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Title: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: berserkfan on Mon, 03 November 2014, 13:29:14
http://www.ebay.com/itm/WEY-Modular-Keyboard-WEY-RAY-KYBD-0040-/151329423091?pt=US_Terminal_Servers&hash=item233befbef3

Awesomely beautiful keyboard... but unless I was some Goldman Sachs banker, I can't afford the $660 shipped they are asking for this board.

Come to think of it, for Goldman Sachs, they should have asked for $666.66.
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: dorkvader on Mon, 03 November 2014, 14:02:43
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=59968.msg1379361#msg1379361
Note that is is the new wey rey KB so it should have the colour screen and stuff. VERY nice.
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: fohat.digs on Mon, 03 November 2014, 18:48:55
OK, somebody has to ask:

What switches?
What keycaps?
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: ConscienceDrop on Mon, 03 November 2014, 18:52:31
OK, somebody has to ask:

What switches?
What keycaps?

also what the hell does this thing actually do?
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: berserkfan on Mon, 03 November 2014, 18:56:30
OK, somebody has to ask:

What switches?
What keycaps?

also what the hell does this thing actually do?

Assist in furthering some evil Zionist plot of global domination through economic conquest. That explains the convenient price of 660...
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: smknjoe on Mon, 03 November 2014, 18:58:24
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=59968.msg1379361#msg1379361
Note that is is the new wey rey KB so it should have the colour screen and stuff. VERY nice.

???
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: Input Nirvana on Mon, 03 November 2014, 19:03:16
6-7 years ago it would have sold for under $100
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: dorkvader on Mon, 03 November 2014, 19:14:36
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=59968.msg1379361#msg1379361
Note that is is the new wey rey KB so it should have the colour screen and stuff. VERY nice.

???
I don't get it (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colour)

6-7 years ago it would have sold for under $100

These didn't exist 7 years ago: the wey ray is a pretty modern KB (last couple of years)
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: Input Nirvana on Mon, 03 November 2014, 19:15:47
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=59968.msg1379361#msg1379361
Note that is is the new wey rey KB so it should have the colour screen and stuff. VERY nice.

???
I don't get it (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colour)

6-7 years ago it would have sold for under $100

These didn't exist 7 years ago: the wey ray is a pretty modern KB (last couple of years)


Oooops.


Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: berserkfan on Mon, 03 November 2014, 19:21:11
6-7 years ago it would have sold for under $100

Also don't forget that 6-7 years ago Goldman Sachs was on the ropes. Bankers were getting sacked and presumably financial equipment was going for cheap.
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: Input Nirvana on Mon, 03 November 2014, 19:23:01
6-7 years ago it would have sold for under $100

Also don't forget that 6-7 years ago Goldman Sachs was on the ropes. Bankers were getting sacked and presumably financial equipment was going for cheap.

6-7 years ago I was on the ropes, I invested in 4 California beach homes to repair and sell....6 months and $500,000 later, I was in the gutter with Goldman. Shi-TAY!
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: smknjoe on Tue, 04 November 2014, 11:23:05
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=59968.msg1379361#msg1379361
Note that is is the new wey rey KB so it should have the colour screen and stuff. VERY nice.

???
I don't get it (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colour)

6-7 years ago it would have sold for under $100

These didn't exist 7 years ago: the wey ray is a pretty modern KB (last couple of years)


Just messing with you Dork. I didn't think you were a Brit. I see many Muricans using British English these days and I thought you goofed.
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: fohat.digs on Tue, 04 November 2014, 14:52:07

I see many Muricans using British English these days and I thought you goofed.


After reading "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" I have grown to like some of the stylings from olde Mum Angleterre.

Especially the idea of closing quote marks before the end of a sentence, if that is the way it reads in reality.

And not putting periods on abbreviations like "Mister" and "Street" if they are ending with the proper letter and just leaving out the middle.

But I still fail to see the point in a lot of the extra letters like "u" in favorite or color.

And the second "i" in aluminum.
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: jacobolus on Tue, 04 November 2014, 14:57:24
After reading "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" I have grown to like some of the stylings from olde Mum Angleterre.
Oh bleh. Not that thing.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/06/28/bad-comma
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: smknjoe on Tue, 04 November 2014, 15:14:18
I'm just poking fun at Dorkvader a little. No harm, no foul...or is it fowl? ;)
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: fohat.digs on Tue, 04 November 2014, 15:40:05

Not that thing.


Although I am solidly American, my ancestral origin is Oxfordshire, so I always load my writing with commas.
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: pexon on Tue, 04 November 2014, 15:59:25
Appropriate
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: dorkvader on Tue, 04 November 2014, 21:30:36

And the second "i" in aluminum.
IUPAC says it should be that way.

Actually: a little history here. The history of element 22 name is sorta weird. It was initially referred to as alumin, but the discoverer changed the name to aluminum, then to aluminium to match the naming of other metals.

Aluminium is popular everywhere but the USA. When the IUPAC made their decision, they sided with us Americans on the spelling of sulfur (sulphur is the norm elsewhere).

So at least there's that.
After reading "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" I have grown to like some of the stylings from olde Mum Angleterre.
Oh bleh. Not that thing.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/06/28/bad-comma
How can you read that? it's all in italics! augh!

Anyway, I like the oxford comma, where appropriate. Commas go in and out of style and nowadays they are "out". I add a comma where I would naturally pause when speaking, unless a semicolon makes more sense.
Title: Re: Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...
Post by: jacobolus on Tue, 04 November 2014, 22:46:24
After reading "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" I have grown to like some of the stylings from olde Mum Angleterre.
Oh bleh. Not that thing. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/06/28/bad-comma
How can you read that? it's all in italics! augh!

Seems something broke with their markup at some point. It was fine back in 2004:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040627190126/http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040628crbo_books1