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New Darkroom Countertop Install!

Sirius Glass said:
BTDT
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Being a lefty or cutting on the wrong side of the line?
My dad was left-handed growing up in Scotland. Teachers "corrected" him. He can write with both hands now. My mum was a lefty, but was also "corrected". They tried to "correct" me, but my mum would have nothing to do with that so, she went in and "corrected" my teacher...
 

My father was left handed and they made him write with the right. His whole life his handwriting was damn near illegible. No one showed me how to hold the pen correctly so that my hand did not drag in the ink until 5th grade. I worked on that for over a year, never going back to the old way until my 6th grade teacher told me to go back to my old way and that it was too late to change.
 

Originally a lefty as well, but the penguins in Catholic school "fixed" that. I still mostly work left but am quite ambidextrous by practice though I golf righty and bat lefty.
 

I eat, and write with my left, but I can write with my right. I've freaked out a few students writing on the board with both hands at the same time! So many creative people are lefties.
 
Rick A said:
Originally a lefty as well, but the penguins in Catholic school "fixed" that. I still mostly work left but am quite ambidextrous by practice though I golf righty and bat lefty.
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Playing goalie in hockey, I can switch between righty or lefty. Threw the other team off. I shoot right-handed, though (hockey not guns). I can punt a football with either foot. Right-handed with baseball, golf...
I think this is the most I've shared about myself online ever... back to the darkroom!
PS. My shoe size is 28.5cm (12?)
 
At one time, there was a statistical correlation between high I-Q test scores and being left handed.
Of course, one explanation might just be that one of the traits measured by I-Q tests is persistence, and you have to be quite stubborn to live left-handed in this right-handed world.
My parents were told that the doctors determined that I would have been right handed if it wasn't for my injury at birth (CP). I've never followed up on that.
 

When I taught seniors and graduate students Electrical Engineering and Computer Science if I was being pressured for time I would right the first equation from left to right and then the next line from right to left, the third line from left to right. ... That would just blow their minds.
 

One theory is that left handers learn early to take what they see people do right handed and learn to flip things over for the left hand. This mechanism then becomes automatic and starts being applied to other lines or thought driving very fast mental manipulations. I know that from a very early age to do word play and puns before my classmate were ready for them.
 
I don't know about lefties and high I-Q. I was always sat at the thick table in elementary school. I realised many years later I wasn't thick, I was just bored stiff. I was more with it in Art and gym.
 
Nice work Andrew and fine result. I admit to using the fast forward.....the entire process was too much like watching someone's vacation slide show. . It must feel pretty good to go to work in the darkroom now! kudos on a job well done.
 
GregY said:
Nice work Andrew and fine result. I admit to using the fast forward.....the entire process was too much like watching someone's vacation slide show. . It must feel pretty good to go to work in the darkroom now! kudos on a job well done.
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That's why I sped it up. I was going to instand replays in slow-mo...
 
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