Wed, 19 Aug 2009
So, last night I flopped a book down on my computer. I didn't notice it at the time, but it popped off the “N” key. Luckily, when I opened it this morning all four pieces were still there.
Directions: Top means toward the display, bottom means toward the touchpad.
The pieces, for lack of better nomenclature, are:
- The key surface (the part your finger presses on)
- The inside part
- The middle part, with small horizontal posts on the outside left and right edges part way back from the top D. The outside part, with small horizontal posts
You need to figure out how this pieces fit together and what parts catch where.
It took me a lot of fiddling, but eventually I figured out that it if I put the outside part on top of the middle part, flattened them, set them in the space where the key goes, and gently slide them toward the bottom that the bar at the top of the middle part and posts on the outside left and right edges of the outside part would slide under the cuts in the thin metal pieces that stood up from the base of the keyboard. Then I hooked the bottom of the inside part under the bar on the bottom of the middle part and gently pressed down on the front of the inside piece until it clipped on to the bar of the on the front of the middle piece. Once this was done, I had, viewed from the side, an X with a bar across the top. Then I slide the key surface onto the X from the bottom, making sure to hook the back of the X under the lip on the bottom underside of the key. Then I gently pressed down on the key surface until the clips on the front of the key surface clipped onto the front of the X.
Thu, 13 Aug 2009
The Wizard Hunters, by Martha Wells, copyright 2003; Eos/HarperCollinsPublishers [1], First Eos paperback printing June 2004; 2nd printing; ISBN 0-380-80798-X.
This series has become one of my favorites, for what are probably very idiosyncratic reasons.
| [1] | I hate companies that use StUdLyCaPs for company names. |
Sat, 08 Aug 2009
- Absolution Gap, by Alastair Reynolds, copyright 2003; Ace/The Berkeley Publishing Group/Penguin Group/Penguin Group (USA) Inc./Penguin Books Ltd; first Ace mass paperback edition June 2005; 4th printing; ISBN 0-441-01291-4.
Fri, 07 Aug 2009
Spoilers!
We're playing B2 — Keep on the Borderland, so if you haven't played that you might want to skip this entry.
I got to run another Labyrinth Lord session for the kids.
Attending
Clockwise round the table, starting with the Labyrinth Lord:
- T.K.B., the Labyrinth Lord.
- M.A., playing James the Cleric and Jeffrey the Monk.
- T.A., playing Glen the Strategist (a wizard) and Dooley the sly (a thief).
- E.A., playing Curufin the Elf and Drusilla the Ranger.
- L.B., playing Taffy the Halfling and Alice the Cleric.
Kobolds are Dead
Still out for revenge, they went after the kobolds again, but set off the alarm bell, and ran back to town. They came back on the second day and were attacked by female kobolds in the tree, who were joined by six more from inside the kobold warren, but the day went to the adventurers, who wiped the kobolds out, and proceeded to clean out the kobold warren as well.