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Well, the open thread was a nice way to finish a long day that included spilling coffee on my laptop keyboard. Fortunately, I have the ancient pc for backup (and had backed everything else up to portable hard drives) but I still had to look up how to take out the laptop keyboard, and take it out, so I could use my wireless keyboard in its place. At least the coffee didn't get down into the serious "works" of the laptop.

Felt like an idiot kid.

Going to bed to dream about Paris.

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

by Wife of Bath (kareninaustin at g mail dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2012 at 04:39:51 PM EST
throwing coffee onto a keyboard is very common. if you put sugar in your coffee, throw the keyboard away cos it's already dead. If not, you can clean it.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jan 26th, 2012 at 05:01:18 PM EST
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You KNOW I use sugar.  Maple syrup, actually.  I'm screwed.  Thank gawd for the standby wireless keyboard.

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher
by Wife of Bath (kareninaustin at g mail dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2012 at 05:07:43 PM EST
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What is it about sugar?

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2012 at 05:09:03 PM EST
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As it dries the sugar recrystallizes between the contacts. At best they get flaky, but mostly they're DOA. Sugar/not sugar was the first question we asked when such an incident was reported cos it made such a difference

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jan 26th, 2012 at 05:28:39 PM EST
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How about natural sugars? If you spill juice or milk, does it kill the keyboard, too?

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2012 at 05:32:11 PM EST
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umm, dunno, never happened. But orange juice is acid and that'll be pretty destructive

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jan 27th, 2012 at 02:41:29 AM EST
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