Like... 4 years ago? I work, play, eat and smoke at my comp... I simply don't DARE to open, let alone clean the keyboard... Maybe I'd destroy the ecological niche of an endangered species...
Hoo boy. I got the hint at my last job when I came in to see another keyboard hooked up to the computer at my desk, because someone else had been using it and hadn't wanted to touch mine. At my current job I've tried not to eat at my computer since I use a split keyboard and can't easily get a replacement, but it's pretty hopeless.
Does "covering keys with three-fourths of a cup of boiling Chamomile tea and hurriedly tipping the keyboard upside down to allow the liquid to drip-drain before any important components get wet" count as cleaning?
With a letargic cat sleeping above it on top ye monitor?,... "Wow, a snow falling screensaver!." "Nope, that's Princess Kitty up there,..."
...At least she is not falling on it head first, as she just to do as a kitten ("Catch theCursorCatchThe CursorCatchTheCursorCatchTh..." *Slip!* *Bonk!!*.)
If you follow San Fernando Road South out of Glendale, you pass what is left of Southern Pacific's Taylor Yard Locomotive Service facility. Until lately, 60% of railroad staff was composed of clerks, in several different flavors. Now railroads are eliminating clerks, and yet increasing the amount of data entry associated with even the most trifling of tasks. Out at the boiler shops and engine repair ramp (a large, heavy-industry-type building with large bay doors at each end and several tracks running through) management has set 14 free-standing computer terminals, with mice, keyboards, and pistol-grip bar-code scanners. Management insists that pipefitters, electricieans, diesel mechanics, and other people who are covered in oil and grease use these machines to log every repair action they make on each locomotive. Management does _not_ want these people to leave the vicinity and wash their hands every time the need to enter data. The keyboards are almost black from oil from their fingers. And more than a few of the workers chew sunflower seeds. I have found over a cup of split and pre3sumably chewed sunflower shells in at least one of these keyboards.
Due to the open bay doors and high raftered ceilings, pidgeons have taken to roosting in the building. Some of the workers have been seen scattering sunflower seeds ontop of and around the data-entry stations. Hence the pidgeons roost right above the machines. I find pidgeonshit on the keyboards, and in the colocated HP laserjet 6L printers.
...Sometimes, the diesel fumes from running locomotives collect in the rafters, asphyxiating the pidgeons. They don't always fall when they die - jus sort of mortify up in the rafters, above the keyboards. I have been called out to fix non-working keyboards and printers, - and found pidgeon bones caught between and under the keys, or in the printer paperfeed path...
We buy the cheap, $6/per at Fry's, and we buy them by the dozen. We do not clean dirty keyboards, we replace them when they die.
...Believe me - no matter how creative graphic artists may be, and what havoc they may wreak - You haven't seen REAL dirty keyboards!
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Date: 2002-11-28 01:30 pm (UTC)I work, play, eat and smoke at my comp...
I simply don't DARE to open, let alone clean the keyboard...
Maybe I'd destroy the ecological niche of an endangered species...
Your timing is scary, Peg.
Date: 2002-11-28 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-28 05:19 pm (UTC)So, yesterday.
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Date: 2002-11-28 05:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2002-11-28 06:45 pm (UTC)"Wow, a snow falling screensaver!." "Nope, that's Princess Kitty up there,..."
...At least she is not falling on it head first, as she just to do as a kitten ("Catch
theCursorCatchThe CursorCatchTheCursorCatchTh..." *Slip!* *Bonk!!*.)
Now, where is that canister of Canned Air?,...
Madam,...You haven't SEEN a REAL dirty keyboard...
Date: 2002-11-29 01:44 am (UTC)Management insists that pipefitters, electricieans, diesel mechanics, and other people who are covered in oil and grease use these machines to log every repair action they make on each locomotive. Management does _not_ want these people to leave the vicinity and wash their hands every time the need to enter data. The keyboards are almost black from oil from their fingers. And more than a few of the workers chew sunflower seeds. I have found over a cup of split and pre3sumably chewed sunflower shells in at least one of these keyboards.
Due to the open bay doors and high raftered ceilings, pidgeons have taken to roosting in the building. Some of the workers have been seen scattering sunflower seeds ontop of and around the data-entry stations. Hence the pidgeons roost right above the machines. I find pidgeonshit on the keyboards, and in the colocated HP laserjet 6L printers.
...Sometimes, the diesel fumes from running locomotives collect in the rafters, asphyxiating the pidgeons. They don't always fall when they die - jus sort of mortify up in the rafters, above the keyboards. I have been called out to fix non-working keyboards and printers, - and found pidgeon bones caught between and under the keys, or in the printer paperfeed path...
We buy the cheap, $6/per at Fry's, and we buy them by the dozen. We do not clean dirty keyboards, we replace them when they die.
...Believe me - no matter how creative graphic artists may be, and what havoc they may wreak - You haven't seen REAL dirty keyboards!
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