theoak2's rant against any ToughBook part that is not TOUGH

I really love these mostly tough laptops. They survive being thrown, run over, sprayed, drug through the woods behind a snowmobile, tigers, elephants, darts, laptop bowling, and other harsh treatment. But my grandsons have found their weak spots:
1.) Grape soda (or ginger ale) on keyboards (keys depress, but spring back very slowly). Easily fixed with a trip to the kitchen sink.
2.) Stylus is not chew-resistant. Also easily fixed by ordering an assortment of 5 cheap fruit flavored styli from Chinese seller on FleaBay.
3.) Screen protector is not scratch-resistant to chewed up stylus. Possible solution: get them their own CF-30.

rant over

 

when my nieces and nephews came over (under the aegis of one reason/premise/means or another) it was understood that :
you ask before you touch
you will have clean hands
you will not have sundry fluids near any of uncle's equipment
etc .
these ideas were also instilled by my sister and brother-in-law .

fruit flavored styli ?
isn't that adding fuel to the fire ?

 

Grandparents are bigger saps than uncles. They have been requested not to chew on stylus, but seem to always "forget".

#2 is sarcasm. Not really fruit flavored. That costs extra, I think. Plus I'm not sure of lead content. Don't want the boys to "forget" any more than they already do.

 

"... bigger saps ..."
now that the problem has been identified a solution can be worked .
:laugh:

how about coating the styli with that bitter tasting stuff that is used to keep kids (and some adults) from chewing their fingernails or sucking on their fingers ?
personally speaking , a very light coating a capsicum extract would also do the job in a much more intense and consequently unforgettable manner .
(think aversion therapy)

along the lines of aversion therapy ...
when i was about 6 years old (in '62) i walked past the bathroom and the door was open .
my dad took a box out of the cabinet and proceeded to unwrap the contents ...
chocolate !!
i looked up at my dad and asked if i he was going to share his chocolate with me ...
"are you sure you want some ?"
"yes sir"
"ok ... but only a little bit because that is all i am having ."
he broke off a square and handed it to me , he broke off one for himself as well .
we ate the chocolate and went our separate ways .
about three hours later i was in such *distress* that it got the attention of my mom and she asked questions whilst i was glued to the porcelain throne .
she asked me if i felt sick to my stomach ; "no" .
do you feel hot ; "no"
did you eat any green apples today : "no"
did you eat anything besides breakfast, lunch and dinner : "yes"
what did you eat : "dad gave me some chocolate after dinner ..." .
my mom hollered all three of my dad's names (and a couple of others as well) .
my dad came on the double and my mom asked him what kind of chocolate he had given me ...
he pulled the box from the cabinet .
my mom immediately said : "ex-lax ?! ... what are you trying to do ..."
my dad replied : "he seen me and if i had not given it to him he would have taken it later on" .
he looked at me and said (while presenting the box to me) : "this is medicine , not a hershey bar ... you do not eat this" .
"yes sir ... i won't"
and you can sure bet i didn't ever touch that little box .

 

Ahhhhh... That's small potatoes! My wife's girlfriend came over a few years back. My wife was using her Sony VAIO. Her girlfriend picked it up by the corner of the screen and it actually snapped the LCD. Since then my wife has had a Toughbook... And her girlfriend is only allowed to use the spare CF-30 I have lying around! (Let her try picking THAT up by the corner of the screen!)

 

I don't DO the LIKE button but I like this whole thread. ROFL

It took a special circumstance for my wife of 40+ years to give up her CF-29HTM50BM....one of the good ones from Newegg at the time. O.K. she needed a head-set and mike and W7. We COULD have upgraded but it was easier to give her a CF-30FTS85AM. Touch it and lose your arm.

What do regular people do?

J'd ...still laughing...

 

CWB32,
Great idea! I wonder how much Ex-lax will fit on the tip of a stylus? I guess I will have to experiment, and report my findings later.

 

no no no..

carve a whole stylus out of ex lax..

 

Pshh.. carve. 3D print.
Lemme know if you find exlax feed!

 

Some of us are poor...

 

why am i reminded of a line out of the movie "mr. mom" : "chili ?! do you know what happens when you feed a baby chili ?" .
:laugh:

maaannny moon ago i was using 1/8" heat shrink tubing to insulate some soldered connections on one of my brother-in-law's trailers .
my nephew (about 5 years old) wandered by and watched for a while .
i was holding the heat shrink tubing between my teeth and snipping off pieces to place on the wires before soldering them.
my nephew asked me if he could have some of my licorice .
"licorice ? what ? i don't have any ..."
then it dawned on me ... he was talking about the heat shrink tubing .
"why sure , you can have some licorice ..."
i cut off a piece about 4" long and handed it to him ...
he chewed on it a little and said that it didn't taste like licorice .
i told him it was kind of old and you had to chew it for a while before there was any flavor .
he wandered off , diligently chewing away .
some time later my sister wandered up to me with my nephew in tow (still chewing away) .
"what did you give him ?"
"a piece of heat shrink tubing ..."
"why on earth would you do something like that ?"
(my brother-in-law had wandered up by this time)
"well ... i figure that he would have taken some of it later on and that would not be a good thing ..."
"you should be ashamed of yourself ... tricking an innocent child like that"
my sister and nephew walked off .
my brother-in-law snickered a little and said "you know , you really shouldn't do that ... do you know how hard it was to keep from laughing in front of your sister ?"