Damnit: i knew it would happen one day. I tried to open my bike lock with my voicemail PIN.

Everything I have ever learned is wrapped in blankets on the street.

Stuff-Be-Gone

Whoever said "A rolling stone gathers no moss" never lived with a packrat.

I would bet $10 that I could throw away the box of ethernet cables and networking hardware I stuck in the basement. I am becoming increasingly certain there are other items that I will never need, as I have not needed them for years.

When I find something useful, and get a lot of use out of it, it leaves a signiture of in my mind, and I try to hold it in that useful state, even though it's time has gone.

There are many books I own that would fall into the same catagory.

I save things because I feel they might be useful one day. That day does not often come.

The Dog is Being Cute, He Must Want Something

It's worse than just that.

When sitting, his nose reaches about 3 inches taller than the keyboard. He wants to smell what is so interesting here.

Oooh... now he's standing and doing the big-black-eyes/headcock thing. His hair is fluffly and has a faint synthetic fruity smell.

How cute!

Of course, he is doing all this because there is a bunch of workmen next door with a woodchipper. It's all a very good act.

He wants to bark at them.

He's not allowed to do that.

I get a cute dog as a bonus.

This is pretty neat.

I am wondering what other benefits could be revealed through additional dog training?

I am sure a 20 minute commute with a pan of fresh cornbread in the car is more distracting than texting.

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Chemist Creates Home Networking Disaster, Innocent Dog Traumatized

I decided to go through the two large boxes of random electronics that I had accreted since 2003-ish.

I have many things that I no longer remember obtaining.

I found at least 15 Cat-5 ethernet cables. I also discovered I have several 802.11x access points and routers (one for -b and one for -g, to go with the -n that Verizon gave me). I also have a 10-BaseT hub and a 100-BaseT switch, a wireless bridge, an 802.11b pcmcia card.

I am tempted to wire it all up to maximize the blinking lights in my office.

There are least 5 wall warts that do not appear to match anything I own. One even says "Atari" on the back.

There are the guts of 3 laptops.

A water (beer) proof silicon keyboard.

Several mini DIN-8 to DB-9 serial cables...

And SCSI cables!

Curiously, no modems.

I could have left a lot of this in New Hampshire...