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Computer woes can cause major headachesIt’s absolutely ridiculous to admit such, but a computer may be the end of me yet.Computers were intended to be helpful and I’ll admit that the Internet is absolutely word perfect. I haven’t been told too many times that nothing is available concerning the question that has arisen.But, one day as I was working on this thing called “computer” a paper clip with eyes appeared and kept blinking and flashing at me. It was unreal but there “it” was with its black dots for eyes and black lines for eyebrows winking and moving and changing until I thought of it as a real person keeping up with what-RejectionsDorothy Taylor.'.V./' . i - /■' .•• •. • - . *V: 9 “ . i;.;ever antics I pulled. It watched me as if to see what I would do next. Puzzlement appeared on the paper chip’s eyes but I declared “It” had watched enough as I pressed another key.The face of the paper clip hurried away, on a bicycle yet, as it turned its back in the flip of my action. Wow! And then, as if by reasons of its own the computer sent the following messages to me, “Saving your settings” and heaven only knows that I didn’t intentionally place any settings to be saved at all.One thing is for certain, of such occurrences in the long ago I wasn’t ready for them to occur.The possibility of someone knowing my every movement was talked about much later during my childhood.The news was in all the movie books Boob and I could get our hands on.Some star was discovered over a malt in some drug store. And, I’ll be the first to admit that my mind worked overtime in the imaginationdepartment. As I walked the streets of Gainesville from the usual Saturday visit to the Plaza Theater with Dad, or as we sat and watched the happenings of the Helpy-Selfy Grocery Store, somewhere a talent scout had to be watching.But, here I sit, watching a paper clip with black dots for eyes and thin lines for eyebrows. Is it any wonder that the feeling could occur that the puzzlement on its shifty appearance could be the end of writing as I know it?I Tim. 1:9 “Receiving the end ofyour faith, even the salvation of your souls.”
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Lockhart Post Register
Lockhart, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 19, 2004
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