It's actually amazingly comfortable. Moreover, balancing requires you to sit erect, helping fight the second scourge of computer dorks -- bad posture. (The first being Carpal tunnel.)
That's interesting. I might buy one just to try it out then, I hurt my lower back a couple of years ago and it never fully healed, and slouching on a leather chair all day doesn't seem to be helping..
Let me know how it works out. I did it initially for similar reasons. A surgery I had years ago leads disk degeneration. Mine is not bad, but my back did hurt at the end of the day sometimes. Now it does not.
I am very satisfied. So far, I sat for a maximum of 3 hrs at a stretch and its still comfortable. After 2 hours, my legs start getting cold, probably because the blood is not flowing there, after that I adjust the recline and it feels better.
I still find this lot better than sitting. The pressure on the back is horizontal. I read about workstations online and most of these here are reclined workstations.
Yes I use both machines. I often use the one on the left for recording screencasts and for testing different configurations.
The wall has a bunch of project notes and motivational stuff
"There is 0 value is fear and anxiety"
"Differentiate every day"
and my favorite
"The thoughts of others were light and fleeting,
of lovers meeting or luck or fame,
mine were of trouble and mine were steady,
and I was ready when trouble came - Houseman".
I love the belt!
You should find a way to mount it. It's a very cool trophy, but when it's just sitting around it's too easy to look like clutter, rather than being a nifty and unexpected gift.
My workspace- http://imgur.com/pWDwp.jpg
2 Ubuntu Machines, 1 Win7 Box, 1 WinXP box.
Using Synergy+ to share a KB/mouse between them.
I'm really enjoying the vertical monitors- Most monitors are wide enough these days, so having a maximized browser doesn't really help, but two stacked full-width windows is really useful.
I prefer the multiple monitors to divide up tasks- I can have email on one machine, Terminal windows on another, Browser on a third, etc.
I think the iPad/iPhone model actually makes a lot of sense. It's quicker for me to turn my head slightly to look at a new monitor, then to minimize/restore other applications that I use frequently.
You won't be able to use xmonad to manage normal OS X apps. X11 will just be another OS X application sitting in your dock that you can switch to. However, it is pretty easy to install a decent set of X11 apps. If you have MacPorts installed you can install the packages firefox-x11, rxvt-unicode, unclutter, and 'vim +gtk2' (the +gtk2 variant for PRIMARY/CLIPBOARD support) to get started.
I really need a bigger desk. I had to add an extension to it to be able to fit both speakers, and the monitors have to be rotated towards each other more than I like, but it works for now.
They're supposed to be used as studio monitors. I don't have them set up appropriately for that, but they're higher quality than most computer speakers. With them at about half volume, the volume level on my iMac controls them pretty well.
XMonad is actually managing the split there with emacs on the left and screen the right. There are Screen patches[1] for vertical split floating about but I don't use them.
Opps, missed this. Yea, it's very good. It turned out my left hand traveled one column over to the right too far, so I had to learn to type again. Still, well worth it.
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(thanks for the inspiration)
http://imgur.com/8VRv2.jpg
No personalization, though?
http://anil-bkdsb.posterous.com/my-work-station-1
http://weburbanist.com/2010/04/28/geeky-temptation-16-slick-...
so I hacked together a cheaper one.
It is still too early, I can post how I feel after couple of months.
http://www.querycell.com/da_desk.jpg
The wall has a bunch of project notes and motivational stuff
"There is 0 value is fear and anxiety" "Differentiate every day"
and my favorite
"The thoughts of others were light and fleeting, of lovers meeting or luck or fame, mine were of trouble and mine were steady, and I was ready when trouble came - Houseman".
http://i.imgur.com/o78Ix.jpg
But it still features the belt:
http://i.imgur.com/rK2Bb.jpg
I'm really enjoying the vertical monitors- Most monitors are wide enough these days, so having a maximized browser doesn't really help, but two stacked full-width windows is really useful.
I prefer the multiple monitors to divide up tasks- I can have email on one machine, Terminal windows on another, Browser on a third, etc.
I think the iPad/iPhone model actually makes a lot of sense. It's quicker for me to turn my head slightly to look at a new monitor, then to minimize/restore other applications that I use frequently.
http://imgur.com/SBuQ0.jpg
A Mohawk and snoutnose, from SQ7.
Jingle Networks plastic phone I received on my first anniversary.
The mascot of my favorite news site.
And the badguy from the first Videogame I worked on.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/251849/hacking-setup.jpg
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_on_Ap...
The easiest way to set it up is to download the Haskell Platform, then cabal install xmonad, and get urxvt through homebrew.
I have my dotfiles up if you want to have a look: github.com/cloudhead/dotfiles.git
(pretty old photo, changed computers twice since -- currently using imac 27")
http://www.deskography.org/media/desks/images/DSC04028__jpg_...
Edit: Added some text and URL to the actual photo.
http://ur-ban-public.s3.amazonaws.com/images/desk_home.jpg
Desk at Office:
http://ur-ban-public.s3.amazonaws.com/images/desk_office.jpg
EDIT: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=614454
I really need a bigger desk. I had to add an extension to it to be able to fit both speakers, and the monitors have to be rotated towards each other more than I like, but it works for now.
One of my assistants working at my workstation http://i40.tinypic.com/2nw2z4.jpg
At work: http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/3091/jobb.jpg
The work office, at least, has a few accouterments ;)
http://i.imgur.com/bkacQ.jpg
I also have a big whiteboard behind me.
http://i.imgur.com/fYBKA.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2277/2267898054_e3a45f4472_o....
1. http://fungi.yuggoth.org/vsp4s/