Tuesday, September 14, 2004
450 Midwood Crescent
Nerdtopia. Pictures will be at http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cldellow/midwood/, eventually.
450 Midwood Crescent, summer home to myself and Chan Park, is the new home of a sizeable softie contingent, namely: Jesse Bishop, Daniel Marantz, Brett Lounsbury, and myself. Also co-habiting is Jeff Kroetsch, a lovable AHS student with an exuberance of bicycles.
Why is 450 Midwood nerdtopia? Let's review its technological contents:
450 Midwood Crescent, summer home to myself and Chan Park, is the new home of a sizeable softie contingent, namely: Jesse Bishop, Daniel Marantz, Brett Lounsbury, and myself. Also co-habiting is Jeff Kroetsch, a lovable AHS student with an exuberance of bicycles.
Why is 450 Midwood nerdtopia? Let's review its technological contents:
- 32 Ethernet ports:
- One 4-port 802.11b router
- One 16-port 802.3 hub
- Two 802.3u routers (with 12 ports amongst them)
- A Handspring Visor PDA
- Two digital cameras, one web camera
- A classic HP LaserJet 4 printer
- An HP PSC 2210 multi-function scanner, colour printer and fax machine
- Eight computers with a grand total of 790 GB distributed storage
- A RIM-subsidized 700kB/sec Internet connection which could probably service the people of Nauru or Tuvalu, or maybe even both.
- A few terabytes of DVDs
- Enough stereo wattage to cause mild tremors to be felt across the house
Add in the big barbecue out back, the flat-screen TV with DVD player, and a living room with a seating capacity of about 14 and you have nerdtopia.
