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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!
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