Bright Lights, Big City
I’m staying over at Jimi’s again to catsit, starting tonight through Sunday, and after cleaning the hairy cat vomit off the comforter, I was ready to turn in for the night. I turned off the lights in the main kitchen/living room area and was impressed with the number of tiny lights still active, mainly power indicators on Jimi’s A/V and computer equipment.
| lights in Jimi’s apartment | |
|---|---|
| red, with lit greenscreen | AT&T Small Business System phone |
| blue | Blueair air purifier |
| green | AirPort Express |
| green | AirPort Extreme Base Station |
| two green | Linksys SD208 8-Port 10/1000 Switch |
| about four green | Linksys SD2008 8-port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Switch |
| flashing green/yellow (uh-oh!) | LaserWriter 8500 printer |
| green | two individual surge-protected APC power strips |
| green | three individual LaCie power supply bricks |
| green | Cisco Systems Cisco 2600 router |
| green, with green clock | Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 digital video recorder |
| two red, with white display | Sony STR-DE1075 Digital A/V Control Center |
| red | Sharp Aquos flatscreen TV |
| green, blue | Sony PlayStation |
| white, green | my own PowerBook G4 |
The scary thing is that only about two-thirds of the equipment in the room was on; there’d be even more lights if the other printers, scanners and videogame systems were powered-up.
Jimi, meanwhile, seems to be keeping busy in Cleveland. Tonight, he took some QuickTime VR panoramas of my two previous bosses, Steve and Teresa.