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Post by Becca Mills on Jul 9, 2015 18:33:02 GMT -5
... spilled the dregs of a Starbucks mocha on her laptop keyboard this morning?  |
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Post by Daniel on Jul 9, 2015 18:47:01 GMT -5
Oh, bummer. Did you kill it?
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Post by Miss Terri Novelle on Jul 9, 2015 18:47:03 GMT -5
OH no. Keyboards generally prefer tea.  |
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Post by vrabinec on Jul 9, 2015 19:13:34 GMT -5
You know you'll never get that shit out, right?
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Post by scdaffron on Jul 9, 2015 19:17:28 GMT -5
Years ago, my sister wrote a funny essay for my magazine about her "Lemonade Laptop." Apparently, she spilled lemonade all over and after a while it worked again. She wrote: >>After some time, I discovered that the sugar must have dried and knocked loose. After six months, it would work, sporadically, on the odd blue moon Tuesday, as long as I plugged in an external keyboard. I recovered my files and stored them on my new computer. Now, years later, it works without incident every time I turn it on.<< So hey, wait a few years and the sugary mocha crap will fall out and it will be fine  |
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Post by Becca Mills on Jul 9, 2015 19:56:35 GMT -5
LOL, Susan, that's awesome. Unfortunately, it was a "skinny" mocha. Who knows what aspartame will do when it eventually dries! And I'm sure the thing will smell awful, since the drink includes milk.  Nevertheless, I've got the thing buried in rice to draw the fluid out. We'll see if it can be salvaged. But yeah, D, I may have killed it. I just went straight to Best Buy and bought a new one. Now the huge drag of setting it up. The fact that I've largely moved into the cloud over the last year makes it easier. All my email was still on my hard drive, though, so I'll have to see if I can recover that from my backups. BTW, I feel poorer than I did yesterday.  |
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Post by Miss Terri Novelle on Jul 9, 2015 20:52:19 GMT -5
My daughter fed her laptop a cup of coffee once. It turned out that the keyboard was a sort of traylike configuration that did not allow the coffee into the rest of the workings. We ordered a new keyboard from Ebay and I took the laptop apart and replaced it. It was not that hard (Youtube video helped) and it was good as new.
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Post by ameliasmith on Jul 10, 2015 8:52:56 GMT -5
Lame. Laptop replacement must be going around. Too bad there isn't a vaccine.
Anyhow. One time I spilled water on my laptop (when I was pregnant with kid #2, so brains were not at peak functioning). I read somewhere that you could take it apart and dry it out in the oven, so I tried that.
I think it worked afterward, but the case got all melted and never fit together properly again. That was when I started buying the drops-and-spills warranty every time.
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Post by Becca Mills on Jul 10, 2015 19:23:16 GMT -5
Yeah, I think water's no big deal, so long as you get the power off fast (not so easy with these small laptops that have the battery locked inside). Darn it, I just realized I lost all that great Book Report data I downloaded 7/1. That sucks.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 21:46:00 GMT -5
Kool aid did my last laptop in. And the warranty had expired the month before |
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Post by Alan Petersen on Jul 11, 2015 16:21:37 GMT -5
LOL, Susan, that's awesome. Unfortunately, it was a "skinny" mocha. Who knows what aspartame will do when it eventually dries! And I'm sure the thing will smell awful, since the drink includes milk. Nevertheless, I've got the thing buried in rice to draw the fluid out. We'll see if it can be salvaged. But yeah, D, I may have killed it. I just went straight to Best Buy and bought a new one. Now the huge drag of setting it up. The fact that I've largely moved into the cloud over the last year makes it easier. All my email was still on my hard drive, though, so I'll have to see if I can recover that from my backups. BTW, I feel poorer than I did yesterday. That was one expensive mocha! .... funny, I'm sitting here at Peets Coffee, and I actually nervously eyed my cup of coffee right next to my laptop. No jinx, no jinx, no jinx! |
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Post by joenobody on Jul 12, 2015 23:34:07 GMT -5
Sorry, but I have to establish some reality to this thread.
While the loss of a keyboard does elicit some sympathy, the true tragedy of this event was the loss of a Starbucks Mocha (skinny or not). That had to hurt.
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Post by Becca Mills on Jul 13, 2015 0:58:55 GMT -5
Sorry, but I have to establish some reality to this thread. While the loss of a keyboard does elicit some sympathy, the true tragedy of this event was the loss of a Starbucks Mocha (skinny or not). That had to hurt. LOL, Joe. Never fear, I'd drunk almost all of it. All that was left was the last half inch. You know ... the thick, syrupy, gritty chocolate stuff that's extra good to feed to a laptop.  |
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Post by Becca Mills on Jul 13, 2015 0:59:38 GMT -5
Kool aid did my last laptop in. And the warranty had expired the month before Ain't that the way. Always.  |
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Post by Rinelle Grey on Jul 13, 2015 7:40:56 GMT -5
Backs slowly away from this thread in case the laptop spillage is catching...
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Post by Alan Petersen on Jul 13, 2015 16:13:55 GMT -5
Sorry, but I have to establish some reality to this thread. While the loss of a keyboard does elicit some sympathy, the true tragedy of this event was the loss of a Starbucks Mocha (skinny or not). That had to hurt. LOL, Joe. Never fear, I'd drunk almost all of it. All that was left was the last half inch. You know ... the thick, syrupy, gritty chocolate stuff that's extra good to feed to a laptop. I was the genius that in order to prevent dropping his $2.00 to-go cup coffee squeezed it too tight causing the top to launch into orbit and the hot piping coffee to spill all over my shirt and pants. And we were on a way to house warming party (pun). Luckily there was a Gap store next door since we were about 30 minutes from home in the other direction. The shock and humiliation and then to see my wife cracking up as I made a hasty retreat. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Jul 13, 2015 17:05:32 GMT -5
LOL, Joe. Never fear, I'd drunk almost all of it. All that was left was the last half inch. You know ... the thick, syrupy, gritty chocolate stuff that's extra good to feed to a laptop. I was the genius that in order to prevent dropping his $2.00 to-go cup coffee squeezed it too tight causing the top to launch into orbit and the hot piping coffee to spill all over my shirt and pants. And we were on a way to house warming party (pun). Luckily there was a Gap store next door since we were about 30 minutes from home in the other direction. The shock and humiliation and then to see my wife cracking up as I made a hasty retreat. Oh dear, how awful! <giggle> Ahem. Not at all funny. |
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Post by vrabinec on Jul 14, 2015 9:11:58 GMT -5
I spilled part of a milkshake on a girl once. Thought it would be sexy to lick it off. All it did was piss her off and make her cold.
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Nevertheless, I've got the thing buried in rice to draw the fluid out. We'll see if it can be salvaged. But yeah, D, I may have killed it.
