Cable Graveyard

I'm a cable pack rat. Things were better for me in France when I knew I couldn't accumulate too many bits and pieces, but since I've been back in the US, I've reverted to my old ways. The problem is that I've had a big box of cables that I've been carting around since college with all sorts of cabulature in it; it has been living in my parents garage for the last 4 years, so clearly most of the cables aren't really necessary (I also have my Power computing powertower pro in there, and an ancient powerbook 520c in drawer). Anyway, there was the usual fare: many Ethernet cables, RCA cables, RCA to stereo min (somehow I had like 6 of these!), coax, USB, firewire, 2 wire telephone, 4 wire telephone and on and on. However, there were also some really funny things in there which I've documented below. Test your computer savvyness (or age as it might be) by identifying them. Answers are in the nonworking rollovers at the bottom.
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Half Moon Bay

Today we drove south to Castle Rock for a little bouldering, but the rocks were saturated and it was FREEZING. Instead, we wandered around looking for undiscovered boulders and stumbled upon Summit Rock, which looks like it might have a days climbing as well.

We continued on along Skyline blvd, where we came upon power lines which had fallen across the road. A traffic jam was developing, and SUV people were proudly and happily going into FULL OFFROAD MODE and driving around the road. It was magnificent. Chloe and I returned to the last intersection and had a hot dog while we waited for the lines to be cleared. Unfortunately, the lines were still down when we got back, but by now there was a large dirt road from all the off roadin'. On a whim, we took the road down toward the pacific and ended up parking in the fabulous Ritz Carleton Half Moon Bay parking lot (We assumed that they only allow the riff raff in because of some agreement they signed). We walked along the beach,





tried to figure out what was going on with these columns in the headlands


and watched birds get doused by waves