Sentences with phrase «day at the keyboard»

Obviously if you spend all day at your keyboard shouting Anti-Wenger slogans, then you must surely have thought it through and worked out who you would employ in his place, and how this said replacement would improve the team to a higher level than Mr Wenger has managed so far?

It's almost become a job title, a name tag, if you will, that I wear when I go from the sedate, 8 - 10 hour day at the keyboard with little human contact to the plane - jumping, speech - giving, always - smiling publicity hound that is what most readers see when they meet their favorite authors.

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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.

This is one of the few times each day he's at a keyboard, since he finds other devices more useful.

It takes some imagination and some discipline, like the organist spending a few minutes every day at a piano keyboard and reserving certain times of the week, like Saturday mornings, for practice at the church.

I could sit at this keyboard for days on end debating individual biblical verses with you, but unless you take that first step you still won't see the overall picture — and yes, there is one, even bigger and more wonderful than the one you currently cling to.

If you want to come on here and proclaim to the world from behind your keyboard, with zero knowledge as to the true day to day workings of AFC, that you understand something that Wenger can not grasp then fair play mate — at least I can admire the size of your nads.

I try to write from the body and not just the brain, but I think this sometimes winds up being more theoretical than anything else - at the end of the day it's still just me and the keyboard.

But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people.

I would sometimes get so angry at other mommies in my Facebook mom group because their babies were sleeping 10 - 12 hours straight and going to the gym and losing weight, and I considered myself successful if I completed a day of work without drooling on my keyboard or killing anyone on the road in my sleep - deprived stupor.

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.

If you spend all day sitting at a desk, hunched over a keyboard, those rubber bands have gone almost completely unused.

Normally the parade means lots of beer, half melted green jello shots, me getting lost at some point in the day, waking up the next morning wearing the same greens clothes as the day before, and napping with my head on the keyboard during the following work day.

Obviously a man of refined aesthetics, Day - Lewis undoubtedly knows that there are things we've lost in our rush toward the future of mobile communication — the slow, considered composition involved with spending five minutes texting «OK, see u at 9,» the greater news article absorption that comes from scrolling down tiny squares of text on a one - inch screen, and, most of all, the immense satisfaction that comes from ending a call with the snap of plastic keyboard meeting plastic screen.

Laurie Patterson, a technology integration specialist at Lakeview School in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, taught keyboarding for 12 years at Detroit Country Day School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Thanks to a generous grant to start the fund from the Ruth M. Knight Foundation, the Fund has already purchased 17 digital keyboards for the extended - day program at School 9, and will be providing food and transportation for city students performing at the local RPO Holiday Chorale Concert.

REF, through the «Opportunities Fund», has donated 17 digital keyboards for the extended - day program at School 9, and donated guitars for a guitar club at School 35, and beautiful wooden xylophones for students at School 3.

With my working life revolving around the written word, and much of my day spent sitting silently bashing a computer keyboard, it's always refreshing (to me, at least) to have opportunities to communicate in other ways.

A very decent Windows 10 2 - in - 1 tablet sale is now under way for 4 days for the 11.6 - inch Jumper EZpad 6 Plus with a Microsoft Surface looking Type Cover kind of keyboard included, on sale combined for $ 256: https://www.geekbuying.com/item/Jumper-EZpad-6-Plus-Tablet-6GB-64GB This Windows 10 tablet with integrated kickstand and detachable keyboard is pretty new, and depending on how we look at it, it is either the sibling tablet or the successor the... more...

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

I like the case itself - the fact that it has a screen protector and keyboard cover built in, but I'm not sure its really worth having those «bonus features» at the end of the day.

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-...]

Has your day job become a grind as you stare into the distance, dreaming of more time at your keyboard, creating new worlds, garnering diehard fans, and finally being able...

The Q10 will be available at Bell, Rogers, Telus, Wind, and a number of other carriers, so make sure you get there on release day if you have a hankering for a physical keyboard.

The elation at meeting or passing your word count goal for the day can be cause for a little humble - bragging, but the angst that goes with life events preventing you from getting to the keyboard can be overwhelming.

Why we are willing to coop ourselves up for hours on end every day, pounding at a keyboard, pouring what's inside our heads into our fingers and then out into the world, giving our abstract thoughts objective form as nonfiction works or fictional worlds?

