Comment change the paradigm! (Score 1) 691
I solved the whole food-in-the-keyboard problem by getting a FrogPad, which is a one-handed keyboard. I sits over to the side of my desk (in a much more comfortable position for my arm and wrist), so that as the food slides down my detritus-encrusted chin it just plops onto the now-free real estate in the middle of my desk.