- 4. August 2010: Request for SPOT hack materials
- 29. July 2010: Moving to an 8 volt system
- 20. July 2010: Kiddie Pool Test
- 3. June 2010: Acrylic top
- 27. May 2010: Back at it
- 26. April 2010: Back on-line
- 6. September 2009: 23 grams of thrust, baby!
- 3. September 2009: haven't written in a while
- 3. September 2009:
- 11. August 2009: Course #1 Successfully Completed!!
Minor set back
I spilled a beer on my laptop at last night’s working session. Not just a little bit, either. It was so bad that my off-switch stopped functioning and I had to yard my battery out before I started seeing sparks (wouldn’t be the first time my lair/R&D lab smelled of burnt plastic). After that, I held my laptop keyboard under the tap, turned it upside down to let the water drip out, then opened it up as much as I could to let it dry out. The next morning, it didn’t work very well. It didn’t boot properly the first few times, I got USB-related blue screens of death, and the glide-point didn’t work. But, after letting it run, eventually all the moisture evaporated and it’s back to its usually crappy running mode.
I don’t really know if that’s the proper procedure for a beer spillage, but I panicked.
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30. May 2009 at 06:56
Def. alchol abuse and you should be either egged in the inner harbor, or walk the plank!
31. May 2009 at 21:56
Fess up Sean, it was a Peach Daiquiri wasn’t it?
1. June 2009 at 06:51
No, it was actually a boiler-maker. I didn’t mention the whiskey because I didn’t want people to feel bad about not being as manly as me.
7. April 2010 at 11:12
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