The other day I was in line at the grocery store and I saw a girl with an interesting t-shirt.

It wasn’t the good kind of interesting, either. The good kind of interesting t-shirt would be a quirky homemade Star Wars one, or a quirky homemade political one. No, this t-shirt was the bad kind of interesting - the “what-on-earth-were-they-thinking” kind.

The t-shirt would’ve looked innocent to somebody with minimal computer experience. It read, “I wish I could CTRL+ALT+DELETE you”. I reckon it garnered a few laughs from the girl’s giggly middle school friends, but it made me wonder if the makers of the shirt understood what CTRL+ALT+DELETE meant.

See, CTRL+ALT+DELETE does not equal DELETE. CTRL+ALT+DELETE equals “Open Windows Task Manager”. So, do “I wish I could CTRL+ALT+DELETE you”? No. I doubt that would do much. I’d just be able to see all of your processes (none of which I want to see) and be able to shut them down if they are not responding. I could see who you are networking with (phone call from boyfriend? Mother? Pimp? I’ll know). I could see your CPU usage (it’s probably pretty low). I could see your memory specs, but what’s the point if I already know that you’re running very low on RAM?

Point is, if you’re going to wear techy t-shirts, you should know what they mean. This girl obviously does not know much about computers, save for “you can go to Myspace on them”.

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