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What happens When You Cook Your Palm Pilot
Hal-kun writes "What happens when you put a Palm Pilot in the oven to dry with the warmth of the pilot light, only to have someone cook a Pizza while you were out? Take a look. Stick a fork in it, I think it's done."
Shouldn't it just run faster?
Oh, he over cooked it...
"The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance." -Thomas Jefferson
The nerve of this person, cooking a Palm in an oven!
Everyone knows you're supposed to barbecue them!
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This would be news if the device actually still ran after melting. "The indestructable Palm Pilots..."
To the term "HotSync" :)
I hope the pizza didn't get ruined.
I hear that microwave ovens are really great for drying off your poodle after a shampoo!
I guess he didn't purchase the Palm eMeatThermometer2.0(TM) attachment. That, plus the optional wireless add-on pack, should have alerted his pager to pull it out of there in time...
Sounds like a PalmPilot in the hand is better than two in the oven...
Storm: What happens when you cook a Palm Pilot?
Storm: The same thing that happens to everything else.
...but it's being eaten...by some...Linux or something...
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This is a boring sig
Maybe if we're really good, we can see what a CD of XP looks like if you put it in the microwave.
chicken of course, well at least my mother-in-laws chicken.
we've got a new addition for the geek cookbook!
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Or has anyone else noticed that the most sure-fire way to get an article on Slashdot is to wreck complex electronics?
Pouring concrete in a PC case, cooking your Palm Pilot, what's next? Xbox tossing? eBook flushing? Blasting a new iMac with a high-powered laser? Okay, that last one would be cool.
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if you are putting Palm pilots on pizzas as toppings. :)
My mother always said that bad things would come from Palm abuse...
Being stupid enough to leave a Palm Pilot unattended in the oven, I hope everyone in that household had second helpings of the pizza - thus choking on the toxic waste, dying, an earning first place in the Darwin Awards. Evolution - ain't it grand?
...a slice of pizza in his Palm charging/sync cradle, and his roommate hoping he wouldn't notice anything wrong?
To get back on-topic.. (because we can't STAND to read a post that's not on the topic of burnt PDAs in a burnt PDA article.. that would be a waste of TIME!) Yeah, I think burnt PDAs are really cool. Hey, I could.. make a.. ummmm.. burnt PDA.. sandwich. Hahahahaha. Imagine a beowulf cluster of those. roflol.
Oi..... Son of the bloody monkey.
The streets shall flow with the blood of the Guberminky.
Reminds me of a story of mine..
Working tech support at a company.. Sales Weasle needed a modem to connect his computer upto the corprate network.. Needless to say it was an external. He was having line issues connection problems galore. So instead of calling the helpdesk, he came over to my manager and asked if one of us could take a look. I was lucky enough to get the assignment. Went over and diagnosed it as line issues and told him to just redial to try and get another line. He did that but then a week later came back and said it wasn't working. I went over and tapped the modem gently on the desk and told him all would be set now...
So a week later my manager called me into the office and showed me a smashed modem. One of those white USR. I knew exactly what had happened but my Manager asked me if I told the sales weasle it was okay to smash the modem into the ground repeatedly. It seems that after the weasle had done the deed he'd called IT, and IT had come to my boss. I explained myself and the IT chief said we could no longer help sales with their issues, and that they should call IT from now on blah blah... All in all it was a win win situation. My manager found it hillarious that the Sales Weasle had gone to such extremes to try and get a faster connection. Even the IT manager was smilling when it was all explained to him.
AMD has announced that they are working on a new line of chips designed to work in Palm pilots and other small personal devices. When asked of their progress an AMD spokesman commented "The initial tests look encouraging although we're still having some problems with the heat dispersement. We've submitted some of the results of the experiment to a "research" group in hopes that they will have some useful insight."
I stole this Sig
...an IT person would know that a Palm should be sauteed, not baked.
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