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Everybody’s fave Dead Guy who lives, BOB award winner for humor was featured in this article. He’s too modest to plug himself, so uh, I will. Dead Guy can be found at BIO today.
When I ordered my new computer, the customer service person took off the shipping charge, and said he would include an LCD cleaner set because of all the trouble that I had placing the order.
I was a bit confused as placing the order had been trouble free, I was getting a hyped up pavilion, great cordless keyboard, and 20 inch monitor for under half of what I had paid for my previous desktop three years ago, and four fifths less than the one before that. The cordless mouse is really good, but personally I prefer a pad. That is weird because I have small motor coordination problems.
When the computer came I kept the boxes in my bedroom for two weeks as I didn’t think somethings so cheap could be so good. Before I brought them to purgatory otherwise known as my storage cage in the building’s basement, I looked through the box, and found the coolest thing I have seen, in a long while; the LCD cleaning set that came with a bottle of cleaner and a black squeegee with a futuristic handle that holds the cleaner, a spray, nozzle and cap. The squeegee has a light gray foam rubber filler, and charcoal gray top with a very cool half moon design at the end that lets you get into corners, I guess.
The thing is I never really noticed how dirty monitors get before, and now I spend more time than is healthy looking at my monitor for dirt. I thank all of you who have dark blogs because I don’t notice how filthy my monitor is, and don’t have to stop every two minutes to clean the monitor.
Oh yes I drove myself crazy looking the spray applicator the other day, and had to put too much cleaner on the foam. Right, the applicator is in the handle. How will I know when I really begin to lose it?
I will probably have the first monitor to die an unnatural death from too much cleaning. I’m feeling anxious because I just washed the squeegee, and though I put it in the bathroom with the heat lamp on high, it hasn’t dried yet.
Have to stop now. Can’t be on the computer again until it does dry. Though I’m going to watch TV now, and will probably spend way too much time noticing real and imagined dirt on the TV screen.
I am going to kill you. I have just gotten on my computer to relax for a little while between papers and now I see about fifteen little dark specks on my screen and I am desperately trying to find the little rag that I use to clean it. I use a thing that is actually used to clean eyeglasses; it works well on wiping the monitor a couple times a day.
I hope if I ever go to prison I am i a cell with you and you would probably not be a slob.
You are so funny… I have finger prints all over mine.. soooo a lot of times the words are a little blurry because of those damn prints… LOL! 🙂 Cute post!
I hate fingerprints and my husband likes to goad me with that…he’ll be on e-bay and press hard and say “see that one…I want that…and that…” and I just go nuts.
He’s a good guy or I’d have to take care of this little problem 😉
I keep cleaner and a pad here by the monitor – and since I work with other computers in my business I really get driven nuts at a client’s house. (messy icons bother you??)
Anal retention – ain’t it a bitch? I have a touch of it myself, I’m afraid.
Pia, I hear if you take your little squeegie out to the streets, you can make yourself some quick cash 😉
Hmm, proper squeegie care. Where would you find information on that?
I check mine for spilled food. But only when I get hungry. Yum.
why don’t you start a screen cleaning service? The screen on my laptop is always dirty.
I am so jealous. My computer is so dirty that I have to tell people I’m making a political statement (and let them extrapolate what that might be), but every time I want to clean the monitor all I have is used kleenex. I wanna get one of your things.
You are too funny! You and Cooper would not like my handicapped laptop I’m afraid! If I am finally in front of it, it is ’cause I am fried and many a time have I sat there thinking, “Man, I should clean that friggin’ screen”, but nope… and here I am, fried, in front of it, typing away and thinking the same thought but is it gonna happen anytime soon?
Well, normally no but now you have added something to my list of chores! Dammit!
I just got a new 17 inch flat monitor and I LOVE it. It’s so much easier on the eyes & the screen is just huge. I don’t notice finger marks on my computer screen, or dust for that matter, but I do notice it on the t.v. & can’t believe how fast it accumulates.
As George Carlin says, “that’s some high tech shit!”. A funny cleaning tip – a used fabric softner sheet right out of the dryer (I use Bounce Outdoor Fresh Scent) makes for an excellent dusting tool for electonric screens (television, computer). Leaves them smelling like fresh linens too. Bonus!