What are you doing today?

[Blckshdw]

been practicing my typing speed all night and all morning. Finally cracked the 60 wpm mark and I'm now averaging anywhere from 63-65 wpm. Only thing is, im not nervous at home. So im sure i lose a little bit of speed and accuracy while actually taking the test in front of the instructors. Test is at 2pm. back to practicing!

I'm pretty sure they would take something like that into account. I haven't taken a speed test in over 15 years so I don't know where I stand, but I know when people stand over my shoulder at work when I'm typing an email or something, I go a lot slower, and have more typos to go back and fix.

 

[Boricua SS]

same with me lol. I have 5 minutes to "warm up" once i get there, then they give me 2 attempts to get the 60 wpm mark. I heard them say that part of it might be oral so that might work to my benefit since they'll be talking to me as i type since sometimes i look down at the keyboard. I honestly dont know what to expect, but all i can do is try.

 

[Blckshdw]

I'm sure you'll do fine. Usually for me, I'm the most nervous leading up to whatever it is. Once I get in and start going, I'm good to go.

I guess the old 'picture them in their underwear' idea wouldn't really help here, since that would be more of a distraction, especially if it's an attractive female

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

Class again. Passed 2nd test!

 

[dmanns67]

Relaxing after a long day of sight seeing. Packing and getting ready for the flight home in the morning.

 

[jomulk56]

been practicing my typing speed all night and all morning. Finally cracked the 60 wpm mark and I'm now averaging anywhere from 63-65 wpm. Only thing is, im not nervous at home. So im sure i lose a little bit of speed and accuracy while actually taking the test in front of the instructors. Test is at 2pm. back to practicing!

I took one recently and got 38 WPM. The lady walked up, looked at the score, and asked if I wanted to take it again...no wonder she gave me a weird look when I said no I'm happy with that.

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

Trying to get kids to bed.

 

[IllogicTC]

same with me lol. I have 5 minutes to "warm up" once i get there, then they give me 2 attempts to get the 60 wpm mark. I heard them say that part of it might be oral so that might work to my benefit since they'll be talking to me as i type since sometimes i look down at the keyboard. I honestly dont know what to expect, but all i can do is try.

Friggin' Mavis Beacon, man.

 

[Aarkon]

Doing a little led work

 

[Boricua SS]

Friggin' Mavis Beacon, man.

Not gonna lie, had to Google what Mavis was im guessin that was meant in a good way lol.

I took one recently and got 38 WPM. The lady walked up, looked at the score, and asked if I wanted to take it again...no wonder she gave me a weird look when I said no I'm happy with that.

Haha, it's all good Josh. Everyone is at different levels. I've been arpund computers since late middle school andhad to take typing classes in high school.

I took the test and as I thought, my nerves kicked in and I wasnt as efficient as I was at home. I typed 58 wpm with a 96% accuracy rating. Then they took the "adjusted wpm" (which is the total wpm averaged into the error rate) and I had a 54 awpm. They gave me the "advanced" test since my practice run was so high (measured in beginner/intermediate/advanced). So if I took the intermediate test or the beginner test, I'm sure I wouldve nailed 60 wpm. We'll see what the outcome is though. Maybe since they'll see my high % of accuracy and just barely missing 60 wpm, that they'll still call me for an interview.

 

[Fire06]

Off to work today

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

Class again.

 

[CaptainKD]

Hump Day!!!!!!!

 

[Sparky]

Work. Fixing the truck tonight, hopefully. Not much else I don't think.

 

[jimmyjam]

haven't taken a typing speed test since highschool so just found one online, 79wpm baby! not bad for first thing in the morning

 

[dmanns67]

Finish packing then heading to the airport.

 

[Matt]

Sending a PM to Kev...driver is toast.

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

Sucks. I meant to check them out at the meet too.

 

[dmanns67]

Were about 140ish miles from there.. So not too far lol

Well we made it to Iowa, but not very far haha. Standing in the middle of the Missouri River on the Robert Kerrey bridge.

