Author Topic: Clean (Read 10943 times)

paudashlake · « **on:** March 07, 2009, 10:26:44 PM »

Just curious. I clean my keyboard and mouse more than one time a day. yeah, I know, I have a problem....OCD!

Carbon Dudeoxide · « **Reply #1 on:** March 07, 2009, 10:31:04 PM »

I clean it when it gets dirty...about once a month.

paudashlake · « **Reply #2 on:** March 07, 2009, 10:38:37 PM »

Wow. No comment...

BC_Programmer · « **Reply #3 on:** March 07, 2009, 10:49:27 PM »

more than once a day? DEFINITELY OSD.

How many times a day do you clean your oven?

odd how this came up though because just the other day I took my mouse apart and cleaned it and removed all my keycaps and blew out all the crap underneath the keys.

paudashlake · « **Reply #4 on:** March 07, 2009, 10:51:15 PM »

I clean my oven after every time I use it......and you still use a ball mouse? Ha just kidding.

BC_Programmer · « **Reply #5 on:** March 07, 2009, 10:53:44 PM »

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I clean my oven after every time I use it

wow. definitely OCD. LOL I said OSD in my previous post. woops.

Quote from: paudashlake on March 07, 2009, 10:51:15 PM

and you still use a ball mouse? Ha just kidding.

No, Optical. it's a intellimouse explorer 3.0.

Glitch · « **Reply #6 on:** March 07, 2009, 10:53:55 PM »

I don't clean my mouse...it's optical. The sticky crap on it keeps my hand from slipping off...so, I leave the mouse alone. Every other day, I turn the keyboard upside down and bang it against my desktop...you should see the crap that falls out...you could plant corn in the debris.

BC_Programmer · « **Reply #7 on:** March 07, 2009, 10:58:10 PM »

Quote from: Glitch on March 07, 2009, 10:53:55 PM

I don't clean my mouse...it's optical. The sticky crap on it keeps my hand from slipping off...so, I leave the mouse alone. Every other day, I turn the keyboard upside down and bang it against my desktop...you should see the crap that falls out...you could plant corn in the debris.

heh, sticky crap...

I would have scraped it out,but I figured it would be best to open it up, especially since the, err- "cream cheese accident" a few weeks ago...

paudashlake · « **Reply #8 on:** March 07, 2009, 10:58:17 PM »

BC--Oh I have an Intellimouse. Mine glows red. Kinda cool. Hate it though. No ports on my new computer.

Glitch--I have an optical mouse as well. And thats disgusting! You don't clean it? Just think: everything you toutched today will be on that mouse. No wonder these people are getting sick! And do you make creamed corn?

Zylstra · « **Reply #9 on:** March 07, 2009, 10:58:55 PM »

Physically cleaning the outside, I clean my keyboard once a month (its a laptop keyboard, the matte finish has worn off and it gets greasy), I hardly ever clean the mouse off.

As for the inside of a mouse, I suppose, once a month. Sometimes I pick up one at school and clean it out if its really bad... so, numbers for that arent exactly sure.

While attempting to post, I got two: "Someone has replied, please review your post" messages..

paudashlake · « **Reply #10 on:** March 07, 2009, 10:59:30 PM »

Wait.....cream cheese isn't goopy... It is sorta solid... What could have possibley happened?

Zylstra · « **Reply #11 on:** March 07, 2009, 11:02:24 PM »

Quote from: paudashlake on March 07, 2009, 10:59:30 PM

Wait.....cream cheese isn't goopy... It is sorta solid... What could have possibley happened?

Inconspicuously placed bagel + mouse ?

paudashlake · « **Reply #12 on:** March 07, 2009, 11:02:28 PM »

Zylstra--My school still uses the crappy 1.5ghz 512mb E-Macs. Just for kicks, I sometimes pull the plug on them just to make them break. Then we get to use a laptop. Not much better, same speed, g4, but it i s a LAPTOP!

and yeah, I keep getting a "peeps is postin" warning.

LOL I like how that was worded-^

Zylstra · « **Reply #13 on:** March 07, 2009, 11:25:45 PM »

I actually stopped caring when students would destroy computers when I was given full access to the ghost server...
I could just push out updates right when they were destroying them, forcing them off even.

