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12/23/2005 05:42:34 AM · #26 |
| coffee or juice... no foods, esp. no finger foods as that would really be havoc with the keyboard. |
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12/23/2005 06:12:17 AM · #27 |
cheez-it's that I have shipped over from florida by a freind...:)
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12/23/2005 06:44:47 AM · #28 |
You filthy, filthy people.
Extract from Daily Mirror - UK National Daily Newspaper
Mirror Works: Jun 26 2003
DISHING THE DIRT ON NASTIES IN OUR OFFICE
IT could be healthier to eat your lunch in the office loo than at your desk.
That's because your IT equipment could be contaminated with bacteria. I've just had Techclean in to analyse my keyboard and the results are gross.
The reading from the Celsis Bacterial Counter, which measures living micro-organisms came out at 2,209. The acceptable food hygiene standard figure is between 101 and 501. Cornflakes, plastic, hair and a lot of dust were found. Recent readings from an office toilet door and flush were only 826 and 1,091. So you can see which is worse. It's not all from me (I don't eat cornflakes). As in most modern offices, different people use the keyboards.
Workers today eat at their desks before washing their hands, so the chances are they are putting bacteria in their mouths. Research from Techclean shows that 85 per cent of business keyboards are riddled with bacteria. |
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12/23/2005 07:25:31 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
My keyboard pretty much eats everything I do. It seems to like the crumbs. Webcams are not particularly fond of beer though. |
I once had a printer that seemed to develop a taste for rum and coke. |
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12/23/2005 08:23:19 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by jduffett:
I once had a printer that seemed to develop a taste for rum and coke. |
lol would have loved to see those print outs.
When I started working at a company doing computer work I found that the computers there had evidently had a night eating cats or something cause when I opend up the mouse ball compartment one day to clean them, they each had a TON of hair and lint in them (I'm hopeing from the cloth mouse pads).
I recently cleaned a community keyboard here at work and everything from poppy seeds to what I believe to be part of fingernail fell out. It was disgusting.
And I do eat at mine all day long so it could be anything from pop tarts to cookies to popcorn and even real food once in a while.
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12/23/2005 08:29:45 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by aguapreta:
coffee or juice... no foods, esp. no finger foods as that would really be havoc with the keyboard. |
Does it really matter??? I have like 5 extra keyboards kicking around just incase I need one. Doesn't everybody have an emergency keyboard???
edit to add: My favorite computer food is beer. Since I can't cook I also have a mini bar under my desk and a phone in the fridge for dial-a-bottle/pizza guy. Also set on speed dial.
Message edited by author 2005-12-23 08:31:04.
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12/23/2005 08:35:39 AM · #32 |
Favorite - Raisinettes. Favorite food everywhere else too.
Least favorite - pizza. It's a greasy finger food - damned hard to type like that.
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12/23/2005 08:42:37 AM · #33 |
| Pizza, Fruit Juice, Beer, Jack Daniels, Cointreau... Not necessarily in that order. |
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12/23/2005 08:45:37 AM · #34 |
Originally posted by bpickard:
Research from Techclean shows that 85 per cent of business keyboards are riddled with bacteria. |
The surface of your skin is "riddled" with bacteria all the time. Not all bacteria are pathogenic -- most are not, and some are actually symbiotic. A report which lists only total bacteria counts is likely to be misleading insofar as the danger of infection.
Message edited by author 2005-12-23 08:46:20. |
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12/23/2005 12:19:51 PM · #35 |
I clean all my computer and desk every 2 days with antibactial spays and other cleaning products I also go as far as removing any dust inside my computer so i would be happy if you didnt start calling me a filty person thanks.
Originally posted by bpickard:
You filthy, filthy people.
Extract from Daily Mirror - UK National Daily Newspaper
Mirror Works: Jun 26 2003
DISHING THE DIRT ON NASTIES IN OUR OFFICE
IT could be healthier to eat your lunch in the office loo than at your desk.
That's because your IT equipment could be contaminated with bacteria. I've just had Techclean in to analyse my keyboard and the results are gross.
