Indiana Minzes and The Office of Wonder

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Time to dust off the old project notebook and tell the story of Indiana Minzes the The Office of Wonder.

Being on an extended vacation allowed me to think more......which is a dangerous thing. I needed more functionality in the office because it was a combination of wires and computers all rolled into a huge ball.

I took our "Florida" room, which was an office to begin with and turned it into and Office of Wonder and Amazement.

Now it is functional, useful and pretty damn cool if I say so myself.

But is wasn't easy.

And it had it's share of "mini-disasters".

The problems started with the idea.

Just so you know, all my ideas end up being something completely different than what I envisioned.

What I envisioned was a mission-control like office with an entire view of my network devices and functionality that would allow everyone in the house to use any computer from any room.

Surprisingly, that part worked.

But let me start from the beginning because getting there was an adventure and a harsh lesson in how not to do things.

Rule number 1: Have a plan.

I just had an idea. A vision. But, as I learned a vision with no plan is like a car without an engine.

Rule number 2: Don't invite others to watch your vision, if you don't have a plan.

They will laugh at you. They laughed at me when I tried to hang to two flat screen TVs. They laughed at me when I trying to put the 3 flat screen monitors on the desk. When the office was finished, they laughed at me when I forgot to plug everything in.

But....I finished. And now it's the place everyone comes to hang out.

Here is the commander's desk looking out windows into the forest.










Here are the two flat screen TVs, wall mounted next to my map of the world and my timezone clocks.










Whiteboard for........whiteboarding more visions.










Flatbed scanner......for scanning visions.










Looks like a bookcase with doors, huh?










It actually open up. It's a desk for the wife. Her computer, her books and whatever else girls stash away.










Another angle of the office. Those of you who are IT folks will know what is in the center of the picture. A 24 port Cisco switch. Two NT servers, 3 routers, one of the wireless and one a VOIP phone router.










Sir Tommy of Creekside chillen on the chair.

The office has accessories too. Two HP laser network printers, one color and the other black and white, my MP3 player docking station, my blackberry docking station, 2 tarabytes of SAN storage, two lounge chairs for sitting back and watching a movie or TV and a cable box for watching all the cool shows.
Built into the setup it, is the coolest disaster recovery system on the planet.

So let them laugh. This is the coolest office in the world. It's super-functional and it has more features than most homes have. In fact, I have yet to see an office like this anywhere and I have been to some off the coolest government office ever.

But I have to go now. Tommy and I have a date with the dual screen TVs. Kittycat porn for him, TechTV for me.