posted on December 13, 2003 04:39:49 PM new
OK, I admit it. I'm one of those people who sometimes eat while they are on the computer! And even the neatest people will occasionally, uh, drop things when doing this. And I am not amongst the "neat."
So I'm sitting here getting things ready to upload to eBay when my gaze falls to my keyboard and I see...stuff.
I picked up the keyboard, turned it over, and gave it a shake. Crumbs showered down. Another shake, more crumbs...along with other stuff I can't identify. For the past few minutes I have been shaking the keyboard and crumbs, unidentifiable stuff, tiny bits of paper, etc. shower down every time. I am amazed at just how much stuff is in there! How in the world could the keyboard function with all that detritus in there!?!
I think I will take a short break to remove the keys from the keyboard & clean it out. Who knows what I'll find in there?
posted on December 13, 2003 04:55:50 PM new
I dumped coffee on my keyboard one time.
It worked for about 30 seconds,
And it was off to Staples to get a new one.
posted on December 13, 2003 04:55:52 PM new
I do the same thing. I spilled an entire cup of coffee on my desk yesterday. I was lightening fast in getting the keyboard and mouse out of the way! However, everything else on my desk got it! Thankfully, all merchandise was in it's proper place at the time. Now I keep my coffee and pop away from the desk!
PS Just shook my keyboard and surprisingly nothing came out!
posted on December 13, 2003 06:21:38 PM newI FOUND JIMMY HOFFA!!
OK, so I didn't find Hoffa. But I find a whole lot of other stuff. I could have shaken the keyboard 'til the end of time and never gotten everything out!! Among other things I think there was enough dog hair to make a whole other dog. There were things I still can't identify. There was one thing I think might have escaped from a government research facility...
It took me awhile, butI now have a clean keyboard. Unfortunately, in the process my space key has developed definite quirks--sometimes it gives no spaces at all and sometimes it won't give me a space until I type the first letter of the next word, and sometimes it gives me two spaces instead of one
It may be that a new keyboard is in my future. Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
posted on December 13, 2003 06:22:14 PM new
Who knows what lives beneath the keys depending on the largesse of your fumbles for survival?
There may be an entire ecology that will arise in this new niche.
posted on December 13, 2003 06:53:07 PM newIt may be that a new keyboard is in my future.
That'll teach you to clean anything .
My keyboard has four screws on the back. Just unscrew it and use some of that canned 'air'...spray a couple of times....all clean. I never had to take the letter/number keys off.
posted on December 15, 2003 08:15:27 PM new
Are you guys ever narrow-minded!! Make something with it, bunni. Add water, shape into a meat-loaf and voila! Serve to hungry guests. If you have enough, add some cement and build yourself an addition. Think of the savings!
posted on December 15, 2003 09:23:52 PM new
I was going to suggest that she might have wanted to use it as packing material for her ebay sales....since there was so much of it.
posted on December 15, 2003 09:46:18 PM new
Good idea, Linda! It does make you wonder though... if bunni is a neat person, how many crumbs are in a messy person's keyboard? Or how many tons of keyboard crumbs are there put together? And do people ever wonder why they get sick?
posted on December 16, 2003 12:16:28 AM new
Too late now, as the keyboard detritus has been disposed of. However, I will keep your ideas in mind for the next time... Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
posted on December 16, 2003 02:57:55 PM new
You've got a Dell?
Mines plain black (all components have to be black, except my LCD flat screen monitor, that I love dearly ) and IBM, if it were white, Mike may get on it, after changing oil in the car or something, his computer is filthy, so we hide his office away in this house, no one is allowed to look in there
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posted on December 16, 2003 03:09:19 PM newLCD flat screen monitor. Real nice.
....I thought I might be getting one too. My monitor went out sometime around April or May. Checked the warranty and it had one month to go. So they replaced it for free. Sure can't complain about that.
posted on December 16, 2003 03:20:10 PM new
Yeah, you can't beat getting one replaced free. But if you go with the LCD flat screen, you'll never regret it. I haven't. They take up NO room, so you have a lots of desk space, and they weigh about 4? lbs or so, nothing like the regular monitors. I've had this one 2 years now, and no problems! And they are going down in price.
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