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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: mediocrechris on Tue, 24 July 2012, 19:05:36

Title: This is my life - brief story inside.
Post by: mediocrechris on Tue, 24 July 2012, 19:05:36: Without going into much detail, today I had to take a fairly substantial essay test. I wanted to bring my mechanical keyboard for this test, but I decided to be a courteous guy and instead bring my Logitech K800 wireless keyboard which is of course much quieter than a mech.

Let me start over.

Yesterday, I drove from my house to the testing site, approximately 120 miles. When I arrived, I realized that I had brought my K800, but I forgot to bring one of those damn universal transmitter connector things so that the wireless keyboard would work. I cursed all life and then decided to just go to Best Buy and buy a receiver/transmitter so I wouldn't have to type on this horrible laptop keyboard. At Best Buy, as it turns out, there is no way to just buy a connector by itself. I would have to buy a mouse too. Now I don't know about you, but I hate wireless mice, 99% of the time. But they had a wireless mouse that was only $18 and I figured a wireless receive would probably cost $10 by itself so I thought, "why not?"

I got back to my hotel, plugged the transmitter in and found out that the transmitter that came with the mouse is not compatible with the wireless keyboard. FML. So I had to type the entire essay on this damn laptop keyboard.

I've already sworn to myself that if I've failed this test, I'm going to use a keyboard with blues when I retake the test just because I'm so vengeful.

So that's my story for today. Let's hear yours.
Title: Re: This is my life - brief story inside.
Post by: 1391401 on Tue, 24 July 2012, 19:15:38: Go big or go home, bring a Model M or a 122. Not sure if there's mods to make them louder (I think Bolt Mod makes it louder?)
Title: Re: This is my life - brief story inside.
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Title: Re: This is my life - brief story inside.
Post by: demik on Sat, 28 July 2012, 08:57:30: First world problems
Title: Re: This is my life - brief story inside.
Post by: hq1ify on Sat, 28 July 2012, 14:00:34: Quote from: davkol on Sat, 28 July 2012, 02:55:41
Had to take a difficult (or so they said) exam. 8 hours of programming in Lisp, overheated room full of people, terrible chairs. Ordered a 84-key Cherry MX Red keyboard for this occasion. Order was delayed. The plan failed. Then just took my thinkpad & thinkpad keyboard & trackball (you've should see other people's faces when they tried using trackball/trackpoint after they failed to scroll on a disabled touchpad… priceless), wrote about 300 lines of code and left with a B.

what! an 8 hour lisp exam? sweet baby jesus
Title: Re: This is my life - brief story inside.
Post by: Wildcard on Mon, 30 July 2012, 22:26:23: Quote from: demik on Sat, 28 July 2012, 08:57:30
First world problems

I was just thinking that :)
Title: Re: This is my life - brief story inside.
Post by: mediocrechris on Mon, 30 July 2012, 23:31:53: Quote from: RiffRaff on Mon, 30 July 2012, 22:26:23
Quote from: demik on Sat, 28 July 2012, 08:57:30
First world problems

I was just thinking that :)

And I agree with both of you, of course.
Title: Re: This is my life - brief story inside.
Post by: xJaPx on Tue, 31 July 2012, 09:36:57: Quote from: demik on Sat, 28 July 2012, 08:57:30
First world problems

not even a first world problems, thats simply a GH'er problem lol.
Title: Re: This is my life - brief story inside.
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 04 August 2012, 19:09:45: You should have brought a desktop instead so you wouldn't have to worry about laptop keyboards.