distracted. Recognising that it will eventually pass I no longer try to fight it
and actively seek a distraction. For many months slashdot has provided a
good distraction but lately I feel like I'm becoming an information junky
and I now try to avoid it even though I still need my daily fix. So sometimes
I just end up staring at my keyboard. A safe and harmless distraction you
may think... but you would be wrong. For instance, I know why the QWERTY
keyboard is organised as it is, supposedly to slow down typists in ye olden
days of all things mechanical. But I cannot for the life of me figure out why
"zero" comes after nine and not before "one". If the aim was to reduce
typing rate then why aren't *all* the numbers reversed? Or better yet
why not just mix them up randomly just like the rest of this pathologically
insane keyboard? The only conclusion that makes sense to me (really an
intermediate conclusion, stay tuned for future update/s) is that the arrangement
is a record of the history of numbers. You see, if I remember correctly,
zero was a rather late comer to the number system so it seems fitting to
place it in it's correct position, assuming that is that that top row does actually
represent an historic time-line (tortuous sentence I know, but at
least it gives your congnitive regions a good work out). I have several
other theories in various stages but before I get too distracted, and
because my work is simply too interesting to leave alone for too long, I
must get to the whole point of this posting:
What do you do for distraction when you get bored? Do you write crap
like this... or do you just read it?