Then the ghost server crashed, and now we dont have clean images of anything anymore.

Laska · « **Reply #14 on:** March 08, 2009, 01:59:12 AM »

The Guy's Frum Onario Give "em a Break For Jesus to be Holdi' to THis Close To Eastre An' All Ye Know

kpac · « **Reply #15 on:** March 08, 2009, 07:21:26 AM »

I don't clean my mouse at all....ever.

BC_Programmer · « **Reply #16 on:** March 08, 2009, 09:00:29 AM »

Quote from: Zylstra on March 07, 2009, 11:02:24 PM

Quote from: paudashlake on March 07, 2009, 10:59:30 PM
Wait.....cream cheese isn't goopy... It is sorta solid... What could have possibley happened?
Inconspicuously placed bagel + mouse ?

indeed- it was a bagel with cream cheese. After completing my task of masticating the cream-cheese laden torus, I engaged in using the mouse, withotu realizing until it was too late that a blob had attached itself to my thumb.

I also have a wireless keyboard/mouse but don't use it because they seem to have issues with games.

Calum · « **Reply #17 on:** March 08, 2009, 10:08:38 AM »

I clean my mouse's "feet" about once a month, the mousepad every day.
I wipe dust off my keyboard every few days, but there's no dirt inside it to clean out, so haven't done that in the 11 months or so I've had it.

computeruler · « **Reply #18 on:** March 08, 2009, 10:47:26 AM »

I voted who cares and how do I do that

I never clean it lol

paudashlake · « **Reply #19 on:** March 08, 2009, 02:08:37 PM »

yes, compuler, we can tell.. Just look at that heatsink!

Zylstra · « **Reply #20 on:** March 08, 2009, 02:54:23 PM »

The keyboard I have from 1986, I dont think has ever been cleaned.

Its still a very good keyboard, but, over the years, you can see grime where you fingers go... I tried to clean it off once, it didnt work. I think I need something a bit more corrosive than Eastern Washington water.

reddevilggg · « **Reply #21 on:** March 08, 2009, 03:17:11 PM »

Quote from: computeruler on March 08, 2009, 10:47:26 AM

I voted who cares and how do I do that I never clean it lol

Me and you both

paudashlake · « **Reply #22 on:** March 08, 2009, 08:05:13 PM »

Ew you guys are nasty! Yuck.. Honest to god it is soooo simple! Just get some clorox wipes.

BC_Programmer · « **Reply #23 on:** March 08, 2009, 08:18:08 PM »

Quote from: paudashlake on March 08, 2009, 08:05:13 PM

Ew you guys are nasty! Yuck.. Honest to god it is soooo simple! Just get some clorox wipes.

Some of us are Obsessive Compulsive... please make allowances in those instances.

kpac · « **Reply #24 on:** March 09, 2009, 10:46:44 AM »

I bet none of you know why I never clean mine.....

reddevilggg · « **Reply #25 on:** March 09, 2009, 11:01:15 AM »

Quote from: kpac on March 09, 2009, 10:46:44 AM

I bet none of you know why I never clean mine.....

Cuz its under a plastic cover??

You've got a foldable one??

You have a Fabric one??

You have a touch screen??

You've got no hands??

kpac · « **Reply #26 on:** March 09, 2009, 11:07:01 AM »

No, no, no, no, and no.

You see, I have a laptop, so I don't use a mouse. Therefore, I don't need a mouse. Therefore, I don't have a mouse to clean. Therefore, my mouse isn't clean.

reddevilggg · « **Reply #27 on:** March 09, 2009, 11:09:37 AM »

I thought you were talking about a keyboard. Doh!

kpac · « **Reply #28 on:** March 09, 2009, 11:11:18 AM »

A foldable mouse LOL
A touch screen mouse?
And, wait.....Yep, I have hands.

BC_Programmer · « **Reply #29 on:** March 09, 2009, 11:18:37 AM »

Sometimes, when I wear mittens, I panic.

"OMG! my fingers have melded together! HEL... oh, never mind. false alarm. Say how do I turn off this fire alarm?"

