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wraithfodder ([personal profile] wraithfodder) wrote2009-03-09 10:38 pm
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This is your cellphone....

This is your cellphone on cold wash/rinse cycle, with bleach.... Well, it's actually mine, but let this be a warning to everyone! ;)




Now, the little thing no longer vibrates, but the picture comes up like this here and now. Also, if I leave the battery in, and leave it on for hours, I'm sure it'll catch fire or explode as it was getting warm (ooh, a MacGyver handwarmer!) It can provide some amusement when I'm totally bored and I figure out how to dispose of it properly.

Anyway, is the photo not neat? I mean, it looks like a nice cloud pattern. Oh wait, like that Outer Limits episode with the dust creature that lived in the vacuum cleaner!!
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[identity profile] zats-clear.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
wetting it would have been ok, but the bleach probably did it in! on the other hand, it is wonderfully sterile now!

[identity profile] wraithfodder.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, i tried again tonight. no joy. it's dead, jim. well, it lights up and maybe if I left it on long enough, it might immolate, but that's a weekend project ;) Oh yes, very sterile!

[identity profile] k8t85.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Its actually kinda pretty.

[identity profile] wraithfodder.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Thx.

[identity profile] monkey-junkey.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa, psychedelic!

[identity profile] wraithfodder.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, had to immortalize that!

[identity profile] crayonbreakygal.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
The photo is neat. The streaks are very strange but pretty colors!

[identity profile] wraithfodder.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Wonder if it's the bleach...
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[personal profile] leesa_perrie 2009-03-10 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretty! Not much use, but pretty!! And hey, if I'm ever in need of an expensive hand-warmer, I now know what to do!!

[identity profile] wraithfodder.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Ha~!

[identity profile] star-climber.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
recycle bin!
i had one cell phone similar to it^^
and it really looks like a cloud pattern...

[identity profile] dejla.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
That is why my cell phone lives in my purse and not in my pants.

I think I should rephrase that, but I don't know how...

[identity profile] wraithfodder.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, and honestly, this was the FIRST time I'd stuck it in my pocket. Won't do that again!

[identity profile] dejla.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe you could make a bomb out of it...

[identity profile] wraithfodder.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, and get a videocamera, stick it in a box and film it, for hours and hours and hours...

Off Topic (sorry)

[identity profile] b7-kerravon.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! I love the icon of Solange! Chickweed Lane is fabulous!

Re: Off Topic (sorry)

[identity profile] dejla.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I cannot claim credit--it was done by the lovely and talented karmakaze. And I love Hallmarks of Felinity!

[identity profile] inalaska2004.livejournal.com 2009-03-10 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
i actually read something on the web one day about how to recover a cell phone that had gotten wet. i think people were talking about accidentally dropping it into the sink. but to go through the entire wash, hmmm, no way to recover.

BTW- i have a few mottos. one is that no matter what i can afford, i dont want to buy a home that has more toilets than i want to clean. another is i dont want a cellphone that is so small that i can accidentally put it through the wash. blue tooth will never work for me.

did you use fabric softener? just wondering.........

[identity profile] wraithfodder.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, read all sorts of recovery efforts but I think the bleach really did it in. I've heard about lots of phones dropped in toilets (one guy tried to retrieve it - got stuck - and he ende dup with thousands in repairs to the toilet on the commuter train).

nope, no fabric softener, and sad to say, this isn't exactly a tiny tiny cellphone. I had in the back pocket of heavy jeans so didn't notice when I took 'em off and tossed them in the machine.

cellphone follies

[identity profile] b7-kerravon.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, I got blood on my cellphone and it did the same thing. Richard rinsed it with distilled water and dried it out thoroughly (battery out) but it never improved. I could still use it to send and receive calls, though, so it still worked as a phone, if nothing else. No texting, though. It didn't blow up or catch fire, and in fact worked until I replaced it, almost 7 months later...

Re: cellphone follies

[identity profile] wraithfodder.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, well, my bleach would have taken care of your blood! ;) yeah, cellphones aren't very durable devices...