For Fuck's Sake - WHY!?!?!? (annoyed)

[Killdozersnakeboy]

GOD DAMN IT.

Guys, don't try to text while you're sitting on the john, or you may have an accident similar to the one I had this afternoon wherein I DROPPED MY CELL PHONE INTO THE TOILET INTO WHICH I HAD MOMENTS BEFORE DEFECATED IN.

SHIT.

I am still having difficulty processing the things I had to do to get it out since I am not going to flush a cell phone in a 60 year old building.  Don't want some plumber slapping that unspeakably filthy lump of plastic up on the sink, saying "Now there's yer problem."  But god, I shudder thinking about the retrieval.  Just....you don't wanna know.

Surprisingly, the thing still kind of works.  The display is fine, it dials and receives calls, but the outgoing sound is distant and quiet.

I'll need to check my policy, but I'm pretty sure dropping your device into a poop-filled toilet voids something on the insurance.  Maybe I should just turn it off, put it away and report it lost.

GOD CHRIST WHAT HAVE I DONE.

Well I've worked in insurance for many years and can confirm that contents insurance claims for dropping stuff in the bog are quite common. Phones, dentures, earrings, hearing aides, you name it. It should be covered.

[clare]

Yuck. I thought most cell phone/toilet interface events were from keeping a phone in the back pocket of the pants, the iPhone, especially, just slips right out (almost did it once).

good luck with it.

[Thermofusion]

Mychael I think I can help you out, but I'm going to need the following bits of information from you:

-the last three meals you ate
-exact frequency and texture of your bowel movements for the last seven days
-rough estimate of your daily fiber intake
-two stool samples, one sample from the AM, one from the afternoon or evening
-any familial history of dropping things in the toilet

also I'm going to need to stick a variety of instruments up your butt.

[donblood]

Maaik it might be too late for this, thanks to the battery thing, but...

TIP FOR THE PROFESSIONAL WHO DROPS HIS BLACKBERRY IN THE TOILET TWO DIFFERENT TIMES IN HIS LIFE:

1) Retrieve the phone.  Gross, but whatever.  That gross came out of you anyway, you big gross thing.
2) Immediately remove the battery.  Even before drying it off, cleaning it, etc.  See editorial note in #1.
3) Put the phone, without the battery, in a ziploc bag.  Add a goodly quantity of uncooked rice.  I've gone with about an inch of rice in a gallon bag.
4) Put the bag somewhere warm.  On top of an oven, on the hot water heater, by the baseboard/radiator/vent, etc
5) Obviously do not put your phone somewhere hot.
6) Leave it there for a day.  Rice is a desiccant and will grab all the water (& associated electricity-conducting ions) out of the phone.
7) Replace battery & turn it on.  Does it work?  It did for my phones.

PS Maaik I feel your pain.  Mine were only #1 incidents but I was able to imagine the horror of a bad #2.

[donblood]

PPS one of the reasons I love this place is I can say something about ions without nerds getting all on my dick about it

[lastclearchance]

PPS one of the reasons I love this place is I can say something about ions without nerds getting all on my dick about it

as long as you pronounce it correctly

[Maaik]

Maaik it might be too late for this, thanks to the battery thing, but...

TIP FOR THE PROFESSIONAL WHO DROPS HIS BLACKBERRY IN THE TOILET TWO DIFFERENT TIMES IN HIS LIFE:

1) Retrieve the phone.  Gross, but whatever.  That gross came out of you anyway, you big gross thing.
2) Immediately remove the battery.  Even before drying it off, cleaning it, etc.  See editorial note in #1.
3) Put the phone, without the battery, in a ziploc bag.  Add a goodly quantity of uncooked rice.  I've gone with about an inch of rice in a gallon bag.
4) Put the bag somewhere warm.  On top of an oven, on the hot water heater, by the baseboard/radiator/vent, etc
5) Obviously do not put your phone somewhere hot.
6) Leave it there for a day.  Rice is a desiccant and will grab all the water (& associated electricity-conducting ions) out of the phone.
7) Replace battery & turn it on.  Does it work?  It did for my phones.

PS Maaik I feel your pain.  Mine were only #1 incidents but I was able to imagine the horror of a bad #2.

Warm and for a day...okay, I did disassemble the phone as soon as I'd gotten it out of there.  The battery was dry, as was much of the inside.  I'm guessing just the little diaphragm for the mouthpiece got wet.  I'll put the thing in a ricebag over night and see if that works.

