Quick- what's wrong with this picture?

[captainsblog]

(That is, other than the terminal case of interminable cat hair. Or the fact that I now have a SHIT key in the lower left corner:)



D'ya see it?  I might not pull off a better kludge all year.

Suppose I should explain.  This laptop's just over four years old; I bought it the day after Election Day 2008, when my prior Frankenputer got so excited over Obama's victory that it instantly died. It's given me relatively few problems. Well, other than two hard drive replacements. And a battery that, when finally replaced, wasn't holding a charge for ten seconds after going off AC power. Which power management, also, has always been wonky. Unhingy hinges, miscellaneous cracks around the frame of monitor and keyboard, various other non-keyboard buttons that don't work. Lately, discovering that pretty much any full use of the monitor as a display (whether directly by full-screening a Youtube, say, or indirectly by connecting it to the bigscreen TV to watch QI through either Youtube or VLC) overloads the board and powers it off if it's not connected to AC power, even with a 100 percent battery.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, the play's been fine, and I put up with a lot of crap without complaint. But in recent weeks, and especially during that recent 50,000 word SHUT YO MOUF!- okay, finefine- the N key came loose, gradually got loosier and loosier, and, as of yesterday, wouldn't stay down at all.  First time I got under there to inspect, I swear I pulled out close to a cubic millimeter of pet hair. I sprayed it with canned air, Qtipped around it, even experimented going commando with no key there at all, but I'm not touchy enough and it would up producing "comma do" way too often.

Hence, my invention of the NWERTY keyboard: I asked myself, Self, what letter do you probably use the LEAST?

The probable wrong answer was "Q," but it also benefits from being way up in the upper left where my main home-row striking isn't likely to jostle it. I pried it off, moved it down to the N slot, where it deliciously clicked into place, and put the N up North, where, seemingly, it's seating better, and if it doesn't, even if it falls off in transit, I really don't care.

My only fear is that John deLancie is now going to beam me the Delta Quadrant just to bitch about me picking on him.

Comments

[tilia-tomentosa.livejournal.com]

LOL I noticed before I read the text.

So what happened to the Q key?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

It's hanging in there fine. Maybe it's the lack of use, or it just molds better to the undercarriage. Whatev. I like it.