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?

Comments

You Married your Father?

[MrSteveSD]

Which country is this? :)

Re:You Married your Father?

[Anonymous Coward]

Austria?

*crickets*

What? Too soon?

Well he knows now, announcing it on Slashdot

[drcagn]

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

Re:Well he knows now, announcing it on Slashdot

[Fex303]

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.

I would recommend...!?!

[mseidl]

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.

Re:*blink blink*

[Yvan256]

Especially in Redmond.

Re:Herman Miller Aeron...

[Yvan256]

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.

Re:*blink blink*

[q-the-impaler]

... wives that read \. too. What's with the backslash? What are you, a Windows user!?!?! Get him boys...

Re:Herman Miller Aeron...

[Anonymous Coward]

ooh happy ending!

Re:*blink blink*

[FroMan]

You haven't noticed slashdot leans to the left?

Re:Thanks

[gustolove]

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!

Re:*blink blink*

[Anonymous Cow herd]

#if 0

for the win

#endif

Re:Surgery on my ass

[Stanistani]

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.

Re:Maybe that is what went wrong?

[MythoBeast]

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.

Re:*blink blink*

[Just Some Guy]

What's with the backslash?

Trying to escape a period?

Re:Surgery on my ass

[duckInferno]

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