About Me

name: Beanie
age: 35
email: bbbeans@yahoo.com


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Book: New York by Edward Rutherfurd

Music: 1999 by Prince

Mood: The current mood of bbbeans@yahoo.com at www.imood.com

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Teahouse Blossom
CrimLaw
SilentService
May It Please The Court
Blonde Justice
Ernie The Attorney
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Lessig Blog
Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground
Jeremy's Weblog
Begging The Question
The Neutral Zone Trap
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Biting Tongue
Peanut Butter Burrito
Legal Quandary
In It But Not Of It
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Just Playin'
Res Ipsa Eloquent
How Appealing
Scoplaw
Lag Liv
Law v. Life
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Lowering the Bar
Bag and Baggage
The Uncivil Litigator
Will Work For Favorable Dicta
Transmogriflaw

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Divine Angst
Frequent Citations
Magic Cookie
Knocked Up (and in Law School)
Butterflyfish
Mommy on the Floor
PT-LawMom
Thanks, But No Thanks
Law Ingenue
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think like a woman. act like a man.

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the underwear drawer
Do Not Overmix
Little Lost Robot
PostSecret
Overheard in the Office
JD2B

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Screaming Bean
Friday, April 29, 2005

I got a call last night from my spouse. "I want you to look something up." This isn't an abnormal request in my household. My mother's been known to call me up with requests or questions to look up. The next line made me slightly ill. "Find out what to do when you get soda in a laptop." Seems the MBA group meeting went slightly awry and a glass of soda was spilled. Oh, and that there was class the next day...and there was a paper that needed to be submitted on the hard drive. I really didn't have to make a leap to figure out how it would feel to have your computer out of order, while I haven't had water in the components, it's a cold sinking feeling. So we sprung into action last night, broke out the precision screwdrivers, broke out the isopropal alcohol, q-tips and towels and went to work. We thought we were on to something. We got the whole unit apart. We found the magic screws that held the keyboard in place. I whisked away each little drip of soda in keys. The spouse felt good about it. So did I. We put all the components back in place and hit the power switch. We saw power for a moment and heard it immediately power off. And nothing. Other battery? Nothing. Sadly we gave up and headed off to bed. The spouse gave it another valiant attempt in the morning before going to class. Nothing, though the status lights were blinking in some sort of strange code. Lunch came around and I got a call to find out what the tech line was. Before finally giving in to the idea that bigger powers were necessary, the spouse gave it one more try. And it worked. Half the cover panels are lying on the kitchen table, but the laptop booted up like a champ. Now mind you the laptop itself was not on the kitchen table but rather a few miles from home. Nor were there any screws actually holding the unit together, but who cares, it works! Hooray!

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