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UNTITLED, an installation piece by Eric Nelson that is being featured in the Mini Gallery in the Visual Arts building, located on the south side of campus near the Chemistry building, dominates the gallery space as Jenna Williams, a sophomore art major, explores it. The multimedia work is made up of ethernet cables that span the length of the gallery and hold a large metal box suspended nearly a foot above the ground. "It's probably one of the most interesting installations I've seen," commented Brandon Bullard, a junior art major, not pictured.
Left to right: MagSafe, Ethernet, USB (mouse), USB (Dell LCD's USB hub), Mini DisplayPort, and the speaker jack.
When you are into technology as much as me, sometimes you gotta burn some money on basic infrastructure. $200 in cables, and I had to order another $100 not too long after this. Issues being addressed: Redundant ethernet cables to each computer, USB2 to USB3 upgrade (have since bought yet another USB hub to increase my computer to 23 USB ports), increased electric guitar roaming, blacklight computer cables, crowded electrical outlets, free monitor missing cables, running out of places to put guitars (I later bought 15 more guitar wall mounts).
********** THE ORDER: **********
POWER EXTENSION CABLES:
6ft 16AWG Power Extension Cord (13A/125V) - Black- 2 *$2.70 =$5.40
10ft 16AWG Power Extension Cord (13A/125V) - Black- 1 *$4.08 =$4.08
15ft 16AWG Power Extension Cord (13A/125V) - Black- 1 *$5.08 =$5.08
GUITAR STUFF:
Wall Mount for Acoustic Guitar - Vertical- 1 *$4.91 =$4.91
35ft guitar cable 1/4-inch Right Angle Male to Right Angle Male 16AWG Cable (Gold Plated)- 1 * $13.58 = $13.58
ANALOG A/V:
RCA Coupler - Gold Plated- 2 *$0.61 =$1.22
RCA Female to F Female Adapter - Gold Plated- 5 *$0.87 =$4.35
RCA Jack to 2 RCA Plug Splitter Adapter - Gold Plated- 7 *$0.52 =$3.64
NETWORK CABLES:
Cat6 24AWG UTP Ethernet Cable, 20ft, Red- 2 *$3.62 =$7.24
Cat6 24AWG UTP Ethernet Cable, 20ft, Orange- 2 *$3.62 =$7.24
Cat6 24AWG UTP Ethernet Cable, 20ft, Yellow- 2 *$3.62 =$7.24
Cat6 24AWG UTP Ethernet Cable, 14ft Green- 1 *$2.83 =$2.83
Cat6 24AWG UTP Ethernet Cable, 20ft, Purple- 2 *$3.61 =$7.22
HARDDRIVE CABLES:
36inch SATA 6Gbps Cable w/Locking Latch (90 Degree to 180 Degree) - Silver- 2 *$2.34 =$4.68
36inch SATA 6Gbps Cable w/Locking Latch - UV Green- 2 *$2.34 =$4.68
36inch SATA 6Gbps Cable w/Locking Latch - UV Red- 2 *$2.34 =$4.68
24inch SATA 6Gbps Cablew/Locking Latch - UV Green- 2 *$2.14 =$4.28
INTERNAL PC CABLES:
24inch 4pin MOLEX Male to (4) 15pin SATA II Female Power Cable (Net Jacket)- 1 *$2.13 =$2.13
12inch 5.25 Molex(Male)/Molex(Female) Power Extension Cable - 3 *$0.82 =$2.46
VIDEO CABLES:
VGA(HD15) Male to DVI-A Female Adapter - 1 *$2.60 =$2.60
15ft 32AWG Mini DisplayPort to DVI Cable - White - 1 * $11.78 = $11.78
Ultra Slim 18Gbps Active High Speed HDMI Cable with RedMere Technology, 15ft Red -1 * $24.40 = $24.40
MISC:
Stud Finder - Wood, Metal, Copper, and Electrical Conductor Finder -1 * $15.24 = $15.24
7-Port USB 3.0 Combo HUB (3.0x4, 2.0x3) w/ AC Adapter - 12V/2.5A - 1 * $33.09 = $33.09
Subtotal : $184.05
Shipping & Handling Cost : $16.25
GRAND TOTAL : $200.30
Ethernet cable, HDMI cable, MiniDisplayport to DVI adapter, RCA adapter, RCA coupler, RCA splitter, SATA cable, VGA toDVI adapter, extension cable, guitar cable, guitar mount, hub USB hardware, molex cable, power cable, stud finder, wall mount.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
June 2, 2015.
