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anagramofbrat) wrote2011-08-08 01:08 am
anagramofbrat) wrote2011-08-08 01:08 am
VREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
okay, I have to bitch about something weird now.
I worked in a graphics lab at Smith at the turn of the last decade. Not quite the prehistoric era as far as current computing is concerned but back there. Antiquity, maybe. Anyway, back before USB made everything plug and play-licious we had these things called SCSI chains to attach external devices, and in the lab I worked in at the time, the main things at the ends of said Scuzzies were scanners (hey, at least they were one pass scanners by that point - they were 3 pass still five years before that) and more importantly Zip drives, because long before this bright halcyon time when $120 spent wisely could buy you a terabyte of storage, not to mention $7 can get you a 4GB drive you can fit on a keychain, we had 100MB chunky disks that if you were into any kind of graphics or video you carried around and thought you were all hot shit because you could fit about 99 3.5 floppies onto them. (Jesus. Remember 3.5" floppies? How about 5.25"? lol). Graphics nerds with Zip disks were such hipsters, man, and I say that fully knowing that includes me... hell if I dug in my Box of Random Computer Junk I probably could still find the pile of Zip 100s and Zip 250s containing all my 3D modelling and old graphic crap. But I digress. I was going somewhere with this, I promise.
Anyway, in the aforementioned lab, all of the computers had Zip drives. Regardless of whether they were external (usually) or internal (only on the lone PC, oddly enough), Zip drives made a distinctive, high-pitched "vreeeee" noise when reading data off of Zip disks. It got to be one of those ubiquitous background noises particular to this lab and for the most part I learned to tune it out, but on occasion during a bad day for whatever reason that "vreeeee" sounding over and over would set my teeth on edge.
Now the point of this little bit of nostalgia: There's a fucking colony of bugs outside, crickets or something, that make the exact same "vreeeeee" noise at the exact same frequency, over and over and over and over AND OVER again, all night long. Given the story I just told, you understand why I currently have a low grade headache and a rising need to repeatedly stab the next person that pisses me off. The odds are very much against my darling Manbeast right now, so if it hits the news that he was murdered by a rampaging Negress tomorrow morning, y'all will know to blame the bugs... and by extension, the iomega corporation, if they even still exist at this point.
*sigh* Summer cannot end soon enough. Strongly considering earplugs until it does.
I worked in a graphics lab at Smith at the turn of the last decade. Not quite the prehistoric era as far as current computing is concerned but back there. Antiquity, maybe. Anyway, back before USB made everything plug and play-licious we had these things called SCSI chains to attach external devices, and in the lab I worked in at the time, the main things at the ends of said Scuzzies were scanners (hey, at least they were one pass scanners by that point - they were 3 pass still five years before that) and more importantly Zip drives, because long before this bright halcyon time when $120 spent wisely could buy you a terabyte of storage, not to mention $7 can get you a 4GB drive you can fit on a keychain, we had 100MB chunky disks that if you were into any kind of graphics or video you carried around and thought you were all hot shit because you could fit about 99 3.5 floppies onto them. (Jesus. Remember 3.5" floppies? How about 5.25"? lol). Graphics nerds with Zip disks were such hipsters, man, and I say that fully knowing that includes me... hell if I dug in my Box of Random Computer Junk I probably could still find the pile of Zip 100s and Zip 250s containing all my 3D modelling and old graphic crap. But I digress. I was going somewhere with this, I promise.
Anyway, in the aforementioned lab, all of the computers had Zip drives. Regardless of whether they were external (usually) or internal (only on the lone PC, oddly enough), Zip drives made a distinctive, high-pitched "vreeeee" noise when reading data off of Zip disks. It got to be one of those ubiquitous background noises particular to this lab and for the most part I learned to tune it out, but on occasion during a bad day for whatever reason that "vreeeee" sounding over and over would set my teeth on edge.
Now the point of this little bit of nostalgia: There's a fucking colony of bugs outside, crickets or something, that make the exact same "vreeeeee" noise at the exact same frequency, over and over and over and over AND OVER again, all night long. Given the story I just told, you understand why I currently have a low grade headache and a rising need to repeatedly stab the next person that pisses me off. The odds are very much against my darling Manbeast right now, so if it hits the news that he was murdered by a rampaging Negress tomorrow morning, y'all will know to blame the bugs... and by extension, the iomega corporation, if they even still exist at this point.
*sigh* Summer cannot end soon enough. Strongly considering earplugs until it does.