Let me introduce you to a Scub.

Hello there!
Let me introduce myself, I’m Byte. I’m a scub. what is a scub you ask? Well you all have heard of fairies, gremlins, leprechauns, sprites, gnomes etc.  They have all been around for years and there are various stories letting you know about them and their way of life.  Well we are another race of magical creatures. You have never heard of us before because our world is still very new, less than 100 years old. It came into existence in 1936 when the first script running computer was developed. We live inside the electronic world. Any device that runs script.  What is script? It is the language of the computer that instructs the computer what to do and how the screen should look.  We are inside looking right back at you as you utilize your computer or device.  We thoroughly enjoy watching you get upset and hearing the colorful language that is used after we have completed our handiwork. You see our race name is derived from our sole purpose in life: S-Script; C-cut; U-undo; B-bug.  You know the times you have been at work printing away and all of the sudden it states "printer not found," or when you try to open a new screen and it just hangs there and goes no where. Yep that is us at work. The only way to correct the problem is to shut the computer or device down and reload the script resulting in lost time. Your face gets red, eyes squint and jaw sets. I feel a joyous warm feeling radiating from deep within. Most of the time I work on my own but occasionally my cousins Mega and Giga come over and we Parrrtyyy! Of course we have to move on to another computer or device when the power goes out but we’re never far away. Some times we travel for awhile and sometimes we quickly return. We're always looking for opportunities to disrupt the day and making sure there is no logic to it.  That is how we survive because if there was logic to it you would figure out how to stop us. So remember me when you are looking for the important work you know you saved and it can't be found anywhere, I'll be grinning ear to ear






 
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