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Best Chair For Desktop Coding?
wifeoflurker writes "Can someone give me recommendations for a desk chair to give my husband as a Father's Day gift? He currently uses a cheap one he got from Office Max, but I want him to have a really comfortable one. He spends his life in this chair (coding and lurking on Slashdot). I don't have time to research good chairs on the internet today (I'm chasing my 10 month old around, and she seems to get into the most mischief when I'm staring at the computer screen), so I figured a few folks here might share their personal recommendations." Has there been any great progress in the state of the art (of sitting) since the last time readers sought recommendations for back-friendly chairs a few years back, or the perfect computer chair nearly a decade back? Is there even such a thing as a back-friendly chair, or should we all be in astronaut-style lounge workstations?
Hey honey, thanks for thinking of me, I really appreciate it!
Wow.. Utter shock at a slashdot reader having not only a wife, but, presumably, having reproduced...
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Sounds like someone has been taking the shouting of "who's your daddy" a little to seriously...
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Which country is this? :)
Throwable chairs of course!
How could you top this http://youtube.com/watch?v=E9_amg-Aos4.
To the guy who complained about his chair: your wife is getting you a new one!
Scorta futuere amo!
The Hawaii Chair:
http://www.skymall.com/shopping/detail.htm?pid=102518472&pnr=M53
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9_amg-Aos4
It will give me amazing 6 pack abs in 3 weeks with no dieting.
I had not heard of the Aeron before but it's almost like this Herman Miller himself entered the topic and simultaneously slashvertised his chair with his many sock puppets all at once. Amazing.
Either that, or the chair is really that good.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
See if you can track down the one Ballmer threw. In addition to the enormous geek cred, that chair would have great sentimental value as well.
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would get naked and allow her husband a comfortable place to sit.. or vice versa..
ooh happy ending!
Sounds like you need to change your diet too :)
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
He doesn't want it for coding in...
So in other words, when farting a lot, it disperses quicker?
>Strong enough to take my abuse (and I'm tough on furniture).
Steve Ballmer, is that you?!?
Those balls occasionally explode when you plop down on them.
When that happens, it will sound like 9/11/01, and feel like 8/6/45. Be forewarned; it happened to a co-worker a couple of weeks ago and the rest of us are still shaking.
OMG... did you really just say that computer users use their butt more than their EYES?????
Yeah,
I should try to use my office chair to go to work one day. It has wheels and its mostly downhill both way so it can definitely replace my car...
They don't make the balls strong enough for the average lard-butt.
:)
My balls are strong enough to handle any butt you toss onto 'em.
Anonymous? You betcha.
Where do you think the ideas come from?
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
As a contractor of many years, I refuse to take second hand chairs as my main post. Sure I will sit in any chair for an hour, but fuck me if I have to smell other peoples farts after sitting in one long enough to get it warm.
I was once asked "Why are you so demanding about the chair? You will be here for only three months or so!". I gave the manager a quizzical look and asked. "Say.. Do you ever hide your flatulance into your cushiony chair?" (Yeah, not from US. I guess that would be waaaayyyy too offensive to hint there.)
New chair it is. Not an aeron but something that doesn't smell like someones shit.
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I'm sitting in the exa
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Family Friendly hasn't done crap for shareholders, IMHO.
Yea, man. I'm right with you. I mean, look what happened to all those poor plantation owners when emancipation came around. There's just no justice in this world.
Wake up - the future is arriving faster than you think.
One of these days, I'll take posts like yours as a warning not to expand the parent.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it -- I'm huge!
Bloody alcohol, I forgot my apostrophes.
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It's adjustable to your preferences and allows different postures while you are coding.
is a nice soft one without hard edges or any real weight, but then again I work at Microsoft....
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The albatross is $1000 fully optioned.
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they have lots of chairs there, too
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Thanks a lot, you moron. I was all set for the Herman Miller Aeron and now the wife is going to show up with some dirty car seat from the dumpster, that I will have to weld to some base.
...all it's employees... thry... monay... thay... furnature... knowlegable... Was theIf a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
Not to poke fun as I'm sure it was very painful and unpleasant -- something I wouldn't wish on my worst enema (er. enemy -- sorry for the typo) -- but for the love of FSM, what where you telling yourself when this thing was say, golf ball sized?
I'm going to leave the questions about just what kind of plastic underwear you had picked as the most comfortable of programming gear aside for the time being.
This thing had to have somehow entered your mind as potentially problematic somewhere before it reached the size of say...a cherry tomato, yes?
I mean, at what point while showering or wiping your ass or getting dressed or whatever did you fail to say "Hey, that's not another ass cheek growing there is it?"
I showed this to a friend of mine (the story, thankfully without pictures) who's reaction was to suggest that if you were really smart you'd now find a way to sue the chair manufacturer.
I wish you better health and less pain - seriously, I hope this never every happens to you or anyone else again.
Now excuse me while I go watch a pig get slaughtered or click on a rickroll link just to get that image out of my head.
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Is this thing on? Hello?
I tried to speak to her. She would not respond. Afterwards, after words, we finally saw each other and I understood.
You did not forget them. I stole them, but now I feel bad, so here you go: ' '
I'm gonna need a spec.