What’s on your mind?

[LizKat]

Winter does little for me, even though I have noticed that the days are beginning to lengthen.

The daylight lasting longer is good enough for me, at least during most of January, I become remarkably accepting of winter's downsides for quite awhile as soon as I notice it's nearly 5pm and still quite light out there. I think I like the cold weather better than you do, although when I lived in the city it seemed drearier than it does in the mountains: all that slush while one's walking about trying to get errands done seems to double the time and trouble of it all.

On my mind at the moment, how could I possibly have used up two boxes of mixed salad greens since last shopping? I must have got carried away tossing them into soups or pilafs or something; at any rate there's a change in lunch plans and after that, definitely a run into town to top off my supply of fresh produce.

Just as well this problem has drawn attention now, as we've a fresh round of snow coming in over the next few days.

 

[Gutwrench]

I cleaned my keyboard with that can of condensed air and think I froze a few keys.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I cleaned my keyboard with that can of condensed air and think I froze a few keys.

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Will dog breath or a hair dryer work in such circumstances?

 

[Apple fanboy]

I cleaned my keyboard with that can of condensed air and think I froze a few keys.

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No vacuum instead of compressed air?

 

[0388631]

I prefer an electrics blower and not a vacuum. In either case, they've saved me a considerable amount of money. Those damn cans used to be good 20 years ago. They're crap nowadays.

 

[LizKat]

I cleaned my keyboard with that can of condensed air and think I froze a few keys.

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Ewwwwww. Good luck. A keycap become loose on one of my laptops awhile back... i figured maybe somehow my fingernail up-picked an edge or something, so i just pressed down on the uplifted side figuring to snap it back in... and blam, the whole keycap and the underpart went flying into the air... then discovered that the underpart had actually broken so it would not re-assemble and ever since then neither that key (the capless L) nor any of the dfghjk keys work at all.

Bummer. Gotta trek up to Albany with it sometime and have Apple take a look. Meanwhile it's wireless kb time. Fortunately that small wireless kb Apple makes, the one without the numeric keypad, more or less sits ok on the framespace around the kb of the laptop. Once in awhile I rudely nudge it off kilter et voila, I have just deleted a movie or typed gibberish into the name of some document.... gotta love my Time Machine backups, I have to say.

On my mind: driving to Albany in January, not going to happen unless we get another extended dry spell instead of all these snow showers. Weird how I'm perfectly willing to do 180 RT to Ithaca on a mountainous state road on any relatively nice day in winter, but not 180 to Albany on a couple of interstates. I hate how people drive on them any more, the big rigs are not segregated and the four-wheelers act like a trucker can park it in 15 feet.

 

[Lioness~]

Keyboards have their lifespan. Few, but not many, have passed over the yrs.
Think I only bought 2 extra new of Apple’s Keyboards to my 2013 iMac (without the numeric pad) silver colored, which lasted a long time. Even learned to take up the keys to clean them. Was some very instructive YouTube video with good advices. But gave up at a point.

Bought the spacegray new type of keyboard with numeric pad, together with the spacegray trackpad.
Beautifully together.
Took some time time to get used to the larger keyboard. But the type of new keys is super great to write on.
Don’t think it’s the same kind of tech that’s on the new MBA, but that is also supergreat. Even if I heard complains. I’ve had none this far.

 

[LizKat]

I use a keyboard cover on my other similar laptop most of the time, but don't have one for the laptop that has the messed-up keyboard now.

Funny, I only got the cover because I do dislike how the lettering can wear off commonly used keys on a Mac keyboard - like the N, A, C, S. I don't really like the feel of the cover but I got used to it on that other machine. But the laptop with the bad keyboard maybe needed a keyboard cover on it for more than those cosmetic reasons; maybe some dust got into that L key's compartment somehow and built up until it wouldn't reseat properly.

Still don't know why the underpinnings broke though, and spectacularly at that. Rebellion of the machine components!

I've tried out the newer MBA's keyboard and don't mind it, it will probably be my next buy when I have to go that route. Hoping to delay an upgrade for awhile.

 

[0388631]

Yeah, scissor and butterfly switches are delicate things. For day to day typing I prefer your typical membrane keyboard, but I do have some "quiet" mechanicals.

 

[Apple fanboy]

I never eat at my desk, so don’t really have an issue with dirty keyboards. Also I think the apple keyboards have less space for dirt compared to the mechanical ones.

