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ruby.monkey

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Last night (well, early this morning) I had a little accident. My youngest son had decided that 3am was the perfect time to be sick and so I was up to scrub and change. Since sleep was gone I elected to use the time profitably, scanning the last few rolls in my backlog. It being 4am by now, I sought the aide of a large mug of coffee; and, it being 4am, I spilled it. I sat down at my desk, clipped the coffee mug, and had it dump half its contents in my lap (hot! No more sprogs for ruby.monkey!). Instinctively I swatted the damned mug away from me, splashing the other half all over my desk.

So there I was, a coffee castrato, with my desk awash - my PC keyboard was a gonner - and all I could think of was, 'must clean the Leica!'; and then, 'need coffee!'

Priorities. I think I have mine straight.
 
Any negatives involved and it would have been my first priority, then camera. Then a tie as to what needed treating first, a scolded crotch or a thirst for caffeine. I think you are as sane as the next person.
 
Now I understand why coffee is claimed as being dangerous. But those alarm nights, such and similar, are part of our duties. Good part is you still are able to see and think, the rest will gather itselves.
 
ruby.monkey said:
Last night (well, early this morning) I had a little accident. My youngest son had decided that 3am was the perfect time to be sick and so I was up to scrub and change. Since sleep was gone I elected to use the time profitably, scanning the last few rolls in my backlog. It being 4am by now, I sought the aide of a large mug of coffee; and, it being 4am, I spilled it. I sat down at my desk, clipped the coffee mug, and had it dump half its contents in my lap (hot! No more sprogs for ruby.monkey!). Instinctively I swatted the damned mug away from me, splashing the other half all over my desk.

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I hate when that happens . . . ;)
 
Sorry to know what happened, but if negatives are ok it's not so bad. In my home there are not many rules, but one of the fews where I'm inflexible sounds "no liquid (coffee, coke or...) within two meters from computer and scanner".
Need some comfort ? solid chocolate :)
robert
 
Maximilian said:
Why aren't computers "weather sealed" yet? This happens (almost) everyone from time to time..
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There are "tough" versions of laptops but most of them are for militaries. Also casual PC's can be fitted with WP keybords (which for avid coffee lover is cheaper solution).
 
btgc said:
There are "tough" versions of laptops but most of them are for militaries. Also casual PC's can be fitted with WP keybords (which for avid coffee lover is cheaper solution).
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My personal laptop has been a Thinkpad X60 for the last six years. It stands on little feet and has a spill-proof keyboard with a downward drain pipe that has a little drop painted next to the outlet on the bottom. It has suffered this kind of situation several times without any problems. (It also survived a drop upon solid concrete from five feet without anything worse than a few sratches, and six years of fieldwork dragging it through Central Asia on buses, trains, in the trunks of 4x4s on bumpy pseudoroads and in the cargo bays of Soviet turboprop airplanes between -30 and +45 degrees Centigrade.)

So there are military-grade tough laptops out there, and there are laptops that are just tough by themselves... (And there are others that seem well-made but aren't as tough as they seem, and when they break they turn out not to be user-serviceable, but I digress ;))
 
btgc said:
I hear colleagues complains about new Lenovo Thinkpads. Older (from late IBM era) ones indeed seem to last better.
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Yeah, mine was made by Lenovo but still says IBM on the lid. My next one will be a Panasonic Toughbook.
 
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