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AuthorLudlow, James M. (James Meeker), 1841-1932TitleThe age of the crusadesOriginal PublicationNew York: The Christian Literature Co., 1896.Creditsdeaurider, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net.(This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)LanguageEnglishCategoryTextEBook-No.72852Release DateFeb 1, 2024Copyright StatusPublic domain
The student of human nature, also, will find here his most subtle and perplexing, but at the same time his most suggestive, subjects. Never before or since was there such exalted faith combined with such grotesque superstition, such splendid self-sacrifice mingled with cruel and unrestrained selfishness, such holy purpose with its wings entangled, torn, and besmeared in vicious environments.
3To the historical scholar this period is unsurpassed in importance by any, if we except the days of the birth of Christianity. The age of the crusades covers the eleventh and twelfth centuries. For two hundred years, to use the vigorous language of the Greek princess Anna Comnena, who witnessed the first crusade, “Europe was loosened from its foundations and hurled against Asia.” As an Alpine glacier presses down into the valley, only to melt away at the summer line, yet with renewed snows repeals the fatal experiment from year to year, so seven times Western Christendom replenished its mighty armaments, to see them destroyed at the border-land of Oriental conquest.
To define the causes of these vast movements is a task which both tempts and tantalizes the historian. It is surely unlearned to ascribe even the first crusade to the sole influence of any man, though he were an Urban II. and wielded the temporal and spiritual authority of the Papacy in its most puissant days. It is puerile to say, as Michaud does, speaking of Peter the Hermit, “The glory of delivering Jerusalem belongs to a single pilgrim, possessed of no other power than the influence of his character and genius.” It is equally uncritical, if not blasphemous, to attribute these most unfortunate and ill-timed ventures to the Almighty, as the same writer does in these words: “No power on earth could have produced such a great revolution. It only belonged to Him whose will gives birth to and disperses tempests to throw all at once into human hearts that enthusiasm which silenced all other passions and drew on the multitude as if by an invisible power.”
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Ingredients
4 ripe bananas
500ml Provamel Yofu soya yogurt
50g golden caster sugar
small handful pecan pieces, toasted and broken, to serve
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50g/2oz dairy-free spread (such as Pure of Vitaquell)
100g light muscovado sugar
2 tbsp maple syrup
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Method
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My Ergonomics Voyage: Part 1
Lenke til norsk versjon
Prolog, and the first steps
I’ve been a nerd my entire 34-year-long life. So naturally, much of it has been spent in front of computers using keyboards, and I’ve never experienced any discomfort related to this.1
I don’t know if it’s due to my age, or just the fact that I’ve worked even more than usual on keyboards, but lately, I’ve started to notice discomfort. Especially in my left hand, but a bit in my right as well. Luckily, there’s nothing anywhere else, and it’s not that bad. But I want to take action to try to stay ahead of it.
A bit about my current situation
The last couple of years, I’ve been working mostly in my small home office, which was OK, but not great. Just a couple of weeks ago, I finally got my own (external) office, so the situation has improved. However, I’ve been stupid, and also worked quite a bit on my laptop on our kitchen table lately.
Here’s my current office setup:
Not visible in the photo, is my Herman Miller Aeron chair, foot rest, and standing pad.
Good things about my setup
A standing desk makes it easy to dial in the proper 90° elbow angle.
I can also switch between standing and sitting.
Since my keyboard isn’t as wide as those with a numpad, my trackpad isn’t too far to the right.
The wrist rests are high enough so I don’t tilt my hands up (or down).
The screen can adjust its height and tilting, so I can dial in a good angle.
However, there is a weakness with my beloved custom keyboard
Laneware Macro-1 and LW-67. Boba U4 switches.
Me and some of my friends bought custom keyboards at the same time. They bought split keyboards, like this:
I thought they were cool, but I wanted a keyboard that others could use as well. Furthermore, since I hadn’t had any discomfort, it didn’t feel worth it.
However, there are four main problems with regular keyboards
When you put your index fingers on f and j , your hands are too narrow. Instead of being shoulder width, you have to force them inwards.
Since the keyboards are completely flat, the back of your hand is flat and parallell to the ceiling. To get there, you have to twist them a bit inwards.
Your strongest fingers (thumbs) are under utilised. Also, since the spacebar is so large, you have to move them pretty far to hit the buttons next to it (cmd for Mac).
The staggered placement of the switches isn’t the best (same with, you know, QWERTY).
Most split keyboards, like the ZSA Moonlander, solves all of these (to an extent).
You can have your hands far enough from each other, it can be tilted to the side, there’s more thumb buttons, and the layout is columnar.
But I don’t want to go there quite yet
They are expensive, and I’ve already spent a lot on my current keyboards (which I love!). But I have to, I have to… So, Part 1 of this journey, is things I can do that’s not getting a new keyboard.
I asked my split friends — and they actually had some advice that wasn’t «Get a split keyboard!». So some of these ideas are from them!
Put tilting legs on my trackpad
Even though my left hand is the one with most pain, I should still see if I can make things better for my right hand. And while I can’t tilt my keyboard like I need to, I can do it with my trackpad.
Just be a bit more conscious about how I use my keyboard
I’ve noticed, since I got the pain, that just being a bit more aware also helps. When writing, I twist my hands in a more comfortable degree, and pay more attention when using modifiers. For instance, I’ve started hitting Option + Command with just my left thumb.
But I can up this, with the next step:
Program home row modifiers
How often do you hold letters to write many of them? 2 Really, the only keys we hold, are the modifier keys. So, some people have taken the genius step of modding the home row ( A S D F — J K L Ø ) 3to be modifier keys if you hold them.
Image from the link above.
So, for instance, you can put Command under f and j . So if you want to do cmd + c, you can hold f and then click c . If you would like to do cmd + f, you just hold j and click f .
Do specific exercise
There are exercises designed to help with the problems I’m experiencing, that I should do. 4 But I should also consider the last idea:
Get A Life™
I have plenty of things I like to do, that doesn’t involve typing on keyboards. So I should prioritise those things more! Now that I’m done with the 1.0 of this website, that’ll be easier!
We’ll see if I have to embark on a Part 2. And my friend has been nice enough to allow me to try out his (second) ZSA Moonlander.
ZSA also makes the Voyager, which looks nice.
But I think something like a version of the Lily58 (image) or Boardsource Lulu is most tempting at the moment. I like that they’re small, but with some more thumb buttons, and that they can be made with rotary encoders. Also, I like the DIY!
Do you have any more advice for me? Please comment here or email me.
This is what’s called «foreshadowing». ↩︎
Zzzzzzzz ↩︎
Norwegian layout, baby! ↩︎
Not that I’ve found them yet! ↩︎
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The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
2To know wisdom and instruction,
To [a]perceive the words of understanding,
3To receive the instruction of wisdom,
Justice, judgment, and equity;
4To give prudence to the simple,
To the young man knowledge and discretion—
5A wise man will hear and increase learning,
And a man of understanding will [b]attain wise counsel,
6To understand a proverb and an enigma,
The words of the wise and their riddles.
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
But fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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