Computer Hope Admin · « **Reply #30 on:** March 09, 2009, 11:32:52 AM »

I'd suggest having an option for "every few months". But since that wasn't available I put a year.

computeruler · « **Reply #31 on:** March 09, 2009, 01:33:55 PM »

clean freaks!

kpac · « **Reply #32 on:** March 09, 2009, 01:37:20 PM »

Who the heck voted "How do I do that?" LOL

computeruler · « **Reply #33 on:** March 09, 2009, 01:37:59 PM »

that was me lol

kpac · « **Reply #34 on:** March 09, 2009, 01:41:02 PM »

I said that....

computeruler · « **Reply #35 on:** March 09, 2009, 01:42:47 PM »

you never said that I voted How do I do that

Computer Hope Admin · « **Reply #36 on:** March 09, 2009, 05:01:06 PM »

Quote from: computeruler on March 09, 2009, 01:33:55 PM

clean freaks!

Several studies posted that the computer keyboard / mouse is the dirtiest thing you're likely to encounter. Almost always dirtier than the toilet seat.

computeruler · « **Reply #37 on:** March 09, 2009, 05:20:53 PM »

I better clean it!! I hate to see the ones at school!!!!!!

patio · « **Reply #38 on:** March 10, 2009, 11:37:38 AM »

Quote from: Computer Hope Admin on March 09, 2009, 05:01:06 PM

Several studies posted that the computer keyboard / mouse is the dirtiest thing you're likely to encounter. Almost always dirtier than the toilet seat.

I never sit (sic) on mine so i don't see how this is possible...

macdad- · « **Reply #39 on:** March 10, 2009, 11:45:34 AM »

i dont stick mine in mud...and it doesnt get that dusty so i do it about once a year...

BC_Programmer · « **Reply #40 on:** March 10, 2009, 06:31:32 PM »

Quote from: patio on March 10, 2009, 11:37:38 AM

I never sit (sic) on mine so i don't see how this is possible...

It is true though, I recall one of the biology classes at my old high school performing a similar experiment, the result was the keyboards were dirtier then the area of the floor next to the toilet.

Honestly I just thought this was subtle praise to the Janitor.

Zylstra · « **Reply #41 on:** March 10, 2009, 07:06:49 PM »

Pee is sterile as long as you dont have any sort of infection.

Crap, on the other hand, is not.
Your more likely to get pee on the floor, or the toilet seat, than crap... thats not to say its impossible.

Also: There was a study that found mens restrooms are cleaner than womens restrooms.

macdad- · « **Reply #42 on:** March 11, 2009, 06:20:59 AM »

Quote from: Zylstra on March 10, 2009, 07:06:49 PM

Also: There was a study that found mens restrooms are cleaner than womens restrooms.

suprise, suprise

paudashlake · « **Reply #43 on:** March 11, 2009, 05:53:51 PM »

haha uhm yeah! Huge suprise! have you ever been in those old bathrooms where the metal divider walls are all rusty from all the people with a bad aim?

Zylstra · « **Reply #44 on:** March 11, 2009, 06:31:01 PM »

Quote from: paudashlake on March 11, 2009, 05:53:51 PM

haha uhm yeah! Huge suprise! have you ever been in those old bathrooms where the metal divider walls are all rusty from all the people with a bad aim?

Actually, a lot of the places here dont have dividers.

I think the worst place is our drive in theater, where the entire urinal is an open tiled wall with water running down it, and an inward sloping tiled floor... I dont tend to use their restrooms

computeruler · « **Reply #45 on:** March 11, 2009, 07:56:46 PM »

Ours are the same way! I think

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Author Topic: Clean (Read 10943 times)

paudashlake

Carbon Dudeoxide

paudashlake

BC_Programmer

paudashlake

BC_Programmer

Glitch

BC_Programmer

paudashlake

Zylstra

paudashlake

Zylstra

paudashlake

Zylstra

Laska

kpac

BC_Programmer

Calum

computeruler

paudashlake

Zylstra

reddevilggg

paudashlake

BC_Programmer

kpac

reddevilggg

kpac

reddevilggg

kpac

BC_Programmer

Computer Hope Admin

computeruler

kpac

computeruler

kpac

computeruler

Computer Hope Admin

computeruler

patio

macdad-

BC_Programmer

Zylstra

macdad-

paudashlake

Zylstra

computeruler