re: #191 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Very good printing ran in my family. Father was a mechanical engineer by education and had done technical drawing. My brother and I both took technical drawing classes in high school and the very first thing they teach is how to draw consistent printing in a manner to not smudge what you’ve already written.*

That eventually got me tasked at work and in the fraternity as a person to play scribe in meetings where words and such where being tracked on a black or white board - my printing was relatively rapid, scaled, and very legible.

* - I recall still seeing people with T-squares and drawing boards up until my 3rd year at Pitt. That’s about when the PC revolution was catching hold and auto-cad software was starting to wipe out the old skill set. And enough PCs and printers were turning up in the labs that it was possible to do a paper using a text processor rather than counting on my manual typewriter.

Same. My dad was an engineer and learned that old handwriting used on blueprints (and his cursive was quite good). My mom mimicked her favorite teacher’s script and it was lovely. Mine is just basic at best. I forgot how to write cursive years ago.