In Which I Am A Model Of Grace

[abracanabra]

I put a thumb drive in my shirt pocket and head upstairs towards the computer. The cats are being needy, so I stop to feed them. As I am bending over the kitten's dish, the thumb drive slips out of my pocket and lands in the water dish. Crap! I fish it out and go downstairs to submerge it in the rice container.

Instead, as the pantry is dark and I am groggy, I put it in the flour. As soon as I realize I have, in fact, breaded the thumb drive, I jerk it back out. When I do this, I knock the cornstarch off the shelf and it lands in the kitten's downstairs water dish, spilling water all over. I pick the box up before any cornstarch spills. I dry off the box. I pull the thumb drive back out and blow the flour off as well as I can and put it in the rice container. Then I mop up the spilled water.

Now I just have to remember to take the thumb drive out so that I don't accidentally cook it along with the rice.

Comments

[skywayman.livejournal.com]

The best part is that you probably could have just tapped the water out and let it sit somewhere warm for a day and it would have been fine.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

I figured better safe than sorry. I didn't realize it wasn't going to be very safe at all!

[utilitygeek.livejournal.com]

Understandable, but thumb drives tend to be rugged little buggers. As long as you don't break any of the connector points (usually where the USB plug attaches), they tend to keep chugging.

I had one go through the wash. Yes, washer, with soap, and the dryer. Not only did it still work (it's on my keychain right now), but I didn't lose any data. Rugged little thing, indeed.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Wow.

[jesshartley.livejournal.com]

You invented information tempura!

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

I may have occasionally called information tasty, but that's really not what I meant!

[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

Lol, sounds like a great scene from a future story :)

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Ngg. I dunno, I tend to like my main characters competent!

[bitwise.livejournal.com]

All we need is some wet concrete for you to step in. And two men crossing the street carrying a plate glass window.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Are you suggesting I have a career in show biz, sir?

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Let me begin with: I hope your thumb drive survives the experience.

Now. I have to say this is funny in a train-wreck kind of way, the more so since it didn't happen to me this time. Seriously, I'm like a walking one-man Three Stooges routine sometimes.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Then you should also be making posts like this!

It is rather entertaining.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

http://mmerriam.livejournal.com/285313.html

http://mmerriam.livejournal.com/47140.html

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Excellent, carry on.

[aedifica]

I dipped the business end of a flash drive in hot soup once. I pulled it out immediately, aghast at what I had done. I used a napkin to blot as much soup as I could out of the end of it and let it dry. I was very happy that it still worked after that!

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Yeah, soup sounds a little more dire!

[aedifica]

Well, it was more viscous than water and the drive wasn't fully submerged. I think I'd have been even more alarmed at full submersion in water!

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

I'm always kind of worried about stickier things or things that might leave a residue. Not that I do this all the time! But if I spill something on my keyboard, for example.

Regardless, I'm glad that it sounds like all ends well.

[guppiecat]

If that happens, you just need to copy a lot of ones off of the thumb drive. The ones are pointier and more abrasive than the zeros, so they clean better.

Note, not ON to the thumb drive, if you do that, the sticky stuff gets gunked up inside it and causes file corruption. You need to make sure that the ones move from the drive to your computer, where the gunk can get blown out by the fans.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Ngggg.

[discoflamingo.livejournal.com]

Let's just say I'm glad you don't own any bear traps.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Phil's very insistent on the "no traps" thing. It's quite sad. On the up side, I do still have all my appendages!