Dumbass

[theCryptofishist]

it's worth having more than one. Car, kitchen, garage, camp... Please bone up on A, B and C fires, too. Always good to have the right tool for the garage.

Oh, and it turns out that this is disaster preparedness month, good a time as any to do this.[/i]

[Mojojita]

My hubby said that he had never before had to use a fire extinguisher, but within the last few weeks needed them three times:
1) Flames shooting out of oven when juice from turkey roaster with a previously undetected leak ignited.
2) Whoever set up my propane stove at the burn did not tighten the hose and leaking gas ignited
3) Barbecue set up too near the side of shade structure - hot lid when opened melted big hole in the side. (Costco garage type)

I am very glad we had them when we needed them......

[Dr. Pyro]

Safety Third indeed.

[Mojojita]

Yep Doc - this will be known for me as the burn Burn. Even burned myself on hot oven while cooking while stupid (tequila).

[Dr Jet Sinister]

3) I'm traveling from the East Coast on a three week jaunt and will be exploring some of the west afterwards since I'll be in the "neighborhood". As Such I would like to take my laptop for non playa use. My car is black. From what I've read about dust one probably wouldn't want to crack thier windows to vent some of the heat. I'm an orphan and at this stage my setup will be a studio so to speak. Will the heat in the car/tent be enough to do damage? Would you feel comfortable leaving it concealed but unlocked in an unoccupied tent? Or should I leave the thing home and risk, in a moment of weakness, having to pay for porn?

So last year I had this project that I needed to view video output on occasionally. I only had a laptop with an X11 spy cam adapter to do this with, so naturally I took my work laptop (because it was my only Windows machine...)

I remember more than once sitting on the ground, with my mask and goggles on and a dust storm blowing right through camp, with my laptop on my lap. I also left it on the floor of my (very) dusty tent in sleep mode the entire time. I had no real problems back in defaultia with the machine, using it daily. We even fired up my girlfriend's machine to DL someone's pictures off of their camera (our camera broke so we just stole everyone else's pictures, oddly enough you get a lot more candid pictures of yourself on vacation if you do this with a friend.)

I am an IT guy though, so my laptops get treated like tools. Hand tools. Like hammers. I also didn't give a shit if it fried, cause I would just fix it.

This is just a story though, not a recommendation. The work laptop was an HP and Mindy's is a Dell. Haven't had any issues with them at all.

Edit: Also I didn't clean them once I got home. Just through it back into its bag and went to work.

I'd love to see the inside of that laptop, it must look like a beach

I couldn't resist commenting on this, especially with the title "dumbass." I have a mac book and it's gone to the last three burns. It's been amazingly flithy every time, with dust dunes on the screen and keyboard. I just pick it up and pour the dust off of it. I've never cleaned it and it's fine. Maybe I should clean it before next year. The point is they aren't as fragile as you think!

[Snow]

I've had my netbook on playa twice and have opened it up. It was suprisingly dust free inside. Just some around the fan. I was expecting it to be dunes since it was used in a few dust storms.

[Sic Pup]

No issues with playa seepage but some malicious software did a number on my FAT on the way back east. The IT guys at my former employer for some reason formated FAT-16 and I couldn't be bothered spending any time on trying to salvage the data. I'm posting from it now, new OS and most of my data was restored primarily from email (I got in to the habit of emailing whatever files I deem important to myself, taxes, financials, resumes, etc,in lieu of proper backups) the biggest hassle was iTunes.

I had no need for a fire extinquisher and thanks to the info gleaned from here I was surprisingly prepared for my first foray on the playa. Thanks all. your insight/experience was invaluable, particularly since I didn't commit/start to work on it until 2 weeks prior. The generousity and willingness to share here is remarkable (to say nothing of entertaining at times). This year I was part of the Orphan camp but I could've easily gone solo with little physical difference in the experience (other than traveling lighter not needing the extra communal chairs/tables, etc...... ha ha).

[Snow]

I was impressed by the tecnology for the underground protals for Ein Hammer lived through a week on the playa. When removed, the components were full of dust and looked to have been invaded by rain. But they still kept on chugging. Switches is what the playa seems to kill the most, that and batteries.