Looking for a male-to-male SVGA cable

I am a geek.

Whew. I feel a lot better getting that off my chest.

I spent my Sunday wandering through the aisles of the Lucas County Recreation Center looking for a monitor switch and a male-to-male SVGA cable. Those were parts I'd convinced myself I needed so I could really get into my hobby of taking apart old computers and salvaging the good parts. The trouble generally is you end up having several boxes open at the same time and hate swapping the monitor from one to the other.

I warned you I was a geek.

It's an interesting experience, though, walking through the aisles at a Ham Fest, named as such because a ham radio club sponsored it. My dad genuinely wanted to look at the ham radio stuff, and I preferred looking at the computer parts.

Here's the point to make from this experience: You don't have any junk. You only have things that someone else might want. It was amusing to see all these old parts I'd long since thrown out laying on people's tables, hoping someone would pay $2 for an old 586 processor chip or $1 for a gender-changing DB25 gadget.

I really did warn you I was a geek.

Just to clear up that gender-changing thing, and also the title of this entry... You can't say electronics folks don't have an imagination. Think of a cable that hooks to your computer. One half has the pins that stick out. That's the male side. Then think of where it plugs into. That's the female side. Those wild, wacky engineers...