaster, but with the strings reversed so it's like playing upside down...:hmm:

 

[Matias Saibene]

That way your mental picture doesn't interfere that much with your perception of the object.

Someone spoke of mental images?

 

[MaverickSawyer]

First time going up in a Stearman... I actually got about ten minutes of stick time, which was a hoot. The view was incredible, and the responsiveness of the controls was remarkable. Truly a pilot's aircraft.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

I remember when the Discovery Channel ran an all day Wings marathon on New Year's Day for several years. They had some slogan like, start your new year off at the speed of sound. Yes, please.

I was kind of excited when Discovery Wings became it's own channel, but then the downhill spiral started...

At least Discovery Science seems to be OK right now with its selection of old & new documentaries....

Luckily NGC is holding out right now so at least there's another choice.

 

[jedidia]

drumming

Heh. I always told my left-handed pupils "It's not a problem to switch the set around if you want that, but it'll annoy every sound technician at every festival you're going to play ever. On the other hand, you can leave the set in standard configuration, have a slower start, but later you won't have the trouble of training your weak hand all the time to make it play as fast as the strong one".

Since drumming really is an ambidextrous task, it doesn't really matter that much (in the long run. It's certainly a more difficult start for lefties to lead with the right hand). The only really bad thing I've seen was a left-hander playing on a right handed configuration but still leading with the left hand... That plays havoc with fast breaks because you have to cross hands way too often :facepalm:

And then there are the wierdos who play right-handed instruments upside down

It's not so uncommon for left-handers to switch a right-handed guitar around and mount the strings in reverse order. It needs some retuning of the instrument, but nothing 2 hours of work with the appropriate knowledge couldn't handle. The only real disadvantages are that depending on the design it might be really hard to get to the high notes and that the knobs are somewhat out of reach.

Somebody actually playing the guitar with the strings mounted the wrong way... Well, I just saw that for the first time. I've seen people playing sitting down with the guitar on their lap (strings facing up), but not this :blink:

 

[n122vu]

Cold is inseparable from heat.
If there is a hot side, then there is necessarily a cold side, and it feels oppressed by being so neglected.

 

[Scav]

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I'll see yours and raise you one:

 

[C3PO]

Somebody actually playing the guitar with the strings mounted the wrong way... Well, I just saw that for the first time.

Ever heard of this guy?

A part of Hendrix' signature sound is the result of "mirrored" strings without rotating the pickups.

 

[jedidia]

Heh, I honestly didn't know that...

 

[Quick_Nick]

Crash Course ([ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VlogBrothers]vlogbrothers[/ame] project) episodes on Astronomy with Phil Plait (The Bad Astronomer) coming to the PBS Digital Studios YouTube network. Exciting.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astr...e_astronomy_a_new_educational_web_series.html

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For the tinkerers/hobbyists:
A new, smaller and cheaper Raspberry Pi model is out.

 

[Urwumpe]

The italian court decision, that made scientists legally responsible for not predicting the L'Aquila earthquake and sentenced six of them to six years in prison for involuntary manslaughter, had been repealed.

 

[Artlav]

The italian court decision, that made scientists legally responsible for not predicting the L'Aquila earthquake and sentenced six of them to six years in prison for involuntary manslaughter

:blink:
How such a medieval decision even happened in the first place?

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

The italian court decision, that made scientists legally responsible for not predicting the L'Aquila earthquake and sentenced six of them to six years in prison for involuntary manslaughter, had been repealed.

Oh yeah, I remember my intro Earth prof mentioned that once.

Sounds kinda crazy, at least the story the scientist gets to tell when their cell mate asks what they did...

 

[RisingFury]

:blink:
How such a medieval decision even happened in the first place?

It's Italy...

 

[Codz]

It's Italy...

Ouch.

 

[llarian]

Back to left-handedness, am I confused or what? I am left hand dominant and grew up just as our schools were transitioning away from forcing left-handers to write right-handed. I am also left-eye dominant (I sight my bow or rifle with my left eye). I am left-foot dominant in futbol, skating and running (I lean into my right side naturally when doing laps).

I used to confuse my teachers no end. When writing in a workbook, I would write on the left page with my left hand and write the right page with my right hand. Yep, left dominant, but I golf right handed, play hockey right-handed, bat in baseball right-handed (though I throw with my left hand and catch with my right hand).

And why did teachers try to force left-handers into right-handedness? It all has to do with the Latin word for left-handers: sinistra. If you were left-handed you were supposed to be more likely to turn towards evil.

Oh yeah. I wear my watch on my right wrist.

 

[ex-orbinaut]

I was born left-handed, brought up and taught as right-handed, and ended up confused-handed.
So having the watch on the right hand made more sense, somehow... Somewhen...

I too am confused-handed.
My dad was born left-handed and promptly had it beaten out of him by the society at the time, and is now ambidextrous.
I on the other hand was born left-handed, but was taught with right handed conventions. (your right hand is the one you write with) I have also participated in several activities that are in some way set up for right hands or otherwise hand specific in some way (drumming, every modern keyboard (especially when applied to games), scissors) that have left me with a lot of right handed muscle memory. I wear my watch on my left wrist for example. This is annoying but its uncomfortable on my right for some reason.
The end result of this is that I switch hands a lot, but am not truly ambidextrous, and I struggle to remember which way is left.

Back to left-handedness, am I confused or what? I am left hand dominant and grew up just as our schools were transitioning away from forcing left-handers to write right-handed. I am also left-eye dominant (I sight my bow or rifle with my left eye). I am left-foot dominant in futbol, skating and running (I lean into my right side naturally when doing laps).

I used to confuse my teachers no end. When writing in a workbook, I would write on the left page with my left hand and write the right page with my right hand. Yep, left dominant, but I golf right handed, play hockey right-handed, bat in baseball right-handed (though I throw with my left hand and catch with my right hand).

And why did teachers try to force left-handers into right-handedness? It all has to do with the Latin word for left-handers: sinistra. If you were left-handed you were supposed to be more likely to turn towards evil.

Oh yeah. I wear my watch on my right wrist.

:ditto:

Yeah, I am a shifted sinister, too, but because my father was born in 1919, grew up in that "anti-left-handed society". There are only two things I still do left handed (ie; that slipped by his watchful eye) - one mentioned above - the bow, and the hand drill. I did retain a weird talent for many years though; I could write perfectly, but with all the letters backwards, from right to left, with my left hand. Through disuse it now looks a bit scrawly, but I can still do it.

And like Andy44, I also immediately notice left handedness in people.

 

[ISProgram]

My little brother broke one of his fingers in a mishap a few years back. It happened to be on his left hand, and he was left-handed, so he had to use his right hand while his other hand was wrapped up in a cast.

He was a little bad at writing at first, but now he's more or less ambidextrous. i think he closer to being mixed-handedness. I don't really now, I just remembered he was left-handed as I was reading the earlier posts.