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The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard
An anonymous reader writes "Pasta? Pizza? Keyboards are often subject to the harshest of conditions -- spaghetti sauce, coffee spill, et al. ZDNet is running a list of worst-food nominations. What is your pick?"
I use an IBM Model M, the cockroach of keyboards, not only can it withstand the worst of worsts in food, but it can survive nuclear war!
Let the commencement BEGINULATE!
This article is way out of date, most keyboards aren't worth money anymore - they're disposable items. I buy a new one every few months because keep smashing the old one's - its a great tension relief, especially for Windows. Just find a cheap brand of keyboard that you like the feel of and keep buying the same one, theres no need for this fancy crap.
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After a few months, tap out the keyboard.
You can see you're not going to be able to validate Moore's law into the distant future.
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How about a $2000 laptop? You wouldn't still care?
I just bet you work in a call center too.
And you wonder why your significant other won't swallow.
That's why I usually turn my keyboard upside down before I lay a line on it, sniff, and turn it back again.
Imagine this, you have your father's office laptop (very costly IBM Thinkpad in 1999) on the coffee table running HellBender at a grainy 640x480 (I'm in that grotto with the ceiling guns). You have a small jar of payasam sitting there on the table. It was wrapped in a plastic bag with a couple of rubber bands (it was made the day before and kept in the fridge). I take the jar, open the plastic without looking up from the game. You know , the rubber band snapped and next thing you know the laptop keyboard is coated in sticky COLD payasam with vermicelli sticking to the padded keyboard bottom.
I still get teased by my sister whenever I take any food near her PC when I visit my parents.Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
> Every time I spill Coke on my keyboard (yes, it's happened more than once) I've
> had to replace the whole thing because the coke at away at the circuitry
Thank god that it doesn't do the same to your teeth and stomache. I mean, thank god when it does the damage can be cheaply and conveniently undone.
Seriously, why do you drink that stuff?
No. No-one wonders.
I prefer using an editor that doesn't require me to move my hand to the arrow keys at all.
"Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." --Eric Blair
ejaculating accidentally isn't one of them!
I would have to say my least favorite to deal with is milk
I would have just made the guilty party buy me a new one.
Easier for you, valuable lesson about respecting other peoples stuff for them, and the freqency of this happening would be dramatically reduced.
And if they don't have the money, make them work it off a minimum wage rates.
(And yes, I am a parent)
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
I bust my boyfriend like this all the time.
Mouseclicks.
Translation:
Searching.
Mouseclicks followed by uncertain typing.
Translation:
searching password site, found one, trying to remember logon and password.
Mouseclicks followed by distinct double-key.
Translation:
searching password site, found one, trying to
ctrl-V the password in so I dont get suspicious.
One Mouseclick followed by confident typing.
Translation:
The one site he actually subscribes to.
Almost no mouseclicks or typing at all, but the sound of the scrollbar.
Translation:
He got a winner. Time to wander in sleepy-eyed and innocently ask if he's coming to bed.
He now says that he's learned women are NEVER asleep. No matter how much you think we are.
{...reality is wrong, Dreams are for real...}
The worst messes on KBs/Mice are made by 3 things:
1) The filling from jelly-filled doughnuts
2) That sebaceous tar generated from your own filth after days behind the keyboard without bathing.
3) The worst is both. (they don't taste good together either).
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
Hey, laugh it up, but the sugar in that soda isn't free. When I decided to drop sugared soda from my routine I lost 30 lbs without doing ANYTHING ELSE. It's called Diet Coke for a reason ;)
Attention deficit disorder is a complicated issue, spanning several major... HEY LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
That's pretty mean. Either help him out or leave him alone. That is pretty harsh to have to live with someone who takes pleasure in distrupting their "alone time".