Save Your Soaked Phone

Dropped your phone in a puddle? Accidentally left it in your jeans pocket and it went through the wash? Maybe it slipped out of your pocket and into the toilet?

My brother did the last one. Thank goodness he hadn't peed yet.

Anyway, try out these simple steps the next time your precious phone gets wet:

1. Turn it off.
And don't recharge it, or turn it on until you're absolutely done. You want it to be pretty much dead when you're fixing it.

2. Take it apart and drip dry.
Shake the heck out of it, take of some pieces and just get as much water out as you can.
Unlike young drunk women during Mardi Gras, the more you expose of your phone the better! (This you won't have regrets about.)


There are a few different steps you can take after doing these two steps, but I haven't personally researched all of these methods. But when your precious cell phone is on it's last life line, you might take any steps you can.

Use a towel.
This can help pull the water out as well as clean up most of the mess. Be careful, however, as you might accidentally spread more water around with dampened parts of the towel.

Suck it out with a vacuum cleaner.
Draw the water out by holding the vacuum cleaner nozzle over each wet part for 20 minutes. A very long, tedious process but it'll get things dry.

Surround your phone with rice.
Rice helps to absorb the moisture (kind of like how it does in salt shakers). Not cooked rice, mind you!


Overall, just get it dry as quickly as possible and then give it a while before turning it on, maybe a day or so just to be safe.

Good luck!

Google's Chrome Browser

It sucks, let's put it that way. I downloaded the file directly from Google, but unfortunately nothing opens up when I try to open the program!

So there's your update so far.

I'll do my best to keep updating on this topic, but for this week I guess this is all you'll get. :(



Thanks for the votes all the same!
- Jill

The Story Behind "Tit for Tat"

Tit for tat
If you kill my dog
I'll kill your cat

I always heard of the phrase "tit for tat" and somewhat understood it's meaning, but I never quite knew the direct origins for phrase. In all actuality, I discovered one of it's sources while watching the movie "Shoot 'Em Up" starring Clive Owen. At one point during the movie, the main antagonist, played by Paul Giamatti, recites a limerick about it.

I researched the poem but could find very little on the internet. This led me to writing this article, for curious peeps like myself.

So I dove further into the library, did some more research, and found that it was certainly not listed among the childhood nursery rhymes. In all actuatlity, it was a limerick, and it goes something like this:

There was a young girl from Rabat
Who had triplets: Nan, Pat, and Tat.
It was fun in the breeding,
but hell in the feeding,
as she found she had no tit for Tat.

So in case any of you were wondering, there it is.

P.S. Sorry for the short update. I'm lazy.