Sentences with phrase «away at a keyboard»

To him, this was a small price to pay for escaping the monotony of pecking away at a keyboard in a lifeless cubicle for eight hours a day, five days a week.

Yet we're spending more and more of our time pecking away at keyboards.

If you've ever wondered what my husband is up to while I'm hammering away at the keyboard, check out the series introduction to «Learning With Lawrence,» a comedic Web series he created with our good friends Quentin McCuiston and Brian McKenney.

That is, it is vicarious, faux drama, exciting enough to keep us tapping away at our keyboards but not so exciting that we lose sleep.

peick Well there you are pecking away at your keyboard that science had a great deal to do with its creation; faith is the belief in something without evidence.

I always used to marvel at how lightly my mother slept when I was younger; even the sound of my brother clicking away at his keyboard (in another room) at night would keep her awake.

But I also sensed that this fellow, a competent and able manager, wouldn't have been happy sitting in a corner somewhere pecking away at his keyboard.

With additive manufacturing, a worker's hands are more likely to be tapping away at keyboards than sheathed in heavy work gloves.

During the day, I pound away at my keyboard — writing prose, sending e-mail, surfing through my usual routine of Web sites.

It's a recipe for rounded shoulders: We sit all day with our heads down, pecking away at keyboards and swiping smartphones.

The risk of a cyber-thriller like this is excessive sequences of fingers tapping away at keyboards while status bars fill far more quickly than they do in the real world.

Even Bobby is shown pecking away at his keyboard or remodeling the motel multiple times.

There is the time we take away from the friendship to (hopefully) bang away at a keyboard, or alternatively softly bang our head against our desk.

I'd always planned an early retirement, so when that happy day arrived, I got set up and started bashing away at my keyboard.

Days and nights of sitting in solitary resoluteness, being cut off from the whirlwind of the outside world, and hammering away at the keyboard until the words started to grow and tumble off those piling Word Doc pages, have finally led you to be -LSB-...]

What about the months, maybe even the years, she spent pounding away at the keyboard creating that book?

So, you made an account and shamelessly pound away at the keyboard, making... [Read more...]

By Anne R. Allen When you start a writing project, whether you're diving into the intensity of NaNoWriMo, or just carving out a few hours to peck away at the keyboard on weekends, it helps to get emotional support from friends and family.

This is a somewhat rambling blog post... part of it relates to some information I want to share with you while the remainder of it is just me banging away at the keyboard with whatever comes to mind.

Turns out I'm more than happy to bang away at a keyboard or yammer into the microphone for a podcast (which we will hopefully get back too soon), but shooting video while trying to read a comic on a tablet, followed by trying to edit and convert the resulting video, was a lot to try and conquer as a first timer in one go.

As indie authors ourselves, we know what it takes to be successful and we want to help make all those long hours pounding away at a keyboard worth it.

And you, who sit in a cubicle all day tapping away at a keyboard, are you fit enough for long days in the construction game?

Pecking away at a keyboard all day can leave you feeling disconnected from your work, and the final product may suffer as a result.

It was just like any other Tuesday afternoon: I was typing away at the keyboard, tunes playing on my computer, my mind wandering to other parts of the world.

A favorite moment of mine came when Tom encountered a chunk of his office that had been transported to Hell, still full of workers tapping away at their keyboards like lethargic chimps, and commented that he was pretty sure they hadn't even realised anything had changed, such as the already Hellish nature of their dull jobs.

Aside from sneaking around your other primary tool is hacking, though any images of being a suave, black coat wearing techno - wizard hammering away at a keyboard should be abandoned.

There are literally thousands upon thousands of brilliant minds hammering away at keyboards coding new and interesting gaming experiences the likes of which we have never seen.

As I discovered at SEGA HARDlight, high - quality mobile games take a lot more than just a handful of coders bashing away at their keyboards; it takes several teams, much like any console game does.

The elves at the Law Commission of Ontario have been furiously pecking away at their keyboards to produce our next crop of consultation papers.

It's 13 minutes before the big Microsoft event and I'm hammering away at my keyboard because I have something I want to say.

After years of l33t TV hackers aimlessly pounding away at keyboards from a parent's basement on your Law & Order of choice, USA's unexpected hit series clearly stood out as different from...

After years of l33t TV hackers aimlessly pounding away at keyboards from a parent's basement on your Law & Order of choice, USA's unexpected hit series clearly stood out as different from its very first scene.

The dream version of being an author takes two shapes: it's either a peaceful reverie in which you quietly tap away at your keyboard while your fans wait with bated breath for your next release, or it's a thrilling adventure filled with exotic speaking gigs and book - turned - movie deals that exceed your wildest financial expectations.

I could have said «is not simply a typist» but I didn't even want to put simply because the role of a resume writer is not to pluck away at a keyboard... it is to create and craft a marketing tool for your job search.

Don't expect medical secretaries to just punch away at a keyboard and fill coffee mugs.

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Your old standby bar graphs and pie charts are just the tip of the iceberg — it's not uncommon now to see executives and professionals of all stripes working on visuals instead of hunkering down at the keyboard for a long session of pecking away in Word.

The keyboard provides tactile feedback with every button press and a familiar layout, allowing users to type merrily away without having to look at the pad or while carrying on a conversation.

The idea is not to replace a mouse and a keyboard when you're sitting at your computer, but when you're sitting on a couch or 10 feet away from your computer and you want to browse the web.

So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.

«Keyboards and mice — still — are not going away anytime soon,» says Steve Hodges, who leads the Sensors and Devices group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England.

What keeps me coming back depends on who is at the keyboard tapping away.

There's a genuinely delicate way in which writer / director Taika Waititi builds the relationship between the boy and his foster mother — the gradual move from Ricky's silence to becoming comfortable in everyday conversation, his first - night decision to run away from his new home becoming something a good - night joke between the two, a birthday celebration (which Ricky realizes, without a trace of bitterness, is his first) at which Bella serenades the now - teenager with her tiny electronic keyboard.

Well, I just looked at my word count and realized I need to back away from the keyboard.

If Book Country wasn't bad enough, Robert Gotlieb, the head master at Trident Literary Agency, couldn't stay away from his keyboard and replied to the announcement.

All of which makes this attachment a huge boon over other tablets — the brilliance of having the ability to bash away at full speed on a proper keyboard really can not be overstated.

You can go to the web or just tap the search icon at the bottom right of the keyboard and start typing away.

When dealing with casual keyboard duties, the temptation to tap away at the touchscreen rather than use the trackpad is very strong but for longer - form emails and documents the full keyboard obliterates an on - screen virtual alternative.

Essentially you either use it as a laptop at a desk or with the keyboard folded away as a tablet in your hands.

New or previous Curve owners will feel right at home here, but those who have enjoyed the comfort of a Bold style keyboard may have some issues adapting as the keys really do feel like I'm pounding away on Tic Tacs.

I opened up the box yesterday to have a look at it — amazed at how taking away the keyboard makes it smaller than my (now clunkier looking) Kindle 2.