Geek-Chic Power Houses

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."

Comments

Dang

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought it said Geek Chicks.

Catherine Bell

[tetro]

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.

My favorite stores are..

[Jonny Ringo]

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

Re:Geek-Chic?

[mcpkaaos]

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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[McP]KAAOS

Ubiquity of celebrity

[polyphemus-blinder]

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

Wired is the Cosmopolitan of the Geek World

[ziriyab]

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.

192 is the best sounding system?

[WebMasterJoe]

"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."