[geeks] Waterproof Keyboard

[Dan Sikorski]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 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.

It became clear that even though the woman had an unfaithful husband, 
she was unwilling to be unfaithful to him.  Franklin soon shifted his 
attention to a widow.  I don't recall the names, and the book is on my 
coffee table at home, but yes, he was definitely a ladies' man.  This 
was just before returning to America and the drafting of the Declaration 
of Independence, as I recall.

    -Dan Sikorski