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iss073e0077576 (May 20, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim repairs ethernet cables aboard the International Space Station's Harmony module.
Some of the last remaining, slow to sell tech items seen during the final week of the Horn Lake Office Max "cloveing" sale (they say it was moving, I say it was closing!) At any rate it's all long gone now.
I have my very own Raspberry Pi and, now that it's nestled in its handmade case, it has transformed into...
Puertos traseros de Imac. Se puede ver
Conector salida de audio
Conector entrada de audio
Tres usb 2.0
2 Firewire 400
Gigabit ethernet
Conector DVI para conectar pantalla externa
The ports: MagSafe, Ethernet, USB, USB, Mini DisplayPort, Line In, Line Out, and the Kensington Lock port.
There have been a lot of small updates to our network since the last photo I posted.
The most recent addition is of the PIX firewall. The Cisco ASA I was using previously was just too crippled when it came to licensing. I bought the PIX used, and it has an unrestricted license, so it will take anything we can throw at it.
From the top moving down:
• The patch panel leading out in the cluster of wires at the top of the photo to Ethernet ports throughout the house.
• NetGear 24 port Gigabit Smart Switch (allowing trunking, VLANs, etc).
• The "new" Cisco PIX 515e firewall.
• NetGear 8 port gigabit switch, on a separate subnet as a testbed.
• Linux file server with about 9TB of online storage.
• Linux development box.
Hace tiempo que vengo jugando con este cable de ethernet (conector RJ45) y un laser que es casi el sable de Yoda, y que me encontre en la Iglesia de San Clemente, en Roma (y que, desde luego, no compensa el que un poco después me robaran la cartera en la puerta de San Juan de Letrán...).
A lo que vamos. La foto es una alegoría de la conexión cable-luz, que poco a poco se empieza a imponer en nuestros hogares. De momento no creo que lo necesitemos, pero estoy seguro que será imprescindible en, digamos, unos 6 meses :D :D :D
Used my wife's magnifying glass to enlarge. SB 900 Cam left, above, SB600 Cam right at subject height through umbrella, fired by pop-up flash.
Few people will remember "thin wire" ethernet, the 10base2 ethernet used before today's 10baseT ethernet (which uses the RJ45 connector which looks like a phone jack, but bigger).
Anyway, you had to "terminate" the ends of your cables. And you sometimes had "T" connectors if your machine had to be hooked to more than one other point on the network.
Turns out, these terminators and "T"-connectors make neat cubicle art. (It kind of looks like Maggie Simpson is trying to smoke out of one.)
Pirates Of Darkwater toy, Simpsons, calendar, ethernet terminator.
Clint's cubicle, USPIS, Arlington, Virginia.
November 9, 2006.
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This is a "backup" that we took of our cable configuration, before the pros came in and ran an extra ethernet run downstairs for our failed HDMI-duplication project.
RCA jacks, S-Video jacks, cable layout, cables, ethernet jacks, jacks.
backup.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
February 26, 2014.
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Now that is a fine looking laptop. It is used for analyzing flight data from a Harrier fighter jet. Runs on Red Hat Linux. (Processor: 1.4 GHz Pentium M, Weight: 9.54 Kg) The analysis can be done from the outside or inside when the aircraft is on the tarmac.
I decided to be funny and asked the guy what they use for plugging it into the Harrier - USB? "Well not really... Actually it's just an ethernet cable." was the answer I got.
So, there you have it. Harrier has an ethernet port.
