Let me see now.
You you take your fav luxury leather case, you fill it with all.your most essential kit and thereafter you put a tinnie in there with them. What could possibly go wrong?
Reg exec in deluxe roo-skin pen case beernami trauma
We're shaken to report that El Reg big cheese Linus "Fish Fingers"* Birtles yesterday suffered a traumatic beernami which left the contents of his executive leather case "totally f@@k€d". Linus's leather bag after the beernami Speaking to our Bootnotes department while recuperating with a very large brandy at the bar of a …
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Wednesday 4th March 2015 03:27 GMT Dave 32
Laptop Demise
Had that happen to a cow-orker once. She put a 591 milliLiter (20 fluid ounce) screw top bottle of Pepsi in her bag with her laptop, without adequately securing the top. Somewhat surprisingly, the machine lasted long enough to extract critical data from the hard disk before it went casters-up. Fortunately, I had a sufficiently large USB flash key to contain the data. Moral of the story? Don't carry drinks in the same bag as your laptop. And, carry a large USB flash key, too. Oh, and something about remembering to back up your data occasionally.
Dave
P.S. I'll get my coat. It's the one with the 64GB USB flash key in the pocket (with the contents encrypted, of course!).
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Wednesday 4th March 2015 16:13 GMT Steven Raith
Similar problem with e-cig liquid....
I get 50ml bottles of electric ciggy liquid. They come as a bottle with a seperate, threaded dropper to replace the leakproof tab and cap that the bottle is sealed with for transport. Fine.
Remove cap and leakproof tab. Screw on dropper top. Seems tight. Slip into jacket pocket.
Finish contents of current tank. Open up, get bottle out...hey, this is a bit slimey....ah. Half the contents gone. Pocket soaked in PG/VG mix.
Turns out the dropper cap has it's own 'tamper proof' seal (like wot bottles of water/coke have - you know the one) which is meant for when it's put on a suitable bottle with a catch ring, which the actual bottle of e-cig liquid is not. Cut off the tamper proof ring, and it screws down tightly.
That's what I get for making assumptions. Anyway, the jacket was put through the wash, but the lining was still stained so I had to junk it.
Bah.
Steven R
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Monday 9th March 2015 17:48 GMT Steven Raith
Re: Similar problem with e-cig liquid....
Citation needed.
Also, no, they don't. PG/VG, flavouring, nicotine (all pharmaceutical grade) is all that any good E-cig liquid contains.
Research that shows harm from them at greater than a percentage of smoking a cigarette has almost without exception, been rubbished by all reputable peer sources. For example, yes, you can get formaldahyde from them. If you run the coils *way* over spec for *way* longer than anyone would in the real world.
It's like claiming that Honda VTEC engines expire prematurely because you put it in neutral and wedged a brick on the throttle. Yes, that sort of abuse might cause problems.
Show me some reputable evidence of serious harm - that is, something less than 90% less harmful than a normal ciggy - and I might reconsider.
At the moment, the main research into e-cig harm is whether it's between 90% or 95% less harmful than a boggo ciggy....
Steven R
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Sunday 8th March 2015 16:53 GMT Infernoz
WTF is any pen doing without a solid cover, even in a soft case, in a bag with valuable items.
An protected pen tip is an accident waiting to happen for the pen tip, any soft case it is in and anything else it can touch, so just deserts for his stupidity; an Aluminium Beer can in a bag with valuable items, an event worse idea!
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
