Post Your Desk - The 2009 Edition

[NiX]

Earth & Beyond original box and 8 copies of WoW.

[RhyssaFireheart]

I tried using one of those balls to sit on at the desk for a while, but I could never get close enough to sit at the desk properly.  I really did want to use it because I thought it would help my bad posture.  I tend to lean forward in my chair with my elbows on the desk and that ends up being hard on the front wheel of my chair (gone trhough 2 of them this year already, yay for replacement parts!).

So what's the secret to actually managing to sit at your desk on one of those balls? 

[Cyrrex]

So what's the secret to actually managing to sit at your desk on one of those balls? 

In his case, destroying his back and not having a choice. 

[Signe]

Poor apocrypha and his dodgy back.   

[IainC]

Iain, I have to ask; why is there a cave wall in your house?

My house is awesome. It's about 400 years old and that wall is about two feet of packed stone covered in plaster. This means my apartment is cosy in the winter and nice and cool in the summer. There are similar surfaces at the back of the apartment where the building is part of the city walls.

[apocrypha]

Earth & Beyond original box and 8 copies of WoW.

Only 2 copies of WoW there, and 3 each of the 2 xpacs  

So what's the secret to actually managing to sit at your desk on one of those balls?  

You're never relaxed. Your back is always active and upright, your arms don't rest on the desk and your legs are constantly active too. It's actually pretty comfortable once you get used to it, but never so comfortable that you can forget about keeping your muscles engaged. You're basically balanced on the ball using your legs to stop yourself falling off it :p

Oh, and you need the right sized ball and right height desk.

[Cyrrex]

You should get one of those with the handle on it so you can hop your way around the room.  WTF do they call those things again? 

[Sky]

Iain has a very cool place, if I remember the exterior. Too bad it's all messed up with that awful modern railing :)

You should get one of those with the handle on it so you can hop your way around the room.  WTF do they call those things again? 

Dildo.

[Yegolev]

Your desk is surprisingly boring.

I have come to realize that I work in the most professional workplace of possibly anyone here, by far.  We are very conservative; the IT guys with the foosball table and giant inflatable Batman have been sacked.  I do have some weird crap, though.  You can't see some of my trinkets due to my laptop bag on the left, such as the gold-painted Mr. Potato Head which I earned due to some sort of grievous mishap I perpetrated, plus two other potato heads which appeared from somewhere.  The Bendy Elvis is visible, the lucky golden cat is harder to see, the Septim is hard to see (THE EMPIRE IS LAW   THE LAW IS SACRED), the Ordinator is barely visible.  But yea, no booze or GIT-R-DONE posters.

The cardboard box and the chrome-trimmed tray is the CD/DVD Repository for The Coca-Cola Company.

[IainC]

Iain has a very cool place, if I remember the exterior. Too bad it's all messed up with that awful modern railing :)

Yeah, if I owned this place I'd replace the railings around that spiral stair with something a lot more sympathetic. I'd also replace all the doors because they are equally horrid.

[apocrypha]

You should get one of those with the handle on it so you can hop your way around the room.  WTF do they call those things again?  

Dildo.

Space hopper.  

[Murgos]

I have come to realize that I work in the most professional workplace of possibly anyone here, by far. 

I have a large cubical, the kind with the desk built into the cube wall and shelving built in about 18" above that for books with lights under the shelving.  On all that open desk space I have two monitors and a keyboard and whatever spec I am working from.  On the shelving are reference books and a space for my Vault 101 bobblehead, one of those large (12"?) Star Wars Snowtroopers from 10 years ago or so and my Aperture Science coffee mug.  Oh and some plastic models from the rapid prototyping lab.

It's incredibly professional and utterly boring, I would take a picture but no cameras are allowed in the building.

[RhyssaFireheart]

So what's the secret to actually managing to sit at your desk on one of those balls?  

You're never relaxed. Your back is always active and upright, your arms don't rest on the desk and your legs are constantly active too. It's actually pretty comfortable once you get used to it, but never so comfortable that you can forget about keeping your muscles engaged. You're basically balanced on the ball using your legs to stop yourself falling off it :p

Oh, and you need the right sized ball and right height desk.

No no no, I know about how you sit using those balls.  I have one to exercise with (when I use it) and I actually like just sitting on it occasionally.  My problem is how to get the ball at the desk in the proper spot, then to sit on said ball and be seated at the desk correctly.  Make sense?  Maybe it's because I freely admit to being a fat chick, but I can't seem to end up close enough to the desk to do any work once I've gotten seated on the ball.

