477: Typewriter
explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
| Typewriter |
 Title text: Somewhere in the world, my actual grandmothers are reading this and angrily exclaiming that I never write even malformed thank-you notes. DEAR GRANDMOMS: I AM SORRY! YOU ARE WONDERFUL PEOPLE AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING LOVE reddit.com RANDALL. |
[edit] Explanation
Randall is writing a letter to his grandmother on a typewriter, thanking her for taking them on a trip. He discovers his habit of checking news sites in new tabs every few seconds when he repeatedly types Web addresses in the note.
[edit] Transcript
- [A typewriter is shown with the following letter in it:
- Dear Grandmom, cnn.com
- I hope this reddit.com letter
- finds you well. I wanted to say I
- really news.google.com enjoyed the
- trip you boingboing.net took us on,
- and am looking forward to bbc.co.uk
- visiting later fivethirtyeight.com
- this year.
- Love, slashdot.org
- Your grandson,]
- I didn't realize how bad my habit of tabbing to Firefox every few seconds to check news sites had gotten until I tried writing on a typewriter.
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The spaces are because he's trying to alt-tab. 98.201.111.246 22:21, 31 January 2013 (UTC)mr
