Computers/Keyboards + Dorm Room = No Zzzzzz?

mmortal03 asks: "Not until recently, by living with a roommate in college, had I noticed how annoying mouse clicks and keystrokes could be to someone who is trying to sleep. Often, one of us will be up using our computer while the other is tring to catch some z's. Whether it's just to do some late night browsing, type a draft of a paper, read an important email, or whatever else, the clicking of the mouse and typing at the keyboard can drive the other up the wall. Some temporary solutions have been using alternate keyboard strokes instead of mouse clicks, and going to use the school's own computer labs, but those are only open so late, or so early. I would like to hear from Slashdot users as to what their solutions have been, in the dorm rooms, for this matter. Besides the clicks and taps, another bother is that, when the lights are off, our monitors light up the room like small lamps. Outside of handing each other earplugs and eye shades, are there any available input devices that lack the noisiness, or screen filters that dim the light output of monitors outside direct viewing, that might solve this problem? Any other ideas?" We've touched on this subject tangentially, twice in articles from December. Do you have other hints or suggestions you want to pass on?

Comments

Re:Get a fan. tsarkon reports.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes. it works you fucking fuckhead. you can say that sound is additive in terms of physics, as was pointed out, but dont you fucking try and tell me a box fan wouldnt drown out clicks and typing on a soft touch.

i can tell you were a fucking jerk roommate. if you told me to go to the fucking lab id dream of stabbing your to death. i hated fuckhead roomates. fuck you. i still had a decent time in school but fucks like you suck. and im better off than fucks like you too. you fuckers are always whiney and high strung and you fucking fail in life.

so good luck there fucko. you are the fucking offender here. the good thing about a box fan is it can drown out you jerking off (to a picture of my girlfriend)

fucker.

Re:Contractual obligations. Manners.

[Acidic_Diarrhea]

Okay tough guy - let's say one roommate sleeps during the day and one roommate sleeps during the night. By your trite little statement, both should change their habits and never sleep. You're an idiot. I mentioned that there should be a compromise but you seemed to ignore that in your reply. Why is that? Could it be that you're a fucking moron?

All signs point to yes. Eat shit.