Well, I didn't need THAT

[rolanni]

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...

Comments

[djonn]

Also out of curiosity -- how do you get a keyboard to literally blow up in such spectacular fashion? I mean, you wouldn't expect normal keyboard innards to be, well, explosive.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

how do you get a keyboard to literally blow up in such spectacular fashion?

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.

[patknuth.livejournal.com]

I was wondering how a self-destructing keyboard could take your inbox with it.... I don't suppose there's any chance your e-mail provider could restore your inbox?

I am much distressed at the thought of writing causing you (physical)pain.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I am much distressed at the thought of writing causing you (physical)pain.

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

[joythree.livejournal.com]

This clan member SELFISHLY approaches trip jar...
Joy