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Building a DIY Home Office?
Rednerd asks: "I just moved into a new apartment and I'm almost done painting and running the cat 5. I have been looking at office furniture for a new desk to become the new home for all of my misc. computer gadgetry, but I haven't been able to find anything that really fits. (No one seems to sell a desk with room for two 19" monitors, seven computers, a beer fridge, coffee maker, and a small compartment to serve as a shrine for my little plush penguin - Potelé) I'm leaning toward building a custom desk for my computers. With all the talk on Slashdot about creating an ultra-efficient cubicle, I was wondering what other slashdotters have created in the way of DIY home offices?"
I'm on top of it!
wray
Wood? Dude, that reminds me of something. Gotta go. :)
ah. a mid-westerner...
Commander Taco, twentysomething American and self-confessed 'media samurai', is sitting sprawled across a sofa in his geek compound playing a video game called Box of Wolves on an imported Japanese console.
"These aren't out over here yet", he says, pointing at the device, a mauve plastic box with twinkling lights forming a happy face on the front, "I had to order mine in advance nine months ago from a Tokyo webstore. It's a brilliant site actually. It also sells T-shirts, bikes, loincloths and kazoos."
Loincloths?
"They're more comfortable than pyjamas", he explains.
And kazoos?
"Yeah", laughs Taco, ditching his joypad. "But they're not actually called kazoos any more. They're K'zus."
And with that, he pulls out a K'zu of his own, attached to his jeans via an absurdly elongated keychain, and starts playing the theme from Cowboy Bebop. Then he plays it again. Twice.
"Great fun if you're on a bus", he gasps between renditions.
I ask whether people find it annoying. Taco looks blank.
"Why would they?" A thoughtful pause, then: "if they do, no-one's ever said anything."
And with that he launches into a fourth reprise, nonchalantly tapping his foot as he does so. Built into the sole of his right trainer is a pressure-sensitive pad which causes a short breakbeat to burst from a miniscule speaker located in the rear ankle each time his heel hits the floor. The resulting K'zu-breakbeat remix is digitally recorded by a microphone in his left shoe.
"I'm getting a copy of this now", he explains, "so I can incorporate it into my DJ spot at Diagram this evening". The Diagram Bar, owned by an old schoolfriend of Taco's, was recently voted 'place to be seen' by Slashdot webzine, which Taco edits.
Commander Taco is a cunt.
How could you tell?
Home Office: Ce n'est pas le bon mot fiston.