Saturday, June 20, 2009

Retrofitting our house with ethernet cable

I'm starting a project this weekend that will hopefully end with all three floors of our house being wired with Ethernet cable (maybe Cat6 but likely Cat5e - haven't looked into the benefits of Cat 6 over Cat 5e though I'm guessing it's just more throughput).

I retrofitted our old house (which was built in the 1970s) is a surprisingly easy manner. I was proud of myself for discovering a technique (not saying that I invented it, just that I wondered if it was possible and then successfully executed it) that I called "re-wiring".

Rewiring

Basically I located the phone lines in our attic and followed them to where they dropped into the walls. then downstairs in the rooms, I unhooked the phone wire and securely taped a nylon cord to the phone line. Back to the attic. I pulled the phone wire out of the wall into the attic and then had the cord in the wall. From here I attached a second nylon cord AND the phone wire to the first cord that was in the wall. Back downstairs. Now all I had to do was pull the first cord back and I had the phone line back in the wall where I wanted it plus a new cord that I could use to pull my Cat5e cable with. Woooo!

On our newer house (we were not the original family or I'd have had the house wired before the walls went up) I'm not sure if this will work. We'll see.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Fireworks and some Awesome...



Friggin Fireworks! Awesome.


BY the way, this was just a test.



As is this too:





Thursday, July 03, 2008

Awesome photos



Some stuff is just too awesome for words. In those cases we have photos.

I give you: a monkey in a vest.


Friggin awesome.

Monday, May 22, 2006

Sick of Scientists

Ever wonder what scientists do on the weekends? Do they mow the lawn, go grocery shopping, and worry about thier weight like everyone else?

They probably do, but then... who cares? They're scientists. If you don't wanna mow the lawn, invent a robot to do it.

Geez, freakin scientists.

Thursday, August 05, 2004

Soooo... this is blogging eh?.

Yeah.... Uhm nice.

I figure rahter than wasting your time telling you about what I had for dinner last night, that maybe I'll post some funny stuff now and again and you'll like it.


Please like it. I need to feel loved.