The masochism tango.

[reddragdiva]

• Actual knitting porn (NSFW, courtesy hieroglyphe).

• I'm sure Dubai Tourism is really happy with their public relations right now. (Have you gone to the search and typed in "Cat Le-Huy" lately? Have your friends?)

• A plausible explanation for why SUP act like even bigger fuckwits.

• Rick on Rickrolling. Secure his services for the next demo?

My work phone has started shutting itself off at random; I have found a more reliable phone on hand to put the SIM in for a couple of days, that being the old V525 with the battery held in with gaffer tape.

Freda has the bathroom hand mirror and is fascinated by the baby in it. She also did two wonderful tricks today: grabbing a full tea cup and knocking it over her mother's laptop (arkady turned it upside down and tea actually poured out of it) and pooed so much she blew out the nappy and smeared it everywhere. And her new trick is YELLING ALL THE TIME, BECAUSE SHE CAN. My head is pounding.

(Geeks! What sort of future is a Thinkpad T23 that's had a cup of tea with milk and sugar spilt into the keyboard likely to have? If it helps, it didn't fzzt and die immediately, it turned off as normal when Arkady held the power button down for five seconds.)

The girls are still here. I have someone to practice Dad Humour on. It's enormously enjoyable having trapped subjects to be consciously tedious at. Dads do this deliberately. (Apparently their dad didn't do this — his humour was actually funny — so it's clear I'll have to make up the deficiency in their lives while I can.)

Comments

[hieroglyphe.livejournal.com]

It's enormously enjoyable having trapped subjects to be consciously tedious at.

Once you've made the kids suffer, your next target should be any boyfriends/girlfriends that they have.

My dad's default 'new boyfriend conversation topic' was cars. Y'know, cos ALL BLOKES LIKE CARS. After nearly a decade of this technique largely failing (I think it worked on one ex of mine), he finally gave up. Thank fuck.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Whoa. Are you sure Freda's yours? She couldn't possibly have inherited that sort of behavior from you.

[reddragdiva]

Arkady asked what she'd done to my mother to deserve quite that much Grandmother's Revenge.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Knitting porn: as opposed to knitted porn?

Dubai: done!

SUP: propogated.

Rick: sounds disturbingly sweet and lovely.

[reddragdiva]

He seems like an actually normal and nice fellow. I do recall someone in a Smash Hits interview saying he made a terrible cup of tea, though. At least in 1986.

[redcountess]

Ooh, have bookmarked the RSS feed of Knitted Porn, ta :)

[richgoth.livejournal.com]

re laptop:
if it was just a keyboard you could just bung it into the dishwasher.
I recomend you dismantle it as much as possible and clean with cotton buds and distilled water. It may require 2-3 days drying out before you can use it again

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Tea damage? Were it just a keyboard, I'd advise bunging the thing in a bathful of clean water and allowing it to soak. Then dry it out in the airing cupboard over a weekend.

[reddragdiva]

The question is what milk, sugar and tea residue will do to electronics. I know cola would be deeply horrible.

[barakta]

That's why you use distilled water to clean as much of it off as possible, then if you can, dry it as much as possible and spray it with IPA (iso-propyal-alcohol) which should displace remaining water and prevent corrosion...

Other than that it's luck as to whether it'll work again, or just have annoyingly sticky keys at some time in the future.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I know the SUP post will go a lot further than a rebuttal, but http://chipotle.livejournal.com/183056.html?view=702736#t702736 details why his figures don't add up.

[hestia.livejournal.com]

Are you doing embarrassing "groovy" dances yet? My Dad was king of those.

[hawkeviper.livejournal.com]

In my experience of laptops and liquids, pull the keyboard out of it, and wash that as best as you can with plain water and a cloth - don't drench the thing or it'll rust later.

For the laptop, pull the case apart so all that is left is the motherboard, and place all pieces on the windowsill to dry in th esun for a day. Put back together at the end of it and hope for no weird corruption issues. =]

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

It is interesting to note if that el-jay had kept with the 2004-2005 trajectory it would be up to 8 million plus active users now.

[mendel.livejournal.com]

I have disassembled, drained and dried nyxie's T23 multiple times, usually from wine rather than coffee. Still works like a charm.

[yady.livejournal.com]

From experience with other Thinkpad models, I have one advice on what *not* to do under any circumstances: Do not use a blow drier to get moisture out of the thing (in particular the keyboard). The keys can't take the heat, they melt.

I'm not certain about the effects of tea, milk and sugar, but I don't think they are beneficial. The distilled water route seems like a good one unless you can get someone to clean it in a more professional manner, but that is likely to be expensive. Try to do the cleaning as soon as possible (don't leave it for a week), and if you haven't already, take the battery out and don't put it back in until the thing is cleaned and completely dry.

You probably don't want to rinse the harddisk very much, but with some luck it'll only have gotten wet on the outside.