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  1. No doubt about it. Scrubs is one of the best shows on television. Ever.
  2. Why on earth do hardware manufacturers keep building equipment with Serial ports?!
  3. Wondering if I’ll ever open my news aggregator again?
  4. It’s nice to see Ponzi painting again (I can tell she really enjoys it).
  5. Ponzi, when I handed her a new Zune: “What is this? An iPod?”
  6. Summer is cooler with a picnic cooler: urltea.com/kn3

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Just taking a look, I have three printers (a color laser that makes beautiful prints, a b/w laser that I didn’t sell when I got the color laser because the color laser is slow, noisy, and shakes, and a Dymo label printer).

The Dymo is on the serial port of an older puter that doesn’t have a working USB port. I tried stuffing a USB card into the puter, and it refuses to work, too, so I said “Nantucket” and simply used the regular serial port.

Both laser printers are on the same computer, with the color laser using the parallel port, and the b/w laser using the serial port.

One of my puters has a mouse on a serial port, too. As a rule, I prefer bus port ^H^H^H PS/2 port mouses, but it’s a nice mouse.

I’ve got a digitizing tablet, not used frequently, but when I need it, I’ve got it, that requires a serial port. MicroCornucopia once published a nice story on using a bidirectional parallel port for data acquisition, but I can’t find it any more, and without that article, regular serial ports are SO much easier to use when you’re building data acquisition hardware.

It’s awfully cheap to include a serial port, and when you need one, it makes a BIG difference. Sorta like token ring. Most computer users have never heard of it, but if you’re trying to connect a Mac to an existing token ring network, you’re SOL.

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