Yesterday, I was cleaning some junk off my desk and knocked over a just-filled 20oz cup of water directly into my ThinkPad T43. I’m posting this from that same laptop thanks to info I found online and got from a good friend that is familiar with ThinkPads and works for Lenovo.
Here are some tips to [...]
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So You Spilled Water on your Laptop…
January 16, 2009 – 11:46 am
Wildebeest, who?
October 8, 2008 – 3:53 pm
Nathan: Knock, knock.
Me: Who’s there?
Nathan: Wildebeest!
Me: Wildebeest, who?
Nathan: Wildebeest Girl Scout cookies!!!
Me: Huh?
Nathan: [checks joke book] Oh. It was supposed to be bison.
Boo Berry!
October 6, 2008 – 1:49 pm
Halloween’s right around the corner… and that means Boo Berry returns to the store! Start the day off right.
I Am An Insect
September 14, 2008 – 3:02 pm
This weekend, we took the kids to the NC Museum of Art to see Paperhand Puppet Intervention’s I Am An Insect. Wow. It was incredible to watch and the live accompanying band was excellent. The kids had a great time and haven’t stopped talking about it…
Here are a couple pics. Note that if the one [...]
oh, nevermind
August 29, 2008 – 6:55 pm
My MP3 jukebox displays album covers on the TV when a track is playing. Said Nora, my 3-1/2 year old, of the cover to Nirvana’s Nevermind:
That baby is sinking because it’s not wearing its floaties.
Don’t worry… I’m Superghost!
June 15, 2008 – 6:06 pm
Our family just returned from a trip to the beach. A sure sign that I let the TV act as baby-sitter a couple’a times too many: I just overheard Nora, my 3.5yr old, exclaim (in her spookiest voice) “Don’t worry… I’m Superghost! I’ll scare you and then save you!”
No more Scooby Doo for you, Nora.
screen-time bucks
October 30, 2007 – 1:10 pm
In an effort to manage TV/computer use by my almost-6-year-old son, we’ve implemented a method discussed a couple of months ago on ParentHacks. The gist is that you give your kids fake money that can be traded in for “screen time” in half-hour increments. “Screen time” in our house covers anything with a screen: computer, [...]