Monday, March 12, 2007

My cat is a computer genius

My cat loves to use my computer. More often than not I fall asleep with my laptop still on and open, and after I have dozed off, my cat likes to get in there and get all technical. For a while, I would wake up to find that he had turned on the "sticky keys" function, which is designed for people who have trouble holding down more than one key at once. It took me a little while to figure out how to disable this function, as I had never heard of it before, but I got that sorted out.

Last week, I woke up to a deep monotone male voice announcing "opening new window. opening new window. opening new window." I didn't understand where it was coming from at first, because the cat was sitting on the keypad (causing a lot of new windows to open on the laptop). Turns out that the cat had activated the "narrator" function, causing my computer to announce all new activity on the laptop. That was a really frustrating one to fix because they guy kept telling me all the stuff that I was doing, and it felt like I was being mocked by my laptop. Which I may deserve, given that I haul off and joyously punch it almost every day to get it to turn on.