I've been using computers since I was about 10 years old. My first was a Tandy CoCo 3 TRS-80 with a whopping 128k of RAM. It cost a few hundred back then, roughly on a par with the much more popular Commodore 64, but I was a kid so I wasn't really sure how much it cost. The Atari Jaguar I asked for was $200, i think. Anyway, in the fifteen-odd years I've been using computers, NEVER ONCE have I spilled a drink on my keyboard. Sure, there might have been a few near misses, but generally speaking the clumsiness that plagues me around women, kitchens, and furniture seems not to be an issue with computers.

At least, it wasn't until the other day. I bought a Memorex wireless keyboard and mouse at Fry's, sort of on a whim. The mouse came without a battery cover on it, but i'm too lazy to take it back. tape will work just fine for now. the whole setup works fine, even post-mishap. A couple days later I'm reaching for the last bit of my apple juice (an artifact of my new health kick, courtesy of Gold's Gym my trademark clumsiness strikes again and the juice goes all over the keyboard. Somehow i managed to get it all out of the keyboard, after a lot of inverted shaking and paper towels carefully shoved between keys. I started to try rubbing alcohol to see if i could get the juice to evaporate better, but i figured i'd wait until the keyboard stopped working before i tried anything that was probably going to void my warranty more than it already was.

So the moral of the story is forget the health kicks and stick to coffee in non-spillable cups.