pastiche.md

...Now these 'letter' things are confusing at first. Personally I don't know why exactly the manufacturers seem to think we need so many different ones, and a lot of them seem to do the same thing. Tozier seems to think that this is normal and that for "advanced" applications there may even be what he calls "diacriticals". He says he's seen them online somewhere, but I am skeptical and think he was probably looking at porn or something. Even more confusingly, certain letters are clearly overloaded badly in terms of their responsibilities: A for example, seems in some places to be what the manuals refer to as "soft", and other times "hard". But there's no notational difference indicated at all!

We'll have to watch out for that (foreshadowing!).

Given a list as long and complicated as the twenty-something letters here, we decide to start at the beginning. Before we get to it, though, we probably should put the pointy thing into the wall thing so the computer goes. Several minutes pass as we watch and wait in silence and growing trepidation, and then it strikes me: We never pushed the little round thing. Why did nobody every mention the little round thing?

Then with a distinct "bong" the computer starts, and we take a break before undertaking the next steps....