Well, I didn't need THAT
Saturday, July 14th, 2007 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
My keyboard blew up, spectacularly, taking the contents of my inbox with it into the flames.
Yeah, yeah, I know. Keyboards cost $9.99 at Staples. This keyboard cost three hundred small and made it possible for me to write without pain. Damn it! Keyboard, macros, mail -- poof!
Yeah, yeah. The Art Ephemeral. Somebody call Edger...
Yeah, yeah, I know. Keyboards cost $9.99 at Staples. This keyboard cost three hundred small and made it possible for me to write without pain. Damn it! Keyboard, macros, mail -- poof!
Yeah, yeah. The Art Ephemeral. Somebody call Edger...
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Date: 2007-07-14 05:01 pm (UTC)It will only take a couple of centuries...
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Date: 2007-07-14 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-14 07:31 pm (UTC)Ahem.
That would've been January 4, 2003.
*blush*
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Date: 2007-07-15 03:19 pm (UTC)Old keyboard breaks down (s key stuck). Buy nice new keyboard with good collapsing spring switches. I get it in the evening, try it for a few minutes and go to bed.
The next day, while I'm at work, my teenage step-daughter spills a cup of water on it and fries it.
I order another keyboard just like it. In a few days it arrives. She didn't spill a glass of water on in it this time, she spilled a cup of soda on it the day after it arrived.
She's now forbidden to carry any liquids into the room where my computer is.
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Date: 2007-07-15 05:11 pm (UTC)http://www.symcod.com/webnet/en/index_kbskm.html
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Date: 2007-07-14 10:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-14 11:09 pm (UTC)Lemmetelya, it ain't easy.
Actually, this particular keyboard has -- had -- a board and memory and all sorts of useful things in its innards. "Blew up," however, does paint the wrong picture. "Went entirely and flamboyantly insane, locked itself into a delete macro and commenced on a rampage through the mail program" is much more accurate.
Thank *ghod* I wasn't working on the book when it snapped.
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Date: 2007-07-15 09:05 am (UTC)I am much distressed at the thought of writing causing you (physical)pain.
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Date: 2007-07-15 12:18 pm (UTC)Well, it kinda goes with the territory. I learned how to type when I was 13 years old, on one of those black, upright Remington manuals, and I've been typing daily (some days for manymanymany hours) ever since. Forty years of that will take a toll...
NECESSITY
Date: 2007-07-16 07:37 pm (UTC)Joy
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Date: 2007-07-16 12:28 pm (UTC)Lorna