For sale or give away.. bought 2nd hand from David of CSIRO for $1700 in 2001 with my redundancy!
dual PCMIA 1 USB, 4Gb HDD, 190Mb RAM ex Dell case Ethernet etc.
The new blue Ethernet cable just arrived so I can plug into the extender in the lounge... 29-09-20 4:15 pm before the kids log on!
I get 47.95Mb/s down and 18.70Mbps up using Wi-Fi on the DELL on the dining room table, but using Ethernet Ookla gives me 53.66Mbs down and 18.93 upload
and the future..
blog.laptop.org/2013/03/01/designing-the-xo-4-touch-part-...
Just gave it to the shop in Kendall, hopefully, someone will find a use for it before it dies.
Cost me $1,700 in 2001, and travelled to the Cape and many remote areas with the Geoscience Australia 1:250,000 raster maps..
Long interesting blog discovered while researching a photography article
unrealnature.wordpress.com/?s=Australia+
Now replaced by the HP Pavilion running the dog of a Vista.
It died! The laptop died, according to the Geek shop, but then I did a Recover from the D drive and restored the system to the default, and it works fine.
VERY clever of HP, as it must have locked out the bad sectors, that the Geeks said were stopping my backups and the Geeks from recovering all my data! I am most pleased, it is still stable a few hours later.
And still runs connected to my WD My Cloud drive and the cloud sitting next to the TV in July 2018..
Now both replaced with my 3rd laptop, now called a ProBook!
HP Probook 450 G2 WIN7
8Gb 750Gb HD 15.6in HD 1366x768
The noosphere and the world of EGO and reputation of hackers on the worldwide web since 1998, and what keeps them going.
www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/homesteading/...
See a history of the World Wide Web and the Internet from Trove...
www.nla.gov.au/stories/trove/2019/03/12/preserving-austra...
I gave the old Vista away....
I gave it the Charity Computers on 31st Feb 2020 atlast, with manuals and into and two batteries, as it overheated and cooked itself, and probably the motherboard one night when I left it on charge!
www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-12-23/hack-russia-nsw-he...
NSW Health has been named in a growing list of victims of a major global cyber attack by Russian hackers — although it says patient information was not stolen.
Australian organisations were named in a list of potential victims of a global attack by Russian hackers
Dubbed the 'SolarWinds' attack, it has infected thousands of systems worldwide with malware
NSW Health may have been infected since June
But while the health agency says its system was not "compromised", cybersecurity experts said it appeared to be infected with malware.
My white 13" Apple Macbook laptop computer.
pictured (left to right): MagSafe AC power connector, ethernet port, Mini-DVI port, FireWire 400 port, two USB 2.0 ports, optical digital audio input/analog line in, optical digital audio output/analog headphone jack, and security slot
- - -
specs:
13.3" TFT glossy widescreen display (1280 x 800 resolution)
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
2 GB of RAM (DDR2)
160 GB hard drive (5,400 rpm)
Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor (144 MB shared RAM)
built-in iSight video camera
slot-loading 8x SuperDrive (DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, CD-R, CD-RW)
FireWire 400 (1 port)
USB 2.0 (2 ports)
Mini-DVI port
10/100/1000BASE-T ethernet port
built-in AirPort Extreme wi-fi wireless networking (802.11g/n)
Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
optical digital audio input/analog audio line in
optical digital audio output/analog headphone out
built-in stereo speakers
meets Energy Star requirements
size: 12.78" x 8.92" x 1.08"
weight: 5.0 pounds
Matt is going back to uni tonight. One of the things he's missed in his flat is being able to go online with both his laptop and Xbox at the same time because the university only provides a wired network in study bedrooms. So today I bought a small Ethernet switch and extra cables so that he can now be fully online while gaming :)
I tried shooting this pic with the keyboard backlight on and off, but on looked more interesting.
Trish and I are going through our rooms, garage, and closets to clean up and make room for the baby. When I found this 100ft ethernet cable I decided it'd be fun to use for my 365.
