Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Tuesday Miscellany

First, the most exciting thing, from Stenosaurus inventor Josh Lifton, about four days ago:

I just last night sent the printed circuit board designs for fabrication. I will have them in-hand around Labor Day. I will build the first assembled board within a day or two of receiving them and will then start testing. Kurt and I met earlier this week and nailed down a plan for what I hope is the final case design. It's slightly different than what you've seen, but I think it's actually better and nicer looking.

I'm hoping this means a Crowd Supply Campaign Launch is imminent!

Two other cool items collected from the Plover Google Group:

A discussion of how best to carry around a Stenoboard, complete with pictures of people's homemade cases. Feel free to submit your own!

And a slick little typing game that involves coming up with as many words as you can that begin with three specified letters. Especially steno friendly, since you can just keep your left hand steady and only shift around your right hand and thumbs while you're trying to think of all the words.

From Twitter, an open source database of word frequencies. I could see this being very useful when building steno exercises and drills.

Finally, I'm thinking of doing National Novel Writing Month again this November (which, if I succeed, will be my third time overall, and my second time using steno.) Anyone wanna join me? If so, maybe we could make a Steno Novelists Cabal on the NaNoWriMo forums. I know it's still a few months away, but let me know if you're interested!

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