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[pictor]

So my keyboard at work went completely fubar. This is a summary of it's behaviour
left Ctrl = F11
right Ctrl = 4
Insert = Page Up
H and N fused (pressing either got me both characters on screen
J and M
K and ,
L and .
; and /
Del and \
--- all fused
Window keys = no reaction
Down arrow = Ctrl-Down as far as I can tell, usually no reaction

boy it was messy. I had fun figuring out just what was wrong though. Now I have got a plain non split keyboard, I hate it. I have put in a p.o. for another split keyboard, I hope it doesn't take long.

Soccer game tonight. I realized that our team has won 3 times so far, twice while I wasn't there, hope I'm not a jinx :) Then to fencing afterwards.

I realized it's only about 3 weeks to vacation (and 3 weeks to pennsic for those of you that matters to, are you ready?)

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[kattale.livejournal.com]

So i'm sitting down at my desk one day, just after lunch, and i pop open a nice cold can of coke. The phone rings, and... you guessed it... i knock the can of coke. It wobbles back and forth, and in a spectacular save, i dive across my desk and grab it. But the grabbing process shakes the can, and a drop - one single drop - launches out of the can and goes ping into my keyboard.

Toast. Like you, letters merged, letters switched places, letters repeated infinitely... all sorts of psychadelic cool stuff. I had to crawl over to the (incredibly sexy) LAN guy and guiltily admit my sin, where he glared at me sternly, grumbled darkly, and gave me a new keyboard. I was utterly humiliated.

Of course exactly one week later, i empty an extra-large tea with milk and a *lot* of honey completely into my new keyboard. I turned it upside down and let it drain all morning, then wiped it off & crawled back to the (still incredibly sexy) LAN guy. He laughed (where-upon i discover that keyboards are a dime a dozen in the government, and he has a case of them in the back for just this purpose), and doled me out a new keyboard *again*.

*Then* he came back that afternoon with my now-dried-out tea-and-honey-soaked keyboard. He had tested it (i hadn't) and it turned out it was perfectly fine.

Go figure... :)

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[mikepictor.livejournal.com]

*looks around*

yeah, I spilt some water on it yesterday, though it was fine all day. This morning, it kept belching at me.

[xiphia.livejournal.com]

heh I had a problem like that a few months back with my wireless keyboard at home. I dumped the brita pitcher onto it in the middle of an EQ raid and kept playing anyway. It was fine at first, but later in the evening my caps went away and I started to randomly DA whenever I tried to CHEAL. It got slightly messy for the tank. I thought I was just being clumsy until I clued in. I eventually had to replace it.