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My kittehs are always trying to help me fix my laptop by walking across the key-board.
more lite pleez - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Towards the beginning of the announcement was the following: "Folksonomy" has been voted the word most likely to make web-users "wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the key-board" -- in a poll to mark the tenth birthday of the word "weblog" by finding the single most irksome new word to have been spawned by the Internet.
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He says he may now no longer need a memory because with a few key-board strokes he can get what he needs on Google or Yahoo and the drudgery of having to remember so much stuff is eliminated or for more personal material open up his Blackberry.
Archive 2007-10-01 james gaulte 2007
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He says he may now no longer need a memory because with a few key-board strokes he can get what he needs on Google or Yahoo and the drudgery of having to remember so much stuff is eliminated or for more personal material open up his Blackberry.
The old time "peripheral brain" of house officers is now the external universal mind james gaulte 2007
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It's the kind of thing that can make you "wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the key-board".
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I am typing this message on a key-board with WHITE keys.
the-forest Diary Entry the-forest 2006
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“Just attending to a little private matter,” he answered, his mind working like a key-board of a telephone station.
Sister Carrie 2004
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The only persons who seemed to follow the music were Mary Jane herself, her hands racing along the key-board or lifted from it at the pauses like those of a priestess in momentary imprecation, and Aunt Kate standing at her elbow to turn the page.
Dubliners 2003
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Nor did he often indulge himself in playing on the piano as he did to-night, beginning with a few heavenly strains and ending with a bang that made the key-board jump.
Initials Only 2003
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In the front there was a flight of lofty terraces, at the top of which I could see a man with his head buried forward towards a key-board, and his body swaying from side to side amid the storm of huge arpeggioed harmonies that came crashing overhead and round.
Erewhon 2003
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