Did I mention this? I’m not sure.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, at Shore Leave<\/a> I purchased a TARDIS USB Hub. I’d been wanting one for a while<\/a>, even though I had no real need for it–my keyboard at home has a built-in USB hub, my CPU tower has a front-access USB port and four USB slots in the back. Suffice it to say, I’m not hurting for USB connectivity. And at work? My keyboard isn’t a USB keyboard, my mouse is a USB mouse, and that’s all the USB I need.<\/p>\n But!<\/p>\n It’s the TARDIS. It makes the wheezing\/grinding sound. The light atop the TARDIS flashes.<\/p>\n I went back and forth. Would I buy it? Feck, of course<\/i> I did.<\/p>\n But what to do with it?<\/p>\n On my desk at home, it would only get lost. There’s some sort of flat surface here, only I can’t find it.<\/p>\n At work? Desk is rather clean. The cubicle doesn’t have the lived-in feel of most every other cubicle in the building as yet. Yes, work it is.<\/p>\n So, yesterday morning, I plugged in the TARDIS USB hub, positioned it on my desk between my computer speakers and my phone, unplugged the mouse and plugged it into the hub, and I was set.<\/p>\n Mid-morning a software engineer came by my cubicle. I was having some software issues.<\/p>\n He eyed the TARDIS. “What’s that?”<\/p>\n “My USB hub. I bought it at a con this weekend. It’s the TARDIS.” I didn’t explain what that was. I assumed he knew.<\/p>\n He noticed the mouse plugged into it. “You can plug the mouse into the tower, you know.”<\/p>\n I shrugged. “I know.”<\/p>\n “But you have to invent a use for it.”<\/p>\n I nodded and grinned. “Exactly.”<\/p>\n From time to time throughout the day I’d reach over and depress the button on the TARDIS door. The light would flash, the wheezing\/grinding sound would echo through the office.<\/p>\n It’s really quite spiffy. :tardis:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Did I mention this? I’m not sure. On Saturday, at Shore Leave I purchased a TARDIS USB Hub. I’d been wanting one for a while, even though I had no real need for it–my keyboard at home has a built-in USB hub, my CPU tower has a front-access USB port and four USB slots inContinue reading “On USB Hubs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[339,4082,51,340,341],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","tag-computers","tag-doctor-who","tag-fandom","tag-tardis","tag-usb","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}