It’s the keyboard.  The new hotness is the keyboard.  The rest of this is just my usual mess. I managed to black out my name where it shows up on the main monitor, but feel free to examine everything carefully for clues about my lifestyle.

This is my primary workstation; I do a lot of work on my laptop but I brain better sitting at a desk than I do on the couch or at my dining room table or whatever, especially when my family is home.  I’ve had this computer for, what, two and a half or three years now, and while I upgraded the keyboard from the wireless, silly little thing that actually ships with an iMac, the Mac wired keyboard is still a teeny aluminum chicklet keyboard that doesn’t make nearly enough noise when you pound on it.  I like my keyboards clicky.  Really clicky.

Plus the keys were white, and after three years of tapping on white keys they were starting to look a little… we’ll say funky.

Thus: Das Keyboard.  I know the picture’s crappy; here’s one from their website:

On one hand, it’s a keyboard, so it does exactly the same things that the other keyboard did only it’s a lot louder about it.  This is the Das Keyboard Professional Model S with Cherry MX Blue switches in it.  It is awesome.  Don’t know what Cherry MX Blue switches are?  Neither did I, until I started researching mechanical keyboards.  Twitter brought me this article, which is interesting enough that I’ve read it for fun a few times.

Fun thing about this keyboard: the Backspace key makes a distinctly different clicking sound than the others, meaning that if you were listening to me carefully you’d be able to tell how often I screwed up.  That entertains me, even though I’m pretty sure that no one will ever be carefully listening to me type.  I just hope the boy can sleep through the noise; his room is next door to my office, and I’m not shitting you: this thing is loud.

I love mechanical keyboards.