Question Time

[davidn]

Here's a (not) interesting (at all) question that I thought up today - even better than the one about triangular sandwiches. When you come back to your computer and it's on standby, what do you do to wake it up? For me, it's always pressing the right arrow key, for reasons unknown.

Comments

[plette.livejournal.com]

I take the mouse and move it around a little.

[raphx.livejournal.com]

I tend to tap the mouse with my hand or whatever object I'm holding and about to put down.

[mercuryanna.livejournal.com]

I'm also a mousemover. Usually a quick nudgeity backnforth. Shake it baby!

[djny2.livejournal.com]

I being the violent type, randomly mash my fingers on the keyboard...

[opera-hat.livejournal.com]

Definite wiggle of the mouse for me. I'm scared that if I start hitting keys I'll find the computer's different when it wakes up.

[davidn]

That's the reason I use the right arrow - nothing in the Windows interface can be messed up with it. Apart from the "Press the right arrow to format C:" window, of course.

[whinknee.livejournal.com]

I usually hit the space bar, but often times i will come by my computer and randomly it will wake up from the sudden air my movement seems to make... i think it is the ultra sensitive touch pad.

[gr33bo.livejournal.com]

If it's on standby proper? Usually that means pressing the power button for me (doesn't turn it off, just gets it going again).
If it's screensaver then it's thumping the spacebar for me.

[davidn]

All right, all right... power-saving mode!

[ern56.livejournal.com]

I'm a mouse-wiggler. It sounds more dirty than it is.

[teenie-bash.livejournal.com]

I move my finger about on the touch pad for a wee minute or so, that seems to work. When he's gone to sleep proper I have to press the power button to reawake him!

(Him being my laptop named Alfie)

[amaunet.livejournal.com]

space bar or finger pad.

[kibet.livejournal.com]

am i the only shifter? The shift key will never do anything on its own...erm...i think.

[raphx.livejournal.com]

Press it three dozen times and it's sure to come up with stuff you never knew existed in the first place (the sticky keys feature, for instance), and generally annoy the hell out of you.

[kibet.livejournal.com]

aaah the eight second rule is what i call it. i realise i have hit a mental block when it jumps up with it. thats alot of its, but hopefully you can follow what it is it.

[kitschyduck.livejournal.com]

mousemover here

[ex-gh232.livejournal.com]

If the lid's closed, I open it. If not, the right shift key, since it's an easy target.

On an mostly unrelated note, have you replied to Graham Kirby about the Reading Party? I missed the fact that he expected a reply during my first read-through of his message...

[davidn]

Oh, I forgot about that as well. I may have to go and do that now.