Late Night Church Doors and How to (Hopefully) Save a Wet iPhone

taken with Camera+, and then run through Camera Awesome

I dropped my iPhone in a toilet on December 31st — don't put your phone in your back pocket, people! — and after three days in a bowl of rice, it seems to be back in working in order.

Here's my advice for how to (hopefully) save a wet iPhone:

1. DO NOT TURN YOUR iPHONE ON OR PRESS ANY BUTTONS TO SEE IF IT'S WORKING. This might be your first reflex, but pressing anything only increases the likelihood that you will push water further into your iPhone.
2. DO NOT SHAKE YOUR iPHONE. This is another reflex you might have in order to get as much water off and out of your iPhone as possible, but shaking it also moves water that may have gotten inside, and we don't want that.
3. DO NOT USE COMPRESSED AIR TO BLOW WATER OUT OF BUTTONS, JACKS, OR DOCK CONNECTORS. As with point #1, this only increases the likelihood that you will push water further into your iPhone.
4. Fill a bowl with rice and bury your iPhone in it as soon as possible.
5. Switch out the rice in the bowl for drier rice every few hours.
6. Wait for at least three days before attempting to revive your iPhone.
7. Hope, pray if that's what you're into, and brace yourself for how much it's going to cost to replace this thing, because there are no guarantees.

Luckily for me, it worked! Hallelujah.

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UPDATE: So, it turns out that the rice cure only worked so well. My iPhone ran perfectly off the juice it already had before the accident, but it won't recharge at all, which means that the battery still works, but whatever powers it up does not. OH, THE SADNESS.

Late Fall Doldrums

taken with Camera+

Everything looks so dead and dismal in the last couple of weeks before the snow really sets in that it could drive anyone to drink, so I'm thankful for all the snow that's been falling over the last day. Keep it coming, winter! Let's cover up all the death and destruction with some nice, pretty white stuff.

Shadow Couple

taken with Camera+, and then run through Snapseed, and then run through Noise Master

I took this just after visiting the Canadian Movember office in Toronto a couple of weeks ago, which, by the way, I am supporting, if you are so moved to become involved in: donate to Movember or join the cause!

First Cold Day, And Now I Hate the Leaves

taken with Camera+

Every year, I declare fall to be my favourite season, and then two weeks later I am bitching about how I can feel winter creeping in.

Things That Are Lonely

This telephone booth is lonely:


This Axe bottle is lonely:


The old house that used to live on this lot is lonely:

taken with Cameramatic