Fingering the Culprit
I’ve just noticed that my keyboard is dirty. How’s that for a spectacular intro to a blog post? Well, it isn’t (a spectacular intro, I mean. It is definitely a dirty keyboard — this wasn’t meant to be an existentialist post). Anyway, as I was saying…my keyboard is dirty, which is nothing new. What is new is the odd pattern.
I use one of these. It’s a nice size for my hands, and the individual key mountings mean that it tends not to collect crumbs (a big problem with other keyboards I’ve owned). But what I noticed today is that there are two keys on the board that are visibly filthy… the P and the ‘ (I mean the single quote mark…the key one to the right of the semicolon). On the surface of each key is a perfectly round clean white space surrounded by a ring of brown…I believe the technical term is “gunk”. This disturbs me. Read more “Fingering the Culprit”