{"id":186,"date":"2004-04-21T00:47:34","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T00:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=186"},"modified":"2004-04-21T00:47:34","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T00:47:34","slug":"ill_bet_this_ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"I’ll bet this never happens to you"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was just chatting online with my brother<\/a> when, from his point of view, I suddenly disconnected and vanished. When I managed to reestablish the connection a few minutes later, I explained what had happened: “My keyboard has a Power button, and I just found out what happens when a rat steps on it. Windows shuts down and the computer turns off.”
\nIf you’re thinking that I need to call an exterminator, you aren’t familiar with my household. (Hi, Gail<\/a>!) Our rats are pets, not vermin. They live in a cage, but we let them out to play and explore. This wasn’t the first time one of them has walked across the keyboard while I was chatting, but that normally just generates some random characters that I can easily get rid of with a few taps of the backspace key. Having the machine shut down is a little more difficult to recover from!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My keyboard has a Power button, and I just found out what happens when a rat steps on it. Windows shuts down and the computer turns off.
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