It’s time to play: Computer shortcuts I want for real life!

I had a really bad day the other day and sent out a tweet from my phone that said this:

This is a game I love to play: Computer commands/shortcuts for real life. It came up in a recent conversation on Facebook with Arno, a.k.a. @camera_obscura, one of my South African friends. He said, “My next few weeks will be much easier if I could uninstall the “sleep” function from my body. And also upload information to my brain.”

Amen to that.

I’ve played it before briefly on Twitter, but I’d like to see what we come up with in the comments. So far this is my list of computer commands/shortcuts I want for real life:

• An ESCAPE key for awkward situations.
• *CMD/CTRL+F for things like my car keys.
• CMD/CTRL+Z for “undoing what you just did as you get the sinking feeling that you have officially just been a dumbass” (that one was Arno’s)
• A service like shorten URL that you can plug long meetings into.
• A help file (per Arno’s friend Adrian)
• CMD/CTRL+S to save important things for later
• Copy & Paste to relay important conversations so you don’t get anything wrong.
• CMD+Q to just quickly quit stuff and get on to the next thing.
• CMD++ to make things bigger that are too small . . . like, uh, ice cream sundaes (be creative)
• CMD+- to make things smaller that are too big . . . choose your crisis & shrink it!
• CMD+H to instantly hide
• CMD+O to open doors and stuff
• CMD+R (or F5 for PC users) to refresh . . . could save money on your water bill
• CMD+SHIFT+DELETE to empty the trash . . . nobody likes to do that in real life!

Your turn!

What are some computer commands/shortcuts you’d like to apply in real life?

*Note: I’m a Mac person so I use the CMD key, which is similar to the CTRL key. Your shortcuts may slightly vary if you’re a PC person.

Geeks have more fun!

I have had one hell of an exhausting weekend. Friday night I finally made it to my first ever BIG tweetup, sponsored by Biznet, where I got to meet a large chunk of the people I regularly tweet to and follow over on Twitter. It so great to finally put faces and real people to the icons and @twitternames I see all the time online. To see a glimpse of how much fun you missed, the folllowing video is courtesy of the fabulous Ms. Shauna Nicholson, marketing manager over at Biznet (and quite possibly the most adorable person person in the Twitterverse).

Biznet Tweetup from Shauna Nicholson on Vimeo.

A list of attendees and another video from the tweetup can be found over at Shauna’s blog. It was an absolute BLAST and I can’t wait for the next one. Photos of the Biznet Tweetup are on Flickr thanks to Brian Ambrozy of Icrontic (@primesuspect).

Although, the next one was sort-of the next day at PodCamp Michigan, where I saw many of the same people and then some, but because of a random power outage in my area combined with my own exhaustion and lack of following directions correctly, I was only able to catch the tail end of it. Luckily, it’s PODcamp, meaning that it will all be online in the near future so I can watch everything I missed.