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08-23-2003, 11:29 PM
No-Tec

Do all designers do this?

This happens often with me, and people I have asked it seems to happen to them sometimes too.

Like you are drawing something or writing a letter on paper, and you make a mistake and instantly make the "ctrl+z" hand movement. Or look for the eraser tool. It's realy frusterating at times b/c you really wish there was a real life ctrl+z action. like its an instinct or something. You dont actually make the movement but in your head you do. than you laugh out loud.

other ones that dont happen as often but have, are the occasional moving of the mouse to pick something up. that ones embarassing.
08-23-2003, 11:30 PM
No-Tec

*ponders a way to manufacture a real life ctrl+z machine.*
08-23-2003, 11:33 PM
Veniogenesis

I do the mouse thing a lot.... :p

I also... type out "lol" on instinct
in mid-air or on the desk when I'm talking
to people... or on the phone...

gah...
08-23-2003, 11:37 PM
sydneyeliza

that always happens with me, whether im drawing or writing on paper...when i have a lot of stuff to erase i start wishing there was a ctrl+backspace too...
08-23-2003, 11:38 PM
phreakdevil

Cool im not alone, i do the ctrl+z a lot, specially after 10-12 hours of work a day or non-sleep days u know, u just get that feeling that everything is not as real as usual.
08-23-2003, 11:41 PM
gerbick

tried it once on my television remote.

it's the touch face type.
08-23-2003, 11:46 PM
argonauta

although i was the 5th best student in my class (of 80 people i think), i really have a problem understanding things. I need to visualize them in my head. So if someone just talks fast without moving his hands or drawing it on a piece of paper, i just loose concentration and don't understand a single thing.

So, for example, when someone tells me "you must remember that on thurdsday we have a date" or something like that, i visualize 5 blue boxes, and then i turn the 4th to red.

When someone says "8", the shape of eight comes to my mind.

So i live in a very mind-visual world, if i want to keep understanding things.
08-23-2003, 11:53 PM
I_am_TheFlasher

I do it too, and i do it on games, I'm playing then i mess up so i push crtl+z. And when I'm working in Dreamweaver to see what it looks like in a browser i press ctrl+enter(that test the movie in flash) And I'm go "what the?' Cuase it doesnt work the i realize where i am.
08-24-2003, 12:15 AM
alty29

nope.
08-24-2003, 12:49 AM
No-Tec

Quote:

Originally posted by Veniogenesis
I also... type out "lol" on instinct

now thats messed up.

Quote:

although i was the 5th best student in my class (of 80 people i think), i really have a problem understanding things. I need to visualize them in my head. So if someone just talks fast without moving his hands or drawing it on a piece of paper, i just loose concentration and don't understand a single thing.

So, for example, when someone tells me "you must remember that on thurdsday we have a date" or something like that, i visualize 5 blue boxes, and then i turn the 4th to red.

When someone says "8", the shape of eight comes to my mind.

So i live in a very mind-visual world, if i want to keep understanding things.

i dont even know how to respond to that. thats very interesting though. Id like to know more about that.
08-24-2003, 12:55 AM
argonauta

Quote:

Originally posted by No-Tec
i dont even know how to respond to that. thats very interesting though. Id like to know more about that.

no man, it's too weird. :D
08-24-2003, 12:59 AM
pooon

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only freak with that habbit. We can all be freaks together. :grouphug:

Except for alty, he's too normal for us.
08-24-2003, 01:13 AM
alty29

Quote:

Originally posted by pooon
Except for alty, he's too normal for us.

arn't we all?
08-24-2003, 01:41 AM
I_am_TheFlasher

Quote:

Originally posted by alty29
arn't we all?

I don't know about you, but I'm not...or so I think
08-24-2003, 02:16 AM
yasunobu13

I've never done the cntl-z thing in real life cause I never have my hands in the 'keyboard position'. However, I'm often at my computer, talking to someone, and I want to point out something on my desk or beside my monitor. So I try to move the mouse over it to show them what I'm talking about. It takes a little while before I realize that the mouse doesn't come off the monitor

j
08-24-2003, 05:13 AM
Nightfall

hehe thats funny, I bought a shirt from threadless that deals with the same subject...
http://www.***************/product/8....9c998901212e6a
[IMG]http://www.***************/product/8/zoom.gif[/IMG]
08-24-2003, 05:22 AM
jamble

I don't for the simple reason that I'm left handed so it doesn't occur to me if I'm not using a keyboard, especially when writing/drawing as I use my left hand for that and cannot ctrl-z at the same time :p
08-24-2003, 10:17 AM
No-Tec

Quote:

Originally posted by jamble7000
I don't for the simple reason that I'm left handed so it doesn't occur to me if I'm not using a keyboard, especially when writing/drawing as I use my left hand for that and cannot ctrl-z at the same time :p

iim left handed too, dont you use your right hand? pointer finger on ctrl , ring finger or pinky on z?
08-24-2003, 11:30 AM
ViRGo_RK

Face it. The keyboard is not for left handers ;)

Well, I've never had that happen to me. But I "brb" once. Lucky it was to a geek, and they didn't notice.

