Since time immemorial, human beings have loved to consume beverages-and loved to use computers. So I hereby declare today to be an important annual holiday with regard to laptop and logic board safety. How many laptops have we seen destroyed by a forgotten cup of coffee or a dripping bottle of Vitamin Water? This is especially true for those who foolishly keep iguanas and cats and other pesky critters in their homes. So many. So take time today to move those beverages back! Let's set a two-foot perimeter today. Maybe you can create a special beverage place farther from your typing area? The future-you will thank today-you when you both catch up in the future. Let us know how this goes!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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Cats. Is there anything they can't teach us?
Beverage schmeverage. Try a melting Twix Bar.
It is a well known fact that the ancient Romans used melted Twix bars for the seals on their more important documents.
What about perching cups of water on the edges of keyboards, in a vague attempt to have a drink/cool off an overheating, fanless, computer? Cause I've already been doing that today.
I think Starbucks should let you buy into an insurance policy on oblivious customer's asses.
Spilly The Iguana wuz here.
I believe you meant to say pilly the Igun uz hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Can Balk please post something so we have proof of life on 'Putey? I'm worried about the genesis of this post.
Thanks guys. *phew*
We all remember what happened to my sister's Coleco Electronic Quarterback and I don't think any of us want to see a repeat of that scene.
I've spilled a vodka tonic -- TWICE -- on a laptop keyboard in my professional life.
I'm still trying to figure out which problem that signifies.
A further cautionary tale: since many of us are now brazen enough to wear white or off-white garments over our lower halves during these warm months, please be careful what you handle around the crotch area. I had a coffee stain yesterday that stranded me in my chair for the entire day.
A similar incident once occurred with plain yogurt. I was horrified, but a couple of people stopped me on the sidewalk to congratulate me.
Stories like this are why I refuse to eat vanilla frosting.
Next time, throw a pair of red briefs on the outside of your pants, make a cape out of a towel, and tell everyone you're looking for Lex Luthor.
I have designated a place just for drinks, where my laptop is not allowed. It's called a "bar."
Dedicated to you, Choire.
http://www.switched.com/2010/07/20/chambersjudds-floppy-legs-drive-leaps-to-avoid-desktop-disast/
zuras should have stuck that keyboard in the dishwasher. it works.
The craptop endured an entire Mountain Dew Big Gulp being spilled on its keyboard in 2006. It laughs at your so-called Smartwater and ice-coffee-cup sweats.
I like that you used the old school "logic board" here.
True story. I once spilled an entire 32-ounce plastic cup of water directly into my MacBook Pro's keyboard. I freaked out and instinctively picked it up on its side in hopes the water would dump out of it, which it did. To stop me from completely losing my shit, my assistant suggested we prop it on its side on a bed of paper towels and go down the street and get drunk on the company credit card and maybe it would be okay when we got back?
And, bless baby Jesus, it was. Fired right up and worked like a dream. Also, a mysterious speaker outage was miraculously righted.
I wrote my second unpublished book on an early Mac laptop. It came with a floppy drive, and I was out of floppies to make a backup. And yet, I discovered that drive made a really great drain for a knocked-over cup of coffee. Tekserve replaced the hard-drive, which was a total loss. Everything else worked just fine - but I never completed another book.