Monday, January 27, 2014

Symbols and Portents.

Paused… She looked a little overwrought. One hand up. Slowly as if speaking underwater she says “ Library, Fiction, Sherlock Solution” then the bubble popped and she was gone and I was getting drenched again! It would seem that she is always in the same stance and her clothes never change or at least haven't in the few times she has appeared. Brownish wool sweater with a pattern over I think a white shirt, black pants, not too tight but comfortable looking and some sort of black shoes. What really pulls at my mind right now is why in blazes is she dry and I am always as wet as a mop in a bucket. Exasperating.

I am going to be working on the video from yesterday, patching, editing and splicing so I have to do a quick post today. I thought you might like to see what travels through my mind when I want to make a change. I used to move my room around all the time when I was in the military. I did it to control some part of my existence. I did also when I could with apartment furniture too after I was able to move from the on station dorms to the “economy” as we call living downtown.

I have a computer room with all the computer things as well as charts and flat screen and Xbox and such. Not a man cave because I think that ridiculous but a place to be away from the main house and do things. I used to spend most time in that room.  Now, with the surface pro I spend a lot of time in the living room. Since it can do most of what the main computers can do I tend to stay there. Oh, off track again. So I wanted to minimize the space taken up in support of the computers and make the room feel more open. So much wasted space with the two work tables and corner unit I had made to connect both tables at the corner. Good idea at the time but times change.

So below you will see what I did. Mainly I stood in the doorway and said to myself. How can I get rid of things but make it more usable. So follow the pictures below for a walk through.

The cluttered space. Monitors to the right. Computers on the corner pedistal and xbox and misc to the left. 

I started scratching on yellow pads. I have them at work and I bought some for home. I use them all the time. Started on the right.. Room as it was from above. Next left remove everything but main table and chairs. Next left is move table..naaa.. Next left was the idea plan. Use three existing bookshelves to span the wall with the window and put the computers on top with the left side facing out. Some doodles in the right corner for another idea.

Okay. Started measuring to verify their ability to do what I want. All together and in line they fit with over two feet left on the wall. I then decided that the computers would fit underneath and my subwoofer would fit also. It was going to be .. computer subwoofer computer. That changed. Again more doodles for another project.

I forgot that if I put the bookshelves together and against the wall there would be no place for all the cables and power runs. I decided to put 6 inch wide spacers in between the bookcases.


Now penning in what has to go where and what cables need to go where. The only change was where the subwoofer went.


Two shelve units in place. Corner pedestal still with computers in place.


Computers in place. USB hubs in place ( this changed ) Pine spacer in place. Top cap also there. It can be removed to access the cables and power strips.


Doneish. Some minor clearing will be done in the future and I also want to put another full width shelf cubby across the whole thing to add a bit more storage. Then stain the light wood to match the shelves. Now there is room for the computer chair out of the way.

Just in case you didn't know.. Here is a bit of help for those that have had sharpy problems.


And since I lived in Italy for three years I am partially Italian.


Thats all folks... sppphhhhhhhfffffffff


Linked links to links.

Lovely watch for those of you who take the big picture view.. Hope you have the 245,00 dollar price. Ouch


Oh yes… So what is it that there are so many EPA laws and more and more all the time but the bastion of overly liberal ( rabid ) ideas on how there should be more laws has the worst record for safe drinking water… Yes New York.. you… Pathetic.


There was a water tower in McGill NV. It serviced the whole of the tow and some outlining people. There was a dead body of a drifter in it for a year before they found it. Yes.. for a year people were…. Well YUCK!  New York… you have the exact same problem and its freaking 2014!!! Get your E Coli Cloriform under control. No new laws.. use the ones you already have in place and stop controlling the sodas.. idiots.

Oh fun gadgets. Some are good. Some are less than useful. Some are old ideas but they are interesting one and all.


Tech symbols… Oh.. um. Okay…. It all comes down to using existing symbols that are already on a keyboard or creating a symbol that encompasses your idea of what the damn think does. This is not hard. Just necessary.


Neat none the less.

If I only had time….. LOL