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Reminds me of a story I read about some guy who managed to lose a game cartridge (I think it was a GBA cart) in a toilet full of his roommate's shit. That must have been fun to fish out :P
So I take it the moral of the story here is, use the trackpad when on the can.
Valuable lesson.
You know you're an internet addict when you take your laptop with you into the bathroom when taking a shit.
I have an iphone and two laptops, I have never felt the need to take them with me into the bathroom to browse the internet during my visit to the poop deck.
The only time I've been known to use the laptop in the bathroom is when I was working 14-16 hours a day doing hard labor construction. While dropping an after-work deuce was really the only time I had to check my email in the work-shower-eat-sleep cycle.
Well, here's one instance where a plain-old usb mouse would've been more useful
Atleast you wouldn't have had to "fish around" for it; come to think of it I can also imagine a scenario where you'd have seen it coming and yanked the cord, avoiding this erm... event altogether.
Operation poopmouse was a rousing success. The mouse is, by all appearances, completely clean; and I can't smell anything (and I have an extremely sensitive sense of smell). And it works fine. If I didn't know any better, I'd say nothing had happened to it at all.
Just make sure something appropriate is playing on it, like the Golgothan scene from Dogma.
Also, I'd like to defend his toilet computing.
I for one get most of my reading done on the can, and like someone above mentioned the bathroom is one of the few places where just about nobody will bother you.
[snip]... But instead, you told the truth. The truth that you committed first degree bathroom laptop use. And not only that, you used the thing on the toilet with a wireless mouse AND a comfort tray. Didn't some kind of control program go off in your head when you started lugging a home office through the bathroom door? What if someone had seen you?
Fuck, that made me laugh.
But yeah, rubbing alcohol works great. As long as there's no power or you remove the power-source immediately, and clean & dry it out thoroughly, 99% of the time the device will survive. I dropped my cell phone into a bowl of cereal(I got called while eating breakfast and tried to hold it with my shoulder while still eating), and it still works after 4 years. It was chocolate milk too.
Me too. I can understand saving cash, but this is three pages of discussion on trying to clean a cheap accessory dropped in fecal matter. I would always think on that with every use of the mouse.
Me too. I can understand saving cash, but this is three pages of discussion on trying to clean a cheap accessory dropped in fecal matter. I would always think on that with every use of the mouse.
Actually it's about half a page of cleaning the mouse, and two and half pages of people expressing amazement. His problem is solved, poop isn't the destroyer of worlds and once you clean it up, it is no longer an issue.
If poop was really that big a deal, none of us would have made it out of infancy because our mothers would have thrown us away the first time we crapped.
Not to mention that in this great age we now have very strong disinfectants.
Either way I use a wired mouse for many reasons that include dropping it. As I once almost dropped a mouse down a sewer hole once. It slipped out of my equipment bag and was only saved by the adapter at the end catching in the strap.
And yea, washing the hell out of it then using rubbing alcohol should work fine. Personally I'd just go get a new mouse because I would know where it has been.
I've had a keyboard get drenched in pop before, tossed it into the shower and soaked it down. Left it to dry for close to a week and it was fine. Had a set of earphones go half through a wash, pulled them out, let them dry for a day and I'm still using them now.
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Hm, I guess youre right but 1994... :P
Reminds me of a story I read about some guy who managed to lose a game cartridge (I think it was a GBA cart) in a toilet full of his roommate's shit. That must have been fun to fish out :P
The only time I've been known to use the laptop in the bathroom is when I was working 14-16 hours a day doing hard labor construction. While dropping an after-work deuce was really the only time I had to check my email in the work-shower-eat-sleep cycle.
Though I never brought the mouse in with me.
Atleast you wouldn't have had to "fish around" for it; come to think of it I can also imagine a scenario where you'd have seen it coming and yanked the cord, avoiding this erm... event altogether.
So... yeah. Water and isopropyl alcohol, folks.
Also, I'd like to defend his toilet computing.
I for one get most of my reading done on the can, and like someone above mentioned the bathroom is one of the few places where just about nobody will bother you.
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
Fuck, that made me laugh.
But yeah, rubbing alcohol works great. As long as there's no power or you remove the power-source immediately, and clean & dry it out thoroughly, 99% of the time the device will survive. I dropped my cell phone into a bowl of cereal(I got called while eating breakfast and tried to hold it with my shoulder while still eating), and it still works after 4 years. It was chocolate milk too.
Still, I'd have chucked the mouse anyway.
Now be honest. Did you type this on the can?
Why... No! Of course not!
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I'd throw the mouse out, personally.
Me too. I can understand saving cash, but this is three pages of discussion on trying to clean a cheap accessory dropped in fecal matter. I would always think on that with every use of the mouse.
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Actually it's about half a page of cleaning the mouse, and two and half pages of people expressing amazement. His problem is solved, poop isn't the destroyer of worlds and once you clean it up, it is no longer an issue.
If poop was really that big a deal, none of us would have made it out of infancy because our mothers would have thrown us away the first time we crapped.
Either way I use a wired mouse for many reasons that include dropping it. As I once almost dropped a mouse down a sewer hole once. It slipped out of my equipment bag and was only saved by the adapter at the end catching in the strap.
And yea, washing the hell out of it then using rubbing alcohol should work fine. Personally I'd just go get a new mouse because I would know where it has been.
I've had a keyboard get drenched in pop before, tossed it into the shower and soaked it down. Left it to dry for close to a week and it was fine. Had a set of earphones go half through a wash, pulled them out, let them dry for a day and I'm still using them now.
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