 

[0388631]

Mechanical are a breeze to clean. Membranes are tougher. I'll only have alcohol, coffee, tea or fruit at my desk in my home office. Sometimes a biscuit or two, as in a tea biscuit. Nothing extra. Usually you want to hoover or blow your keyboard every so often to get rid of any junk.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Mechanical are a breeze to clean. Membranes are tougher. I'll only have alcohol, coffee, tea or fruit at my desk in my home office. Sometimes a biscuit or two, as in a tea biscuit. Nothing extra. Usually you want to hoover or blow your keyboard every so often to get rid of any junk.

Same here, apart from the occasional bowl of crisps (chips to Our Transatlantic Cousins).

 

[Gutwrench]

I find I get most of my work done while on conference calls. If asked a question I just reply, “I’m sorry I was using this time as an opportunity to think about more important things. Please repeat the question.”

 

[Lioness~]

I find I get most of my work done while on conference calls. If asked a question I just reply, “I’m sorry I was using this time as an opportunity to think about more important things. Please repeat the question.”

Haha, you're an arrogant bitch
Thanks for the elegant advice

 

[Gutwrench]

Haha, you're an arrogant bitch
Thanks for the elegant advice

Hahaha.

My end-of-career horizon might be on final approach.

 

[Lioness~]

Hahaha.

My end-of-career horizon might be on final approach.

Nahhh, you'll do fine without the humorless people who lack self-respect

 

[Lioness~]

Wow, we have finally got a new prime minister in Sweden.
Well it was the last one sitting, as I suspected, who came winning out of this very long discussion. He could compromise better. On Monday our new government will be presented.
It only took 131 days after our election to get to this place.
But it's great that it didn't escalate to a new election.
Would have been such waste of money, politicis waste enough that could be used better for all people.

 

[0388631]

Same here, apart from the occasional bowl of crisps (chips to Our Transatlantic Cousins).

Not a regular consumer of them, but I'll never say no to a large bowl of salt and vinegar. Though a bowl of regular ones dashed with a lot of malt vinegar is just as good.

 

[0388631]

Hahaha.

My end-of-career horizon might be on final approach.

Depends on the employer. If one of my employees did what you did, I'd smirk. I don't like conference calls either, especially the video kind used these days. Nor do I like holding staff meetings. The latter is, however, more cohesive than an email blast company wide or utilizing a branded Slack or similar channel, or company intranet.

Though, generally spoken word not over a telephony device or recorded on digital medium is the way to go in some industries to lessen or eliminate the chance of questionable matter being referred to in trying times.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Not a regular consumer of them, but I'll never say no to a large bowl of salt and vinegar. Though a bowl of regular ones dashed with a lot of malt vinegar is just as good.

A fan of cheese and onion myself, though I am also more than partial to sour cream and to salt and vinegar crisps.

 

[0388631]

A fan od cheese and onion myself, though I am also more than partial to sour cream and to salt and vinegar crisps.

We don't get cheese and onion crisps here. Walkers/Lay's doesn't think they'd do good (I've emailed them many times). We do have cheese and sour cream by another company that can be good, if but a little too salty. Did you mean sour cream and chive? The Canadians make a ketchup crisp by Walkers International that is surprisingly very addictive. It isn't much like ketchup, but a tangy tomato creamy soup but in crisps form. Make sense? Closest thing I've had in the US is some limited edition flavor Walkers put out under their American brand about 9 years ago. Very good. Italian Kitchen was the flavor, I think.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

We don't get cheese and onion crisps here. Walkers/Lay's doesn't think they'd do good (I've emailed them many times). We do have cheese and sour cream by another company that can be good, if but a little too salty. Did you mean sour cream and chive? The Canadians make a ketchup crisp by Walkers International that is surprisingly very addictive. It isn't much like ketchup, but a tangy tomato creamy soup but in crisps form. Make sense? Closest thing I've had in the US is some limited edition flavor Walkers put out under their American brand about 9 years ago. Very good. Italian Kitchen was the flavor, I think.

Pringles make an absolutely addictive Sour Cream and Chive crisp which is.....irresistible.

 

[0388631]

Pringles make an absolutely addictive Sour Cream and Chive crisp which is.....irresistible.

I definitely do not like Pringles. Their visual texture has always been something I couldn't quite get over. In lieu of Pringles, I've always enjoyed real import prawn crackers. With a cold beer.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I definitely do not like Pringles. Their visual texture has always been something I couldn't quite get over. In lieu of Pringles, I've always enjoyed real import prawn crackers. With a cold beer.

Oh, prawn crackers, yes, yum.

Cold beer, or other alcoholic delights. Such as a crisp white wine.

 

[0388631]

Oh, prawn crackers, yes, yum.

Cold beer, or other alcoholic delights. Such as a crisp white wine.

I like keeping some cabbage in the fridge when I indulge.