OT: Food/Drink at the desk...
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I swear to God... If I ever have a drink in my hand and I'm near the PC, it MUST, without fail, go all over the blody keyboard... I think I must have done this no less than 30 times, yet do I learn? Do I bugger... I've gone through so many expensive mice and keyboards now lol...
Is it just me, or are there any other random droppers (heh) here?
Is it just me, or are there any other random droppers (heh) here?
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I permanently have both a tall glass of water, and a cup of coffee off to my right hand side (left handed so it's well out of my way), out of the way of my keyboard, and the PC tower (sits on top of the desk). And I drink and put it back on my right hand side.
But I sometimes drink, and get distracted, and put it down on the layout pad in front of me, also a permanent feature on my desk. And then, I'll reach for my keyboard without looking down, or reach for my flash drive or something, and spill my drink (either coffee or water) or on Fridays, spill my beer. Nothing worse than spilling beer all over your keyboard.
Everybody in the office went 'Wheeeyyyyyyyyy' simultaneously. I'd have done the same
I like the way you think.
Your own brain betraying you!
What-oh!
Actually. The worst spillage I've had in recent years if having half my damn biscuit (Translation: Cookie, for Americans) fall off and land in my tea. The splash hit both my keyboard and PC tower, somehow, but there was no damage. Just more deliciousness.
Use these if you drop drinks often:
It's like the grown up version of the babies bottle, but hey I don't give a.
Saves your keyboard and other accessories.
Push in the keyboard draw when eating drinking, saves from repeated cleaning of the keyboard/mouse.
Also, I bought wireless headphones recently. Sennheiser RS170
Soooooo worth it. I had no idea how much i fiddled with that bloody cord till I got them.
On the subject of headphones, yeah, I tend to yank the cord out a lot and send my headphones to the floor or sit on them or something all the time. I go through so many pairs. I tried to get wireless ones, but the ones I've tried in my price range have terrible sound quality.
I love DIABETES!
I thought this thread was gonna be about what people consider acceptable to have at your desk at work lol. I've thankfully never had a bad spill. I would freak cause I mostly use laptops.
These are Degus, and I found out the hard way they are not acceptable things to have at your desk.
1st impression, Looked like a new ouija board!
since then some keys on the numpad stayed down when pressed =(
Pulling the keys out is much faster though, especially when you have a tool for it - has a plastic handle and two long triangle shaped wire loops to grab the key on both sides. Then just pull it out (won't work on apple kbds though).
Cleaning your keyboard is a good idea in any case. In the average office your keyboard hosts more bacteria than the seats in the office toilet (assuming there's someone cleaning them regularly
It goes something like this...
"Yes, you Mr. Coke, may stand there,...but not over there. You are not allowed outside of this area.....if you are feeling a little wanderlust, you may take a vacation over to this little table ...way over there......
Hot dogs....you're good to go, but keep your mustard off my fingers and keyboard.
O.K....if everyone understands their roles....let's get some work done.
Aside from spilling some pepsi on my work keyboard 12 years ago, no damage has occurred (although there have been numerous close calls).
My beverages have subconsciously since moved further and further to my left with each incident.
Another time, I gave Chaoseidolon a 20oz bottle of homemade beer that he kept on his desk at work. One night it exploded sending shards of glass and beer in a pretty wide radius - it took a chip out of his cintiq and poked a hole in his secondary LCD screen.
i once ripped one apart, i got up so fast and furious that the jac remained connected to the laptop, and the plugs in my ears xD