Ask Me Anything 009 …What Am I, Stupid?

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My Beginnings in EMS, and My Writing Productivity Secret

Randy Cassingham, smiling with glasses and a goatee, next to large blue text reading Ask me Anything. Below, smaller text says A Little Video Series from This is True, and Full Disclaimer: Answers Optional.This video series is a classic Ask Me Anything, with 1-2 questions answered each week. It’s for ThisIsTrue.com readers who are curious about whatever. Questions are accepted (only) from Premium subscribers. My wife and I live on a Residential Cruising ship, and I record from my office there.

Questions in this Episode:

  • 0:21 Steve in New Mexico: Have you done anything stupid enough to deserve being written up in a TRUE story?
    • 3:30 Have you needed an ambulance yourself? (How I got into EMS)
  • 7:33 Dennis in Arkansas: How and when did you get into the Dvorak keyboard? (Diagram below.)

The story of when Kit called 911 for me: Rescue Me.

A Dvorak keyboard.
The language-based Dvorak layout has the most-used vowels on the left home row, and the most-used consonants on the right home row. More details at my Dvorak keyboard site.

Since Youtube Comments are typically a vast, brain-free wasteland of obliviocy, I’m putting the videos on my site where there can be intelligent discussion. The comments are NOT a place to ask questions.

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5 Comments on “Ask Me Anything 009 …What Am I, Stupid?”

  3. You forgot the link to your “latest EMS call for yourself” — I’d like to read that. 🙂
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    Whoops! Thanks for the reminder. Added. -rc

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  4. When I got my Apple //c back in the 80s one of the first things I noticed was a switch to select QWERTY or Dvorak.
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    Indeed it was the first mainstream computer to have Dvorak built-in to the hardware. -rc

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  5. Not Sierra Madre (although we occasionally helped each other out), but Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit (RMRU) from 1975-1979 while in grad school at UC Riverside. Most of our territory was the San Jacinto Mountains above Palm Springs.
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    Cool! Thanks. -rc

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