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Top 1 Thing To Keep Your Toddler Away From

By , on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Your laptop computer.

This is a picture of my Macbook after my 2.5 year old son got his hands on it:

This is where I start weeping bitterly

As you can see, he managed to remove roughly two-thirds of the keys on the keyboard. I wasn’t happy :)

But, thanks to my new friend Gab at the Irvine Spectrum Apple Store, all of my keys are now in perfect working order (including the broken ones, which he replaced gratis):

Apple genius fixing my keyboard

So, all is well (though, I was without computer for a couple of days, hence the drop off in posting here). Expect more new content in the next couple of days, hopefully tomorrow!

And a great big massive thanks to Gab for hooking me up with a couple of (very small, inexpensive) parts to get me out the door with a working laptop and a wallet that weighed the same as when I arrived :)

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  • http://www.technotheory.com Jared Goralnick

    That’s an awesome photo–putting keys back on a keyboard is a royal pain. Though you have to admit it’s funny. Thankfully my dog hasn’t taken an interest in electronic things.

    As a random tip–it’s always great to have a USB keyboard (and monitor) hanging around for when laptops seem to inevitably have near fatal issues with keyboards and screens.

    Glad your troubles are solved!

  • http://blog.scottjelias.net Scott Elias

    Oh the humanity! Why can’t these kids leave OUR toys alone?!?

  • courtney

    Also overenthusiastic dogs. I’ve been through two laptops because my 80-lb puppy has decided to displace it.

  • http://persistentillusion.wordpress.com persistentillusion

    LMAO!!

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  • http://amoores.com JMom

    that is funny :)

  • Andreas

    Thank god, my cat just _sits_ on my iBOOK …

  • http://www.breastpumpdeals.com/medela-freestyle-breast-pump.html Medela in style

    hey, your toddler seems to be very creative!!!!

  • Jonno

    Hmm, annoying indeed. Although, it seems kind of superfluous worrying about your laptop over your son who I only hope came out of it unharmed.

  • Nicole

    I am sure that if any harm had come to his son from this, his first response would be worry for his child.

  • Getoffthekeyboard

    Goes with the territory. I have to worry about a cat that initiates shutdown; changes file names; sends emails, and deletes important files….

  • Matt

    My son has done this to several laptops, including my Sisters when she visiting.

    I saw red for sure..

    I can sympathize with you. It's awesome that Apple fixed you up, I have spend upwards of 85.00 to buy a new keyboard for my Sisters iBook when the keys got peeled.

    The space bar is impossible to put back on FYI. :)

  • http://www.inventube.com/ooojay/blog/ MICHAEL J. SCHMITZ

    WHATS A WIDGET?

  • http://www.inventube.com/ooojay/blog/ MICHAEL J. SCHMITZ

    WHATS A WIDGET?

  • Baldchemist

    So you see, Mac is fabulous. Keeps virus and trjan horses at bay BUT the kid…. mmmmm they know how to get round Steve Jobs tricks.
    Have a good one.

  • Sweater Meat

    The other day my toddler came over to me and asked “did you ever fart so hard you ended up in another zip code?

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