From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 4 15:43:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFDBD153F8 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 15:43:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-147.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.147]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA01620; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:42:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37A8C1E4.D1C58761@airnet.net> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 17:42:44 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jamie Bowden Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD cures RSI References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jamie Bowden wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Craig Harding wrote: > > :Terry Lambert wrote: > : > :> FWIW, we used to call this "Sun Mouse Syndrome" back before we had > :> thousands of people giving it mass-media names like "RSI". > : > :[bzzzttt] > : > :Sorry, nowadays that's OOS. > > Orthopaedic Surgeon's still call it Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, as they always > have. Which thankfully I don't have yet at 19. I have a matching pair of bone spurs (which I think are cool) from where my wrists lay on the keyboard drawer and mouse pad. When I show them to people, they get scared of computers. I wonder why... :-) I'm left-handed but the right one is larger. (I grew up in right-handed household.) And yes, I can't touch type that well, but I'd like to think I'm doing ok. I think I need to spend some time with kp (from the ports collection). -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message