Scott Berkun

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• Andy Burnett - September 16, 2008 at 11:29 am #

• I know the problem of overwork leading to odd behaviour. When I was an undergrad I had spent all right writing up a project. I had to attend a class the next day. As I sat in the lecture room, writing notes, I suddenly noticed that I had come to a halt at the end of a line. After a few moments I realised that I was waiting for the word to automatically jump to the next line, on my paper, so that I could carry on writing.

  I decided not to use my word processor for a few days after that!

  
  

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• Carlos Rizo MD - September 16, 2008 at 11:42 am #

• Scott,

  Thanks for running the little creative thinking contest. I am sure fellow participants enjoyed the challenge as much as I did. Please consider running similar events in the future.

  Cheers,

  Carlos Rizo
  Toronto

  
  

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• Carlos Rizo MD - September 16, 2008 at 12:32 pm #

• A few name options for the ‘invention’ may be:

  * youLUB: Your Life’s Undo Button;

  * ELAS-buton: Erase Last Action, Stupid;

  * Phew-button: Preventing Huge Embarrassments, Wholeheartedly-button

  * FGBK-button: #$%%& GO BacK-button

  * OGBOMA-button: Oh, Go Back One Minute Ago-button

  Regardless of the name, I’d like to own one myself. Meanwhile, I’ll avoid multitasking and do one thing at a time.

  
  

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• Kishore Balakrishnan - September 17, 2008 at 7:12 am #

• Reg “going into the elevator, hiting the wrong floor and looking for the undo command”.. In Singapore, there are some elevators which have an undo option.. Press the number again! No kidding:-)

  
  

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• Indi Young - September 26, 2008 at 11:21 am #

• The first time I ran across this was in 1997, and I laughed so hard! My friend Laurie had dropped a glass of orange juice on the kitchen floor and reflexively yelled, “Control-Z!!!” I immediately adopted the phrase, not that it does much good.