busted keyboard

[franksolich]

In case I've been missed--which I might, or might not, have been--I've been here, but not here.  Sort of like a child looking through the window at an array of candy in a store.  One can look, but not reach.

About a day ago, I dumped a whole quart of coffee on the keyboard.

It wasn't because anything the primitives said; it was that I looked out the window, only to see the cat Snow and the cat Decker playing "tug-of-war" with some gigantic then-dead wildlife.

Anyway, it startled me, and so I knocked a whole quart of coffee onto the keyboard.

Now, I always try to have "spares"--gotten from thrift stores and the like--on hand, most usually in case I need one, and there's 88" of snow on the ground outdoors.

I thought I had a spare keyboard, but oooops, I didn't.

Well, I wasn't going to bother making an 80-mile round trip for another $1.99 keyboard from the big city; and so waited until this afternoon.

Anyway, I'm up and running again, with this new keyboard, and four others stashed in a closet, all gotten from the Salvation Army thrift store for $1.99 each.

It's good to be on the other side of the window now.

[thundley4]

Welcome back, Frank. You have been missing lots of fun on Skin's Island.

[RobJohnson]

Frank I'm glad you're up and running again.

Did you do anything fun in the big city?

[franksolich]

Frank I'm glad you're up and running again.

Did you do anything fun in the big city?

Actually, I was surprised how a mere 24-hour absence of keyboard put me behind, like by about three or four days.  I was working on a couple of stories, and right during that keyboardless time was the perfect time to get steamed up and going.

Now it'll probably be the weekend or after, that I get going.

I came here, but could only look, as I couldn't type in my screen name and password.  It was just very odd, seeing conservativecave as the primitives see it, which is to say minus a lot of really good stuff. 

In case the lurking primitives didn't know this, primitives are discussed a great deal in the "shout box," but the shout box is available only to registered members, or to members with a keyboard where they can type in their screen name and password.

Picking up some new used keyboards for spares was the highlight of the trip to the big city; every other errand was pretty mundane, picking up money owed me, dining at a restaurant in a nearby suburb, buying the usual three Powerball lottery tickets, those sorts of things.

[RobJohnson]

Actually, I was surprised how a mere 24-hour absence of keyboard put me behind, like by about three or four days.  I was working on a couple of stories, and right during that keyboardless time was the perfect time to get steamed up and going.

Now it'll probably be the weekend or after, that I get going.

I came here, but could only look, as I couldn't type in my screen name and password.  It was just very odd, seeing conservativecave as the primitives see it, which is to say minus a lot of really good stuff. 

In case the lurking primitives didn't know this, primitives are discussed a great deal in the "shout box," but the shout box is available only to registered members, or to members with a keyboard where they can type in their screen name and password.

Picking up some new used keyboards for spares was the highlight of the trip to the big city; every other errand was pretty mundane, picking up money owed me, dining at a restaurant in a nearby suburb, buying the usual three Powerball lottery tickets, those sorts of things.

Hopefully after you hit the powerball we still hear from you. 

[The Village Idiot]

Hopefully after you hit the powerball we still hear from you. 

If you hit Powerball, we want a cut... or at least dump these ads

[Lord Undies]

You could have sprayed the old one down with water and hung it out to dry.  I've done that and it worked!

[Wineslob]

it was that I looked out the window, only to see the cat Snow and the cat Decker playing "tug-of-war" with some gigantic then-dead wildlife.

I'd keep an eye on those two. They might keep moving up the food chain............

[Ree]

In case I've been missed--which I might, or might not, have been--I've been here, but not here.  Sort of like a child looking through the window at an array of candy in a store.  One can look, but not reach.

About a day ago, I dumped a whole quart of coffee on the keyboard.

It wasn't because anything the primitives said; it was that I looked out the window, only to see the cat Snow and the cat Decker playing "tug-of-war" with some gigantic then-dead wildlife.

Anyway, it startled me, and so I knocked a whole quart of coffee onto the keyboard.

Now, I always try to have "spares"--gotten from thrift stores and the like--on hand, most usually in case I need one, and there's 88" of snow on the ground outdoors.

I thought I had a spare keyboard, but oooops, I didn't.

Well, I wasn't going to bother making an 80-mile round trip for another $1.99 keyboard from the big city; and so waited until this afternoon.

Anyway, I'm up and running again, with this new keyboard, and four others stashed in a closet, all gotten from the Salvation Army thrift store for $1.99 each.

It's good to be on the other side of the window now.

Frank...ya prolly have an on screen keyboard already on your puter...go to accessories...then accessibility....then on screen keyboard
if ya ever have an accident with the keyboard again(i found this when I dumped a quart of rum/coke in my laptop and the keyboard quit)

[Duke Nukum]

I always wonder why they don't make keyboards spill resistant.  It always struck me that people who make computers don't seem to realize they are making them for messy human beings.

[The Village Idiot]

I always wonder why they don't make keyboards spill resistant.  It always struck me that people who make computers don't seem to realize they are making them for messy human beings.

They have some but they ain't $5

[LC EFA]

Back in the days when I fixed computers for a living - It would never cease to amaze me what you could find lurking in a customers keyboard. Some people are disgusting.

[Chris]

Back in the days when I fixed computers for a living - It would never cease to amaze me what you could find lurking in a customers keyboard. Some people are disgusting.

Keyboard are usually some of the most disgusting places in your house.  I know immaculately clean people that still have nasty-ass keyboards -- its worse when people don't care... you get vomit, snot, boogers, food crumbs, pet (and human) hair, bugs, spilled drinks, etc etc.  I try to clean mine periodically but short of removing all the keys, its still gross. 

[kenth]

I've worked in a couple of repair shops. We had one repeat customer, a programmer and a chain smoker. His keyboard had multiple cigarette trails across the top.  He was having trouble with it one time so we had his entire pc in the shop. I flipped the keyboard over, and we practically had a pyroclastic flow coming out. 

Then there was the computer with the layer of cocoons across the top inner case. 

And the one that died due to rodent urine.

[The Village Idiot]

I've worked in a couple of repair shops. We had one repeat customer, a programmer and a chain smoker. His keyboard had multiple cigarette trails across the top.  He was having trouble with it one time so we had his entire pc in the shop. I flipped the keyboard over, and we practically had a pyroclastic flow coming out. 

Then there was the computer with the layer of cocoons across the top inner case. 

And the one that died due to rodent urine.

I have a skin condition, probably all sorts of dandruff in there... lol

Aren't the old el cheapo keyboards something like $5 these days?

[LC EFA]

I've worked in a couple of repair shops. We had one repeat customer, a programmer and a chain smoker. His keyboard had multiple cigarette trails across the top.  He was having trouble with it one time so we had his entire pc in the shop. I flipped the keyboard over, and we practically had a pyroclastic flow coming out. 

Then there was the computer with the layer of cocoons across the top inner case. 

And the one that died due to rodent urine.

The ones that amused me were the people who were clearly potheads - where you'd get a "detectable" quantity of weed out of their keyboard.