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chrisd
on from the click-smack-click-smack dept.
graymalkn writes "My wife has repetitive stress problems and prefers typing on old-fashioned mechanical typewriters. For Christmas, I converted a mechanical typewriter to work as a computer keyboard. My favorite feature: slap the carriage return for Enter."
As does mine, but I had always figured this was due to the regular beatings. I will have to try the typewriter.
Re:how to save money & work less
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Anonymous Coward
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Wow, my wife wanted stuff like diamonds and expensive kitchen stuff. But, I could've saved money and got her instead something from the thrift store and a bunch of solder?
Maybe his wife isn't a greedy whore.
Re:The human side of it
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tnak
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I was thinking the same thing. Then I realized that the time spent doing this, since it was a surprise gift was, by definition, time away from her. That's when it hit me: he really can't stand her. He just needed something complicated enough to explain away all the time he spends in the basement watching football and drinking beer.
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Wow, my wife wanted stuff like diamonds and expensive kitchen stuff. But, I could've saved money and got her instead something from the thrift store and a bunch of solder?
Maybe his wife isn't a greedy whore.
I was thinking the same thing. Then I realized that the time spent doing this, since it was a surprise gift was, by definition, time away from her. That's when it hit me: he really can't stand her. He just needed something complicated enough to explain away all the time he spends in the basement watching football and drinking beer.