Damien's Room 2.0

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2004-05-13 11:42pm

Durandal wrote:
Howedar wrote:Nah, Cat-5 is perfectly decent and it's under 1/4" / 6.3mm. Thicker is better, but the minimum manly thickness is more like 3/16" / 4.7mm.
You can never have too much Cat-5.

Am I the only one who keeps an emergency 10 ft spare cable in his bag?

J · Post by J » 2004-05-13 11:45pm

At least you don't have a 250' roll of it in your basement like my BF...

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-05-13 11:50pm

jmac wrote:At least you don't have a 250' roll of it in your basement like my BF...

What's wrong with that? What if the ethernet cable on your computer died all of a sudden? Then aerius would heroically step in, digging the emergency roll out, cutting it, spending about 10 minutes remembering how to put the ends on and then he'd make you a new one, on the spot! You can rest assured that you'll never suffer from such an outage.

This reminds me of what my dad would always tell my mom when they talked about when they were dating. My dad's a gear-head, and my mom would constantly complain about all the time he spent on his car. He very simply explained that he was doing it for her. What if they were driving somewhere, stopped at a light and some wise-ass wanted to race? It was up to my dad to defend my mom's honor by blowing the other guy's doors off.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-05-17 12:01am

More rearranging has been done. The bed is now on risers, and I've mounted some shelves on the wall above the bed. Also, I got some 14-gauge wire and moved my surround speakers to the back part of the room.

Check these babies out. This was done without a level and a drill with no bits but a Phillips-head. They're straight and level. Not bad for the old Mark 2 Eyeball, especially one as defective as mine.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-05-17 12:51am

Durandal wrote:What's wrong with that? What if the ethernet cable on your computer died all of a sudden? Then aerius would heroically step in, digging the emergency roll out, cutting it, spending about 10 minutes remembering how to put the ends on and then he'd make you a new one, on the spot! You can rest assured that you'll never suffer from such an outage.

No I wouldn't, I'd just hand her one of my spare cables till she gets herself a new one. That roll is special, it's solid core copper with teflon insulation, it's used for making high quality speaker cables.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-05-17 12:57am

Ah I misread. I thought it was a roll of Cat-5, not lamp-wire.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-05-17 01:04am

It is Cat-5. Thing is Cat-5 comes in stranded conductor (more flexible) for use in patch cords & shorter runs and the solid-core conductor stuff is for use in fixed installations & long runs.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-05-17 02:19am

You have a katana perched on the topshelf. I can only approve.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-05-17 04:12am

Durandal wrote:Check these babies out. This was done without a level and a drill with no bits but a Phillips-head. They're straight and level. Not bad for the old Mark 2 Eyeball, especially one as defective as mine.

Your ego makes me smile, Durandal. Only you would post pictures of your shelf-putting up skills on a webboard.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-05-17 09:32am

InnerBrat wrote:
Durandal wrote:Check these babies out. This was done without a level and a drill with no bits but a Phillips-head. They're straight and level. Not bad for the old Mark 2 Eyeball, especially one as defective as mine.
Your ego makes me smile, Durandal. Only you would post pictures of your shelf-putting up skills on a webboard.

You don't understand. This was a triumph over nature, against all odds. I didn't even have a drill bit, just a drill with a Phillips-head bit, and the holes it made weren't nearly big enough to put the wall anchors through. So I use a pair of pliers to widen the holes and managed to get the racks solidly mounted on the wall.

Now all I need is some white primer to cover up all my pencil marks ... and some caulk to fill in the exposed holes.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-05-17 09:55am

Durandal wrote:You don't understand. This was a triumph over nature, against all odds. I didn't even have a drill bit, just a drill with a Phillips-head bit, and the holes it made weren't nearly big enough to put the wall anchors through. So I use a pair of pliers to widen the holes and managed to get the racks solidly mounted on the wall.

Now all I need is some white primer to cover up all my pencil marks ... and some caulk to fill in the exposed holes.

It's OK, I am impressed, honestly.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-05-17 11:36am

Good, you should be.

EDIT: Like your sig, by the way.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-05-17 02:29pm

Laird wrote:
Durandal wrote:You can never have too much Cat-5.
Am I the only one who keeps an emergency 10 ft spare cable in his bag?

I used to.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2004-05-17 03:42pm

Perhaps in addition to the What do you look like thread, we should have a What does you crib look like thread. That way we can marvel at each other's creative ideas at building the ultimate love nests out of nothing but paper clips, rubber bands, ethernet cord, and $3.72 worth of shit from the local Wal-Mart.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-05-17 03:53pm

Durandal wrote:Good, you should be.

EDIT: Like your sig, by the way.

I was going to take that as a compliment to my dodgy ImageReady skills, then relaised the topic of conversation was your ego

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-05-17 05:11pm

Wicked Pilot wrote:Perhaps in addition to the What do you look like thread, we should have a What does you crib look like thread. That way we can marvel at each other's creative ideas at building the ultimate love nests out of nothing but paper clips, rubber bands, ethernet cord, and $3.72 worth of shit from the local Wal-Mart.

I already started that thread a while back; it never went anywhere.

InnerBrat wrote:I was going to take that as a compliment to my dodgy ImageReady skills, then relaised the topic of conversation was your ego

As well you should. Don't let that kind of mistake happen again.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2004-05-17 06:24pm

Durandal wrote:I already started that thread a while back; it never went anywhere.

It looks like a cool thread. I will see about bringing it back to life. I have to show off my cool shit too you know.