Got FiOS installed today. This is the ONT in our basement.
They also gave us a Wi-Fi router. You can't easily use your own, because it requires MoCA. In theory I suppose you could probably connect your own router to the ONT's Ethernet terminal and put this MoCA-enabled router behind your own. This would probably require a phone call to Verizon to get them to activate the Ethernet port, though. However, it turns out that this seems to be a fairly decent router with more built-in capability than my old Linksys router (e.g. DNS with DHCP updating and dynamic DNS updating via No-Ip, dyndns.org, etc). I've read about other FiOS customers complaining about its performance, but it seems to be doing just fine for me. Besides, I've only plugged low-speed devices into it anyway (Wi-Fi access points). All high-speed devices (computers) get plugged into the gigabit ethernet "switch". So far the Internet speeds are as fast as advertised. I downloaded Windows XP service pack 3 at an average rate of 24.8Mbps.
Prior to the installation I was curious to know how they terminate the fiber cables. It turns out they don't. The cables are manufactured to predetermined lengths. They select the shortest one that will reach the ONT and any slack that is left in the cable is spooled up inside the ONT box (the lower half of the box). That is why the box is so large. About half of the box's interior volume is used as room to spool the fiber-optic cable. So unfortunately, no, I didn't get to watch them use some high-tech tool which I had imagined they use to fuse an optical connector onto the end of a cut fiber-optic cable. Dang.
On the voice side of things, it seems identical to our previous Comcast voice service. Landline voice service just isn't much to get excited about these days, anyway.
The Television service is so far noticeably better than Comcast. FiOS TV seems to have far more HD channels than Comcast did (at least here in our area). The picture quality on most (but not all) channels seems better. Some channels still have noticeable compression artifacts, but I guess that must mean that the networks are simply over-compressing some of their content. Verizon swears they don't re-compress any video -- they just pass it along exactly as received. Still, it bugs me a little because HD that's been compressed with a lossy compression algorithm isn't really HD anymore, is it? Also, the Motorola cable box from Verizon is quite a bit snappier than the older one Comcast was using. There's a little less delay when changing channels and navigating the menus. Especially with the on-demand stuff. No more "please wait one moment" screens freezing the box for several "moments".
As far as the bottom line goes, we're getting considerably more services (faster internet, a DVR plus an additional cable box, more channels, and better quality video) for a good deal less than what we've been paying Comcast.
I love competition.
Highly accurate, Ethernet base, 7-segment clock driver with built-in NTP client.
This project is an open hardware project. All the project source codes, schematic diagrams, documentation, PCB designs, and compiled firmware files are available in the project GitHub repository at github.com/dilshan/ntp-clock
Puertos traseros de Imac. Se puede ver
Conector salida de audio
Conector entrada de audio
Tres usb 2.0
2 Firewire 400
Gigabit ethernet
Conector DVI para conectar pantalla externa
This is why WFMU sounds a little mixed up sometimes.
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First come, first served!
After viewing the Arduino powered internet meter at // vimeo.com/15312319, I decided to make my own, but with some improvements. Instead of checking gmail unread email counts like the video, I chose to write an interface to access Flickr using their REST protocol using python. Once I had the python code working on my laptop, I used google's app engine code.google.com/appengine/ to host my script, so that I didn't need to worry about needing a webserver to host the CGI executable.
I was also wanting to have the Arduino use DHCP to get it's IP address from my router, instead of having it hard-coded into the Arduino source code. A quick google search found 2 compatable DHCP client implementations, but I decided to use the implementation at blog.jordanterrell.com/post/Arduino-DHCP-Library-Version-.... I then based the rest of my sketch on their web client with DHCP client source code example.
An issue with the Arduino which I haven't been able to get around is that you cannot use a URL to access the server, you need to use an IP address. Because of this, additional code is required to go from the google search page to my google app engine application. I found an example at javagwt.blogspot.com/2010/10/arduino-ethernet-to-app-engi....
