[geeks] Waterproof Keyboard
Sridhar Ayengar
ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 14:50:07 CST 2009
Dan Sikorski wrote:
> Funny this would come up, I've recently picked Walter Issacson's
> Biography of Benjamin Franklin back up after reading half and putting it
> down for a year or two. I don't recall anything about him being in the
> bathtub with the lid, that might have been in the first half of the
> book, but there was a description of him playing chess with a married
> woman in her bathtub with such a cover on it while he was in Paris in
> the 1760-70's. As I recall, in letters between the two of them, they
> discussed her being in a tub with such a cover for hours on end.
I'm surprised they didn't just dispense with the lid. After all,
Franklin was the mac daddy.
Peace... Sridhar
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