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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Paper -By White_Bat

 

I stare at the page. It’s blank… but now there is a line going across it. Is a page with only one line a paper? Doesn’t a paper mean that it is on one sheet? Could I write only one line? For that matter does a paper need to have any more than a word? Perhaps my name, so I receive credit, but then what? Oh well, I’ve written four lines now, and that should be a paragraph, according to my elementary teachers. I need to end with an ‘Enter’ and then start a new thought.
            What is the point of the ‘tab’? I can discern a thought easily enough through seeing where the end of the last though ended, somewhere in the middle of the page. Even if a sentence reaches to the end of a page, I should be able to tell if a new thought is occurring in the next sentence. Or even better for a space-waster, one could insert a gap between every paragraph, like so.

What is the point of the ‘Enter’ key? It used to be called ‘Return’ because the curser would return to the beginning of the line. ‘Enter’’s meaning of imputing data makes no sense in this case. The computer does not save the data you have here on this paper when you hit it, it only returns you to the next line. It has been replaced with the mouse’s left click. 

Why does the ‘Delete’ key remove anything before it, and the ‘Backspace’ key remove anything in front of it? I still don’t understand why there are two removal keys that do basically the same thing are on this computer keyboard…Perhaps the computer manufactures are trying to keep everything even.

Perhaps they can also explain why there are two ‘Alt’ and ‘Ctrl’ keys. Is one set in case the other gets too gunked up when you accidentally spilled your pop on the keyboard? Or maybe if one set doesn’t seem to work when you are trying to keep your computer from destroying itself and you hit ‘Ctrl’ + ‘Alt’ + ‘Delete’. So that’s what the ‘Delete’ key is for! 

I wonder who came up with the idea: ‘Ctrl’ + ‘Alt’ + ‘Delete’ for the Anti-Computer-Destruction cure. Someone who was thinking: I want to have Ctrl of my computer so that it will Alter itself from the freezing up that it’s doing by Deleting whatever is on the screen right now. Personally, I think the keys should be ‘Anti’ + ‘Cmptr’ + ‘Dstry’, but that’s me. I should write a letter to those computer manufacturers, maybe send them this paper too. So they could improve in the future.

I’m looking at my keyboard and seeing all these different things that I never use…For example, what in the world are the ‘F’ keys for? They look like they’re Morse code or something, the way they number up to 12. Why are they all F? Did someone get ticked off at 12 people one day and put simple Computer-Destruction keys easy at hand with only a tap of the finger? 

Finally, good old ‘Esc’ key, I’m not sure what it’s for, since I’ve already got the ‘Ctrl’ + ‘Alt’ + ‘Delete’ combo. Maybe they can just skip out on the party and we can use ‘Esc’ instead. Hmm, I’ve never pressed it before… Let’s try…
Oh shoot! I lost my paper!

 Posted 5/23/2007 12:04 AM - 10 Views - 6 eProps - 6 comments

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Hm.  That is certainly interesting.  I've wondered myself what all the F keys are for!!

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Posted 5/24/2007 4:01 PM by xtearsxofxcompassionx - reply

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The world may never know... ;)
Posted 5/24/2007 4:09 PM by White_Bat - reply

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F5 refreshes the page. :) And I can dim or brighten my screen with Fn and F6 or F7 but that is the extent of my knowledge.

I really enjoyed that post. Ha! :)
Posted 5/29/2007 11:09 PM by tnod_i_wonk_ti - reply

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You know... it really does fill up a page on Microsoft word.. :P
Posted 5/29/2007 11:18 PM by White_Bat - reply

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Heh... :P Nice paper ;)
Posted 6/2/2007 12:19 PM by the_one_and_only_rubber_ducky - reply

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Why thank you, you should print it out or something.
Posted 6/2/2007 1:45 PM by White_Bat - reply


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