Tragedy of the Internet

God Be Damned! (February 11th, 2005, 8:00am)
What a freak fucking accident.  I had just sat (set?) my coffee cup down and was drawing my hand back when I noticed my thumb had somehow gotten stuck in the handle of the cup.  I only spilled a tablespoon or so of coffee onto—and into—the keyboard, but that was enough to gum up the works.

Now, my B and N keys, my arrow keys, my / and ? keys, and even my space bar are no longer functional.  Fortunately, I was able to download No-Keys, a virtual keyboard, so I can just type everything out as usual and then go back and insert all the Ns and Bs when I’m done.  And as long as I copy & paste one space, I can simply hit control-V in lieu of the space bar, which doesn’t take much longer.

I tried taking the keyboard apart and meticulously cleaning it—five times—but to no avail.  And, of course, this had to happen on a weekend—so nothing can be done about it till Monday.  Do you have any idea how many Ns you use when you write?

Current Mood: grr
Current Music: The Jilted Choirboys: God Be Fucking Damned!

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An update on our first every Tragedy of the Internet: tragedyoftroy has continued on its tragic path. After two months, it tragically has two tragic entries.

Another Tragedy of the Internet has arisen: please_ban_me, where I comprehensively failed to get banned.

Encyclopedia Dramatica is full of tragedies, particularly the tragic edit wars. It's even more entertaining than TV (unless The Simpsons is on)!

Failing in my inept attempt to barter some meagre publicity for this community.

Ironically, this community is a tragedy. There are four people reading but only one member. There will be nothing to read if there are no community members!

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