There's No Escape
I just stumbled upon a very interesting fact. I was sitting at my desk checking and re-checking my top-five websites looking for some sliver of scintillation, and when I tried to quit the inter web would not close. I tried to force quit, didn't work, tried to restart, didn't work and then I looked at the escape button, "ha, yeah right!" eventually the force quit powered through, and I was able to go about my business.
Then I got to thinking about the escape button. When I was younger I used the escape button all the time, but now I never use it. So I tried. I opened and ran every program on my computer, and tried to use the escape key, AND IT DID NOTHING. The escape key is obsolete; it is the most futile key out of 109 keys (hand counted!). I thought that it might have something to do with my computer being a Mac. So, I went to the accountants office (Ah Dell, looks like one of the model ships from the original Star Wars), and asked her if she ever uses escape, "No," so we opened her programs and tried to use the escape button, and that didn't do anything either.
How did we miss this? When I was just a tike, playing Oregon Trail during "inside recess," I couldn't even see the letters on the escape button it was used so often, and now 10 years later it has become the fat boring kid in class (Sizist!!) hanging out in the corner with no one to interface with.
Well I am flabbergasted, I have been walking around the office, mumbling to myself, "There's no escape, it was here now its gone, it does nothing, my stomach hurts, etc." Everyone is looking at me in that odd, "Dude, it's really not that big of a deal," type of way. So I guess I should let it go, and move on. I just had to get this out of my system, There may not be an escape anymore, but now I can at least quit (thinking about it).
Then I got to thinking about the escape button. When I was younger I used the escape button all the time, but now I never use it. So I tried. I opened and ran every program on my computer, and tried to use the escape key, AND IT DID NOTHING. The escape key is obsolete; it is the most futile key out of 109 keys (hand counted!). I thought that it might have something to do with my computer being a Mac. So, I went to the accountants office (Ah Dell, looks like one of the model ships from the original Star Wars), and asked her if she ever uses escape, "No," so we opened her programs and tried to use the escape button, and that didn't do anything either.
How did we miss this? When I was just a tike, playing Oregon Trail during "inside recess," I couldn't even see the letters on the escape button it was used so often, and now 10 years later it has become the fat boring kid in class (Sizist!!) hanging out in the corner with no one to interface with.
Well I am flabbergasted, I have been walking around the office, mumbling to myself, "There's no escape, it was here now its gone, it does nothing, my stomach hurts, etc." Everyone is looking at me in that odd, "Dude, it's really not that big of a deal," type of way. So I guess I should let it go, and move on. I just had to get this out of my system, There may not be an escape anymore, but now I can at least quit (thinking about it).