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[jayrtfm.livejournal.com]

I'm working in a NYC high school Mac lab today, updating and re-imaging some machines, and I noticed on a few keyboards the students had decided to fix an obvious problem. The keys are now in alphabetical order.

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[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

be glad they didn't put all A's on a keyboard, all B's on the next keyboard...

*innocent whistling*

That's nothing.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

The keyboards at my high school usually ended up in pornographical order.

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

In my AP programming class in high school I would arrange the keytops on my Model M alphabetically. Just to be nice. ;-)

I wish I had a large supply of those keyboards. Sigh.

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

The kids at our school like to rearrange the keyboards so the top line says something like "suckmydong". Although we had one kid recently couldn't work out how to take the keys off of the keyboard, so he got a marker pen and wrote on the keys instead. Oh, how we laughed.

The worst of it is, they all think they're the first to do it. Grrr.

[kerberos.livejournal.com]

Who looks at the keys while typing? ;-)

[tmercenary.livejournal.com]

kids are such slackers. I would actually remap the keys in the OS.

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

back in high school we made the keys tap out the teacher's password for the grades.

[xdownfornowx.livejournal.com]

were they smart enough to change the keyboard to dvorak or remap the keys? I'm wondering how many of them actually thought the character would follow the key and not the position on the keyboard.

[nem0.livejournal.com]

I had a secretarial job a while back with two trickster types in the same front office. After pulling off a particularly good prank on them, they decided to get revenge by changing all my keys around at random. They were even smart enough to leave the ones with the raised nubs where they're supposed to be so I wouldn't notice the difference in touch.

It took me two weeks to notice anything was wrong, because I've been typing since I was 5. I happened to look down while eating lunch one day and was like, "Hey, the home row isn't KVPFJWZ>. Bastards!"

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

LOL
sounds like their plan backfired, gotta love the ability to touch type.

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

I liked rewiring keyboards and monitors to different machines. Totaly messes them up when the other person shuts off the computer.

[zig-mover.livejournal.com]

we'd change the keyboards to spell out the computer teachers' name, who could not touch-type.

[japester.livejournal.com]

i had a typewriter like that.
it was a royal PITA to use.