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General Category => Matters of Life and The Universe => Topic started by: Charger on December 24, 2019, 04:29:30 AM

Title: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Charger on December 24, 2019, 04:29:30 AM
For those of you that can have a merry christmas I wish it to you...

And for those like me who don't even know the meaning of merry...I guess the only thing to do is to soldier on...


Goddamn writing with this normal keyboard is next to impossible...stupid beer...stupid keyboard that broke...stupid christmas...stupid me....stupid life.
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Thelemech on December 24, 2019, 05:21:24 AM
 :wootwoot: Merry Christmas my friends!!  :partay:
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Typhon on December 24, 2019, 08:07:12 AM
^^^^^^
^^^^^^
 ??? What do you mean "normal keyboard" ?  What is an abnormal keyboard?
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Charger on December 24, 2019, 08:51:37 AM
Normal keyboard:

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71jBcZcbClL._SX425_.jpg)

Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard which I've been using for more than 15 years:

(https://cdn.cnetcontent.com/30/b2/30b27d00-bb95-431f-8a4a-4b82fa28ad12.jpg)


You can imagine how hard it is to write with a standard one after getting used to the split one.
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Typhon on December 24, 2019, 11:04:37 AM
I see.  I have never used one of those curved boards.  But it is hardly the end of the world.

Happy Holidays to all.   :cheers:
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Charger on December 24, 2019, 11:17:33 AM
But it is hardly the end of the world.

No...just the end of 50€ and two days worth of nerves trying to cope with this one... ;D

Getting into the whole christmas spirit with this:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49269921592_b571091200_z.jpg)

Will carry on with some Brandy and later another episode of Wine Club Christmas Beer edition and then ending with some Scotch...
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Vyn on December 24, 2019, 11:20:12 AM
The quality of a person is not that which remains upon subtracting everything from themselves that they don't have but feel they should.

Or not.

Perhaps we're all wearing gasoline pants, sliding furiously down the hot rails to hell.

Merry Christmas!
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Zzzptm on December 24, 2019, 01:23:22 PM
Dude, I love the angled keyboards. What I use at home. Did your old one break, Charger?
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Charger on December 24, 2019, 02:06:25 PM
Dude, I love the angled keyboards. What I use at home. Did your old one break, Charger?

Yes it did... Read full story from the Wine Club thread...
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: KiloDeltaCharlie on December 24, 2019, 05:44:35 PM
^^^

I don't know if it is exactly the same problem (coffee if I remember) but a friend of mine removed the keys, washed and dried them, wiped down the newly exposed section of the keyboard and let that dry. Then put the keys back and it worked fine afterwards. You can probably Google it.

====

Oh, and Happy Christmas everybody!
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Charger on December 25, 2019, 05:10:16 AM
Yeah did that. Opened the keyboard up and washed the contact layers with electronic cleaner, it helped a bit but still more than half the keys didn't work and some gave two letters at once.

Not my first rodeo with liquid in the keyboard. My previous one I poured in zero coke...first time cleaning helped but the second time it did not. But beer is worse. It is such a thick liquid and super sticky so it really gets into every nook and cranny...and usually when some gets on the circuit board that's quite often game over...

Well tomorrow I'll go and get a new one again...luckily there were still 2 left in the store...
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Typhon on December 25, 2019, 07:31:37 AM
Well tomorrow I'll go and get a new one again...luckily there were still 2 left in the store...
Perhaps you could find an "after Christmas" markdown.  :banana:
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Zzzptm on December 25, 2019, 09:36:20 AM
Well tomorrow I'll go and get a new one again...luckily there were still 2 left in the store...
Perhaps you could find an "after Christmas" markdown.  :banana:

Indeed! Storekeepers are always using holidays to move merchandise.

Yesterday, I was getting some stuff at the grocery store and saw a VALENTINE'S DAY display already up! Christmas Eve and they already have heart-shaped candy out!

Sure, I bought some to act as ironic stocking stuffers, but, still...
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Vyn on December 25, 2019, 01:07:31 PM

Yesterday, I was getting some stuff at the grocery store and saw a VALENTINE'S DAY display already up! Christmas Eve and they already have heart-shaped candy out!


(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcS6ZtOMFScYRCNykHnCD2wN7X0eWVvbgSuanxN9IdmrIbwnHz4H)
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Typhon on December 25, 2019, 02:53:04 PM
^^^^^^
 :))  That is a pretty amusing picture, but I would wager that members outside of the U.S. do not know who most of those people are.   :)
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Vyn on December 25, 2019, 03:56:30 PM
^^^^^^
 :))  That is a pretty amusing picture, but I would wager that members outside of the U.S. do not know who most of those people are.   :)

I'd wager you'd win that wager lol. There's probably a lot of folks under a certain age here in the U.S. that wouldn't get the reference either.

Speaking of folks outside the U.S., I'd happy as all get out if Jack would stop by and wave at us.

Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: KiloDeltaCharlie on December 25, 2019, 04:04:50 PM
As an example of someone outside of the US I have no idea who those people are... but I might recognise the names!
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Vyn on December 25, 2019, 04:15:27 PM
As an example of someone outside of the US I have no idea who those people are... but I might recognise the names!

John Davidson, Cathy Lee Crosby, and Fran Tarkenton. They hosted a show in the early eighties called "That's Incredible!".
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Zzzptm on December 25, 2019, 04:19:15 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s_Incredible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ4VccJi7v0

It's the first TV show to warn viewers to not attempt the dangerous stunts portrayed on the show, I believe. David Letterman's show followed suit a few years later. Now it's a staple of live-action shows.
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: KiloDeltaCharlie on December 25, 2019, 04:37:28 PM
As an example of someone outside of the US I have no idea who those people are... but I might recognise the names!

John Davidson, Cathy Lee Crosby, and Fran Tarkenton. They hosted a show in the early eighties called "That's Incredible!".

No, I didn't recognise the names or the show. ;)
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Charger on December 26, 2019, 03:28:50 AM
I take great pride in knowing a lot of sometimes even obscure tv shows from the us but goddarnit...never heard of that one!
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Vyn on December 26, 2019, 04:12:24 AM
John: "Our guest this evening will shove a cherry bomb up his nose and then ignite it."

Cathy: "..."

Audience: "uhhhh...."

Fran: "I remember in my second season playing for the Vikings, there..."

John: "Shut up Fran"

Guest: BOOM!

Audience: "THAT'S INCREDIBLE!"
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Typhon on December 26, 2019, 08:04:20 AM
I can barely remember watching 1 episode of that show, and that was only because Tarkenton was one of the hosts.  I saw his entire career in the NFL playing for the New York Giants and then the Minnesota Vikings.
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Vyn on December 26, 2019, 08:19:37 AM
Yeah, I don't recall any of the actual shows. I just remember the hosts and the audience yelling "That's Incredible!" after watching someone do some crazy stunt.

Mr. Tarkenton was a fine QB.
Title: Re: Merry Metal XMAS!!!!
Post by: Zzzptm on December 26, 2019, 10:42:22 AM
Yeah, I don't recall any of the actual shows. I just remember the hosts and the audience yelling "That's Incredible!" after watching someone do some crazy stunt.

Mr. Tarkenton was a fine QB.

I remember the Indian monks that crammed themselves into tiny boxes for hours. Dude. THAT'S INCREDIBLE!