Dec 12th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
The Kindletub
Megan McArdle observes that you can too use your Kindle in the bathtub (contrary to my previous assertions) by inserting the device into a ZipLock bag (or similar) before entering the watery zone. I stand corrected.
42 Responses to “The Kindletub”
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December 12th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Hah! You’re falling for a manifestly wrong and inherently stupid libertarian scam by believing this! You only accept it because of your deranged tolerance of McCardle!
December 12th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Wow. Being corrected by McCardle…
Wow! This is a new low for Matt.
December 12th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I just coat mine with a thin layer of vaseline. That works nicely.
December 12th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
That would be a good plot point for a Seinfeld episode. I just can’t decide if it would be Kramer or George doing it.
December 12th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I have no words…
December 12th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Me too, but I never heard it called a kindle before.
December 12th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Njorl wins.
December 12th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Seriously, Matt’s just screwing around with us now. The VERY FIRST COMMENT in the previous thread suggested the Ziploc method.
December 12th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Man, Njorl won this one twice.
December 12th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I award both justinf and Njorl the infrequently-given “I just sprayed a mouthful of beer* all over my monitor because I was laughing at your comment” medal.
*”Coffee” for funny comments made before 10:30 AM.
December 12th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Someone should invent Kindle Condoms. I would but I’m too busy helping Obama transition.
December 12th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Ah….but the question then becomes why would you put your kindle in a ziploc bag when you could just bring a book with you into the tub?
December 12th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
So McCardle is a Kindletub girl?
December 12th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Wondeful post, right on the level we’ve come to expect. Not only is it completely trivial, but (I would hope) anyone with any background involving having to build things would have noticed the problems involved. Such as an undiscovered leak in the bag or a failure of the seal or the bag. Write that a bit larger, and you get things like rockets blowing up in mid-flight. And, no, I’m not joking: the fact that those problems weren’t the first thing to leap to MattY’s/McArdle’s minds – such as they are – is indicative of problems with all their serious proposals: they just can’t think things through.
December 12th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
why would you put your kindle in a ziploc bag when you could just bring a book with you into the tub?
Because if you take a book into the tub with you, it might get wet.
December 12th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
“Because if you take a book into the tub with you, it might get wet.”
Isn’t that why they invented the paperback? If it gets wet, you just throw it out. In general, I kind of think that mixing electricity and electrolyte-filled water is a bad idea. But mixing distilled, deionized water with electricity is actually okay. I’ve done that to determine the heat output of electrical appliances (dunk the appliance underwater and stick a thermometer in). It’s a little scary, but it works.
December 12th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
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December 12th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Having seen my officemate’s Kindle, I’m still of the opinion that ebooks are at the crystal radio phase of development. Fun to dick with if you’re into it, but still not ready for prime time.
For an example of where I think the format is headed, I tried and failed to get the recent Esquire with the e-paper cover. Maybe I can get it at the library, but then I’d feel bad stress-testing it in the tub.
In addition, I’m not at all happy with the licensing terms. If I can’t back the content up to local archival storage, then it’s just another outfit looking to join my monthly billing cycle. Fuck that.
December 12th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
I once read a Kindle in my pajamas – how it got into my pajamas I can’t tell you.
December 12th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Trust Fund Scum Bag fu**fest. Ooops, projecting
BTW, Matt, Celts….
December 13th, 2008 at 1:10 am
In the future we’ll all put every thing in ziploc bags or some such because every simple, non-electronic convenience will be replaced with some lithium battery-powered crap sold online and we might at some point come in contact with water.
December 13th, 2008 at 5:38 am
“In the future we’ll all put every thing in ziploc bags”
please, no. I’m finally overcoming my mother’s insanity. She put all of her remotes in ziplock bags. She thought it would lesson the transmission of disease. But the bacteria and viruses that would kill her are on both surfaces. It made no difference, but my mom swore by it anyway. She died believing it, but she would have died anyway. You can’t live without platelets.
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