Re: Orange juice spilled into laptop

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From: David A. Hernes (hernes@math.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 14:23:02 PDT

Try vodka.

Dave

At 2:07 PM -0700 4/22/2002, Michael Sinatra wrote:
>PLEASE, folks! We need to break out of the mentality that spilling orange
>juice into electronic components is a Bad Thing. Sure, the keyboard gets
>a little sticky, but the anti-oxidant characteristics of the Vitamin C,
>plus the flavinoids that are in O.J., are very healthy for electronic
>components. For example, about a year ago, a Cisco 2424XL fast ethernet
>switch that CNS was using to host a meeting was the beneficiary of an
>entire cup of O.J., which had been spilled by a senior network staff
>member from another UC Campus. (That campus shall remain nameless, but
>its initials are UCLA.)
>
>Since then, the switch has performed flawlessly, and its packet-forwarding
>capabilities have actually increased.
>
>There has been a lot of vilification of O.J. over the past few years;
>let's not let a sticky laptop further sully its reputation.
>
>michael
>
>On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Larry M. Jones wrote:
>
>> Personally, I'd never eat cake with orange juice. Eggs would be better,
>> but if you get them on the keyboard you might not be able to face the
>> repair people.
>>
>> At 13:03 04/22/2002, Tom Holub wrote:
>
>> >With orange juice, I'd recommend something like angel food cake. Chocolate
>> >would be too heavy.
>
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