Smiles

The world is like a mirror. If you face it smiling, it smiles right back.☺

I wanted to start my post with that quote from Poem Graphic #66

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I would like to teach you something about computer graphics, today. I learned this from my friend, Rachel. If you are wondering what computer graphics have to do with smiling, I will get to that in a moment.

There may not be one on every keyboard, but if you look closely, you may see a number keypad on yours. On the keyboard below, the keypad is to the right, with big numbers, next to the vertical ENTER key. Have you noticed all my recent posts have smiley faces? Not regular ones like “;)” but ones like “☺”? If not, click on the RECENT POSTS tab. If so, you have just seen a glimpse of what I will teach you.

 

 

The keyboard picture source is: http://www.foreignlanguagekeyboard.com/images/Large%20Print%20Keyboard%20White%20on%20Black.jpg

 

If you press and hold the ALT key, in this case to the left of the space bar (long bar in the middle) and then press any key on the keypad, you will come up with little images such as:

You can even type double-digits (to create letters) and triple-digits:

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Try some combinations of your own in the comments below!☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺

 

Note: I do not think this works with macs for all you mac people.