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?

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[XenoPhage]

Well, my wife doesn't read slashdot, but she does know technology.. And she plays MMORPGs with me too, so I'm keeping her..

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[ConceptJunkie]

I'm glad my wife _doesn't_ read /.

She'd probably think less of me.

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[masterzora]

Okay, I see it now. It's not that my mind is innocent (far from it, believe me; I'm a college student), but rather than I don't see getting a present for one's husband on Father's Day out of the ordinary enough that there could be any such implications in doing so.

Well, that and that he phrased it oddly. The first sentence makes it seem like the original poster had misread the summary, but everything he said actually just reinforced that the original poster had read it perfectly. I'm just going to stop now and chalk this one up to "poorly worded joke".