bored yet.

[captainz]

I bought Katy Kleiman's old soccer sweatshirt at Goodwill yesterday. I can't imagine why she would have wanted to give it away; it's friggin brand new. Except just now I found this white stuff on the sleeve...who knows what that is. Hmm

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[anonymous]

OK, so I'm bored. And your question made me think. So I went to Wikipedia, which was remarkably not helpful this time. So then I asked Jeeves.
And I found this:
In 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes was awarded the operative patent for the typewriter. After receiving this patent, Sholes still had many 'bugs' to work out, and spent a good deal of time with the machine, working out the kinks. One of the kinks in the machine was key jamming, which was prone to happen often and could hurt the machine. If a typist typed two letters one after the other too quickly, the hammers would hit each other; the typist then had to dislodge the hammers and that could get a bit messy. So, Sholes came up with a keyboard layout that would place letters which would be most likely struck closely in succession on opposite sides of the layout.

You probably just meant it as a rhetorical question, but there's your answer.

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Ok, so the anonymous comment is from me... my computer is being stupid and logged me out without me knowing.

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Wow... I have a remarkable skill for missing things when I read... like when you wrote "If you know the answer to this, I don't want to hear it."
Sorry.

[captainz]

Haha it's okay, I thought it was pretty funny that you went and told me anyway...

well, now I know! Thanks, Ash :)