So they are getting divorced. He always talks in his columns about how his work is only possible because of his non-working wife; maybe she got sick of that arrangement. (I think he's kind of annoying; I would certainly not want to be married to him!)

He has been working A LOT lately (I've noticed). He is on several tv shows, books, his articles have been coming out less frequently in favor of the other things.

BTW, one article I read says she is a plastic surgeon. Are you sure she stays at home?

No, I just assumed because of the casual mentions in his columns. She is an MD, you're right.

In hi-I'm-a-klutz news:

I spilled coffee on my 1-week-old Macbook Pro. I've had the Ancient iBook for more than 6 years and eaten dinner over it every night (as well as breakfast some days) and NEVER spilled liquid on it (although there are enough crumbs under the keyboard to make an entire loaf of bread).

But I manage to spill coffee on the unibody can't-take-the-battery-out Macbook Pro within 7 days. AWESOME.

It wasn't much coffee (maybe less than 1/4 cup?), and it was more of a splatter on the keys and part of the trackpad, and I immediately shut it down and mopped it up (but not vigorously, because I figured that mopping hard would press on the keys and potentially fuck things up more; so I blotted extensively), and then flipped it over, kept the screen open, and laid the keyboard/trackpad on a layered combo of paper towel/rice/paper towel (so that basically there are paper towels between the keys and the rice, because I really don't need to get rice under the keys).

Is there anything else I should do? I plan to remove the rice in a few hours, and then keep it turned off and flipped over on paper towels for several days. I really don't want to open up the unibody, but then, at this point, having dumped liquid on it already voided the warranty, so I don't really have anything to lose by opening the thing up.

Steph, in tales of not-that-much-woe, I dumped half a water bottle on my MBP, and turned it on way too soon. the death toll was a bright spot on the screen and my battery (it worked when plugged in, but the battery wouldn't charge). I took it to the Apple Store, and the nice lady swapped my battery for free since she couldn't actually see any water damage and it was still under warranty.

So now it's almost as new. I think keeping it turned off is the key thing.

Some Mac products (like the iPhone) have things inside that turn color permanently if they get wet. That way if you drop your phone in the toilet, Apple can tell.

Hopefully they don't have this thing in the MacBook Pro.

Anyway, it sounds like you've done everything you can. Good luck. (I dumped a cup of water on my iBook's keyboard, and it survived. But I could flip the keyboard open and get some of the water out that way.)

Steph, in tales of not-that-much-woe, I dumped half a water bottle on my MBP, and turned it on way too soon. the death toll was a bright spot on the screen and my battery (it worked when plugged in, but the battery wouldn't charge). I took it to the Apple Store, and the nice lady swapped my battery for free since she couldn't actually see any water damage and it was still under warranty.

So now it's almost as new. I think keeping it turned off is the key thing.

I'm just going to keep it off for several days and then see what it does. If it's cranky, I might open up the case to see if there's coffee residue.

I am VERY glad I don't put sugar in my coffee, but I am regretting the half-and-half addiction.

Hopefully they don't have this thing in the MacBook Pro.

The interpipe tells me they started putting them in the MBP in 2009-ish. So I think it does.

(I dumped a cup of water on my iBook's keyboard, and it survived. But I could flip the keyboard open and get some of the water out that way.)

I know! As old and crochety as this iBook is, being able to remove the battery and flip up the keyboard is excellent.

I thought I read that Apple stores were no longer going to treat liquid damage any more harshly than other damage when customers bring the devices in.

In any case, Steph, if you have problems with it, I would take it into an Apple Store, turn your charm to maximum and I bet they will help you out.

I spilled a 64 oz cup of water on my macbook once. I let it dry out for 48 hours, then crossed my fingers and tried to turn it on: no dice. I thought I was screwed. Took it to TekServe (non-Apple Apple store in NYC, actually where Apple got the Genius Bar idea), didn't mention the water. They sent it to Apple. By the time it got there, it had finished drying out, and turned on fine. They sent it back to me and it worked perfectly well for another year or so, at which point a poorly-closed Diet Dr. Pepper soaked my entire backpack during an airplane flight and killed its ability to charge a battery, or even read charge from a battery. And that was probably because I tried to turn it on too quickly. Still works fine if plugged in, though, and is currently being used as a media center.

The moral of this story is that the computers are more capable of enduring liquid spills than you might think. Let it sit for another 48-72 hours then try. I think it will probably be fine. The amount of non-drying residue in coffee is probably not more than the amount of stuff that drips off of your fingers over the course of a year or so, and the computer can withstand that.