Tech Humour: Useless Inventions

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My Logitechs work fine on my matte finished laminate desk. I do use a mouse pad, mainly because my hands/wrists can't take the cold from the desk.

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Sounds like an (overly) effective flux.

When's the last time you soldered anything? Or designed anything? You've made yourself into a useless ritual insult machine.

Enjoy.

John

Old gits usually are ;-)

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An old newspaper works fine as long as there's no red or yellow print.

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Dunno - I've never been in space.

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I think you'll find those who differ. ;-)

My Dad was a scotch drinker. When he died, we had a little family-only memorial at my brother's Dan's house. The other brother, Bill invited me, Dan, and nephew Tony out to the garage where we drank a toast to Dad.

I said, "Damn, that's good scotch!"

Bill said, "That's because it's bourbon."

Cheers! Rich

I cleaned a couple of keyboards with a scrub brush and dish soap under running water in the deep sink at work. I blew them dry with shop air, and hung them by their cords for a day or two to fully dry.

Looked like new and still worked! ;-)

Cheers! Rich

My favorite keyboard is the $5.00 Belkin.

Cheers! Rich

Anyone tried a dishwasher to clean a keyboard?

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I've heard of it being done, but never done it myself.

I usually just slosh denatured alcohol around the contacts, or buy a new keyboard... they're so dirt cheap it's more costly to clean.

For me, keyboards tend to outlast computers, so I have a bunch of spares. Which is a good thing, the grandkids have "coked" several of my wife's keyboards :-(

...Jim Thompson

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I like the Unicomp (IBM Model "M") keyboards, which aren't free. They last basically forever though (have one that's 20 years old - one finally died at 17). I bought the Unicomp USB keyboard because the PS/2 keyboard input on my docking station doesn't work.

No "Pepsi Syndrome" allowed on yours, eh? I've found that they can be cleaned. I generally pry off the key caps and clean them separately. The grunge underneath them is pretty gross though.

I have a rule, no drinks on the computer desk. I have to turn 90° to the writing desk to get coffee, water... or wine ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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The only time I worry about it is with open laptops. Everyone should have at least a small stack of new keyboards and pointing devices squirreled away.

I've been really punchy on airplanes ever since the jerk in front of me snapped his seat-back suddenly, tossing my glass of wine into the keyboard of my laptop (Sony Vaio at the time, now I have a smaller Lenovo).

I instantly flipped the laptop over, letting the wine run out onto the floor.

When I got home I gave it my standard denatured alcohol slosh, and had no subsequent problems with it.

...Jim Thompson

Not onto his head? ;-)

Sounds like Sony makes their keyboards more robust than the average desktop keyboard.