> ... I could read and write long before I started school, so I had to sit painfully through all those INSANELY BORING and USELESS let's-learn-the-alphabet sessions. I'm not sure if they had much effect on my writing, which I suppose was a mixture of my parents' styles.

Heh. That comment sounds *so* much like something I'd say...

Speaking of which, I learned how to write with the help of typewritten text and the screen fonts from a few old computers. That explains why my handwriting in the early years of elementary school was so strange; I think I could write in capital letters before I learned lowercase (as that's how computer terminals displayed things back then), and certain letters just looked so...computerish. In fact, I think I could type before I could write; I still much prefer the former...

-- codeman"trying to decide whether his elementary-school handwriting looked more like TRS-80 or C64"38