27 thoughts on “Tuesday cartoon”

  1. I was cat-visiting at the weekend, & said cat – Tilly – wanted to join in our game of Cluedo! I think she did it, in the kitchen, with a tin of cat food…

  2. This is so true. My Crazy Orange Kitty has actually posted a string of keyboard characters before. And he like just standing there, between me and the monitor, and I say to him, “You think you’re made out of glass, don’t you?”

  3. That clearly wouldn’t work, part of the fun is sitting on the keyboard itself.

    What we really need is a keyboard with a whole bunch of blank/useless keys in the middle, enough to accommodate a cat-sized lump. 🙂

    2. What is needed is a second keyboard. One or the cat and one for typing.

  4. The cat & keyboard problem is as old as keyboards. To vis: a friend of mine worked in an office with an office cat (due to a mouse problem) some 50 years ago. Said cat loved to sit on her lap when she was typing on the electric typewriter. Once in a while a paw would reach up to insert an extra blank or letter.

  7. Whenever I do programming, the cat waltzes across the keyboard so I will pay attention to him. Aarghhh!

  8. I actually once had a two-piece keyboard with each half attached to the arms of a chair. And the keyboards were fully positionable so you could orient them however you liked. And it had a built-in trackpad in the right-hand half.

    This was many moons ago, before the days of USB. The keyboard and chair have long since been pounded into a non-functioning state….

    b&

    1. And it had a built-in trackpad in the WRONG-hand half.

      Fixed that typo for you.
      Mr Safety Ossifer in the desk behind me was ordering a trackball for one of the guys who was complaining of RSI. I zipped my lips and left him discover just how complex the question of non-standard pointing devices is once you open that particular can of worms.

      1. The most non-standard of all pointing devices, at least as far as user experience goes…is whatever you use today, but with the other hand.

        I shared a computer once with somebody who was a southpaw. I eventually got tired enough of moving the mouse to the other side of the keyboard that I just gave up and used it on the left side. Practically unusable at first, but eventually it was almost natural.

        I still normally use my right hand on the trackpad, but I’m fine using the left hand if the right is, for example, being held down by a cat.

        b&

  9. My cats soon learn not to be actually on the keyboard — I react noisily when unexpected strings of letters appear or my document disappears. However, they walk back in forth right in front of the keyboard, wanting attention.

    One day one of my cats created a new Word document and named it “+”. I’m not sure how he did that.

    1. That’s nothing, with about 5 seconds of access to my keyboard my 3-year-old reoriented my screen 90 degrees, so everything appeared sideways on the physical monitor. I had no idea how he did it – I didn’t even know that could be done before he did it. It took me a few minutes of painstaking searching (because everything was sideways) to figure out what he did and how to undo it.

      Windows+arrow key, if anyone ever has the same problem.

      3. Windows+arrow key, if anyone ever has the same problem.

        Re-sizes the current window to occupy the [arrow direction] half of the screen on mine. If I want to rotate the screen I need to type the command
        xrandr --output LDVS1 rotate left (or “right”, or “inverted” for a 90 degree rotation. to return to the installed configuration, I need
        xrandr --output LDVS1 rotate normal
        However, to achieve a partial rotation (e.g. 10 degrees), I need a slightly more complex command.
        I used to have a nasty little joke programme which – on Windoze 2 or 3, but not 3.1 – would on a timer, pop up a dialog box with a message about the monitor tube being installed wrongly, then “rotate” the screen to match. (Which was just a screenshot, flipped and displayed in a borderless window.) One phone call at 3 in the morning and I stopped using the program.
        Obviously I could script these and assign keyboard accelerators to them.

  10. My old cat used to help me weave. She would add paws-on assistance while I was trying to “dress” the loom, and then, after I’d gotten the tension all just right on the warp, she’d lie in the middle of said warp, causing a slack bit in the middle…Such great help is hard to find…

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