{"id":45,"date":"2008-12-14T11:33:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T11:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/14\/312\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T14:54:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T19:54:41","slug":"312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/14\/312\/","title":{"rendered":"Greasy Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img-4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What happens when water hits expensive electronics? We&#8217;ve all been in this situation, dropping a laptop in the sink, pool, or bathtub, maybe kicking the family pc into the Pacific, and what happens? It goes KA-BLOOEY! (Yes, I have decided to use the word(s) &#8220;KA-BLOOEY&#8221;)<br \/>\nNow what about that big vat of mineral oil you keep under your bed? What happens when your cell phone or gaming desktop fall into THAT? Apparently, nothing! Apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumpc.com\/article\/features\/hardcorepc_reactor\">dipping the internals of a PC into what might be called a bullet-proof aquarium and filling it with mineral oil<\/a> allows for jaw-dropping computing performance and sky-high overclocking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a computer as greasy as the lonely, pubscent face badmouthing your mother in Counter-Strike!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when water hits expensive electronics? We&#8217;ve all been in this situation, dropping a laptop in the sink, pool, or bathtub, maybe kicking the family pc into the Pacific, and what happens? It goes KA-BLOOEY! (Yes, I have decided to use the word(s) &#8220;KA-BLOOEY&#8221;) Now what about that big vat of mineral oil you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/14\/312\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greasy Computing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[99,98],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-oil","tag-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}