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[snowbear95]

The configuration will change sometime: The two monitors on the right are going out and four 24" monitors are coming in. The two on the left are for the laptop, the one in the middle is a test server.

 

[limr12]

My desk at home is a mess - I won't take a camera near it right now. This is the office:

So many screens...

 

[snowbear95]

I really like that purple wall.

 

[limr12]

My issue is that I don't have an office at school, so I have to store all my teaching materials and books at home. And I generally keep student work for a year or two before I toss it, so that has to stay at home too.

 

[limr12]

I really like that purple wall.

I LOVE my purple wall! It's a small room so doing the whole thing in purple would have been overwhelming, but the one wall looks awesome.

 

[limr12]

Here you can see the ugly intercom unit (that doesn't work anymore) on the wall. I bought some cheap unfinished boxes at Michael's, painted them the same color, and mounted them on the wall, on of which covers that unit. Then I put some pictures on them, using them as shelves.

 

[limr12]

Oops. As usualy, I forgot to attach the picture.

 

[snowbear95]

Good morning, Mish. I know you're lurking around, somewhere.

 

[limr12]

GIS really requires at least two screens as there are a number of windows open, I typically have a map in one full screen and the attributes table (resembles a Microsoft Access table) on the other. There are two other windows within the GIS software that I use regularly, though they don't need a lot of room themselves. Add email, and a browser and two monitors fill up very quickly. Right now, I split the functions between systems - mapping on the laptop and the other stuff on the desktop.

That all makes sense.

What does NOT make sense is when my boss at the admin job asks for two screens. First of all, she is not that computer literate and has problems even with simple tasks. Second, she uses email, a web browser, and Microsoft Word. That's pretty much it. And we need two screens because.....?

 

[snowbear95]

It's like telephones. When I was doing the telephone work, we'd get managers that wanted the big 36-button phones and wanted the aides to have the "standard" 12-button sets. It didn't take them long to realize the aides were answering the phone, not them. People look at this stuff as status symbols, not tools.

 

[limr12]

 

[limr12]

Note that I am carefully ducking out of view in the above picture. In the bottom right, you can see the tiniest bit of my polka-dot pj's

 

[snowbear95]

Note that I am carefully ducking out of view in the above picture. In the bottom right, you can see the tiniest bit of my polka-dot pj's

Awwwww.

 

[Gary A.]

Buenos Dias Leaderboarders. Como usta frijol? (How have you bean?)

 

[Gary A.]

In the patio drinking my first cup this morning.