Wake Up Da Hoomin

[plumtreeblossom]

BenBen has learned that he can wake me up by walking on the keyboard of my desktop computer. A sustained beeping will occur if multiple keys are held down, which is most unpleasant at 5:55AM. I'm sure he discovered it by accident, but he now recognizes it as a tool for manipulation, as was demonstrated by 5 rounds of him keyboard squatting, me howling, me grabbing him off the keyboard and bringing him into the bed, me falling back asleep, and him returning to the keyboard to make it beep. Other things accidentaly happen when catass meets keyboard. Using his feet and rump, he has executed the following tasks:

* Opened the Opera browser that I never use
* Activated CAPS LOCK
* Activated Num Lock
* Activated Scroll Lock (something I have never done in my life)
* Typed SSSDDDDDDDDWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~ in an open window of Word Pad (that's a copy/paste there)

It took me multiple minutes to figure out what Scroll Lock was and how to turn it off. Obviously, I'm awake and have been for a few hours. BenBen is asleep on my pillow.

*faceplant*

Comments

[gentlescholar.livejournal.com]

My cat of 17 years ago simply played with the cursor, using the spacebar.
I recommend shutting off your computer entirely at night. Besides, every computer I've ever had seems to get in a worse and worse "mood" the longer it is left running--things start to take forever, or fail to work, and the cure seems to be to turn the thing off and restart. Is there a reason to leave it on at night?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

The only reason I leave it on at night is because booting up takes several minutes, and I'm often too impatient in the morning. But yes, turning it off would nip his antics in the bud, and also save electricity.

[kencf0618.livejournal.com]

You can run BOINC projects.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

And at least your cat didn't download kiddie porn. One guy in Florida actually claimed that his did. (The jury didn't buy it.)