Now that's Retro SEXY!

Alright, so this is one to file under geek factor, but interesting none the less.

This last weekend I was invited out to dinner with some good friends, and well the topic always at some point or another comes to techno speak. So blah blah blah, interesting fact here, interesting fact there, but here's where it gets pretty interesting.

One of my friends, Emily, is studying English for a Masters, and one of her classes relates to speech pathology, and the change in phonetics over time, or at least that's what I gathered from our conversation.

For those who are familiar with the geeky side, my buddy Kristopher brought up the term SCSI. It's an old data transfer interface, and back in the day (like 8-10 years ago) it was still one of the fastest connections for data transfer available. Nowadays though, it's gone mostly to the wayside, in most PC's of home and business use. Well today, SCSI is pronounced "scuzzy," but apparently, when the technology was new it was originally pronounced "sexy." oh how times have changed, and thus names of technology. To go from sexy to scuzzy in just so few years, is this the geriatric phase of SCSI's life?( No offense to those who have fetishes for those over 70 years old... But EWWW! And yeah, sexy does seem to actually turn to scuzzy unfortunately, even I one day will make the progression :()

Well, today at work, we received two Fujitsu multi-page scanners for taking all the hardcopy files in the office to digital (however I doubt the predictions of offices being paperless in any near future scenario).

Crazy thing is, the scanners, which must be relics, have only one interface. SCSI! Not one computer in the office has that old relic. So, here we are, tow scanners, rented at $1000 a pop, and useless! Here are some pics of the scanners and there "sexy" single (and unidirectional in design.. I think) ports.

The back of Scanner.
And the front.
And the Lonely SCSI ("sexy") ports.

Now Imagine Black Light Bubbles at a club!!!!

OK, so if you ask me this, though extremely geeky, is DAMN COOL!!!! So, imagine, you go into a club, and when the lights are on, you walk through a plethora of multi colored bubbles blown from bubble machines, and as you get further in, where different blacklights color them differently as they move from one area to another... INSANE I TELL YOU!!!! Also, for educational purposes, in the class room or at home they would be great for teaching the colors of the rainbow, or just color wheels in general. Can you mix and match the colors? Create your own? Imagine the possibilities! learn more here!

The Difference between here and there...

This is more an interesting observation to me than anything else, and it does make sense considering the regional business cultures, but when I was recently on my trip to San Francisco for a weekend with a friend, I was actually blown away by the overwhelming percentage of coffee shop internet surfers that were on Macs. I was just about the only one in the shop with a PC laptop. Conversely when I was in Seattle this last Wednesday for the Depeche Mode concert... that by the way rocked so hard I couldn't feel my legs afterwards... or maybe that is what all the alcohol I consumed. Back on subject, In the coffee shops I walked past in Seattle it was a clearly all PC laptop environment.
Considering the Businesses of each respective area, the Bay area having the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, and Redmond based Microsoft being in the northwest.
I guess I'm just more surprised at myself for being surprised by the largely regional differences in computer culture, but I'm not surprised at my jealousy that arose as I sat in a coffee shop across the street from the San Francisco Trolley Museum and saw a cute couple sit down at a table near me, and both pulled out thier respective Powerbook and started typing, sipping and talking away with each other... DAMN COUPLES!! :P