Once I had the Arduino connecting to my google app engine application, I just needed some glue logic to process the result returned by the script, to drive the panel meter, and some status LED's. The LED's show the following information:
- An IP address has been allocated to the Arduino / Arduino not connected to the network
- A connection has been made to the google app engine application
- An LED to indicate that the Arduino is participating in a 60 second delay to the next poll of the application.
The panel meter displays display counts up to 1000, so the 0.2 on the meter indicates that around 200 views have been recorded when this photograph was taken.
The source code loaded into the Arduino is as follows (sorry flickr removes formatting):
/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arduino powered Flickr Meter
Jason Hilsdon, October 2010
Idea inspired from video by Matt Richardson (vimeo.com/15312319)
DHCP client library sourced from
blog.jordanterrell.com/post/Arduino-DHCP-Library-Version-...
Google App Engine connection code derived from
javagwt.blogspot.com/2010/10/arduino-ethernet-to-app-engi...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#include
#include "Dhcp.h"
#include
// hardware analog & digital pin assignments
int delayPin = 9; // delay LED blink
int noNetworkPin = 8; // not connected to network
int networkConnected = 7; // connected to network
int googleConnected = 6; // connected to google app engine application
int flickrMeter = 3; // pwm output
boolean delayStatus;
// network interface
byte mac[] = { 0xDE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xEF, 0xFE, 0xED };
byte server[] = { 66, 102, 11, 104 }; // IP address to Google
boolean ipAcquired = false;
int readData[4];
int idx;
boolean startData = false;
// client connection to google
Client client(server, 80);
void setup()
{
// enable serial port monitor
Serial.begin(9600);
// I/O pin assignments
pinMode(noNetworkPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(networkConnected, OUTPUT);
pinMode(delayPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(googleConnected, OUTPUT);
pinMode(flickrMeter, OUTPUT);
// set I/O pin default values
digitalWrite(networkConnected, LOW);
digitalWrite(noNetworkPin, HIGH);
digitalWrite(delayPin, LOW);
digitalWrite(googleConnected, LOW);
analogWrite(flickrMeter, 0);
delayStatus = false;
// wait until network interface has valid IP address
while(true)
{
if(nicInit())
{
Serial.print("connecting to server: ");
printArray(&Serial, ".", server, 4, 10);
googleConnect();
break;
}
else
{
Serial.println("Unable to initialize network interface ...");
delay(1000);
}
}
}
// main program loop
void loop()
{
for(;;)
{
if(ipAcquired)
{
if (client.available())
{
// flickr view count has pipe symbol
// for prefix & suffix characters
// (to allow for parsing from HTML header)
char c = client.read();
char * cp = &c; // pointer to allow atoi()
if (c == '|')
{
if (startData)
{
startData = false;
idx--;
}
else
{
idx = 0;
startData = true;
return;
}
}
if (startData)
{
readData[idx] = atoi(cp);
idx++;
}
}
// if we have all the data from the web request,
// process it
if (!client.connected())
{
int viewCount = 0;
if (idx == 0)
{
// < 10 read count
viewCount = readData[0];
}
if (idx == 1)
{
// println();
}
// method to connect to google app engine to get result to process by Arduino
void googleConnect()
{
while(true)
{
if (client.connect())
{
digitalWrite(googleConnected, HIGH);
client.println("GET /service/currentvalue?point=test&email=gmail@gmail.com HTTP/1.1");
client.println("Host:googleappengineapp.appspot.com"); //here is your app engine url
client.println("Accept-Language:en-us,en;q=0.5");
client.println("Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate");
client.println("Connection:close");
client.println("Cache-Control:max-age=0");
client.println();
break;
}
else
{
digitalWrite(googleConnected, LOW);
Serial.println("connection failed");
delay(1000);
}
}
}
// Method to calculate PWM value to send to analog port.
