Not exactly according to plan

[etherealfionna]

Yesterday I was working from home, all set up on the kitchen table where I could stare out the window at my neighbours going past, where I was close to the kettle, where I could easily make myself some toast to nibble, or something else to eat, as I continued working

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[uglychicken]

Oh no! Are you sure there's no chance of the soup being repaired by a soup technician? Assuming it's still under soup guarantee? Maybe you could rescue some of the soup components and use them to construct a new soup from soup spare parts. Etc ad nauseum.
Gah!
I remember when I spilled coffee over AM's keyboard. I pulled off my shirt to wipe it off shouting FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. Eddie then took his shirt off and ran up and down the kitchen waving it around and yelling FUCK FUCK FUCK.

[etherealfionna]

This is where I should reply with a cute (but not as cute as your) story about what Tesla did yesterday when I threw soup all over my laptop.

Unfortunately, I find it difficult to lie. And reality involves details about dogs in heat that we don't need to repeat.

Also, the sequel to the soup and the laptop will be forthcoming. Boundless excitement.

[pgmcc]

Severe OUCH!

You have my heart felt sympathy.

[etherealfionna]

Thanks!

[kittenexploring]

Laptop manuals can be very incomplete. It's quite understandable that you didn't know, but it's actually not advisable to throw soup over laptops.

Shouldn't really do much harm, though, unless the laptop had open bits on top to drain through and the soup was given a good chance to penetrate and do soupish things to the internals.

[etherealfionna]

Thanks for the hopeful advice, unfortunately it doesn't apply. The laptop is dee ee dee dead. Luckily, it is only 'mine' in the broadest sense, and work are replacing it. With the newer sexier model, so actually this is almost a win.

[kittenexploring]

Poor dead laptop. I apologise for doubting your skills with soup. How soup-proof is the newer sexier model?

Something else quite unrelated but I lack people to share the pain with here: :-P
Okay, two other things first. Where to put the smiley when you use a colon and just what has the internet done to me that I first wrote 'by' instead of 'but I'?
So, anyway, pain. I've been running an app - php, mysql and an html UI - for a few hundred users. Rife with bugs and things that could be done better. I find problems, find the cause, work out fixes and then since the authors don't care I either keep rewriting the code with each update or try to ignore the problems. You do something akin to this professionally so I wonder, how does one salve the pain of seeing problems go unfixed despite your work?

"It's right there! That's the problem! This is why every day for the past year you have had to tell people to delete their query cache!" *mutters*

[kittenexploring]

It seems bitching on lj helps. That feels better. :D

So, laptops eh? Big and sexy or small and sexy?