The Great Champions Online Ping-Pong Ball Gun Contest!

[Bazza]

Inspired from the picture of the Bunny on vacation.

At last we see the mighty magic keyboard....

The Dexman logo is "supposed" to be a sticker, cause the idea is that it would look cool.

[Steve Long]

LOL, you think that's a joke. I keep having to replace them because I wear the letters off so many of the keys. I keep trying to find a keyboard with the letters stamped or raised into the keys, but they don't seem to make them anymore. Even better would be one of those with the programmable LED keys, but I'm not willing to drop that kind of money on a keyboard.

[BobGreenwade]

LOL, you think that's a joke. I keep having to replace them because I wear the letters off so many of the keys. I keep trying to find a keyboard with the letters stamped or raised into the keys, but they don't seem to make them anymore. Even better would be one of those with the programmable LED keys, but I'm not willing to drop that kind of money on a keyboard.

Maybe I'll do a little research and see if I can find you some titanium keyboard keys that you can click in place.

[Nerdnumber1]

New collectable: Steve Long's half-melted keyboards.

crazy-Fan GM: "I might not be able to read the keys, but this was the key board that gave birth to the first Mechanon!"
Player: "That explains those spelling errors on the handout."

[Derek Hiemforth]

Inspired from the picture of the Bunny on vacation.

At last we see the mighty magic keyboard....

The Dexman logo is "supposed" to be a sticker, cause the idea is that it would look cool.

"Months?" I'd have guessed weeks.

[Hyper-Man]

LOL, you think that's a joke. I keep having to replace them because I wear the letters off so many of the keys. I keep trying to find a keyboard with the letters stamped or raised into the keys, but they don't seem to make them anymore. Even better would be one of those with the programmable LED keys, but I'm not willing to drop that kind of money on a keyboard.

Who needs lettered keys?

Not as elite a typist as you want to be? Not a problem. Das Keyboard Ultimate can teach you to type exponentially faster in just a couple of weeks. Since there are no letters to look at when typing, your brain is forced to memorize the key positions. Slower typers almost double their speed and fast typers become über fast! Built to outlast your typing career, Das Keyboard will provide a long life of comfortable, awe-inspiring typing. Give your old keyboard Das Boot with Das Keyboard, and remain Das Elite.

Imagine, Steve Long typing even faster.

[Derek Hiemforth]

Who needs lettered keys?

Not as elite a typist as you want to be? Not a problem. Das Keyboard Ultimate can teach you to type exponentially faster in just a couple of weeks. Since there are no letters to look at when typing, your brain is forced to memorize the key positions. Slower typers almost double their speed and fast typers become über fast! Built to outlast your typing career, Das Keyboard will provide a long life of comfortable, awe-inspiring typing. Give your old keyboard Das Boot with Das Keyboard, and remain Das Elite.

I have one of these, and it's actually a darn fine keyboard. There are really only two reasons I don't use it:

1. My job involves a lot of setting passwords. These don't echo to the screen, and making typos in them would obviously be bad. So for work, I need to use a keyboard where I can be absolutely certain I'm hitting the keys I think I'm hitting. So I can't use it for work.

2. I strongly prefer to use the exact same keyboard both at work and at home, so my fingers don't have to remember two slightly different layouts. So I can't use it at home either.

But my role at work will be changing soon, and I won't be dealing with passwords nearly as much. I'm thinking seriously of picking up another Das Keyboard when that change occurs, and using it at both home and work. It rocks.

[Hyper-Man]

Are there any cool things you don't own yet Derek?

[Derek Hiemforth]

Are there any cool things you don't own yet Derek?

More than I can count. For example, I don't own the every-key-programmable LED keyboard Steve refers to above...

[Captain Obvious]

LOL, you think that's a joke. I keep having to replace them because I wear the letters off so many of the keys. I keep trying to find a keyboard with the letters stamped or raised into the keys, but they don't seem to make them anymore. Even better would be one of those with the programmable LED keys, but I'm not willing to drop that kind of money on a keyboard.

I'd just put lettered stickers on the keyboard, but I'm ghetto like that.

[Bazza]

New collectable: Steve Long's half-melted keyboards.

crazy-Fan GM: "I might not be able to read the keys, but this was the key board that gave birth to the first Mechanon!"
Player: "That explains those spelling errors on the handout."

And Mechanon's lisp.

[Bazza]

"Months?" I'd have guessed weeks.

I felt generous. Thus also the low number of the keyboard (55).

Imagine, Steve Long typing even faster.

Easy, we give Steve a dvorak layout.

As of 2005, Barbara Blackburn was the fastest English language typist in the world, according to The Guinness Book of World Records. Using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, she has maintained 150 words per minute (wpm) for 50 minutes, and 170 wpm for shorter periods. She has been clocked at a peak speed of 212 wpm. Blackburn, who failed her typing class in high school, first encountered the Dvorak keyboard in 1938, quickly learned to achieve very high speeds, and occasionally toured giving speed-typing demonstrations during her secretarial career. She appeared on The David Letterman Show and was deeply offended by Letterman's comedic treatment of her skill.[15] Blackburn died in April 2008.[15]

[ghost-angel]

I own a Das Keyboard... it's a beautiful work of art really. Nice, big, heavy, and clicky. It's currently outlasted the last 4 keyboards I've owned.

[Bazza]

LOL, you think that's a joke.

No that was the truth, see my OIHID poster. This however is a joke (and truth as well).


And thanks to Pyre-Archer for the inspiration and for the tombstone generator.

[Bazza]

Some more tombstone posters, though the one above can't be topped.