It’s not often that I am so disoriented and shaken about that I feel like throwing up, and it’s even less so that something on my PowerBook’s (admittedly grandiose) screen can create such an effect. But when my finger strays from the “delete” key to F12, the most disturbing effect takes place.

I’ve assigned F12 to the Exposé “hide all windows” command, which is positively deathly when you’re not expecting it. Suddenly, everything that your mind is connected to leaps to obscurity and hides in the margin of reality.

It’s quite similar to what I imagine it would feel like to be standing on a existentially-volatile skyscraper. Or perhaps to have one’s platform shoes stolen out from under oneself while attempting to perceive the illusion in a “Magic Eye”-type stereographic pattern.