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Posted by: Enkeli Jul 21 2004, 11:51 PM

My "collection" is a pen(ballpoint), a file, a d10(vampire model), a screw for the basket for the PC, a spare button for my pant`s and a model knife.

Posted by: Kagetenshi Jul 22 2004, 12:00 AM

Using a laptop cuts down on the stuff that piles up on your keyboard.

Though I do have several pounds of cat hair inside it.

~J

Posted by: Diesel Jul 22 2004, 07:46 AM

104 keys. Three LEDs.

Posted by: shadd4d Jul 22 2004, 09:57 AM

Laptop. Again that limits.

Don

Posted by: Austere Emancipator Jul 22 2004, 02:07 PM

Keyboard = The board with the keys? What Diesel said. How could you possibly get things to stay on top of it?

Or do you mean whatever board you have your keyboard on? (Näppäintaso vs näppäimistö) In which case: Glass (coke, half full), wallet (leather, black, empty) and a knife (army, Swiss).

Posted by: RangerJoe Jul 22 2004, 02:49 PM

Grime. Just grime.

Posted by: Pistons Jul 22 2004, 05:01 PM

I'm sorry... what's this to do with gaming?

Posted by: Austere Emancipator Jul 22 2004, 05:37 PM

I guess you could argue that it's similar to the the discussions about what kind of space is best for (role)gaming. I'm not going to, though.

Posted by: KillaJ Jul 22 2004, 09:23 PM

I've got about half a can of soda inside the keyboard, does that count?

Posted by: Diesel Jul 23 2004, 02:40 AM

That's how the pros do it.

Posted by: Kagetenshi Jul 23 2004, 03:30 AM

Austere's closest to it. It's like the threads about dice. Strictly speaking it isn't about gaming, it is about things to enable gaming.

~J

Posted by: Firewall Jul 23 2004, 11:04 AM

Sticky notes, for all the things I should have already done. And the manual for Everquest...

Posted by: Voorhees Jul 24 2004, 01:02 AM

A plastic cover. Dust. Some sharpie from when I decided to re-draw the faded letters on.

Posted by: Mr. Man Jul 29 2004, 04:03 PM

Another keyboard, actually. The second keyboard is propped up behind the function keys of the first one. It's an old, indestructable, metal IBM model with a built in trackpoint (works great for the linux box it's plugged into). I would just use a KVM switch, but I have a second monitor anyway and it's just more useful this way. When I'm waiting to respawn in CS or something I can just move my hands a few inches to send an IM or whatever.

While this arrangement works tolerably, I wish someone sold a rotating keyboard holder. Because it's being propped up by the edge of the desk (the main keyboard sits on top of an old Computer Shopper in the desk drawer) the second keyboard is situated at a pretty extreme angle and can slip down if I bump the drawer.

Posted by: BookWyrm Aug 1 2004, 01:54 AM

What's on my keyboard? When I'm not typing on it, there's a dust cover.

Posted by: Fygg Nuuton Aug 2 2004, 04:01 AM

QUOTE (BookWyrm)

What's on my keyboard? When I'm not typing on it, there's a dust cover.

you use that thing?

Posted by: Johnson Aug 2 2004, 11:24 AM

Cat it thinks its a cool bed

Posted by: BookWyrm Aug 8 2004, 07:50 AM

QUOTE (Fygg Nuuton)

QUOTE (BookWyrm @ Jul 31 2004, 06:54 PM)

What's on my keyboard? When I'm not typing on it, there's a dust cover.

you use that thing?

Yes, Fygg, because it gets dusty in my room & dust wears the contacts down faster than typing does. It's a piece of plastic that is in the form of the keyboard & it fits nicely.

Posted by: Catsnightmare Aug 10 2004, 01:26 PM

On mine (which is a large one) is a Batmobile hot wheels, my watch, a glow-in-the-dark Green Lantern ring, a boxcutter, about 5 coke bottle caps, a free sausage biscuit coupon from Burger King, the silver ring I got for Christmas from my mom, a half dozen pepermints and 4 strawberry candies.

The rest of the desk and monitor would take up to much time to type out.

