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Chess: Pub Brawl With a Board Attached — A Horwitz Comedy

I Played Black This is the basic "Horwitz Defence" opening position from my perspective as the defender: This game is pure farce from start to finish. The middlegame was glorious chaos. White's bishop dashing about knocking tables, their knights hopping round like they'd had too much sugar, and by move 34 I'd got a bishop, a knight, and a queen all queuing up to have a go at White's king. Plenty of decisive free materials to capture by both sides because of the chaotic piece placements, but of course, we simply resumed the anarchy. It's a bullet game! Mwahahaha! Let's have a look. You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board.

I Wanted to Clean My Keyboard — I Nearly Installed Software Instead

Good morning. 👋 The Keyboard Cleaning So here's what happened. My laptop keyboard was filthy, proper crumbs and fluff everywhere, touchpad too. I grabbed a cloth and just started wiping it down. Laptop still on, screen still awake. Obviously daft because every wipe was pressing keys, opening random windows, and moving the cursor about. Absolute chaos. So I thought — Right. 🤔 I'll just disable the input while I clean it. Off I went to search "how to disable keyboard on Windows 11". And no, the cursor and key press chaos didn't accidentally conjure a software installer. What — The Conjuring: Device Manager Edition? It never asked permission, it installed itself. Rated ⭐⭐⭐⭐ from plenty. Interesting. So instead of Ed and Lorraine Warren, we'd have... other names. Like Geoff and Tina Amazon Web Service. Let's derail a bit — Madam, I have a software-spectre problem at my house. ...
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