This is a fantastic idea. Position B is a very good idea. I am going to tweet about it for sure! I’ve already spilled twice from position A or from position right in front of the keyboard (very bad idea)

There is a new gadget out that stops you spilling your coffee all over your desk and laptop. Its called the Adkaf desktop coffee mug holder. You can search for them on Google.

Stating that a spill is certainly fatal or will cause permanent damage is exaggeration. Many many laptops recover just fine from a spill if the liquid is black coffee, water, or diet soda. Once the insides are dried out many people are happy to discover that their laptops are just fine.

I know this from personal experience as I was dumb enough to spill an entire cup of black coffee on my laptop. However, I opened it up, cleaned it out and let it totally dry. And it’s working like a charm!

This is great, I love the visuals, very well thought out. I’ve spilled drinks on my keyboard on my pc but never on my laptop touch wood!

You do make a good point…uneventful can be nice

Eh, I don’t know. Sometimes I think that boring is better. Furiously banging your head against the desk every day can’t be healthy.

Oh if they only used some common sense, at least a bit. But then again some of our work days wouldn’t be as fun. lol!

LOL! I can imagine that there are tons of people who could benefit from this at MSU.

very insightful and technically accurate tutorial…I might need to distribute this around the MSU.

[quote comment="5023"]On a side note, it’s funny how much paper people still need to use even in the “paperless offices” of the 21st century…[/quote]

At my work we go through 2-3 reams of paper a day per printer and roughly replace the toner every . We have 2 central printers that are churning out documents all day. Then certain people have printers in their offices, and two of the secretaries have printers in their cubes.

They print out long ass reports to review them. There are like 3-4 people involved in the review process and each of them pints out the whole thing. They like read a line on the printout, then correct it in word, and go back to the printout. No clue why they just don’t read it on the screen, but oh well.

Then of course the next person reviewing it has to print that whole thing again. And again… And again. Before that shit reaches the client it gets printed like 5-6 times.

Paperless my ass. We don’t have enough filing cabinets to fucking put our papers in. lol