Are you Meshugah? Here's something for wealthy Jewish bankers...

[berserkfan]

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.

[dorkvader]

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.

[fohat.digs]

OK, somebody has to ask:

What switches?
What keycaps?

[ConscienceDrop]

OK, somebody has to ask:

What switches?
What keycaps?

also what the hell does this thing actually do?

[berserkfan]

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...

[smknjoe]

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.

[Input Nirvana]

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

[dorkvader]

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

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)

[Input Nirvana]

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

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.

[berserkfan]

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.

[Input Nirvana]

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!

[smknjoe]

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

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.

[fohat.digs]

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.

[jacobolus]

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

[smknjoe]

I'm just poking fun at Dorkvader a little. No harm, no foul...or is it fowl?

[fohat.digs]

Not that thing.

Although I am solidly American, my ancestral origin is Oxfordshire, so I always load my writing with commas.

[pexon]

Appropriate

[dorkvader]

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.

[jacobolus]

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