The reading from the Celsis Bacterial Counter, which measures living micro-organisms came out at 2,209. The acceptable food hygiene standard figure is between 101 and 501. Cornflakes, plastic, hair and a lot of dust were found. Recent readings from an office toilet door and flush were only 826 and 1,091. So you can see which is worse. It's not all from me (I don't eat cornflakes). As in most modern offices, different people use the keyboards.
Workers today eat at their desks before washing their hands, so the chances are they are putting bacteria in their mouths. Research from Techclean shows that 85 per cent of business keyboards are riddled with bacteria. |
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12/23/2005 12:24:37 PM · #36 |
No wonder american are overweight. Got to eat at the computer too?
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12/23/2005 12:33:59 PM · #37 |
Heh.
I've got you all beat.
My office is a wooden chair beside my bed. I live in Asia and apartments are a bit smaller there.
I sit on the side of my bed and read DPC forums when I should be out there taking pictures.
Incidentally, the reason I say this is that this is also my dining arrangement. I have a hot plate to warm hot chocolate and rice noodles and recently cans of mackerel and whole marinated anchovies.
I eat a fair number of oranges and apples and occasionally take down what the asians feel can reasonably be called "Yogurt".
I'm not american, but it seems I eat and sleep at the computer. Or is it use the computer where I eat and sleep. Or is it eat and sleep where I use the computer?
Hrm. Don't really consider myself to be very overweight. I commute by bicycle. |
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12/23/2005 12:43:38 PM · #38 |
NUTS AND DARK CHOCOLATE!!!
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12/23/2005 12:49:07 PM · #39 |
I will eat anything at my desk, my favorite thing to snack on is chips and medium salso. mmmmmm
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12/23/2005 12:50:42 PM · #40 |
Tim Horton's coffee. Lots of it.
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12/23/2005 12:52:37 PM · #41 |
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12/23/2005 01:16:08 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by bpickard:
Research from Techclean shows that 85 per cent of business keyboards are riddled with bacteria.[/i] |
And what are they selling?
Besides, bacterii are our friends. When I was in the army we ate green eggs in the mud and never got sick from it. No way could eating a grilled chicken sandwich at my desk be worse then that.
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12/23/2005 01:32:42 PM · #43 |
No more Cheetos® while visiting the porn sites.
(the stains were getting rather hard to explain)  |
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12/23/2005 01:49:31 PM · #44 |
 
Message edited by author 2005-12-23 14:26:03.
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12/23/2005 01:56:14 PM · #45 |
Originally posted by BradP:
No more Cheetos® while visiting the porn sites.
(the stains were getting rather hard to explain) |
*gasp*
*ROFL*
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12/23/2005 04:29:34 PM · #46 |
| Tim Horton's XL coffee... |
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12/23/2005 08:47:42 PM · #47 |
Originally posted by BradP:
No more Cheetos® while visiting the porn sites.
(the stains were getting rather hard to explain) |
ROFL!!
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12/23/2005 08:49:20 PM · #48 |
| A BIG glass of organic raw whole milk and a stack of ho'made cocolate chip cookies. |
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12/23/2005 08:50:49 PM · #49 |
no one laughed at my 'micro chips'
but I will
ha hah
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12/23/2005 11:32:29 PM · #50 |
Saracat. Where did you get the RAW milk? That's pretty hard to find.
I used to manage a dairy department in a health food store and tried my best to support local farms, but the government in Canada is impossibly rigid on the milk issue. Non-pasteurized milk is illegal for public or private sale.
More than 20 years ago, the guy my father was buying raw milk from (directly from the farm) told him he had to stop selling it direct.
The closest thing we got in stores was cheese made from raw sheep's milk and that was shut down after a bacteria scare. Stupid Saltspring Island pot-smoking hippies.
I've always understood that it's rather easy to keep clean, healthy animals which provide good quality milk which can be consumed without even a flash pasteurization, but it does take time and effort.
In America, I believe the government is even stronger on the issue of forced pasteurization.
Do you have your own farm?
You're pretty lucky.
(PS. Raw milk refers to non-pasteurized. Homogenization is a different process altogether and non-homogenized milk is NOT definitively raw milk. Raw milk has been illegal for sale since some time in the 50's) |
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