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w _____ ____ 1 222 222 "Geekified Hovel" w
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G || || \ / | || | 1 2 2 issue #122 of "GwD: The American Dream G
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My apartment is a mess.
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There really is no question of how much of a geek I am, after one looks at my
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apartment. I impress the pizza delivery guys with my geek apartment. The view
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from the doorway is of my 19" equipment rack, which houses all my stereo
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equipment (Sony dolby/dts receiver, VCR, digital cable box), Chaos (my server,
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in it's nifty rackmount matte black case), my old 19" monitor (almost 5 years
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and still brilliant. Doesn't pay to skimp on monitors) and my center channel
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speaker stacked up high, on top of the rack. My front speakers are positioned
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about 4' to either side of the rack, my rear speakers in the ceiling corners
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opposite, and my sub just to the right of Entropy (my entertainment computer)
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which is to the right of the rack...yea, don't worry, the sub is shielded. Set
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above the sub, to the right of the rack is the excellent ChaosLAN sign that
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[Hallucination] made from an old satellite dish. Positioned just in front of
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the rack and to the left is my nifty forest green leather chair. I love that
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chair. My Mom had it redone in dark green just for me. Only problem is, the
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guys who re-did it forgot to make the bottom buttons vents, so if you sit down
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too hard in it, you'll fire a button off to some random corner of the room. I
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have a coat rack behind the chair and a coffee table at the left hand of the
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chair, where I set my laptop. Once you've stepped inside the doorway, you'll
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see the wires strung all over the place. In true geek-bachelor style, I've
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done little to hide the 12 gauge speaker wire and cat-5 cables that run all
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over my apartment. Under the turtle art my sister made and gave to me, is my
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ugly but surprisingly comfortable and frighteningly seductive pull-out brown
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couch. It is just in front of the door now, moved to the wall so I could have
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room for the dartboard & cabinet that [Priest] gave me, which is hung on the
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wall opposite, at an incorrect height, waiting to be adjusted. Under the dart
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board is my daystand, where I keep my cellphone charger (which is my only
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phone, I've eliminated the landline), an antique crystal change tray with a
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unicorn head carved in it (left to me by my great-grandmother), a rubber hand,
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and a beer coozey stuffed with pens and an American flag. To the left of my
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daystand, just past my hockey stick, is a shelf-unit thing that houses my
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video and DVD collection. On top of that rests my fish, alpha(.7), in a
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generally under-filled fish bowl with a black and white plastic
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under-water-plant-thing behind the bowl instead of in. On the front wall of
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the apartment is a coffee table passed to me from my parents through my
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sister, which is stacked with an eclectic collection of items, like a
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Spider-man book, and an old surveillance camera electric-taped to a power
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transformer, and filled with incense. Speaking of cameras, the old ChaosCAM is
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on the other side of the room, still attached to the servo (which allowed
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limited movement). The camera still works. I have no clue as to the current
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state of the servo. I should get that working again some day. I'll avoid the
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kitchen, because aside from the Creede Reperatory Theatre poster behind my
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kitchen table, it is most like any other kitchen. The downstairs 1/2 bathroom
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has no toilet paper, and the closet under the stairs is half filled with old
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computer monitors and an old lamp. The stairs head upstairs to where my full
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bath, office and bedroom are. Cat-5 and speaker cable run up the outside of
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the stairs to my office, to connect to my Bose bookshelf speakers and ethernet
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switch which sit upon my bookshelves, half obscured by all the books that have
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no more room inside the bookshelf. These books are composed mostly of Terry
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Pratchet and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The other space in the bookshelf is taken by
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the green-monochrome monitors that are connected to the ChaosCam in the den,
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and the PorchCam on the porch, whose wire runs from the monitor to my bedroom
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window to down under the eaves on my porch. Across from the bookshelf in my
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office is my desk, which is an old door placed on two filing cabinets. The
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cabinet on the left is a plain old sheetmetal filing cabinet filled with old
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floppy disks and various computer accessories. The other filing cabinet is a
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pretty hardwood cabinet, and is filled with old financial documents, hardware
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and software manuals, and my porn stash. I don't know why I hide porn in my
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own apartment, being 23 and living alone, but I do. On my desk is an executive
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lamp which is plugged in through an X10 module that responds to a motion
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detector in my office. I have a lamp on my fish bowl downstairs which is also
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activated by the motion detector, although I don't remember why. Behind the
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lamp is a box which originally held candy cigarettes, (apparently used by
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Spider-Man) but now contains a plastic figure of Spider-Man. Next to the candy
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cigarrette box is a cell-phone/glasses cozy that is green and has a cat
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knitted on it. It was made by my friend [Purpldrgn] from New Jersey who I have
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not talked to for probably a year. I should really try and call her up again.
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On the other end of my desk are my computer monitors. One is just sitting on
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the desk, but the other is on an articulated arm that is bolted into the door
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(one of the advantages to having a desk surface that was cheap is you can
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drill holes in it). In front of the monitors are generally bills, old copies
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of past-important documents, old harddrives, old CDRs, and a Far-Side calendar
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that is apparently the last of the line in Far-Side off-the-wall calendars.
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There is an old phone that my old girlfriend Tracie got for me sometime when I
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was 15, so that I would use my phone line for telephone calls instead of my
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BBS. It is black and has a 'Sekrut Squirrel' sticker on it. I also generally
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set whatever book I am reading at the moment somewhere in this area, for when
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I am waiting for my comptuer to do something. The actual computer is now under
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my desk, along with my scanner and printer. My bedroom is cluttered. I have a
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double-closet that has miscellaneous junk (old paintball equipment, softballs,
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yo-yos) in boxes, my collection of computer hardware/software boxes that date
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back to '95, all along the floor. On the racks are a few articles of clothes,
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mostly jeans that don't fit anymore and shirts that I don't like anymore. The
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rest of my clothes are scattered about the floor. These are, for the most
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part, clean. I have a bad habit of just dumping my laundry basket out on the
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floor after I do laundry so I can haul the next batch of dirty clothes down to
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the washer. My dirty clothes are collected in two different boxes in the
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corner of the room behind my closet door. Along one wall I have a collection
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of isolated socks. And on the front wall, next to the window, my bed sits
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under a giant 'Mixed-Up' poster. Hanging from the ceiling in the corner over
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my bed is my reading lamp and only light source in the room aside from the
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closet light. At the foot of my bed is another sheet-metal filing cabinet
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filled with random things like discarded monitor stands and old walkmans. On
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top of the cabinet is my alarm clock/radio/phone, from which I use only the
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alarm clock. Next to that is the lava lamp my sister gave me for Christmas. It
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has blue water and green lava.
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Issue#122 of "GwD: The American Dream with a Twist -- of Lime" ISSN 1523-1585
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