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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
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| number    = 2182
 
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| date      = July 29, 2019
 
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| title    = When I'm Back at a Keyboard
 
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| image    = when_im_back_at_a_keyboard.png
 
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| titletext = [after typing 1,500 words on feathered dinosaurs, paleontology, sexism, lava, and dinosaurs as animals rather than movie monsters] Sorry to cut it short, I'm on my phone. When I'm back at a keyboard, I can give you another 5,000 words.
 
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==Explanation==
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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
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[[Cueball]] is texting someone on his phone. However, since with a {{w|Computer keyboard|full sized physical keyboard}} you can type with all of your fingers, which is usually a much faster and more accurate way than using an on-screen keyboard on a smartphone, Cueball cuts off the conversation and says he will get back to whoever he was talking to when he can type on an actual keyboard, presumably at home and on his computer.  While there are multiple techniques for making a smartphone increasingly easier to enter words into using its on-screen {{w|virtual keyboard}}, such as keyboard swiping, on-the-fly spelling and grammar checkers, and voice recognition to minimize using the keyboard at all, the combination of a full-sized keyboard along with a generous sized screen is hard to beat for speed and accuracy when typing larger blocks of text.
 
  
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The joke is that despite claiming to be more proficient with a physical keyboard, rather than a digital one, [[Randall]] still {{tvtropes|BerserkButton|goes into long rants}} through messages on his smartphone, whenever anybody brings up ''{{w|Jurassic Park}}''.
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The evil that men do lives after them;
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The good is oft interred with their bones;
  
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There might also be a reference on Dennis Nedry, a character from the first ''Jurassic Park'' film. The programmer is responsible for a security sabotage and intends to be away from his keyboard only for a short while, but dies (not altogether) unexpectedly, worsening the situation in the park.
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So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
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Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
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If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
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And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
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Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
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For Brutus is an honourable man;
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So are they all, all honourable men–
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Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
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He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
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But Brutus says he was ambitious;
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And Brutus is an honourable man.
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He hath brought many captives home to Rome
  
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The title text shows a typical sentence from Randall after having been in a chat over his phone. Before the sentence he has written 1500 words on his phone, all related to Jurassic Park, more or less. When he finally have written his fingers off he then says that he will have to stop now but once back at a keyboard, and even though he just typed 1500 words on his phone, he is ready to type even more (5000 words) using his keyboard.
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Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
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Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
  
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The widespread uptake of mobile devices has stark implications for {{w|user-generated content}} sites on the internet. According to [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/technology/wikipedia-vs-the-small-screen.html a 2014 ''New York Times'' article,] only one percent of the changes to Wikipedia articles were made via mobile devices, although they displayed about a third of all Wikipedia page views that year.
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When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
  
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==Transcript==
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
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:[Cueball is walking while holding his phone in both hands. A line from the screen on the phone goes to the text above him, indicating what he writes:]
 
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:Cueball (texting): Sure, I can reply once I'm back at a keyboard and can type more easily.
 
  
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:[Caption below the panel:]
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Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
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:I say this a lot for someone who routinely types thousands of words in text message conversations when someone brings up ''Jurassic Park''.
 
  
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{{comic discussion}}
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And Brutus is an honourable man.
  
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You all did see that on the Lupercal
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[[Category:Jurassic Park]]
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[[Category:Smartphones]]
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I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
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Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
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Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
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And, sure, he is an honourable man.
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I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
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But here I am to speak what I do know.
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You all did love him once, not without cause:
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What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
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O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
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My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
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And I must pause till it come back to me.

Revision as of 06:11, 3 May 2022

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones;

So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus

Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.

Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–

For Brutus is an honourable man;

So are they all, all honourable men–

Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:

But Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

He hath brought many captives home to Rome

Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

You all did see that on the Lupercal

I thrice presented him a kingly crown,

Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And, sure, he is an honourable man.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,

But here I am to speak what I do know.

You all did love him once, not without cause:

What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?

O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,

And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,

And I must pause till it come back to me.

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