Keying

We are all familiar with keys. We play with them as children. Often we associate them with power. In fact, keys are much more. They are trouble shooting guides for engine repair or means of identification or openers of knowledge or means of determining which antibiotic to use, or directions to a local.

Yet, who among us has written a key? This is a tool to help you write a key.

A key is a progressive script of sequential opposite choices. We use the process each day in our daily lives. We might call them direction scripts for our lives.

When you give someone directions to a location you say from such and such as place turn right, at the interstate turn left, at the third exit turn right, go two miles and turn left at the red barn. What you didn't say was the opposite of each turn; yet, it was understood to be there.

Here are two keys to identify pasta. Note that any key can be as unique as its author and is equal to any other key for the same object or direction as long as it follows the rules for keying underlined above.

Pasta Key (Tortellini) by Karl Randall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Pasta Key Ravioli by Karl Randall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.