Have you ever inadvertently damaged your computer under the delusion that what ever you were doing was a good idea at the time?
I used to live in front of my pc, I was always bringing work home and would often work weekends or be up until 3am getting work ready for press the next day; having established the back story on with the plot!
As a result of my self inflicted workaholicism my keyboard would pretty much always be covered in cigarette ash, spilled coffee, toast crumbs, nail polish... You name it, Im sure it would get wedged between the keys.
I'm pretty sure at one stage I had my own colony of Fornits establishing an empire amidst the debris.
Unfortunately Im also an anally retentive neat freak. Suffice it to say that 80% of the keys on said keyboard's letters were eradicated via disinfectant & polishing.
However! There were always a few crumbs which refused to be removed!
So, sans anymore verbosity, I'll get to the point.
I decided to take it apart and wash the keys off then take it outside to shake as much water off as I can before attacking the rest with a towel.
Now if you've ever dismantled your keyboard you'll know that the back of each key has little hooks - hooks which make towel drying impossible.
My inpatients got the better of me and I decided to use the hair dryer.
All was going according to plan until I started smelling molten plastic...
(a feat unto itself as my sense of smell has been destroyed years ago due to over perfumed women and smoking)
SO! I flip the board over only to discover that I had melted all of the keys!
As they cooled they shrunk into what I can only describe as a child's drawing of a tooth: Wobbly, wonky and slightly marshmallow looking in shape.
Amazingly it still worked, stroke (no pun intended) of luck because I was broke at the time and it did look kinda cool...
I used a permanent marker to colour some of the F keys black so that it looked like they had gaps. 😛
Originally posted by Natsia😵
Have you ever inadvertently damaged your computer under the delusion that what ever you were doing was a good idea at the time?
I used to live in front of my pc, I was always bringing work home and would often work weekends or be up until 3am getting work ready for press the next day; having established the back story on with the plot!
As a result of my s ...[text shortened]... rmanent marker to colour some of the F keys black so that it looked like they had gaps. 😛
I don't really care about all the stuff that lies hidden in between and under
my keys. I think of it as a universe of its' own, and take great care not to
disturb it (they have the right to an existence, just as me, right). In fact, this
post took me a few minutes to type, for fear of total under-key-massacre.
Originally posted by stockenDirt pacifist! 😛
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I don't really care about all the stuff that lies hidden in between and under
my keys. I think of it as a universe of its' own, and take great care not to
disturb it (they have the right to an existence, just as me, right). In fact, this
post took me a few minutes to type, for fear of total under-key-massacre.
I know people who put their keyboards in the shower when they get too manky. 🙁
They sell keyboards round the corner from me in the pooter shop for £1 second hand or £10 new, so if anything goes wrong with mine it has it's first [and last] flying lesson out the window.
Obviously laptop keyboards are different though - I wouldn't recommend putting those in the shower. 😕
people, people, people....I have but a few words that can simply your lives, soothe your cleanophobia whims, and keep your keyboard in proper working order too. This is assuming you don't want to first change your evil eating, polishing, drinking, and crumby habits while in the vacinity of the keyboard. These magic words are "canned compressed air. What a novel concept. You can actually blow hair, crumbs, spilled liquid (not sure about nail polish actually) out from between your keys without having to dismantle or disfigure your keyboard. You can get two cannisters for about $10.00 US that should last you several months (depending on how frequently you abuse your keyboard). Enjoy!!
Originally posted by NatsiaLOL, Natsia! I hate when my keyboard gets dirty. I tip it upside down, bang the back of it and then take a pen with a disinfecting wipe wrapped round it, and clean every crevice I can get into.
Have you ever inadvertently damaged your computer under the delusion that what ever you were doing was a good idea at the time?
I used to live in front of my pc, I was always bringing work home and would often work weekends or be up until 3am getting work ready for press the next day; having established the back story on with the plot!
As a result of my s ...[text shortened]... rmanent marker to colour some of the F keys black so that it looked like they had gaps. 😛
Keyboards have the highest human skin collection imaginable. That is so disgusting to me 🙁
Avoid potato chips whilst typing.
The resulting effect of imbibing greasy snack food is that your keyboard won't need a cleaning as much as an oil change....
Ever have someone that couldn't keep their hands off of your monitor screen? I'd rather have their oily hands on the keyboard than my laptop's LCD... Ugh!😛
Originally posted by NatsiaWhen I got my first computer it was a 286 and a friend assembled it for me. He gave me Norton Disk Doctor with it, but warned me not to muck around in the registry with it. I think that is what sparked the idea in me. After a couple of months the computer got a bit slow at startup (due to all the software i put on there) and sometimes crashed, and I ran ND and consequently decided to have a look what was so special in the registry. I found it was a great big mess there, full of unearthly characters worse than Wingdings, and among all those suspicious looking creatures there was one that looked a bit like the profile of a man with a pointy nose. I was sure that was the cause of all my troubles and it must be a virus, and so I deleted them all.
Have you ever inadvertently damaged your computer under the delusion that what ever you were doing was a good idea at the time?
Needless to say, my computer did not start up the next day and.. here I am!
(I forgot the point of my story sorry)
Originally posted by JaminNice avatar! 🙂
Avoid potato chips whilst typing.
The resulting effect of imbibing greasy snack food is that your keyboard won't need a cleaning as much as an oil change....
Ever have someone that couldn't keep their hands off of your monitor screen? I'd rather have their oily hands on the keyboard than my laptop's LCD... Ugh!😛
I think cell phones and how filthy they get should be added. Ugh.
Originally posted by Pawn QweenNo, I don't have OCD about cleaning in general. Certain things make me nut though and I guess you could say they are OCD'ish. I hate crumbs. I have to get rid of them. I hate dirty cutting boards. I hate it when my gearshift is dirty.
Do you have an OCD about cleaning? My niece does. She was found cleaning her bathroom taps at 9:30PM - with a cocktail stick!
That's about it for me. You?