*swhooo*
08-24-2003, 12:00 PM
Gloomycus

I have never had that happen to me, and I must say the lot of you are nuts! :D
08-24-2003, 12:32 PM
mg33

That's an urban myth that people do that.

mg33
08-24-2003, 12:33 PM
ViRGo_RK

It may be a myth, but that doesn't mean it isn't true. - Terry Pratchett
08-24-2003, 05:57 PM
Capoeirista

The cntrl-z thing happens to me when I'm drawing, but especially when I'm sculpting. It once happened when I was driving. Fortunately, I hadn't hit anything.
08-24-2003, 06:04 PM
mikecoutermarsh

You guys ever said "Laugh out loud" while on the phone, or atleast started to and caught your self?

heh.

-Mike
08-24-2003, 06:40 PM
gerbick

no.
08-24-2003, 06:44 PM
DigitalOne

Quote:

Originally posted by gerbick
no.
08-24-2003, 06:47 PM
DigitalOne

I'm confused... what does ctrl + z do?
08-24-2003, 06:52 PM
Markp.com

Quote:

Originally posted by alty29
nope.
08-24-2003, 08:36 PM
Nionicle

Re: Do all designers do this?

Quote:

Originally posted by No-Tec
This happens often with me, and people I have asked it seems to happen to them sometimes too.

Like you are drawing something or writing a letter on paper, and you make a mistake and instantly make the "ctrl+z" hand movement. Or look for the eraser tool. It's realy frusterating at times b/c you really wish there was a real life ctrl+z action. like its an instinct or something. You dont actually make the movement but in your head you do. than you laugh out loud.

other ones that dont happen as often but have, are the occasional moving of the mouse to pick something up. that ones embarassing.

i have ahaha

one time i said lol out loud

and called someone mang

worst of all is when i think out loud..
08-24-2003, 09:18 PM
bvgroote

Re: Do all designers do this?

Quote:

Originally posted by No-Tec
This happens often with me, and people I have asked it seems to happen to them sometimes too.

Like you are drawing something or writing a letter on paper, and you make a mistake and instantly make the "ctrl+z" hand movement. Or look for the eraser tool. It's realy frusterating at times b/c you really wish there was a real life ctrl+z action. like its an instinct or something. You dont actually make the movement but in your head you do. than you laugh out loud.

other ones that dont happen as often but have, are the occasional moving of the mouse to pick something up. that ones embarassing.

hehehe I have all my friends calling me mang and vice versa, I started saying it by accident and it stuck!

And yes i have done the ctrl + z thing as well :D
08-24-2003, 09:21 PM
gerbick

another mang victim. I know some other people from FK, off of the boards, and they say it too.
08-24-2003, 09:52 PM
No-Tec

Quote:

Originally posted by DigitalOne
I'm confused... what does ctrl + z do?

you serious? its the universal hot key for PC's to go back one or more steps.
08-24-2003, 10:48 PM
I_am_TheFlasher

Quote:

Originally posted by No-Tec
you serious? its the universal hot key for PC's to go back one or more steps.

Actually it's an auto destruct swicth for all PCs, hit it once and boom, your Pc is fried like a cuban cigar.:devil:
08-24-2003, 10:50 PM
Nionicle

Quote:

Originally posted by I_am_TheFlasher
Actually it's an auto destruct swicth for all PCs, hit it once and boom, your Pc is fried like a cuban cigar.:devil:

or fried like a telletubby.
08-24-2003, 11:04 PM
ViRGo_RK

Quote:

Originally posted by gerbick
another mang victim. I know some other people from FK, off of the boards, and they say it too.

I'm not the only one!
08-24-2003, 11:07 PM
sydneyeliza

Quote:

Originally posted by mikecoutermarsh
You guys ever said "Laugh out loud" while on the phone, or atleast started to and caught your self?

yes.... and i say "LYLAS" too:D never even thought about it
08-24-2003, 11:09 PM
gerbick

Quote:

Originally posted by sydneyeliza
yes.... and i say "LYLAS" too:D never even thought about it

LYLAS?
08-24-2003, 11:12 PM
Nightfall

LYLAS=Laugh Your Laughing Ass Steve
08-24-2003, 11:35 PM
sydneyeliza

LYLAS = "Love You Like A Sister" -- my girlfriends and I tend to use it a lot:p
08-24-2003, 11:42 PM
gerbick

that's a lot cleaner than I originally thought.

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