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Best Chair For Desktop Coding?

Posted by timothy on from the because-an-army-marches-on-its-back dept.

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?

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  1. Thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey honey, thanks for thinking of me, I really appreciate it!

    1. Re:Thanks by ArcherB · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hey honey, thanks for thinking of me, I really appreciate it! Exactly what I was thinking... if he trolls slashdot all day between compiles, I think you let the cat out of the bag.

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    2. Re:Thanks by gustolove · · Score: 5, Funny

      But how many guys fit that description? The only reason I know I don't fit it is I'm not a dad. :-) Maybe your girlfriend is pregnant and this is her way of letting you know!
    3. Re:Thanks by muniak · · Score: 3, Funny

      Pregnant with a 10 month old? I'd like to see that...

  2. *blink blink* by XenoPhage · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow.. Utter shock at a slashdot reader having not only a wife, but, presumably, having reproduced...

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    1. Re:*blink blink* by mrsteveman1 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Perhaps if you made them an offering of some kind.

      I hear chairs are all the rage right now

    2. Re:*blink blink* by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Especially in Redmond.

    3. Re:*blink blink* by q-the-impaler · · Score: 5, Funny

      ... wives that read \. too. What's with the backslash? What are you, a Windows user!?!?! Get him boys...
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    4. Re:*blink blink* by sunking2 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I dunno, I've seen some of the females who read slashdot. :)

    5. Re:*blink blink* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      My frontslash key is crusted over with soda residue, you insensitive clod!

    6. Re:*blink blink* by realisticradical · · Score: 3, Funny

      And when they get mod points say goodbye to that good karma rating.

    7. Re:*blink blink* by c0d3h4x0r · · Score: 4, Funny

      You're kidding, right? Haven't you seen all the Anonymous Cowards he's spawned?

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    8. Re:*blink blink* by sunking2 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Mod points, yah right. They can't even master driving or understanding the rules of football. ;)

    9. Re:*blink blink* by FroMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      You haven't noticed slashdot leans to the left?

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    10. Re:*blink blink* by Fizzl · · Score: 3, Funny

      How in the hell do you comment your code?

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    11. Re:*blink blink* by chemisus · · Score: 4, Funny

      she never said it was his, in fact, she said, 'my', instead of, 'our'

    12. Re:*blink blink* by Anonymous+Cow+herd · · Score: 5, Funny

      #if 0

      for the win

      #endif

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    13. Re:*blink blink* by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Funny

      What's with the backslash?

      Trying to escape a period?

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    14. Re:*blink blink* by somersault · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh shit you just called them fat!

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  3. It's Father's Day... by PachmanP · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds like someone has been taking the shouting of "who's your daddy" a little to seriously...

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  4. You Married your Father? by MrSteveSD · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which country is this? :)

    1. Re:You Married your Father? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Austria?

      *crickets*

      What? Too soon?

  5. Well he knows now, announcing it on Slashdot by drcagn · · Score: 5, Funny

    To the guy who complained about his chair: your wife is getting you a new one!

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    1. Re:Well he knows now, announcing it on Slashdot by Fex303 · · Score: 5, Funny
      Well, that's great. I really wanted a new chair.

      It's just a little disturbing that I apparently have a wife and child I wasn't aware of.

  6. I would recommend...!?! by mseidl · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. For a really unique geek chair by muellerr1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  8. Re:Herman Miller Aeron... by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    A solid chair and a solid monitor then keyboard/mouse goes very very far in keeping you productive.
    And then you visit slashdot, nullifying all your efforts.

  9. Re:Herman Miller Aeron... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ooh happy ending!

  10. Mrs Balmer? is that you? by Simon+Rowe · · Score: 4, Funny

    He doesn't want it for coding in...

  11. Re:Herman Miller Aeron... by andyring · · Score: 4, Funny

    So in other words, when farting a lot, it disperses quicker?

  12. Re:Herman Miller Aeron... by whimmel · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where do you think the ideas come from?

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  13. Re:Surgery on my ass by Stanistani · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is embarrassing, but two years ago I had surgery on my butt. One of these days, I'm going to learn at what exact point to stop reading a particular post.
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  14. Re:Maybe that is what went wrong? by MythoBeast · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  15. Re:Surgery on my ass by duckInferno · · Score: 5, Funny

    One of these days, I'll take posts like yours as a warning not to expand the parent.

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  16. Best Chair for me.... by crhylove · · Score: 3, Funny

    is a nice soft one without hard edges or any real weight, but then again I work at Microsoft....

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  17. Re:Actually, your humor is misplaced by Kwiik · · Score: 3, Funny

    they have lots of chairs there, too

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  18. Re:Herman Miller Aeron... by Dun+Malg · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...all it's employees... thry... monay... thay... furnature... knowlegable... Was the .com making a free online spelling and grammar check portal? If so, I think I know why it folded...
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