Saturday, July 22, 2006

Confused to making any sense for no keyboard

Has anyone ever tried to use a computer without a keyboard? well, I did for a bit, since I killed my keyboard last night (cleaning attempt gone horribly wrong), and believe it or not I was not aware of the windows virtual keyboard. So what I did first of all is boot up Open Office, and use the Insert Character feature to change my msn nick from "Confused" (another story) to "Confused - no keyboard, don`t ask, i can`t answer" and left the computer on for the night (was booted to my MCE installation and I figured either my roomate or I may want to stream some of the shows on my hard drive to the living room TV).

As I get up this morning, I heard someone MSN'ing me, and an interesting conversation ensued. Unfortunately I did not have chat log turned on, but it went something like this:

Him: And since you can't answer - I'll ask> WTF is the reason you have no keyboard? Did some crack addict steal it? Did some mutant monster from Tokyo come to destroy it? did you Eat it for some reason?

At this point I figured, I may as well attempt to communicate the situation as best as I could, so I started copy-and-pasting an answer.

Me: no keyboard crack addict monster from Tokyo Eat it

Him: lol

Him: no seriously

Me: no seriously
no keyboard

Him: yeah but why?

Me:
destroy it

Him:How?

Now, you may notice, he's not exactly giving me a lot of material for me to copy and paste much of a coherent answer.

Me: no keyboard monster from Tokyo destroy it Eat it

Him: You're not making any sense

Me: Confused to making any sense for no keyboard
(at this point I turn to my trusty Open Office again and in the help menu find the following words) copypasting

At which point the killjoy proceeded to inform me about windows virtual keyboard and I was able to explain the situation in a slightly more conventional manner. Afterwards, I went out and purchased a new keyboard

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