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Conventional laptops, with their fragile keyboards, delicate screens and sensitive, plastic-encased electrical systems, are accidents waiting to happen. Not their ruggedized kin: they offer tough magnesium cases, hard drives encased in protective gel, insulated Coke-proof keyboards...
Sure, it was fun holding a laptop at arm's length and letting go, watching as the Intel Pentium-powered bugger hit the ground with a solid thwack! But I actually got more pleasure just from splashing my Diet Coke onto the keyboard. There was something oddly riveting about seeing the caramel-colored liquid whoosh over the letters of the alphabet and settle in between the keys...
...road warrior who's ever blanched as airport security bobbles his laptop. Manufacturers emphasize that the machines reduce not just replacement cost but also downtime, because traveling execs can't work if their laptops don't. I'll add one more upside: being able to drink a Diet Coke while you're at your computer without fearing for the worst...
Time was when the confidential professions were reliably confidential. A lawyer kept your crimes and financial mischief to himself; a priest took your sins to the grave. Even nonprofessionals had codes of confidence: secretaries, clerks and anyone with access to Coke's secret formula or Colonel Sanders' 11 herbs and spices kept...
...original design. However, there is now a four-oven version, and an add-on module with two conventional ovens. The castings for the Aga, first imported into Britain in 1929, are supplied by the historic Coalbrookdale foundry in Shropshire, where in 1709 iron was first smelted with coke rather than charcoal, thus helping to usher in the industrial age. Hand-finished right through to its glossy enameled surface, the Aga does not come cheap. At between $7,000 and $15,000, the Aga is at home in big country kitchens full of damp dogs and drying riding gear...