I’ve gone about 7 hours now without any Michael Jackson news, and I’m really getting the DTs, man. I was starting to feel like there were bugs crawling on me, nibbling at my nose and turning my skin white!
It’s horrible, I tell you. And there’s only one cure: more, pictures of him leaving the police station, stat!
I realized you might be concerned that the “dead person on the keyboard” experiment was actually the real thing, and like Bill, be tempted to call 911. I want to tell you all to rest easy, that just because we’re in the middle of another of those magnetic solar hurricanes, all is well in the Big DumpTruck Garage.
I do plan to keep an eye out for those cool aurora borealis sunsets these things cause. I don’t have my camera with me, which is extra stinky, but what are you going to do?
I do want to give a happy hello to all the visitors coming in from thyroid.about.com today. Mary runs my Thanksgiving article every, uh, Thanksgiving, and I always meet the nicest people after it runs! My thyroid is doing well, considering it’s attached to me. It’s been, um, three or four years since I first wrote that, and I’m doing well, thank you. Still have my tired days, still live in piles of clutter and plastic storage bins, but doing well.
Now that I’m home, I am going to attempt to put my face on my keyboard as if I’m dead. I should point out that on the commercial, it was a regular keyboard, and this computer is a laptop.
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See, that last bit is when my head rolled to the side because gravity just isn’t going to let you balance your nose on one key when you’re dead.
Okay, so thanks for playing Criminology At Home!”
That’s the sound of my head hitting the keyboard. I’m just plain old tired today. I think I slept well, but I wasn’t awake so I’m not sure.
I saw a commercial for CSI Miami (I think) where a guy died with his nose on the J key, so they could determine the time of death by how many pages of Js there were. Which is clever, and yet, I think it’s possible that the application would kind of max-out on you. Let’s assume it was Word. Well you know that after even a few hours of just entering the letter J, with no spaces or any other kinds of breaks, that at some point it’s going to barf on you. They’ll be a memory issue, or something. I know that the fact that there’s no break has to make it unhappy, never mind the constant entry making it impossible for the app to do any kind of auto-saving without turning into mush. So I’m not saying it’s not possible, but I am saying that having sold, supported, owned and worked with computers since the mid-80s, I think there’s a pretty good chance that 8 hours of typing the letter J is going to eventually overflow one buffer or another. Maybe I should have watched the show to find out how they worked it out.
Okay, I was going to conduct a test of my theory, but I couldn’t play dead and get my nose to stay on the J without my head hitting some other keys at the same time. And the people working around me are going to start asking if I’m okay.
