[ale] OT: problems with Chrome and slashdot

[Jim Kinney]

BWAHAHAHA! And cats score again in their quest to reign illiteracy on
humans!
On Feb 15, 2011 6:53 PM, "Jim Lynch" <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> I'm sitting on my boat with the laptop on the dinette and a wireless
> mouse/keyboard connected. When I need to eat, I place the keyboard next
> to me and use the keyboard on the laptop. Earlier today I was eating
> lunch and trying to view slashdot. I noticed that when I'd attempt to
> scroll down, it was kinda random as to what actually happened.
> Sometimes it would return to the top of the page and sometimes back to
> the previous page without me touching the keyboard/mouse. I figured
> that slashdot was doing something strange again that Chrome couldn't
> handle. Then I noticed a small data entry window at the bottom of the
> screen with a bunch of plus signs. I really got confused then, so I
> clicked on the chrome window and proceeded to use the page down button
> (on the laptop) to continue to view the page. A bit later, while still
> enjoying lunch I went to a OO calc window and found a cell that had
> hundreds of plus signs entered. I really didn't know what was going
> on. I went off to do something else and caught site of the slashdot
> window being repainted very rapidly with the next page. Finally I
> looked at the wireless keyboard and found my big tomcat had decided to
> use it as a pillow!
>
> Note to self, take batteries out of keyboard before disuse.
>
> Jim.
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