Our geeky love-nest
No, not the bedroom!
I spent the day today working on our office (formerly "Lorrie's office"), and some friends who just moved in nearby gave me a desk that they were no longer using.
So we have made geek heaven in the office! It is a office, game room, lounge, opium den, and hang out!
As you enter the office, you see a nice reading table with a lamp.
Next to the table is a cozy rocker for reading, watching TV and playing Playstation.
My desk. Room for my desktop, laptop, PDA, iPod, and a giant pile of medical text books. The blue bin is literally stuffed full of misc. cables.
Lorrie's desk. It's much more colorful then mine, but still suprisingly geeky.
The TV and PS2. This has really taken over as the comfiest room of the house. If there was food here we'd never leave.
Oh shit!!! Don't open the fucking closet!
Ok, so the closet is still a work in progress. There is a light in there, on the ceiling, and a lot of shelf space with all of Lorrie's sewing stuff, so I put a desk in there with her sewing machine with the intention of making it a sewing station. So far it hasn't worked out, since sewing requires maneuvering, and there's not much space for that. Also, we've piled more shit in there. And I need to pull wire to put an wall socket in there.
Speaking of wall sockets, there are only 3 in the room, all of which are now dangerously overloaded with a million electrical devices. It's our geeky death-trap!
Edited to add: I forgot the best part!!! In the corner behind Lorrie's desk is a network switcher that, in 1996, was top-of the line and cost well over $3000. Now of course it is a relic that wouldn't be used in a true work network, but it's still a damn bit better than the tiny home switches you can buy at Bestbuy. I have it set to network both desktop computers and the PS2, while my laptop talks to everything via wifi, and the PDA and the cell phone talk to each other and the laptop with bluetooth. It's not a super fancy network, but we share the internet connection, files, and the printer easily.
I spent the day today working on our office (formerly "Lorrie's office"), and some friends who just moved in nearby gave me a desk that they were no longer using.
So we have made geek heaven in the office! It is a office, game room, lounge, opium den, and hang out!
As you enter the office, you see a nice reading table with a lamp.
Next to the table is a cozy rocker for reading, watching TV and playing Playstation.
My desk. Room for my desktop, laptop, PDA, iPod, and a giant pile of medical text books. The blue bin is literally stuffed full of misc. cables.
Lorrie's desk. It's much more colorful then mine, but still suprisingly geeky.
The TV and PS2. This has really taken over as the comfiest room of the house. If there was food here we'd never leave.
Oh shit!!! Don't open the fucking closet!
Ok, so the closet is still a work in progress. There is a light in there, on the ceiling, and a lot of shelf space with all of Lorrie's sewing stuff, so I put a desk in there with her sewing machine with the intention of making it a sewing station. So far it hasn't worked out, since sewing requires maneuvering, and there's not much space for that. Also, we've piled more shit in there. And I need to pull wire to put an wall socket in there.
Speaking of wall sockets, there are only 3 in the room, all of which are now dangerously overloaded with a million electrical devices. It's our geeky death-trap!
Edited to add: I forgot the best part!!! In the corner behind Lorrie's desk is a network switcher that, in 1996, was top-of the line and cost well over $3000. Now of course it is a relic that wouldn't be used in a true work network, but it's still a damn bit better than the tiny home switches you can buy at Bestbuy. I have it set to network both desktop computers and the PS2, while my laptop talks to everything via wifi, and the PDA and the cell phone talk to each other and the laptop with bluetooth. It's not a super fancy network, but we share the internet connection, files, and the printer easily.