{"id":619,"date":"2014-07-12T09:19:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T13:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2021-04-26T21:48:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T21:48:28","slug":"i-now-have-a-fedora-friend-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/07\/12\/i-now-have-a-fedora-friend-finder\/","title":{"rendered":"I now have a Fedora Friend Finder!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In early 2011, I decided<\/a> to go to a FudCon in Tempe, Arizona<\/a> (here’s my archive<\/a>). And here’s my blog summarizing my participation.<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the things in the list of items to bring was a Fedora Friend Finder (archive<\/a>, since the link disappeared), in other words an extension cord with multiple outlets \/ a power bar. This of course makes sense when you have a bunch of computer people gathering together, face to face: We still bring computers and as such we want to plug them in.<\/p>\n

As you can see if you followed the link or checked my archive, the page featured a long power bar with 12 outlets, like the following:<\/p>\n

\"12<\/p>\n

I of course had considered the power bar shown to be quite fanciful and even comical to the point of farce, and as such I assumed that someone had played around with The GIMP to produce the image.\u00a0 However, the message was clear: I brought a four outlet power bar with a roll-up extension cord to FudCon Tempe, like the following:<\/a><\/p>\n

\"cord<\/p>\n

During FudCon Tempe, I was mildly popular during the various “unconference”\u009d sessions and certainly made friends as a result of my power bar. In fact, during the “Lightning Talks” at the end of the “unconference”\u009d part, I was so popular that I had to turn people away who wanted to plug in, even after several other power bars had been plugged into mine.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to this past week in 2014, and I’m shopping for supplies at a Canadian Tire for a job site I’m starting up, including electrical extension cords and power bars. What do I find? To my amazement, a 12 outlet power bar just like I’d seen on the Fedora Friend Finder web page. The person I was with was a bit bewildered by my fascination with it; to him, it was just a big power bar. It may have been odd, but it was just another power bar.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t just fascinated; I was practically beside myself. Here I was in front of a real live example of the farcical prop I’d seen on a web page. Of course, I had to buy one.<\/p>\n

Here’s a pic of it with eight personal pumps and one DryCal calibrator hooked up, charging the internal batteries:<\/p>\n

\"my<\/p>\n

I think it’s cool. It will probably eventually be used at home where I have my multiple computers and a big wide screen TV and PVR, where things are currently lit up like a Christmas tree, so to speak, with multiple power bars which are nonetheless underused given the multiple oversized adapters.<\/p>\n

However, the temptation will be there to bring it out to any events at which not only would such a power bar be useful, but also to just brag on an “over the top” level and get incredulous looks along with a “may I plug in ?!?!?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In early 2011, I decided to go to a FudCon in Tempe, Arizona (here’s my archive). And here’s my blog summarizing my participation. One of the things in the list of items to bring was a Fedora Friend Finder (archive, since the link disappeared), in other words an extension cord with multiple outlets \/ a … <\/p>\n

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