Posted by: BookWyrm Aug 11 2004, 04:11 AM

QUOTE (Catsnightmare)

Which Batmobile & which GL ring, Cats? 'Cause if it's the one from the 60's TV show, you've got a collector's item. If it's from the '89 movie, you can still get a little cash for it, but wait until the new movie comes out in '05.
If the GL ring is the big one with the glow-in-the-dark disc in the center, don't push that little disc in. It's a b*tch & a half to get back out & you'll have to put a washer behind it to make it stick out again. I have one of those.

Posted by: Catsnightmare Aug 16 2004, 05:00 PM

The Batmobile is the '89 movie version, but I doubt it's worth anything, I just bought it at Target a month or two ago. I saw at least 6 them come out of the two boxes of Hot Wheels I stocked that night.

Sounds like the same GL ring as I got, it was a freebe promo I got some years ago from my local comic shop, I forget what special event DC was promoting in the GL books at the time.

Posted by: BookWyrm Aug 16 2004, 05:29 PM

Well, the Batmobile is not worth much. But hold onto it for a while.

The GL ring was a promo for "Green Lantern:Mosaic", a semi-LS with the John Sterwart GL, a few years back. It may have a good going price, but check eBay for comparative prices.

Posted by: Catsnightmare Aug 17 2004, 11:18 PM

Maybe, but I doubt mine is worth anything anymore. I've taken artistic liberty with it several times and added a few 'decorative features' to it.

Posted by: mattness pl Aug 18 2004, 06:38 PM

keyboard description: looks cool(is black), many annoying special keys for MS(office and IE). But has cool sound wheel:D and CD-like buttons(play, stop etc.)
What is inside? Ciagarette ash. Maybe some coffee...

Posted by: HolyYakker Aug 22 2004, 08:27 AM

I have stamps, a back statement and an unidentifable green stain (probably ink). Additionally I am a typing elitist so I have rearranged my keys so that it is next to impossible to use my board unless you are a touch typist or know by heart where the keys are supposed to be.

This has benefits and annoyances.

Benefit: Friends don't want to touch your computer unless they are touch typists.

Annoyance: When someone NEEDs to use your computer and you can't say no (read as 'when your GF asks you') you end up playing secretary so that the task doesn't involve them swearing and breaking up with you.

Oh well, you can't have everything - where would you keep it?

Posted by: Stonecougar Sep 13 2004, 04:14 AM

Ash from my incense burner. Dust. Mtn. Dew. Some unidentifiable sticky spot. Cat hair.

Posted by: kill o gram Oct 10 2004, 10:21 PM

Paper, bank statements,dust...As a matter of fact, it might be a good idea to log off and start cleaning this crap up.

Posted by: Austere Emancipator Jan 10 2005, 07:45 PM

http://www.pelit.fi/kuvat/dokumenttikuvat/15203-3-klaanin%E4ppis_jouni_kotakorpi.jpg

Posted by: Catsnightmare Jan 17 2005, 09:39 PM

More like keyboard necromancy, that thing looks filthy enough to have just come out of the grave. At least I take some clorox clean-up to my key caps every month or two.
I love my Lexmark keyboard and take care of it.

Posted by: psykotisk_overlegen Jan 17 2005, 10:24 PM

Dust. Not because I don't use it every day, but because theres an edge beyond the actual keys that IMO serves no other purpose than look bulky and collect dust.

Posted by: Enkeli Jan 22 2005, 01:03 AM

Wow, this thread is still "on".
Cool.

Posted by: RunnerPaul Feb 2 2005, 05:02 AM

Mine has a little novelty "Any" key that my Lady Love stuck on with double stick tape. It's also minus the enter key on the main, since we popped it off one night in frustration. Now if we want to hit enter, we use the numpad enter.

Posted by: Kagetenshi Feb 2 2005, 05:50 AM

The main has no enter key, it's a carriage return

At least on any properly-designed keyboard with a pad. It's certainly not that key above shift.

~J, deciding keyboard nazism is easier than English nazism.

Posted by: Fortune Feb 2 2005, 07:10 AM

The key above the 'Shift' key on my keyboard is labeled 'Enter'.

Posted by: Kagetenshi Feb 2 2005, 07:38 AM

I know it is. And it's wrong

~J

Posted by: Fortune Feb 2 2005, 08:18 AM

Tell that to Dell!