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You read the articles on how phones are dirty because we tend to thouch them a lot?
A keyboard is worse.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Have heard somewhere that the dirt on TV Remotes in hotels is worst of all. All kinds of bacteria, etc. on them.
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I seem to remember an episode of Mythbusters, The Kitchen sponge was worse of all!
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glennPattonWork wrote: worse of all!
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Amarnath S wrote: Have heard somewhere that the dirt on TV Remotes in hotels is worst of all.
Never thought of it in that way before, and I certainly didn't need to get that image stuck in my head.
I'm never again going to rent a room in a hotel that offers adult channels...in the off chance that someone might've been practicing...lets call it "one-handed channel-surfing".
(I know this isn't helping...but I don't see why I should be the only one getting that image stuck in his head)
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Remotes in hotel rooms are contaminated because the maid cleans them with the same rag she uses on the toilet.
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Yes, but she uses that rag on the coffee pot before she uses it on the remote, so it's lost a lot of bacteria between uses.
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Yes, but she uses that rag on the coffee pot before she uses it on the remote, so it's lost a lot of bacteria between uses.
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I have heard code quality is directly proportional to keyboard cleanliness. 
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I only code to alleviate issues these days...
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glennPattonWork wrote: alleviate
You spelt elevate wrong.
In my mind I am on a roll!
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Stick it through the dishwasher
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Probably meant as a joke, but I do that!
Not the entire keyboard, though. Only the keys. I flip then all off and put them in one of these net bags made for holding pairs of socks together in your washing machine. While the dishwasher is cleaning them, I have easy access to the other surfaces of the keyboard, using a worn out toothbrush to clean the corners in the wells for keys.
The keys come out of the dishwasher perfectly clean and shining. Then they must be spread out in front of a fan for at least half a day to dry up the water that has come inside them. After that I must dig up an old keybard to get the keys back in place: I never look at the keys while typing, but if you ask me where, say, the 'l' key is located on the keyboard, I don't have clue. I just press the 'l' key, wherever it is located  (This is similar to asking me to provide a list of which muscles I engage, in which order, to press that 'l' key: I can't. I just press the key.)
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Makes me glad I never learned to touch-type.
Also I think you have taken germaphobia to a new level.
Suggestion: try not eating crackers spread with peanut butter while working.
What do you do about your mouse? (the one you use, not the ones that crap on your keyboard at night?)
Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger....
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I guess I am less germaphobic than anyone I know. Amd I don't like peanut butter
Nevertheless, my fingers are not immune to loosing skin cells, to sweating, or whatever. I am often surprised by how much dust, sometimes rather fatty, is collected at the key sides that I do not touch while typing, and on the surfaces between the groups of keys. It must come from the air. Acutally, the keytops that my fingertip touches is more or less shiny, it is the sides that collect so much dirt that you can scrape it off.
That is the same both on my home PC and my office PC - and at the office, eating crackers with peanut butter while working is most certainly out of the question. Every half year or so, I take the office keyboard with me home to clean it the same way.
The same kind of deposits collects on the mouse, but its surfaces are easily accessible to be wiped with a cloth and some detergent.
And for the ambiguiety of the term "mouse"... In Norwegian, it is also a slang term for female private parts. You can imagine what we call the scroll wheel.
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I would have replied sooner but I have been fighting my web hosting server and email server the last week or so, and just received this. I needed the laugh.
Great reply!
I only clean my keyboard when the keys start sticking. the standard procedure is to throw it away and get another. 
BTW Your reply begs the comment "I hope your wife/significant other/girlfriend gets the cheese on a regular basis.....
My wife always told me I was a big slob...
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I can just picture it.
I've accidentally knocked a mouse off my desk, a joystick, pens and pencils, tipped over a cup of water (more than once)...but I have to think it takes a special kind of person to knock an entire keyboard off a desk and onto the floor. Was the whole system and monitor at risk of following?
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Nope! the monitors are locked to stands, the base chained to the desk thank ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) , only keyboard, mouse, around 5 meters of cable and a very expensive prototype could go on the floor...
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Nothing's impervious if you try hard enough.
I've had a coworker working from home with a glass desk. What you can expect to happen, happened.
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No problem at all with a wireless keyboard. If you are sitting in your recliner, keyboar in you lap, just turning your body a little bit to pick up your coffee cup (or beer glass) can be enough to make the keyboard slide off your lap and onto the floor.
For my home PC, I've got the screen standing on a table so small (little more than a pedestall) that the keyboard barely fits in front of it. When I raise from my recliner, I place the keyboard there. If I am placing it carelessly, it might slide off, either to the front or to the sides.
I am deeply impressed by a few classes of mechanical devices: One is in the days of mechanical watches, how they could make them with enough precision to drift only a few seconds a year. Another one is the construction of (wireless) mice and keyboards: My current mouse have probably fallen down to the stone floor a couple hundred times, and it still works flawlessly! I do not drop my keybard that often, and it usually falls on the wooden part of the floor, and it works perfectly. Maybe it is partly explained by me buying high quality keyboards that are not of the cheapest kind.
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glennPattonWork wrote: tuff I don't eating! also some worrying pieces of 3D printing supports?
Now I have you! Have you been eating from my keyboard as well?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I got a cat. Wanna imagine how it looked when I removed my keys for cleaning?
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I had two long haired St.Bernhards for a few years. For at least three or four years after I lost them, I found balls of hairs under cabinets and carpets and behind bookshelves. So I would believe whatever you tell!
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I didn't find balls, I found interwoven carpets. If it weren't for my allergy (which I got after my cats, life still writes the best stories), it wouldn't taken too much to use those carpets for something. Hey, some people pay heaps for real fur beds, I could have gotten mine for free'ish.
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I used to brush my dogs regularly - both because the dogs loved the scratching from the rake, and to reduce the shedding. When we got the dogs, I had a daugther that truly loved them, and her dream was to have a knitted sweater made from their "wool". So we collected whatever we brushed off, in these 125 liter plastic bags commonly used in thrash cans. When the dogs died (at age 11 and 3 years), I had five packed 125 liter bags of wool from the two dogs. (By that time, I had lost my daughter several years earlier, and we never got around to find anyone that could spin the wool into yarn, so the wool went into the garbage.)
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