My boss gave me permission to send it to be cleaned, and bill it back to the user's department.
Ewww. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just replace it?
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
Natter 39 and Holding
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Sep 29, 2005 5:35:09 am PDT #1864 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Consuela - Sep 29, 2005 5:35:40 am PDT #1865 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
god, ew...
Frankenbuddha - Sep 29, 2005 5:36:59 am PDT #1866 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I think I'm glad I didn't click on the link.
le nubian - Sep 29, 2005 5:37:04 am PDT #1867 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Tom,
at what point do you say: "what the fuck? Just order a new keyboard."
Calli - Sep 29, 2005 5:39:31 am PDT #1868 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
On the upside, if they ever discovered anything untoward on that user's harddrive, he'd have a believable case if he said, "My keyboard made me do it."
Tom Scola - Sep 29, 2005 5:39:33 am PDT #1869 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I've already replaced the user's keyboard with a spare. The question is whether to get this cleaned and returned to the spare pool, or to get a new one.
The problem is that Sun type 5 keyboards have a special connector on the end that no one manufactures any more.
shrift - Sep 29, 2005 5:40:18 am PDT #1870 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I'm curious how shrift's user managed to turn his keyboard into black cornflakes, though.
Something about a combination of acetone and a hairdryer. I'm not entirely sure, was laughing too hard to ask.
shrift, has it really only been two years. It seems so much longer.
I knooooow.
Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2005 5:40:24 am PDT #1871 of 10002
brillig
I think I'll clean my keyboard today.
Sue - Sep 29, 2005 5:41:35 am PDT #1872 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Oh. My. God. I gagged look at that keyboard.
sarameg - Sep 29, 2005 5:42:14 am PDT #1873 of 10002
Good lord.
I think you need to put up a biohazard sign on the user's door/cube.