[IainC]

Our receptionist has one behind her desk instead of a normal chair, she says it's awesome.

[Delmania]

I use those balls at work as well.  Not right now, due to diagnosed gall bladder disease that makes my stomach feel like its burning.

[Yegolev]

I would take a picture but no cameras are allowed in the building.

How about a sketch in MS Paint?

[Ookii]

I would take a picture but no cameras are allowed in the building.

How about a sketch in MS Paint?

Or at least a description!

[CmdrSlack]

A photo of my desk would either involve a) shared desk at work, covered with everyone else's mess (I frequently clean and send emails reading, "Hey, I found the desk!") or b) my kickass wooden teacher's desk with a non-functional computer on it.

My actual home "workspace" is my couch or chair and the laptop, which is the only functional (and highly fought over) machine in the house.

[Selby]

Wee!  Spartan for the win!

[Nerf]

1997 just PM'd me and wants me to pass along the message that it'd really like its cases back.

[schild]

1997? Shiiiiiit. That one on the far left looks like it has a 5 1/4 drive. More like 1990 imo.

The one next to last (from the right side) has a Sony 500A writer

Really easy to make region free.

[apocrypha]

No no no, I know about how you sit using those balls.  I have one to exercise with (when I use it) and I actually like just sitting on it occasionally.  My problem is how to get the ball at the desk in the proper spot, then to sit on said ball and be seated at the desk correctly.  Make sense?  Maybe it's because I freely admit to being a fat chick, but I can't seem to end up close enough to the desk to do any work once I've gotten seated on the ball.

Ahh gotcha. I'd guess you need a higher desk, but I can see how it would be difficult if you're well built. I'm a skinny wee fucker so it's kinda easy :/

[Murgos]

I would take a picture but no cameras are allowed in the building.

How about a sketch in MS Paint?

Or at least a description!

Look 5 posts up from your last one.

[Selby]

1997? Shiiiiiit. That one on the far left looks like it has a 5 1/4 drive. More like 1990 imo.

Good call there.  Mail ordered in 1991 =P  I'm the last person I know with a 5.25 drive still functioning (actually has come in useful a few times in the last 3-4 years).

I keep my cases forever, even if the computers inside have changed many times over the years.

[Sky]

The only thing my fiancee has ever given me shit for, in 4 1/2 years together, has been keeping my old pcs. Now that I'm in a small house, I have to tentatively agree because space is at a premium, but I do like playing old games on their proper hardware, Ultima 7.5 on my 486 for instance.

I'll get a pic of the new living room at some point, things are crazy right now. Trying to finish summer projects and get ready for vacation in Vermont, but mostly I keep forgetting to bring the camera in from my truck.

[Ookii]

I'm surprised at the lack of dual monitors on a lot of these desks.

[IainC]

I'm surprised at the lack of dual monitors on a lot of these desks.

My second monitor is on the floor next to my desk - it's a 19" CRT and there's no way it would fit on my new desk. I've been (unsuccessfully) trying to give it away for free for a while now.

[Nebu]

I'm surprised at the lack of dual monitors on a lot of these desks.

Maybe some of us don't have ADD and like to focus on one task at a time?

[Yegolev]

I was surprised at how many people had multiple monitors.  Yes, I have two at the work-office, but that's really just for show of status.  I have two at home but each are attached to separate computers so it probably does not count.

[Strazos]

My current room is pretty small. Pretty sure the bathroom or walk-in closet of my new place will be larger than my current room...but that's a post for next weekend.

[Yegolev]

Ah, you stole my idea.

[apocrypha]

I'm surprised at the lack of dual monitors on a lot of these desks.

More multiple computers than multiple monitors I think.

[schild]

Forget dual monitors. I'm surprised at the lack of leg room.

[Nebu]

Forget dual monitors. I'm surprised at the lack of leg room.

I doubt many people here are tall enough to look you in the eye.  Also, I tend to work with my legs under or near my chair... that could be the case for others as well. 

I should get a picture of my home office for you folks to ridicule.  Tough crowd.

[Mrbloodworth]

Do cats instinctively know when you're taking a photo of your desk?

They know when you do EVERYTHING.

I still can't get over how thick Engels monitor is.

"We call it, deep dish."