My iPod is on rice

mattstine — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:55:00 +0000

Let me set the stage for you. I’m driving home happily listening to Ted Neward discuss the merits of Scala on the Javaworld podcast. As I pull into the driveway I see my wife waving frantically in the window. As geek brain struggles to process this, home brain kicks into gear. She needs me in the house now! I jump out of the car and slam the door shut, leaving all of the belongings I typically carry in the house.

I enter the house to find that a wasp has some how gotten in and is terrorizing the family. What ensues is roughly 15 minutes of wasp hunting. Wasp dead – end of story. Or so I thought.

As I’m driving my iPod (attached to the iTrip FM transmitter/charger) typically sits in my lap (for some reason I get the least FM interference that way). What I didn’t notice in my hasty departure from the vehicle is that my iPod nano flew out of the vehicle and was hanging by the iTrip cable. Unaware of this, I slammed the door on the cable and walked away.

This in and of itself wasn’t a huge problem. Leaving it that way for approximately 24 hours – most of which included rather steady rainfall – was.

So, a quick Google search finds that the consensus approach seems to be sticking the iPod in a cup of dry rice to soak up the moisture. So there you have it – my iPod is on rice. I hope it works. Stay tuned.

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My iPod is on rice