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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Romnipotent" data-source="post: 1956581" data-attributes="member: 23770">More locales12. Techolites. This store adjoins a strip of trendy shops near by the central train station. Its front window is adorned with various computer gadgets and setups. Close inspection of the window displays will reveal a fine mesh in the glass, alarm systems and the like. The main oddity with this storefront is that it carries both personal computers, and apple macs. Both machines look fairly similar, use roughly the same displays, input devices, and eerily similar screen savers. The computer is presented with modification, lights, water cooling, and all the extras. The Apple is set up like a graphics workstation, dual screens and drawing tablet.Inside the store, which is about 30ft wide and 80ft deep, glass and brushed steel adorn everywhere. A Playstation 2 demonstration console sits just to the right hear a thin tall mp3 player display, many models rotating. Opposite a smart sales counter, with minimised compiuter footspace but also a functional working area. Three girls work alternating shifts hear, A short very flirtatious long black haired girl, a more quiet blonde, and a new trainee brunette. Floor staff mainly include young men, most of them knowledgable in many areas of the store.The walls house shelving and softwares, two columns of cabinets stretch half the store after the sales counter. On the left are island displays with peripherals, keyboards, mice, CD drives, network hardware, and such. The right hand side of cabinets, many containing excess stock, sit various computers and laptops, each running the same screensaver. At the ends sit the showcase machines. A heavily customised desktop gaming machine running a full version of a recent popular release for customers and lurkers to spend unquestioned hours. The other a top of the line laptop, in dock with extra additions. Along the back wall are empty cases, a tall cabinet with hard drives, mother boards, and internal hardware. In the right corner in a stylised space sits the apple center, mostly parading the educational low end desktops and powerbooks. A full home stereo is also set up connected to an iPod playing music throughout the store.Everything is wire bolted down, and a CCTV security system monitors the entire area. Techolites also offers repairs, special orders, and a members club with 20% off.Tading hours are: Monday - Wednesday 8:30-6, Thursday and Friday 8:30 - 9, Saturday 9- 5 and Sunday 10-5. For further information contact 555-Tech (7214)13. Spinning Vinnies. Dig it! this hip luxurious cafe plays cool room jazz and even has live music every friday night. Not too bad for a Internet cafe/laundromat! Adjoining businesses acquired by passionate coffee afficianado Rynel Jasquin (Vinnie) met some teething problems with the council at first but with gradual suburb transformation and resident changes the areas has become the place for people in their mid 20's to early thirties to just hang out. Local cake shops and restaurant mean this place is buzzing most nights. A thick copper door now seperates the side by side business. the Laundromat is fresh and hip, art covers the walls and the benches are fairly comfortable lounges. A dry cleaner rents the area behind the laundromat and special deals exist with a 2hour internet sit down, a coffee, and 10% off the dry cleaner bill. Hng "Bobby" Nguyen runs the dry cleaners with his wife, he seems to have a coffee and several newspapers most of the time.The cafe itself has a small tapas menu, and cakes. Lush reds and golds pattern the walls, a broken thai gold leaf pattern runs around the room about 1.6 meters up the wall seperating the art hanging area. Most of the art up is from a local college. Lounges and low tables are the call here, no tables and chairs, the place is quite relaxed. Behind shoji screens sits 20 computers and 5 Apple iMacs, each one taking up barely any space in front of 7 point articulated desk chairs. Each terminal has a wired and secured set of Sennheiser headphones, which with the cafe software alerts you when you have 5 minutes left of prepaid usage. A few signs state "Rambunctious behaviours not appreciated" and "Respect cafe patrons, see other sign" as Rynel likes it more that way.Rynel mainly works the nights. During the morning the barrista is Lou Torantiello, a hansom man from Sicily with a sharp jaw and charming smile. The staff rotates a fair amount, enough that you may not find the same person again, but most that get to come back are very joyful and provide great service.Best of all the place is Licensed in the cafe area (No alcohol in the laundromat or computer area). The place opens at 6am and closes at 3am. Rynel hires his cousin to clean up in the wee hours.All work is copyright of Romney Tate, 2005. Permission is granted for above material to be reproduced in print and electronic format under the "d100 Modern Buildings project" or whatever the intended project is to be published as. The author reserves the right to reproduce this work in any format.AS a side note, Techolites will be a good place for PCs to get  PC's, and other gadgets, PDA's and such.Spinning Vinnies on the other hand is like your old Tavern, cleanup place, renedvous point, untracable internet access point, and information center. Rynel may have the up and up  on some local gossip. Chances are Lou has more. Hng "Bobby" gives the image of a clean cut man trying his best at dry cleaning, but tip him a few hundred and find a 'saturday night special' in your dry cleaned coat pocket. These are just ideas. Theres more than enough in Vinnies to dig yourself a great spot for a groups meeting place.</blockquote>

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