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Driving Tip

Here's the tip:  You DO NOT need a full car length in front of you when you are behind a car at a traffic signal.  Nope.  You don't need a car length and a half or two car lengths either.  No you don't.  Just pull up to the car like everyone else around you.  If you're confused you can just peer over to the next lane and see what that person is doing and just do that.  There is no possible reason for anyone to be that far away from the car in front of them while stopped at an intersection, ever.  I say this often but we'll never make it as a society if people cannot figure these kinds of things out.  We'll just ultimately fail.  Please don't leave that kind of a gap.  It's not necessary and everyone hates it.  Please, for the sake of society and our future.  Thank you.

It works!

This is a follow up to my last post regarding the keyboard in the dishwasher.  The keyboard does work!  Huh.  After a couple days of drying it did not work.  The little light came on and a few keys worked but other keys produced the wrong letters or would spit out many multiples of a wrong letter.  But after a week of drying it worked perfectly.  So there you have it.  I wouldn't necessarily say it would work on every keyboard but I would guess that it would work on most.

Will a computer keyboard work after it's been cleaned in the dishwasher?

My keyboard at the Mothership has gotten really grungy after many years of use.  It has a pretty good cheese buildup on many of the keys and the front part where I rest my wrists.  There is also a lot of crumbs, hair and who knows what else in between the keys.  It's just gross.  I started to order a new keyboard and a co-worker gave me grief for claiming to be "green" and wasting a perfectly functional keyboard.  He painted the picture in my mind of a bunny happily hopping through a grassy field and then a discarded keyboadard falls from the sky a clobbers the bunny.  Another co-worker had heard that it was possible to wash the keyboard in the dishwasher and it would clean it without ruining it.  I was intrigued by the idea and decided to give it a go. 

I washed the keyboard in the dishwasher by itself on the top rack.  The result of the cleaning was very good.  I'd say 95% of the grime and gross was gone.  The big question though is was it still going to work?  I let it sit about a week to completely allow it to dry.  Do you think it will work?

Before:

The clean:

After: