In Which I Am A Model Of Grace

[cloudscudding]

I put a thumb drive in my shirt pocket and head upstairs towards the computer. The cats are being needy, so I stop to feed them. As I am bending over the kitten's dish, the thumb drive slips out of my pocket and lands in the water dish. Crap! I fish it out and go downstairs to submerge it in the rice container

Comments

[skywayman]

The best part is that you probably could have just tapped the water out and let it sit somewhere warm for a day and it would have been fine.

[cloudscudding]

I figured better safe than sorry. I didn't realize it wasn't going to be very safe at all!

[utilitygeek]

Understandable, but thumb drives tend to be rugged little buggers. As long as you don't break any of the connector points (usually where the USB plug attaches), they tend to keep chugging.

I had one go through the wash. Yes, washer, with soap, and the dryer. Not only did it still work (it's on my keychain right now), but I didn't lose any data. Rugged little thing, indeed.

[cloudscudding]

Wow.

[jesshartley]

You invented information tempura!

[cloudscudding]

I may have occasionally called information tasty, but that's really not what I meant!

[jongibbs]

Lol, sounds like a great scene from a future story :)

[cloudscudding]

Ngg. I dunno, I tend to like my main characters competent!

[bitwise]

All we need is some wet concrete for you to step in. And two men crossing the street carrying a plate glass window.

[cloudscudding]

Are you suggesting I have a career in show biz, sir?

[mmerriam]

Let me begin with: I hope your thumb drive survives the experience.

Now. I have to say this is funny in a train-wreck kind of way, the more so since it didn't happen to me this time. Seriously, I'm like a walking one-man Three Stooges routine sometimes.

[cloudscudding]

Then you should also be making posts like this!

It is rather entertaining.

[mmerriam]

http://mmerriam.livejournal.com/285313.html

http://mmerriam.livejournal.com/47140.html

[cloudscudding]

Excellent, carry on.