 

[Aarkon]

Well we made it to Iowa, but not very far haha. Standing in the middle of the Missouri River on the Robert Kerrey bridge.

uploadfromtaptalk1402523448697.jpg

your toenails sure are pretty dave

 

[Matt]

Sucks. I meant to check them out at the meet too.

Sorted. Kev's customer service is the shit! New one should be here in a couple of days.

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

3rd test today

 

[jrSS]

Damn kyle....hope you pass all these tests bro. All the "hard" work will pay off. Good luck to u

 

[dmanns67]

Good luck Trailz.

Picked the dog up from his stay at the vet. Still a little sore and not getting around well. Heading to the garage to change the oil in the TB, installing some LEDs, and driver seat cover. Too humid to paint the wiper arms, might wait until this weekend.

 

[CaptainKD]

Orange is the New Black

 

[dmanns67]

Orange is the New Black

Haha. The wife and I are watching season 2 right now.

 

[CaptainKD]

Haha. The wife and I are watching season 2 right now.

Same here.

 

[dmanns67]

Waiting for my misplaced luggage to arrive since it has to be signed for. Hopefully doing some painting and mow the lawn if it stops raining.

 

[Darkrider_LS]

Sending a PM to Kev...driver is toast.

He will def get you sorted out, I keep forgetting to send my old one back for exchange...the tb getting sidelined def did not help!

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

Got the Salesperson class done, so to the office today. Next is a 3 day course for Broker then State test on Friday

 

[CaptainKD]

Suit shopping for a wedding coming up.

 

[Fire06]

Another busy day of doing this and that

 

[jimmyjam]

waiting for the doc to look at my ct scan...
no whammy no whammy

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

Bout time for lunch.

 

[Darkrider_LS]

Working 11-8 at papa john's, sleeping for at least 2 hrs then working 11:30-6:30 at a site doing security.

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

Sick of the cubical. Need beer

 

[Porkins]

Thought you quit the security job, Rider?

 

[Darkrider_LS]

Thought you quit the security job, Rider?

That was the plan till they let me run as a contractor only. So my contract work for them is what keeps the payments up on the TB.

 

[The_Roadie]

Solved a very difficult tech problem at a customer clean room site in San Jose at midnight last night. So I get to fly home tonight.

For the curious, my equipment had problems calibrating in the highest sensitivity range, around 10mv full scale. Challenge was doing it in 100us, so no time for traditional averaging over a few thousand measurements. Worked perfectly in my lab, of course. Root cause was the customer had a low voltage lamp a foot away from my circuit, and the wall plug power supply for this cheap - ass lamp generated far more noise than the CE regulations allowed. Chinese crap.

 

[IllogicTC]

Solved a very difficult tech problem at a customer clean room site in San Jose at midnight last night. So I get to fly home tonight.

For the curious, my equipment had problems calibrating in the highest sensitivity range, around 10mv full scale. Challenge was doing it in 100us, so no time for traditional averaging over a few thousand measurements. Worked perfectly in my lab, of course. Root cause was the customer had a low voltage lamp a foot away from my circuit, and the wall plug power supply for this cheap - ass lamp generated far more noise than the CE regulations allowed. Chinese crap.

Thus, the importance of "clean" power. I remember a big mention of this in the RapidSort manuals, the power supply and certain other wires for communication running to the RapidSort Controller box were to be run separately from everything else, and preferably with its own dedicated power, to minimize the possibility of this type of crap. The RapidSort box was also taking in information from 10 speed sensors, nearly 20 photo-eyes, 2 high-speed scanners, reporting barcodes to and receiving destinations from the server, running 3 monitor stations and a crappy old dot-matrix printer, and operating 58 divert boxes (it would send a "fire" signal and hold it for a length of time, the divert's circuitry and solenoids had their own independent power).

So, there was a dedicated conduit just for the power, one for the communications, and a big old cable tray where everything else was wired up. And in a sealed and ventilated box all to itself. All for the sake of clean communication and minimizing the possible effect of EM on anything, even though I'd venture to guess it would have survived in something less than a practically-clean environment.