[geeks] Waterproof Keyboard

[Dan Sikorski]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:24:02PM -0500, nate at portents.com wrote:
>>
>>> I imagine there are a lot of opportunities for jokes here... but I 
>>> won't
>>> make any. :)
>>
>> Benjamin Franklin had a skin disease which was treated by bathing 
>> every day
>> (something almost scandalous in those days). He had a special bathtub 
>> built
>> with a lid so that he could have visitors.
>
> That's a *really* good idea.

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.

    -Dan Sikorski