The fact that there is a podcast-specific app for Micro.blog [manton.org] available before a general-purpose Android app makes me wonder if Manton is all that serious about expanding the Micro.blog user base beyond the small bubble of Apple users.
It's 11:00 AM on the first day of a three-day project, and it's already aggravating my RSI. /me swallows 600 mg of ibuprofen
@hazardwarning It has always seemed like such a strange thing for schools to get hung up on. I mean, who cares which hand someone uses? Where's the harm to anyone?
People are weird. :-)
// @matigo @gtwilson
@matigo He already has one advantage--polyglot parents. Makes a huge difference.
// @hazardwarning
@gtwilson Fortunately, they'd given up on that by the 1970s in California. By the time I hit the school system in 1971, my left-handed friends were able to stay that way.
// @matigo @hazardwarning
@matigo That kid's going to have a lot of different writing systems to master. Kanji, katakana, hiragana, romaji…
// @hazardwarning
@matigo My dad was also born left-handed, and forced to switch thanks to the enlightened1 educational policies in place in Chicago in the 1930s and 1940s.
One consequence of this was that while they could force him to write with his right hand, and he too ended up an ambidextrous writer, it did not carry over to non-educational pursuits, and when he taught me how to hold a baseball bat, he did it the way that seemed natural to him. As a result, I'm a left-handed batter (and golfer too, for that matter) despite being right-handed in every other way.
// @hazardwarning
I'll skip the <sarcasm> tags here this time.
@matigo Move forward boldly. I remember when we bought our home--exciting times. ?