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maxo wrote:
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:45:37 +0000, Dane Jackson wrote: Heh. I desperately need a new one, but I'm holding out until I can find one with no "Windows" keys. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117484,00.asp Ick. If I wanted a keyboard that had a bathtub and Wankel rotary engine attached I'd get out the epoxy and C-clamps. I just "sharpied" mine. It's not the look, it's that they are taking up prime keyboard real estate. Well, okay. It's also the look. -- Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g That must be wonderful: I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere |
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David Reuteler wrote:
Dane Jackson wrote: Heh. I desperately need a new one, but I'm holding out until I can find one with no "Windows" keys. hey dane, i spend 50+ hours a week at the keyboard and i'm a snooty bsd/unix user. i give this keyboard my highest recommendation: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/pfuca-st...ackeylit1.html the name is a definite bonus. the price is a bit much for a keyboard but it has the best action since the old IBM PC keyboards plus it's small (the keys are normal size, the keyboard itself is small). i've got 3 of them (1 at work, 2 at home -- i've found my carpal tunnel is helped by having the same keyboard everywhere). plus the control key is in the right place, damnit. & no windows key. I've looked at those. But I really do use the numpad and what-not that is chopped off on that one quite a bit. I currently have an old Compaq keyboard with a PS/2 connector that's a 101 key keyboard. Unfortunately it's never quite recovered from my daughter emptying a salt shaker into it. Maybe something more like this: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/impactco...60648-101.html -- Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g "Please provide the date of your death." -from an IRS letter |
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:45:37 -0000, Dane Jackson
wrote: wrote: Dane Jackson wrote: wrote: Like doctors don't spend 10 grand ON A CAR??? grrrrr.... *cough* I think you mean 100 grand. LOL, i did mean to write 100 grand. Sh*tty keyboard. Heh. I desperately need a new one, but I'm holding out until I can find one with no "Windows" keys. ANd that scene was even funnier considering how many doctors are cyclists! After all, if it wasn't for them, who would buy Dura-Ace? LOL, or Treks. It seems half the Treks around here are ridden by doctors or lawyers, especially the latest Madone. The roadie in ER mentioned that his bike was a Serotta Legend. Nice plug for Serotta in prime time, even if the rider was portrayed as a dork. As for my keyboard, it's a laptop. A couple of the keys stick and also it's hard to see in my somewhat dim living room. |
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wrote in message news [...] The roadie in ER mentioned that his bike was a Serotta Legend. Nice plug for Serotta in prime time, even if the rider was portrayed as a dork. That's the latest thing in advertising, ya know: Working plugs into the show as viewers increasingly filter out advertising. I dunno if it was a paid for plug in this case but in 'The Apprentice' they feature a certain toy company. In a James Bond movie he uses a certain brand cell phone. And on and on. Another interesting tactic is 'Roachbait' advertising where actors are hired to perform to scripts on the street to gain word-of-mouth. FREX: Two 'buddies in a bar play games over their cell phone in a bar happily letting other patrons look at and use the neat gizmo. The two 'buddies' are paid actors. Or a hot babe circulates in a bar trying to get guys to try Brand X malt liquor Brand Y wine cooler. She's an on-the-clock shill. -- 'To walk within the lines would make my life so boring I want to know that I have been to the extreme.' - avril lavigne |
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: : ANd that scene was even funnier considering how many doctors are : cyclists! Did you notice that Carter locked up his bike by just locking up the frame (evidently)? He didn't bend over far enough to include the front wheel in his cable and he certainly didn't lock up the rear wheel. Pat in TX |
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"Dane Jackson" wrote in message
... Unfortunately it's never quite recovered from my daughter emptying a salt shaker into it. I remember when my older daughter did an experiment with the hot bulb of the desk light and her crayons. We had to replace the keyboard, too. This is drifting over into a topic better covered in the newsgroup misc.kids, but I believe that this sort of behavior requires a two pronged approach: 1. absolute and complete parental wrath, such that the kid is scared into never, ever duplicating such behavior again, and 2. providing a parental-supervised avenue to explore whatever it is the kid is interested in (melting crayons, the sprinkling of salt) away from delicate electronic equipment, so the kid knows that exploration within bounds is OK. -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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: : Doctors with the nice bikes they couldn't afford while in med school. : : The plastic surgeon who restored my thumb rode his bicycle to the : office that was near his home. He also rode it to the hospitals rather : than pay for 24 reserved parking at four hospitals seperated by no : more than 35 minutes cycling. It was an expensive bicycle but he said : it was cheaper than parking for a year. : -- : zk I can understand that. Where my son works, the parking charge is $120 a month in downtown Dallas. So, it adds up pretty fast. Pat in TX |
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"Pat" wrote in message
... I can understand that. Where my son works, the parking charge is $120 a month in downtown Dallas. So, it adds up pretty fast. That sounds cheap -- it's $25/day in my building in downtown Seattle, and no one's parking is subsidized. You do get a free bus pass/ferry tickets, though. -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:28:24 -0500, "Pat" wrote:
: : ANd that scene was even funnier considering how many doctors are : cyclists! Did you notice that Carter locked up his bike by just locking up the frame (evidently)? He didn't bend over far enough to include the front wheel in his cable and he certainly didn't lock up the rear wheel. Pat in TX Well, carter is so rich , why would he care if his bike got stolen! In a british series called 'Casualty' which is like ER, there is one character, a hospital administrator who rides his bike to work. He's actually built like a cyclist, small and slight THe bike is a specialized.One ofthe nurses comments that he looks like a pizza delivery man (in his bike togs). I thought britain was so much more enlightened and that more people ride bikes to work! |
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