[YojimboMonkey]

PROTIP: do not eat the rice afterwards

[donblood]

PROTIP:  After you're done, use the toilet-rice in your prison wine

[Andrew_TSKS]

On the front page of the earbuds forum right now, there are threads about the deaths of Rowland S. Howard, Vic Chesnutt, Lhasa, Jay Reatard, and Jack Rose, and I just found out that Teddy Pendergrass also died today. Last summer was unofficially nicknamed the "Summer Of Death," but now winter is seeming just as bad. I'm not happy about this, people. Cool people need to stop dying.

[davy]

No joke. It's been pretty unsettling to say the least.

[Maaik]

damn, we are broke and I don't get paid for another week.  I'm biting my nails and hoping her financial aid gets in so we can buy some dang groceries.  Crap.

[DCDave]

US Airways changed the way their miles redemption works and instituted black-out dates for high level preferred fliers.  This means that I now have to pay for both tickets when I go BCN later this year as the return flight occurs on a blackout date. 

FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS.

[Antero]

On the front page of the earbuds forum right now, there are threads about the deaths of Rowland S. Howard, Vic Chesnutt, Lhasa, Jay Reatard, and Jack Rose, and I just found out that Teddy Pendergrass also died today. Last summer was unofficially nicknamed the "Summer Of Death," but now winter is seeming just as bad. I'm not happy about this, people. Cool people need to stop dying.

People are always going to be dying, and the explosion of celebrity since the rise of mass media is going to make notable deaths more and more common.

I envision a world in which our entire culture is engulfed by tributes to the dead.

[C of heartbreak]

I envision a world in which our entire culture is engulfed by tributes to the dead.

?

[Thermofusion]

everyone should get a pyramid when they die

[C of heartbreak]

the next will be the iTomb generation

[andronicus]

the next will be the iTomb generation

Actually it seems to me that funeral and memorial practices are undergoing pretty rapid change in the US.  Pretty soon the standard package will be cremation, remains handed off to centralized vault complex in Altoona PA, tasteful Facebook memorial page, and a vinyl decal on the back of your 98 Ford Explorer, all

IN LOVING MEMORY
[FOX RACING LOGO]
Jaedon Maddison Smith
1997-2023
RIP

[Maaik]

vinyl decal on the back of your 98 Ford Explorer, all

IN LOVING MEMORY
[FOX RACING LOGO]
Jaedon Maddison Smith
1997-2023
RIP

Damn, yeah!  I thought I was the only one who noticed these cropping up.  WTF dedicating your busted minivan to a deceased loved one?

[Greg Nog]

MAAIK I DON'T SEE YOU DEDICATING A BUSTED MINIVAN TO ANYTHING BETTER

[jebreject]

damn, we are broke and I don't get paid for another week.  I'm biting my nails and hoping her financial aid gets in so we can buy some dang groceries.  Crap.

Same here, though no financial aid to hope for, plus a parking ticket to be paid, and a water bill that's apparently due, like, in two days. (WTF, landlord, you can't give me some warning with shit.) Oh yeah, and my brakes are fucked up on my van and I have no money to fix it.

But yeah dude, I hope you can buy groceries too! Things will get better, for all of us.

[cold before sunrise]

so i've been having this farm-girl fantasy but property around here can go for around half a million for land alone and there's only really potato farms, although they are very good potato farms (apparently every potato in the world comes from ancestors of pemberton valley), where i am more interested in a homestead. of course the first place that comes to mind when i think 'affordable property' is detroit. and why not start farming out of detroit? if somebody registered as a non-profit and let the neighbours take what they want the proprietor could even accept donations and write off expenses. have discovered others thinking along the same lines:

http://www.urbanfarming.org/
http://www.hantzfarmsdetroit.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaXGMRCSUR0&feature=related

[Bernard]

PPS one of the reasons I love this place is I can say something about ions without nerds getting all on my dick about it

as long as you pronounce it correctly

don't forget the glottal stop

[diesel_powered]

French press carafe broke today.  Stupid cheap French press.

[clare]

Bugger. Was it spectacularly catastrophic? The worst one is when you've filled it with coffee and water and your coffee's a bit fine-ground so you have to push really hard to get the plunger moving, and then the carafe breaks, showering you, your bench, and your kitchen with a mixture of boiling water, coffee grounds and glass shards. I really hope it didn't do that to you. You can probably get a replacement carafe. Bodum make them, as do some of the cheaper brands.