Monthly Archives: February 2005

Well, I’ve got the video edit station set up at work, finally. For those of you geeking along at home, the setup includes a mini-DV deck and an international format VCR for playback, an SVHS VCR for recording, an analog to digital converter and a mini LCD monitor to check output. All of this is connected with a massive maze of cables, carefully arranged and velcro’d together in a fashion reminiscent of a badminton net that has collided with an airborne spaghetti factory.
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Rain changes everything. Today it is about 40 degrees out and drizzling down rain. It’s absolutely miserable out there. Last week it was 40 degrees out, but with bright sunshine. I drove around with the windows down and the sunroof open. Same temperature, entirely different attitudes.

Actually, I kind of lounge corrected. I have a very comfy office chair and I’m loathe to get up out of it right now. But that’s beside the point. DECAFBAD sent me this highly linkable article in response to my brief diatribe about installing an Xserve in a shower stall:

Check out Joi Ito’s PSINet Japan POP, circa 1994:
http://joi.ito.com/archives/2002/10/14/picture_of_psinet_japan_pop_1994.html

Who knows, maybe they do have a lot of people with bathroom and basement server farms. 🙂