Comments | rosawestphalen: morning and other maladies

rosawestphalen

morning and other maladies

Aug 04, 2006 08:30

For the first time ever in my computer life, I spilled coffee in my keyboard. My beautiful, loved, comfortable to type on, ergo-keyboard. In its post-coffee resurrection when I typed an l it displayed kop90)*. Woe ( Read more... )

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gattagrigia August 4 2006, 15:49:56 UTC

Experiments that should be conducted by a responsible professional: would diet have the same effect when spilled in a key board? What about iced-tea?

Yes. And yes. And I can also vouch for the effectiveness of a white wine spritzer to eliminate the functionality of a laptop. The hairdryer did not help.

rosawestphalen August 5 2006, 17:26:29 UTC

I don't have a hairdyer but I did have a can of canned air which I hoped would have the same basic result. Sadly, no such luck. Sorry to hear about the spritzer-laptop incident, that must have been a totally bad day. I knew a woman who spilled a bottle of water in her sony laptop and was able to dry it out and have the keyboard work again but that's the only person I know who's ever saved a laptop from a spill. {{{{hugs}}}}}

fajrdrako August 4 2006, 16:18:20 UTC

Coffee is wonderful stuff - I will take your experience as a warning, and be very, verrry careful!

rosawestphalen August 5 2006, 17:28:36 UTC

I love coffee, especially iced-coffee in the summer time. The thermal mugs with spill-proof tops, while not completely spill-proof, do help with my clumsiness.

fajrdrako August 6 2006, 03:40:20 UTC

This is why, at the computer, I tend to drink bottled water. If the bottle falls over, it doesn't spill too badly. I reuse the bottles over and over.

Hey... nice icon.

melodymuse August 4 2006, 17:32:21 UTC

Coffee is still your friend! Maybe we can join you for the Computer Show. :)

rosawestphalen August 5 2006, 17:29:21 UTC

I know coffee would never betray me. :-)
It would be lovely to have you go with us to the computer show.
:-)

tenaya August 6 2006, 05:52:23 UTC

Waaaaay back when I had a Commodore 128 I spilled a Long Island Iced Tea on my keyboard. Maybe it was because it was so primitive but we were able to clean it out with alcohol, er, the other type of alcohol this time. It did have a sticky key somewhere though.

I saw a ergo keyboard down at Fry's for cheap. Having said that, I have one of those wireless mouse/keyboard ergo things and am happy with it.

Good luck.