So I sit down at my usual station monitoring the internet.
Nothing going on at the moment, so I pour myself a cup of (ahem) coffee.
My laptop is tuned into SDMB, Google, and an obscure website hosted from some server inside Outer Sloblovia which only streamed Marx Brothers movies and an occasional Charlie Chaplin film clip.
I have (had) a wireless mouse in which my elbow just again knocked it into said cup.
This is the second time in three days that I have done this.
Please commit me to some institution that will prevent this from happening again.
:smack:
I’ve lost a couple mice to beer pint monsters. I usually drink out of bottles or cans so it rarely is a problem, but every now and then I have a keg, or don’t want to drink out of a 40oz. In such cases, i now try to put the beer vessel to the opposite side of the mouse.
And yes, Idiots.
I’ve never made that exact mistake. But I do relate to having things set up exactly the way you like them. I tend to be either a slob or very neat and orderly, not much room in between. Not exactly a direct response to your comments but the best response I have at the moment.
umm…folks…you know why, when they invented that rolly-ball thing, they called it a mouse?
Not just because it scurries around the tabletop—but because it has a tail.
And there’s a reason why computer mice have “tails”: It’s a protective measure, to protect your equipment from the forces of nature.
Because …as soon as you get up from your desk. the cat will jump onto it.
And the cat will bat around anything that moves, till it falls off the table.
Therefore, God and Bill Gates have decreed that mouse wires must always be shorter than the distance between the desk and the floor.
Or the beer mug.
That makes two of us. If I set beverages on the floor I’d be kicking them over too much.
My cup always sits right next to my mouse, just far enough to the right that I can use the open space for mouse navigation.
Not in my case.
The cup was sitting on the floor next to my chair. The mouse was on the arm of said chair. Elbow meets mouse and mouse drowns in cup.
A sad day for all of us.
After recently stating that my cup was safely off to the side of my wireless mouse, I just now picked up the cup and managed to slosh the contents onto my mouse.
It was actually alive while immersed - green light - but it died while trying to dry it out in front of a fan.
RIP mouse, sorry I killed you. BTW, I hate track pads on laptops. Now I will have to find your cousin to replace you.
I don’t play basketball, but the warranty on the MS Wireless mouse says nothing about making a 3-pointer from ones’ chair into a cup of ale.
Twice.
I need a new hobby.
I share an office with my boss (well, my dad). It’s up two steps from the rest of the building.
A few years back he walked (well, stomped) into the office. When he did that a clock fell off the wall, landed on his desk and knocked over a cup of water which spilled all over his keyboard and all the papers he had on his desk.
I told him, again, that he should, for this reason, use bottled water or at least something with a lid. He couldn’t stop laughing and said that in 25+ years, that’s never happened and he wasn’t worried about it.
The exact same thing happened about 2 hours later.
If it’s really alive when you kill power to it, it should be OK. Did you try rinsing it with distilled water, then letting it dry before turning it on? (You could put it into uncooked rice to help it dry.) It may be too late for this mouse, but I suspect you’ll have to deal with this again in the future.