Has your day job become a grind as you stare into the distance, dreaming of more time at your keyboard, creating new worlds, garnering diehard fans, and finally being able to pursue your dream?

How easy will it be to use your tablet at work, connected to a keyboard dock, then just unplug it and take it home at the end of the day?

On the other hand, some writers possibly have more stamina as well as more free hours and so it seems they're hurrying, when actually they're just pounding at that keyboard, wielding that red pen, 8 - 10 hours a day.

Notion Ink claims the screen has a wide brightness range but there is no ambient light sensor to adjust brightness automatically (and there are no brightness shortcuts on the keyboard, for some reason), so you'll be blinded if you turn on the Cain at night after having used it during the day.

Those of us who are terrible at memorizing keyboard shortcuts dream of a day when we don't have to keep a reference card handy for Photoshop or Office.

Battery life is rated at 9.5 hours but the keyboard dock contains an additional 24.4 Wh lithium polymer battery that charges the tablet extending the on - the - road use to 16 hours, on a good day.

See the video below for another look at the Mini Keyboard, and if you're interested, it's expected to ship in one to two days from RIM's online store.

At a day and age when touchscreen smartphones such as the iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 Edge rule the roost, it's interesting how an old - school device with a physical keyboard like the BlackBerry Torch still has a following.

«Built with security at its core, the BlackBerry Passport stands apart from the rectangular - screen, all - touch devices in the market today, offering users more than a full day of battery life and new innovations, including the industry's first touch - enabled QWERTY keyboard.»

TPCR reviewed the tablet with the Touch Cover keyboard, and found it takes several days to get used to and is priced too high ($ 100, at the time of the review) for its usability.

I did the find the extra weight of the keyboard dock a bit annoying, as most of the day I didn't need the keyboard, and when I did at night I could have just as easily used my foldable keyboard.

However, a new version of this operating system was introduced a few days ago that includes an on - screen keyboard (shown at right), a feature useless for laptops but absolutely critical for tablets.

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.

You're happy to hit the enter button on your keyboard because you know at the end of the day your order is going to execute at the end of the day with a 4 PM NAV.

You're happy to hit the enter button on your keyboard because you know at the end of the day your order is going to execute at the end of the day with a 4 p.m. NAV.

This was really a FAM trip on steroids as I started every day with a 5 am wake up and usually ended the night drooling on my keyboard while passing out at 11 pm after failed attempts to get any work done.

this was the one thing with move that seemed to stand on its own... I don't mind the idea of HD wii sports either, as long as it really is 1:1... that was my only real complaint with the wii when it released... there was motion control, but it was gimmicky and registered «wiggles» into canned animations... not to mention the gamecube visuals... still not sold on Move though... for me to really want one, I want to see what they are doing with shooters... Socom 4 and killzone 3 could be very special for core gamers and motion controls if they are done right... if you can aim on screen in true 1:1 fashion while sitting comfortably at a «normal» gaming distance... it could rearrange how I play first person shooters on a console... developers are saying the Move has input latency of 21ms, which is roughly half of a DS3... and second only to a wired mouse / keyboard... need to see how it works though, as it is not always that simple... just saying that if it does what its supposed to... it could end up being the answer to shooters on a console... as much as I like playing shooters with 2 sticks... I can't argue that I miss the days of a mouse and keyboard (as well as PC being the only platform to get the best shooters on... no longer the case by any means)... but with a first person shooter, there is no wiggle room... pun intended... it has to register every mm of movement on screen... and do it quickly... not sure if it can yet...

But a lot of people still have the idea that if they invest in a PC they're doomed to spend the rest of their gaming days hunched over a keyboard looking closely at a screen.

During the»90s and early» 00s, LucasArts had a lot of hits, particularly with games that were targeted at using a mouse and keyboard or a joystick — these were the days when Star Wars games would launch just on PC, instead of every single console, too.

Of course, it's still very much early days for Intel's league, and the VR games involved, but virtual reality brings forth an interesting element in that it's closer to real sports in terms of being a more physical activity than traditional gaming — a «purer» sports experience compared to sitting at a mouse and keyboard.

Going to work every morning, punching buttons on a keyboard, staring at a screen all day, come back home, eat dinner, go to sleep...???

If you are reading this, I will assume that you spend at least 8 hours a day in front of a keyboard.