amputation time

By anders pearson 14 Mar 2002

since digitally i sign every email i send, and i have to type in my GPG passphrase every time, i’ve typed that passphrase many, many times over the last couple years.

<p>nevertheless, i still have the occasional day like today when, for some reason, the connection from my brain to my hands is scrambled and for the life of me, i can&#8217;t type it in correctly. </p>

<p>it mystifies me. i&#8217;m sure i&#8217;ve gone for weeks at a time without mistyping it a single time but some days i screw it up every time i type it unless i consciously slow way down and enter it very carefully and deliberately.</p>

<p>the odd thing is that i can still type other stuff normally. it&#8217;s just that one passphrase that&#8217;s been hardcoded into my neural pathways that gets screwed up.</p>