You spilled coffee on your keyboard and instead of doing what the average person does (jumping back, shouting, running around the room to find a paper towel or something similar) you decide to take a picture and post it to your blog.
I wanted to relay a story about that coffee cup – a few years ago, my flatmate gave me a set of these for my birthday (so, so cool!). A week or two later, he was going through his bills for the month when I heard him collapse into hysterical laughter – turns out, upon examining the receipt, that they’d given him a sizeable discount on the little guys due to them being ‘damaged merchandise.’
Number one rule (after alway have two back ups) is no liquid allowed on the same dimensional surface as computer unless it is tamed with a firm lid. On your behalf, I say, “crap!”
Hm, so i guess no one yet came up with some plastic/vinyl or other type table sticker to color code work surface areas as coffee free and coffee forbidden places? visual cues i mean.
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d @swissmiss oh, ich hab auch noch so eine schöne (keramik, aber zerknittert) gibt’s die noch irgendwo? http://tinyurl.com/naewjt
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 7:50 am
has happened to me a couple of times as well… :)
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 7:54 am
Hope there’s not sugar in that
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 7:56 am
@Thierry: You can still get them at MoMAstore.org
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 8:05 am
Kein zweifel
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 8:22 am
You spilled coffee on your keyboard and instead of doing what the average person does (jumping back, shouting, running around the room to find a paper towel or something similar) you decide to take a picture and post it to your blog.
Just another reason why you’re so awesome Tina.
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 8:41 am
@Tanner, I was waiting for someone to point that out. Yeah, first picture, then clean up! ;) (And thanks for the thumbs up)
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 8:49 am
most of the time keyboards can bounce back from that. just give it time to sit and dry before trying it.
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 8:50 am
Next time? This cup from MoMA: http://tinyurl.com/7l6mlj
I feel your pain. It’s happened to me with tea more than once.
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 10:01 am
I wanted to relay a story about that coffee cup – a few years ago, my flatmate gave me a set of these for my birthday (so, so cool!). A week or two later, he was going through his bills for the month when I heard him collapse into hysterical laughter – turns out, upon examining the receipt, that they’d given him a sizeable discount on the little guys due to them being ‘damaged merchandise.’
We suffer for our art.
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 10:04 am
That sucks, I’m sorry… at least your cup is awesome? Does that help? No? :(
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 10:29 am
Clean up on aisle Swiss!
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 11:33 am
Use one of your daughter’s sippy cups next time, eh?
;-)
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 11:40 am
Can you turn this into a wallpaper? :)
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 12:53 pm
Number one rule (after alway have two back ups) is no liquid allowed on the same dimensional surface as computer unless it is tamed with a firm lid. On your behalf, I say, “crap!”
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 1:24 pm
Please let us know how Apple’s aluminum keyboard holds-up.
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 2:12 pm
i love people who photograph their messes before cleaning them up.
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 5:09 pm
If there’s suger in it, there’s no coming back from that….
New keyboard – stat.
Feel grateful it’s just an unfortunate coffee incidence and not a giant branch in your roof.
A big tree branch smashed a hole through my new office roof a couple of weeks ago :-))
All fixed now, will blog about it soon.
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 5:25 pm
Same thing happened to me this morning…but with Listerine. Yikes!
Sep 23rd, 2009 / 6:27 pm
i seem to do this on a 2x a year basis…ugh…hope it turns out ok!
Sep 24th, 2009 / 10:06 am
Hm, so i guess no one yet came up with some plastic/vinyl or other type table sticker to color code work surface areas as coffee free and coffee forbidden places? visual cues i mean.
Sep 24th, 2009 / 4:26 pm
I always wondered about the center of gravity for those porcelain crumpled cups. It wasn’t your fault!
Sep 25th, 2009 / 12:17 am
Maybe the coffee cleaned the keyboard a bit? –> I have never cleanded my keyboard!
Sep 25th, 2009 / 3:10 am
70°C, mittlere Schiene. Kein Thema
Sep 25th, 2009 / 9:52 am
wish you wouldn’t use plastic cups for your coffee though :(
Sep 26th, 2009 / 4:44 am
This happened to me too, I flipped it, dried it for 14 days and it worked for 4 more months, then it stopped.
Sep 27th, 2009 / 11:39 pm
a wet cloth with a little dishwashing liquid does miracles to coffee-fied keyboards
Sep 28th, 2009 / 9:44 am
hmm.. perhaps this wouldn’t have happened had we been using a coffee mug… something reusable and more sturdy…
Oct 1st, 2009 / 12:22 am