// PWM has 255 possible values, need to convert max value of 1000
// down to a value 0 ~ 255.
int PVMValue(int value)
{
return round((value / 1000.0) * 255.0);
}
// function to provide delay of minutes, with a 1 second blink
void Sleep(int seconds, boolean blink)
{
for(int i=0; i < seconds; i++)
{
if (blink)
{
Serial.println("Sleeping ...");
if (delayStatus)
{
digitalWrite(delayPin, LOW);
delayStatus = false;
}
else
{
digitalWrite(delayPin, HIGH);
delayStatus = true;
}
}
delay(1000);
}
}
Google app engine script is as follows (note won't compile due to flickr removing formatting):
import time
import string
import flickr
import hashlib
signatureParams = {}
def getData():
return flickr._dopost(signatureParams["method"], auth=True, date=signatureParams["date"])
def genSignature():
keys = signatureParams.keys()
keys.sort()
signature = flickr.API_SECRET
for k in keys:
signature = signature + k + signatureParams[k]
return hashlib.md5(signature).hexdigest()
def getDate():
utctoday = time.gmtime()
return "%s-%s-%s" % (utctoday.tm_year, string.zfill(utctoday.tm_mon, 2), string.zfill(utctoday.tm_mday, 2))
def main():
flickr.API_KEY="Flickr API Key goes here"
flickr.API_SECRET="Flickr API Key secret goes here"
token = flickr.userToken()
signatureParams["auth_token"] = token
signatureParams["api_key"] = flickr.API_KEY
signatureParams["method"] = "flickr.stats.getTotalViews"
signatureParams["date"] = getDate()
signatureParams["signature"] = genSignature()
data = getData()
print 'Content-Type: text/plain'
print ''
print "|" + str(data.rsp.stats.total.views) + "|"
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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Blue Ethernet cables keep computers connected to the internet as U.S. Department of Agriculture Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Environment and Climate Change Robert Bonnie (white shirt) hosts a live Virtual Office Hours session on Twitter, in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, November 29, 2012. Supporting the event are Office of Communications Director of Web Communications Amanda Eamich (left), Natural Resources Conservation Service Internal/External Communications Team Lead Jody Holzworth (center), Forest Service Media Relations Officer Lawrence Chambers (second from right), and Deputy Press Secretary Stephanie Chan (right, at computer. Online questions about U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) record on conservation achievements and efforts to reconnect Americans to the great outdoors were answered during the event. Questions were submitted live and in advance to the @USDA Twitter account using the hashtag #AskUSDA. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
It all started when our protagonist, RJ45, woke up in a swamp. It was the sixth time it had happened. Feeling overwhelmingly worried, RJ45 grabbed a fork, thinking it would make him feel better (but as usual, it did not). Unexpectedly, he realized that his beloved copper pin was missing! Immediately he called his sworn enemy, Cable. RJ45 had known Cable for (plus or minus) 11,000 years, the majority of which were saucy ones. Cable was unique. He was ingenious though sometimes a little... annoying. RJ45 called him anyway, for the situation was urgent.
Cable picked up to a very happy RJ45. Cable calmly assured him that most bunnies yawn before mating, yet kittens usually charismatically yawn *after* mating. He had no idea what that meant; he was only concerned with distracting RJ45. Why was Cable trying to distract RJ45? Because he had snuck out from RJ45's with the copper pin only seven days prior. It was a saucy little copper pin... how could he resist?
It didn't take long before RJ45 got back to the subject at hand: his copper pin. Cable turned red. Relunctantly, Cable invited him over, assuring him they'd find the copper pin. RJ45 grabbed his piano and disembarked immediately. After hanging up the phone, Cable realized that he was in trouble. He had to find a place to hide the copper pin and he had to do it skillfully. He figured that if RJ45 took the truck, he had take at least six minutes before RJ45 would get there. But if he took the time machine? Then Cable would be extraordinarily screwed.
Before he could come up with any reasonable ideas, Cable was interrupted by ten selfish dust bunnys that were lured by his copper pin. Cable sighed; 'Not again', he thought. Feeling angered, he skillfully reached for his stapler and fearlessly stroked every last one of them. Apparently this was an adequate deterrent--the discouraged critters began to scurry back toward the desert, squealing with discontent. He exhaled with relief. That's when he heard the time machine rolling up. It was RJ45.
