Try putting it in a container of rice for a week or so. Might work.
-xtien
Yup. There’s also companies that sell specialized moisture absorbing pellets, but the important part is to really let it dry before trying to switch it on.
I went to this indoor bathing place with waterslides and all other sorts of family fun. My 8 year old insisted on us doing the wild water slide that started inside and then continued outside the building before going in again. The air outside was 19 F and windy (and the water in the slide only knee deep) and only after the third trip did we notice the sign saying that due to technical issues the slides wasn’t heated properly. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
It’s interesting to me – I picked up a cheap Casio keyboard from Target – okay, a $200 Casio 76-key keyboard with a bunch of fancy stuff I’ll probably never use. I’m going to teach myself how to play keyboard/piano. And when that fails, I’ll get lessons.
I played trumpet and French horn in high school band, almost ten years ago now. I did marching, symphonic, and jazz band. Due to some tooth problems, I stopped playing after I graduated, and with me set to get braces to correct some problems any day now (and that’s a thread for another day when I really want to freak myself out), I’ve been wanting to get back into music. I was a damn good trumpet player, and in the last two years I’ve gotten interested in remixing music and potentially writing my own – but I have no idea how to do that. So I’m going to learn. I’m only 27 and I have a musical background, so now’s the time, right?
The keyboard’s pretty awesome in that the display will tell me what note I’m hitting. I remembered some musical theory from jazz band when we were learning how to solo without going off-key, so last night I was playing simple chords from memory. My big issue will be reading bass clef music (I know it in THEORY, but ACEG just seems wrong to my eyes, it’s all FACE to me) and getting my left hand to do something different than my right hand. I know that all comes with time.
But yeah, by this summer I’m sure I’ll have someone who has a damn clue what they’re doing teaching me.
If you know any music theory, I’d say the piano/keyboard is about the easiest to grasp. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to play, but the notes are all lined up side by side, making it pretty easy to tell what note you are on. You don’t need a display (though it doesn’t hurt, I guess) because you can just glance at the pattern of ebony and ivory and tell where you are.
Been a looooooong time since I tried anything – but yeah, it’s coming back fairly quickly. Piano’s still a new instrument for me entirely, though.
Yay! I found a new apartment! It’s in the Castro in SF, a totally rad neighborhood full of bookstores and restaurants and homosexuals.
Probably hobosexuals, too.
Now I get to do that fun thing of integrating all of my communal stuff with that of the other 3 roommates’ stuff.
I’m also in spend-aholic mode. Yesterday at a nice grocery store I found myself irresistibly drawn toward these sexy bamboo cutting boards. Sup with that?
Leah_C
4548
Congrats on the new place!
I think moving flips some switch that tells your brain to spend ridiculous amounts of money on ridiculous things for a couple of months following the move. Yesterday I decided that since we got a new dining table, I also needed LOTS AND LOTS OF LEGO to build on the new dining table. Three new Star Wars sets. I’ve also decided that an empty fridge is a sad fridge so there are now 4 kinds of cheeses, all costing roughly $25-30/lb. Now I’ve decided that all the plastic and wire hangers need to be replaced with wooden hangers and the bed has to go and while the bed is getting replaced, why not also get a new frame for the bed?! Bye bye tax return.
Sarkus
4549
I let it dry out for another night and it appears to be working, though the battery might be messed up. It shows only a partial charge and doesn’t seem to be charging up. So I might end up having to replace that, but I can live with that as long as it isn’t too expensive.
what kind is it? there’s no other one like it on ebay, etc?
tiohn
4551
Don’t do it! Bamboo cutting boards are none of things that they advertise and will dull your knives faster than anything. Mine is my greatest kitchen purchase regret.
I just discovered the German Olympic Hockey team jersey. It’s so sexy. I will do anything for one of those.
Fortunately you only need to do $89 worth of things.
Flowers
4554
WarrenM
4555
Don’t do it! Bamboo cutting boards are none of things that they advertise and will dull your knives faster than anything. Mine is my greatest kitchen purchase regret.
Really? I remember Alton Brown advocating them at one point. Why would grass dull your knives?
Flowers
4557
If you check the comments section, it’s almost instantly filling with people that I don’t know and who have never seen me perform calling me unfunny. That is the downside of providing internet access to a town where everyone considers themselves to be quite witty. Oh internet, how I love the, let me count the ways…
WarrenM
4558
On the plus side, there’s some nice Photoshop source for someone to do something creative with.
Flowers
4559
There is that. Oh Warren, you’re the silver lining to any cloud.
They have to be joke comments. No one says “there are hundreds of ways to be funny about Downs syndrome and that isn’t one of them” in any seriousness.
