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threw up this memory from two years ago
Felix the cat's favourite sitting
spot when anyone is in the office is on a keyboard, preferably Fester's laptop.
Fester uses a pc for work and the laptop for tv and radio, either live or iPlayer.
If we're both in the office I expend a deal of effort in persuading Felix to
walk around the back of the laptop. It's not unusual for Fester to
doze off whilst working.
We were in the office the other
evening and Felix creeps, un-noticed, onto the laptop and settles down
comfortably. Eventually Fester wakes up, shoos Felix away and discovers the
laptop screen has been turned through ninety degrees. Instead of being
landscape it is portrait. And he thinks the mouse isn't working because he's
shifting it so vigorously he can't actually focus on it.
So there are cries off "Me
bloody cursor's gone"
and me replying "It's there, stop moving
the mouse"
"The mouse isn't bloody
working, it's all over the place"
"Then stop moving it".
Of course Fester had no idea how
to return the screen to normal.
I had a vague idea about the
control panel but with the mouse 'not working' even when we can get in there's
no obvious screen orientation menu.
I suggest we ask Ferretfingers as
he once turned his VDU's screen upside down in school (the technician had to
close down and reboot the whole school system to get it back).
However the atmosphere was so fraught
communication was impossible.
Then
"Thunderthighs come
down here a minute"
Thunderthighs looks at the
problem, laughs, says "hang on a minute", thunders back to the loft
and down again, presses 3 keys and - hey presto - it's back as it should be.
"What did you do? Show me
what you did!"
"Control, alt and an arrow
key."
"Which arrow key?"
"Any arrow key."
Thunderthighs trundles off and
peace, for a while, returns.
(One friend asked for tickets
for next week’s performance)
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