"All My Life's a Circle"..It's Friday AGAIN!Follow

If I wanted to see children destroy each other to make adults happy I'd watch Toddlers & Tiaras.

You know they make these things called network cables. They're relatively cheap and cable-like and can even be run through walls and such!

Yes. That's my contribution to home networking. Drill a hole in the wall (or two!).

Depending on your definition of "punching", yes. Obviously, it depends on the relative position of the room to others with the needed cabling and/or access via basement/attic, but there are some pretty cheap and easy methods to run cable through a house. And there are some generic cabling wall plates that are specifically designed to allow you to do this without it looking like you just punched a hole in a wall.

You also don't need to do the bare wire bundles in conduit route either. I suppose if you want a totally professional look, you can do that (and get plates with RJ-45 sockets as well, patch panels, etc), but you can just route regular old network cables if you want. What do you think people do with TV cables? It's just wire run through the wall/ceiling/floor and pushed out through a plate over a hole in the wall. There's nothing magical about it and it's not even that hard (in most home layouts).

Cat5 doesn't need to be ran through conduits. It's low voltage, it doesn't even need a proper box to put the connection in. They sell very easy to use low voltage cutouts. Just cut a square through your wall board (sheet rock, plaster, paneling what ever) and insert the device, it has two swinging clamps that swing behind your wall board and fasten it to the wall. Then the Cat5 recep snaps into the coverplate, which screws into place on the cutout. Looks the same as a single gang recep in the end, without having to fasten anything behind the wall. Obviously not legal to use for your power outlets, but for things like Data and Video/Audio they are perfectly legal, and very easy to use.

I've never had a problem routing cable through my house, and it's nice to have hard lines to desktops. Even the best wireless can flake out on you now and again, and I don't want to deal with that.

I abhor most computer chairs. I'm a larger person, 6'4" and somewhere north of 300 lbs, and it is damn near impossible to find a computer chair that will support me, be comfortable, and fit under my desk. All of the chairs that are strong enough tend to be uncomfortable, while the ones that are comfortable are so flimsy I'm afraid they'll collapse under me the first time I sit down.

Yes. Yes, I do!



Same thing I did in my house. You can do the fancy-shmancy stuff Tirith spoke of as well. Like I said earlier, there's a whole variety of plates you can use, but since we're not talking about power lines, you don't need a whole box-n-conduit setup. Wall plates are purely for looks in this case. A friend of mine recently did a couple rooms in his house (he's got a convenient attic, so it's really easy). He used these plates that have a decent sized square hole with brush-like stuff on top and bottom. They're designed for a whole set of cables and he used them all over the place. In one instance, he used two of them on the same wall just for routing the AV cables from the wall mounted flat screen tv down the wall to the cabinet under the tv with the cable box, Blu-ray, etc. That way, there's no ugly cables visible.


At the end of the day though, you are just punching holes in walls and running end use cable through them. Nothing wrong or "ghetto" about that IMO.

Edited, Mar 27th 2012 12:55pm by gbaji

It's fun to read gbaji's last two sentences as a metaphor for rape.

Did this thread title get changed, because I could have sworn it was originally " All My Life's a Circle Jerk".

Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part...

I ended up getting an Aeron chair for home 5 years ago. best investment I ever made. 12 year full parts coverage warranty, comfortable, sturdy, etc. http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/work-chairs/aeron-chairs.html They are spendy little bastards though. I purchased mine via http://www.homeofficesolutions.com/ who were quite easy to work with, shipped quickly, and have good coupon specials. I definitly don't mind reccommending them at all.

At other work, I have a monsterous maroon purple chair of doom thats built like a tank. I have no idea who made that one though.

At least one cat, maybe two skinny cats. The thing is seriously overkill, even for me. It's like a small couch with wheels. I have to be careful when I back it away from the desk when I stand up so it doesn't go through the adjacent wall on its own inertia.

My company would like you to know that you owe them a new computer monitor, because when I saw the price of one of those chairs I spit my gum at it and now it's stuck there.

Edit: The sad part is, I would actually consider spending the $900 on one of those chairs if I knew it would be comfortable for me AND I had the $900 to spare.

Edited, Mar 28th 2012 9:23am by Bigdaddyjug

Will you also end every episode day by letting Gadget know you'll get him next time. Next time!