I'm amazed that the dude continued to type on it for that long. I mean, where exactly is the tipping point between "I'm spending hours putting my hands all over nasty reeking slime" and "time to call the help desk"?
Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!
Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'
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.
amych - Sep 29, 2005 5:47:29 am PDT #1879 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Fred Pete - Sep 29, 2005 5:47:59 am PDT #1880 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Keyboard -- ick.
Tom Scola - Sep 29, 2005 5:48:39 am PDT #1881 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It was when someone else had to type something at his desk, and refused to do so.
Steph L. - Sep 29, 2005 5:49:30 am PDT #1882 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"time to call the help desk"?
And I'm wondering -- why call the help desk? Clean it your damn self.
It's not like I take my car to Toyota when it gets dirty, and demand that they wash it. *I* got it dirty, *I* clean it (or pay to have it cleaned) (or don't clean it at all, which is the simplest solution).
Jesse - Sep 29, 2005 5:50:20 am PDT #1883 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am now trying really really hard not to imagine that guy's house. Because I'm no neat freak, but that is NAST.
shrift - Sep 29, 2005 6:01:51 am PDT #1884 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
WTF? Was he trying to pass this off as some kind of bizarre accident?
Apparently he'd been trying to clean his laptop keyboard, and it didn't end well.
My favorite people were the ones who claimed their house had been struck by lightning and zotzed the laptop, and when we got them in, the laptops had tire tread marks.
sarameg - Sep 29, 2005 6:02:06 am PDT #1885 of 10002
It was when someone else had to type something at his desk, and refused to do so.
OMG.
We had public computers in the caf. I had to use one once, and while not that bad, it was pretty gross. I was grateful for fake nails, because I could avoid touching the keys.
Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2005 6:06:29 am PDT #1886 of 10002
brillig
It was when someone else had to type something at his desk, and refused to do so.
Sometimes the conditions exist just to prevent someone from messing with their stuff. "Hah, Co-Worker X won't appropriate my work space now."
dw - Sep 29, 2005 6:07:33 am PDT #1887 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
Share my pain! The keyboard in question.
I've seen quite a few like that, unfortunately. Luckily, we can surplus ours and then it's someone else's problem.
I got my first upgrade to my equipment this year; everything else came when I was hired into the current job four years ago. I thought about keeping my keyboard, but then I actually looked at it, saw how dirty it had become in four years, tried to clean it (popping off keys even), then finally gave up after an hour. Again, it was going to surplus anyway, so some poor schmuck in this state has to deal with the dirt on the keys, not me.
dw - Sep 29, 2005 6:09:42 am PDT #1888 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
Apparently he'd been trying to clean his laptop keyboard, and it didn't end well.
Apparently he'd also been trying to learn something about flammable materials in chemistry class, and that obviously didn't end well, either.
Acetone? Hair dryer? That sounds like a cheap flame thrower to me.