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Geek-Chic Power Houses

Posted by michael on from the conspicuous-consumption dept.

nakhla writes "Wired.com is running a lengthy article on wired houses of celebrities. The article describes some of the tech that has gone into the houses of actors, businessmen, and professional athletes, outlining the steps they've gone to in order to obtain techno-nirvana. Included in the article is a profile of JAG's Catherine Bell (my vote for sexiest geek), and her use of a wireless network to connect her to her TiBook, Gateway Laptop, and...get this...Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA. For those of you who are just dying to string fiber around your entire house, this article will have you making a run to your favorite networking hardware store."

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  1. FTPed games by dirvish · · Score: 1, Funny

    The article talks about how Tony Hawk has a special PS2 that will play anything he burns. Game-makers FTP him games, he burns them and plays them as a beta-tester. Do I have to learn how to skateboard to get that job?

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    1. Re:FTPed games by macthulhu · · Score: 2, Funny

      OK... So who's already working on intercepting the new THPS before Tony gets to play it? And, for that matter, who's already working on the map of "Unprotected Wireless Networks of the Stars"?

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  2. Dang by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought it said Geek Chicks.

  3. Catherine Bell by tetro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who doesn't want to show her their hard drives
    and give her some good RAM.

    Bite me if it's cliche, but you know you're thinking this.

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    1. Re:Catherine Bell by EvilAlien · · Score: 2, Funny
      Hahaha.

      A linux mag should do a photoshoot of her in something almost-not-there and all the geektoys. That could quite possibly cause the /. community to explode.

      [That is the queue for some politically correct and/or sensitive people to chime in with: "not all /.ers are men and/or like women and/or like porn and/or like linux and/or like foo]

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    2. Re:Catherine Bell by jimmyCarter · · Score: 3, Funny

      It is cliche. And your disclaimer does nothing to change that. I'd still hit it..

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  4. Catherine Bell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Catherine Bell

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!

  5. It has to be said. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Catherine Bells...

  6. Geek-Chic? by Quaoar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who cares? The world needs more geek chicks!

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    1. Re:Geek-Chic? by mcpkaaos · · Score: 5, Funny

      The world has plenty of geek chicks. We just don't normally see them as they are nearly indistinguishable from the geek males.

      ;-)

      Oh this is not a troll. ;P

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  7. Geek chick eh ?? by yuri82 · · Score: 0, Funny

    Would someone please explain to me the connection between a chicken with glasses and famous people...

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  8. Must be tough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It can't be easy to have parties and sleep with multiple partners and fiddle with your home network system.

    I guess semi-celebrities like those on *snicker* JAG have the time.

  9. My favorite stores are.. by Jonny+Ringo · · Score: 5, Funny

    this article will have you making a run to your favorite networking hardware store

    Some suggested stores:

    Networking Hardware USA
    Networking Hardware Emporium
    Hardware Networking Only, Inc.
    No We don't have any Computers, Just Networking Shit, Asshole! LLC

  10. Re:Catherine Bell is a Scientologist. by jpt.d · · Score: 3, Funny

    You unfaithful dog! By the holy clarics (lawyers) of the Holy Church of Scientology you will be silenced!

    All non-believers will be converted or silenced forever!

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  11. Re:Catherine Bell is a Scientologist. by Dr+Caleb · · Score: 4, Funny
    Man, you just destroyed one good fantasy.

    If what you say is correct, I wouldn't do her with PhysicsScholar's dick and someone else pushing.

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  12. a low-rent 15 minutes by realgone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not to rain on your parade, but that's not so much a "claim to fame" as it is a "claim ticket from the pawnshop two blocks down the street from fame."

  13. Ubiquity of celebrity by polyphemus-blinder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah yes, just what I was lacking. Hollywood fiber-optic gossip and token rings of the rich and famous.

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  14. Wired is the Cosmopolitan of the Geek World by ziriyab · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every once in a while I'll pick up a wIrEd at an airport or whatever. This is shortly followed by memories of why I canceled my subscription years ago. In the same way that fashion mags set up these unreasonable (and arbitrary) expectations of what it means to be a woman, wired has set up this buy-buy-buy wannabe geek culture. Example:

    Sure, you might have DSL and Wi-Fi, an Xbox and a TiVo, maybe a Bang & Olufsen stereo with 5-foot speakers and a six-CD changer, but you're still an amateur in the world of extreme home networking

    Extreme home networking? Is that like extreme programming? I had this burrito last night then I hunkered down for an evening of Extreme defecation

    The ad:article ratio in wired has to be as high as Cosmo's, not to mention the high number of thinly veiled ads in the fetish section. But, we do get insights like:

    Stored as 1s and 0s, music, video, and even television can share the same network.

    What insight! What's worse is that these freaks at the forefront of graphic design somehow manage to obscure deep insights like the above with layouts and graphics that make the articles unreadable. I had to hold this one article at an angle because the paper was reflective silver before finally giving up. I guess I'm not an extreme reader! Form over function in all they do.

    The preceding was an extreme /. post

    Spleen vented. whew.

  15. 192 is the best sounding system? by WebMasterJoe · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Peter Frampton has the same system!" Perlman shouts over the music. "If you listened to this as a 128K MP3, the cymbals would phase out. This is 192K!"
    Did anybody else think this was weird? I mean, If I could, I wouldn't even compress my audio. I'd just use a couple TB to store the highest quality versions of music I like. Or I'd hire a full-time DJ. And I'd make him give stuff away, as if he were on the radio.

    ...if you're caller number one you'll have free tickets to the [popular musician] show!...

    "Hello? Did I win?"

    Yes! What's your name, lucky c-

    "You're in my damn living room. You know my name."
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  16. what annoyies me is by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    that now its the things you own that makes you a geek.
    Woo-hoo, I just paid a guy 10 grand to install a system! I'm a geek!

    Fortunately for me, I'm a nerd, so I have to get by on my brains.

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