----o0o----
As he pulled up, he felt a sense of urgency. He had had to make an unscheduled stop at Jim's House of Wings to pick up a 12-pack of spoons, so he knew he was running late. With a careful leap, RJ45 was out of the time machine and went exotically jaunting toward Cable's front door. Meanwhile inside, Cable was panicking. Not thinking, he tossed the copper pin into a box of forks and then slid the box behind his couch. Cable was concerned but at least the copper pin was concealed. The doorbell rang.
'Come in,' Cable wildly purred. With a skillful push, RJ45 opened the door. 'Sorry for being late, but I was being chased by some clueless jerk in a 5.0 Mustang,' he lied. 'It's fine,' Cable assured him. RJ45 took a seat proximate to where Cable had hidden the copper pin. Cable sneezed trying unsuccessfully to hide his nervousness. 'Uhh, can I get you anything?' he blurted. But RJ45 was distracted. Out of nowhere, Cable noticed a abrasive look on RJ45's face. RJ45 slowly opened his mouth to speak.
'...What's that smell?'
Cable felt a stabbing pain in his back when RJ45 asked this. In a moment of disbelief, he realized that he had hidden the copper pin right by his oscillating fan. 'Wh-what? I don't smell anything..!' A lie. A insensitive look started to form on RJ45's face. He turned to notice a box that seemed clearly out of place. 'Th-th-those are just my grandma's salt shakers from when she used to have pet kittens. She, uh...dropped 'em by here earlier'. RJ45 nodded with fake acknowledgement...then, before Cable could react, RJ45 randomly lunged toward the box and opened it. The copper pin was plainly in view.
RJ45 stared at Cable for what what must've been eight seconds. Soon afterward, Cable groped surreptitiously in RJ45's direction, clearly desperate. RJ45 grabbed the copper pin and bolted for the door. It was locked. Cable let out a enticing chuckle. 'If only you hadn't been so protective of that thing, none of this would have happened, RJ45,' he rebuked. Cable always had been a little annoying, so RJ45 knew that reconciliation was not an option; he needed to escape before Cable did something crazy, like... start chucking butterknifes at him or something. Suddenly, he gripped his copper pin tightly and made a dash toward the window, diving headlong through the glass panels.
Cable looked on, blankly. 'What the hell? That seemed excessive. The other door was open, you know.' Silence from RJ45. 'And to think, I varnished that window frame seven days ago...it never ends!' Suddenly he felt a tinge of concern for RJ45. 'Oh. You ..okay?' Still silence. Cable walked over to the window and looked down. RJ45 was gone.
----o0o----
Just yonder, RJ45 was struggling to make his way through the cornfield behind Cable's place. RJ45 had severely hurt his back during the window incident, and was starting to lose strength. Another pack of feral dust bunnys suddenly appeared, having caught wind of the copper pin. One by one they latched on to RJ45. Already weakened from his injury, RJ45 yielded to the furry onslaught and collapsed. The last thing he saw before losing consciousness was a buzzing horde of dust bunnys running off with his copper pin.
But then God came down with His intelligent smile and restored RJ45's copper pin. Feeling concerned, God smote the dust bunnys for their injustice. Then He got in His '82 Corolla and whizzed away with the fortitude of 200,000 wallabies running from a misshapen pack of bunnies. RJ45 shimmied with joy when he saw this. His copper pin was safe. It was a good thing, too, because in six minutes his favorite TV show, The Times, was going to come on (followed immediately by 'When capybaras meet pipe bomb'). RJ45 was pleased. And so, everyone except Cable and a few hand grenade-toting kittens lived blissfully happy, forever after.
*** L337 Story Generator v1.0
*** Written by Derek Clark. Copyright © www.the-elite.net ~ 2004-2005
*** Forever pwning with earnest.