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Now where’s my Cat-7 cable?

Written by

Shannon Larratt

What, you don’t have an RJ45 port on the back of your head (no, it’s not a robot)? Some computer geek you are then, sheesh. Tattoo by Illya at Tattoo Mania in West Hollywood, CA.

Anyway, I have a busy few days ahead, and then a month of heavy software development (some BME/IAM related, some not), so the next BME update may be postponed until Wednesday, and I’ll probably have to post here less frequently over the next month. Luckily the guest blogging seems to be turning out so far (such as this ear piercing gun horror story by Lexci).

Comments

36 responses to “Now where’s my Cat-7 cable?”

  1. outmywindow Avatar
    outmywindow

    Oh my god, I LOVE this! I now feel like my binary wrist watch is small beans compared to the above demonstration of geekery… This guy is my hero.

  2. outmywindow Avatar
    outmywindow

    Oh my god, I LOVE this! I now feel like my binary wrist watch is small beans compared to the above demonstration of geekery… This guy is my hero.

  3. Nobnig Avatar
    Nobnig

    01001100011011110110111101101011011100110010000001101011011010010110111001100100
    011000010010000001101110011001010110000101110100001000000011101000101001

    🙂

  4. Nobnig Avatar
    Nobnig

    01001100011011110110111101101011011100110010000001101011011010010110111001100100
    011000010010000001101110011001010110000101110100001000000011101000101001

    🙂

  5. moi Avatar
    moi

    hello hairy back!

  6. moi Avatar
    moi

    hello hairy back!

  7. tokyowars Avatar
    tokyowars

    01111001 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01100100 01101111 01100101 01110011 00100000 00111011 00101001 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011 00100000 01110100 01100001 01110100 01110100 01101111 01101111 01110011 00100001

  8. tokyowars Avatar
    tokyowars

    01111001 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01100100 01101111 01100101 01110011 00100000 00111011 00101001 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011 00100000 01110100 01100001 01110100 01110100 01101111 01101111 01110011 00100001

  9. starspring Avatar
    starspring

    I wonder if the hair keeps growing, will it eventully short out that RJ45?

  10. starspring Avatar
    starspring

    I wonder if the hair keeps growing, will it eventully short out that RJ45?

  11. xaonon Avatar
    xaonon

    I’ve got cyberbrain connection ports on my neck, does that count? 😛

  12. xaonon Avatar
    xaonon

    I’ve got cyberbrain connection ports on my neck, does that count? 😛

  13. sqweak Avatar
    sqweak

    hahaha. that’s me, I had no idea it’d end up here when I submitted it last week. Now the whole bme community can marvel at my hairy back! 😉 Illya is an excellent artist, he’d done some latin text on my arm and I was very happy he was able to pull off those very fine lines with very little space between them.

  14. sqweak Avatar
    sqweak

    hahaha. that’s me, I had no idea it’d end up here when I submitted it last week. Now the whole bme community can marvel at my hairy back! 😉 Illya is an excellent artist, he’d done some latin text on my arm and I was very happy he was able to pull off those very fine lines with very little space between them.

  15. gradin Avatar
    gradin

    01111001 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01100100 01101111 01100101 01110011 00100000 00111011 00101001 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011 00100000 01110100 01100001 01110100 01110100 01101111 01101111 01110011 00100001

    actually comes out to…. F2CAE640D2E840C8…

  16. gradin Avatar
    gradin

    01111001 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01100100 01101111 01100101 01110011 00100000 00111011 00101001 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011 00100000 01110100 01100001 01110100 01110100 01101111 01101111 01110011 00100001

    actually comes out to…. F2CAE640D2E840C8…

  17. Jets Avatar
    Jets

    010010010010000001101011011011100110111101110111001000000110100001101111011101110010000001110100011011110010000001000111011011110110111101100111011011000110010100100000011000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001001000000111010001110010011000010110111001110011011011000110000101110100011011110111001001110011001011000010000001110100011011110110111100100001

  18. Jets Avatar
    Jets

    010010010010000001101011011011100110111101110111001000000110100001101111011101110010000001110100011011110010000001000111011011110110111101100111011011000110010100100000011000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001001000000111010001110010011000010110111001110011011011000110000101110100011011110111001001110011001011000010000001110100011011110110111100100001

  19. bluey Avatar
    bluey

    heheheh @ back pelt , hehehehhe … alass I want a back pelt! **UNHAPPYNESS** , heheheh

  20. bluey Avatar
    bluey

    heheheh @ back pelt , hehehehhe … alass I want a back pelt! **UNHAPPYNESS** , heheheh

  21. Saturnia Avatar
    Saturnia

    Gah! I was going to get that tattooed behind my ear! Now I’m no longer original ;_; Damn him!!!

  22. Saturnia Avatar
    Saturnia

    Gah! I was going to get that tattooed behind my ear! Now I’m no longer original ;_; Damn him!!!

  23. devo Avatar
    devo

    01001001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110011 01101001 01101101 01101001 01101100 01100001 01110010 00101110

  24. devo Avatar
    devo

    01001001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110011 01101001 01101101 01101001 01101100 01100001 01110010 00101110

  25. Leavethepoliticstomadmen Avatar
    Leavethepoliticstomadmen

    all those 0′s and 1′s are making me go cross-eyed. i know they mean something, but i have no clue what. Can someone narrate?

  26. Leavethepoliticstomadmen Avatar
    Leavethepoliticstomadmen

    all those 0′s and 1′s are making me go cross-eyed. i know they mean something, but i have no clue what. Can someone narrate?

  27. tokyowars Avatar
    tokyowars

    I just use this: http://www.adcott.net/binary/ And it translates fine, though according to gradin, it musn’t encode correctly…

    For example, devo’s says “I want something similar”.

  28. tokyowars Avatar
    tokyowars

    I just use this: http://www.adcott.net/binary/ And it translates fine, though according to gradin, it musn’t encode correctly…

    For example, devo’s says “I want something similar”.

  29. penski Avatar
    penski

    %48%65%78%20%3E%20%42%69%6E%61%72%79%2E%20%49%20%77%69%6E%2E%20%3B%29%00

    That’s one hell of a hairy back, dude! Nice ink though 🙂 I’d like to see it in a year to see if it blurs a bit.

    *n

  30. penski Avatar
    penski

    %48%65%78%20%3E%20%42%69%6E%61%72%79%2E%20%49%20%77%69%6E%2E%20%3B%29%00

    That’s one hell of a hairy back, dude! Nice ink though 🙂 I’d like to see it in a year to see if it blurs a bit.

    *n

  31. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    I work in tech support for Bell Sympatico internet (don’t use! don’t use!) and this either made my day or made me sad. Work is now squeezing into my modblog addiction, but it made me grin. This is where I’d make a perverted joke about physical setups, if i was creative.

  32. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    I work in tech support for Bell Sympatico internet (don’t use! don’t use!) and this either made my day or made me sad. Work is now squeezing into my modblog addiction, but it made me grin. This is where I’d make a perverted joke about physical setups, if i was creative.

  33. penski Avatar
    penski

    I just walked out of a job at Cisco and this made me very happy 🙂

    *n

  34. penski Avatar
    penski

    I just walked out of a job at Cisco and this made me very happy 🙂

    *n

  35. sera Avatar
    sera

    ace!!! love it

  36. sera Avatar
    sera

    ace!!! love it

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