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The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard

Posted by Zonk on from the cinnamon-buns dept.

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?"

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  1. Festival toilets by el_womble · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There was program on the BBC the showed how potentially dangerous eating at your desk is. They took samples from the journalists desk, and a toilet from Glastonbury Festivals after it had been used/abused for three days (think steaming pile of shit and piss). There was nearly 100x more dangerous bacteria on the desk than on the toilet seat.

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  2. Re:Why am I even wasting my time reading this? by One+Childish+N00b · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Indeed, why are you wasting your time reading this?

    Lighten up, it's humour - granted, /. should probably have a Humour section (perhaps with Python-style cartoon banner instead of the usual logo) so you can disable it in your preferences, but personally, I'd much rather read this than another story about RFID, Google or Steve Jobs scratching his ass in a particular way.

    You want serious 'News for Nerds'? There's plenty of other stories on the front page - you could try; - NASA's Plans for the Future,
    - Open Source Java? or even
    - ASIMO and Research Celebrated in Brussels -
    hey, how about that?

    Just because you don't want to read it doesn't mean others don't - some of us are slogging through the early hours of cube life and want a little comic relief about how Johnny Slashdotter once destroyed his computer with a kiwi fruit.

    Shame on Slashdot for not having a humour section you can block in your Preferences, but shame on you for not only assuming that an article titled The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard was going to be an accurately-calculated technological critique, but for then wasting even more of your time by bothering to post a comment about "who cares?". I'm here, in a cube-farm, being bored to tears by the most tedious job you can possibly imagine and I'd like to thank /. for bringing a little smile to my Monday morning - trust me, some of us need the humour fix.

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  3. chewing tobacco by menscher · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Back in high school, a group of us slept over at a friend's house one weekend. And they were chewing tobacco, and spitting into a cup. Then someone knocked the cup over -- right into the keyboard.

    We figured we'd clean up the mess in the morning. Turns out, by morning the spit had eaten its way through the plastic membrane that forms the circuitry in cheap keyboards. Nothing there to clean off -- the circuits were gone. Kinda reminds me of a "stainless carpet" ad, where they admit that their carpet can't withstand battery acid, and show a picture of the holes it will cause.

    Coffee is another annoying substance, though not for a keyboard. If you spill it near your case, it will seep up into the groove between the case base and cover. And then dry, forming a very good seal. I once spent about 1/2 hour with a knife trying to cut that seal open.