HAZARD FACTORY

today I killed a keyboard. A small black Dell keyboard that was probably still working. It was not really the keyboards fault. It was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Two out of three of my computers have called in sick. Only the crusty aphasic chronically weird shop computer has been hanging tough and so, when it seemed the little bastard keyboard was giving me trouble, we had a little argument. I tapped the sticking key, just tapped, really…. The first time. The second time was more of a smack and the third time, well.. that was really more of a full blooded strike intended to maim, incapacitate, kill and destroy. For which I feel about two grams of remorse. Then I cut up the keyboard in my bandsaw. … Read entire article »