Carrying all your keys, all the time, is like wearing your parka to the beach because, hey, you've got a parka, you should have it with you...
Car key and house key on one keychain.
Bike key and house key on another. Maybe girlfriend's key too, if you frequently visit her by bike...
Get the picture?
I've had this chair for 5 years now and would buy another one in a New York Minute.
http://www.humanscale.com/products/seating.cfm
I used to suffer terrible back problems while sitting in the cheapo office chairs at work and finally went shopping for my own.
This beat out the Aeron because the Aeron is not nearly as adjustable. The Freedom requires no fiddling with levers, etc. as its fully cantilevered: It adjusts based on your own body weight and position. One of the best features is that the armrest height can be adjusted instantly, so, for coding, if you feel like sucking right up under the desk, you can. Push back and grab the armrests back up, instantly. They just stay there.
You stay comfortable because the chair is always adjusted to how you feel like sitting at the time instead of some engineers idea of the Perfect Sitting Posture (TM).
10 out of 10 in my mind. But buy from an office furniture store and pay ~$700. Buy at some online places which claim to be 'for less' and it can by $999!! Buyer beware.
Rest assured that that connection would cease to be there if it doesn't find the mine carefully enough. At that point it would fail the sentient test and become merely "sent'.
Hi "GreyGent",
I just checked over about a dozen titles of articles you've replied to. You seem to have history of histrionics. Neverthless, allow me to explain: I'm the 'dumb bastard' you just referred to in your post.
Some notes:
a) Most everyone on/. is a geek on some level. There are those who are alpha geeks and those who just desperately write opinions as if they were. Look in the mirror and decide for yourself which category you fit into. I've got a suspicion I know.
b) Not everyone who wakes up on Christmas morning, downloads some images and is presented with an obvious programmer's lark of music in the background is immediately charged with the solemn responsibility of thoroughly documenting the machine-state for bored off-his-ass septegenerians such as Your Eminence. All, presumably, so that said Eminence wont have to use up a calorie deciding whether its 'for real' or a ruse.
Let me do at least some of the work for you: It all happened exactly as I stated in my original post. No ruse. If you really think the moderators have time to do fact-checking on something which at last count 38 posts have yet to be able to verify, you really are a little lost.
c) I thought the experience was fun and a little mysterious, and posted it on/. so others -- who enjoy a challenge -- could hunt down the switch. Real geeks enjoy challenges.
d) Sarcasm is easy.
Merry Christmas to you too, Ebinezer!
No troll here. The whole thing happened as stated.
At first I thought I was still half asleep so I called my fiancee in to hear it. She did (thus, at least hopefully shooting down the crack, egg-nog, involuntary hallucination theories)
As I said in my original post, I couldn't get it to repeat... but didn't go as far as resetting the clock. Time was about 7:00am Christmas Day morning.
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My favorite quote. He doesn't seem to have heard his own words.
Carrying all your keys, all the time, is like wearing your parka to the beach because, hey, you've got a parka, you should have it with you... Car key and house key on one keychain. Bike key and house key on another. Maybe girlfriend's key too, if you frequently visit her by bike... Get the picture?
Short attention span theater.
It's rogue dammit, ROGUE!
{Sigh} Thank G*d it's not just me.
Anyone seen Scotty?
I've had this chair for 5 years now and would buy another one in a New York Minute. http://www.humanscale.com/products/seating.cfm
I used to suffer terrible back problems while sitting in the cheapo office chairs at work and finally went shopping for my own.
This beat out the Aeron because the Aeron is not nearly as adjustable. The Freedom requires no fiddling with levers, etc. as its fully cantilevered: It adjusts based on your own body weight and position. One of the best features is that the armrest height can be adjusted instantly, so, for coding, if you feel like sucking right up under the desk, you can. Push back and grab the armrests back up, instantly. They just stay there.
You stay comfortable because the chair is always adjusted to how you feel like sitting at the time instead of some engineers idea of the Perfect Sitting Posture (TM).
10 out of 10 in my mind. But buy from an office furniture store and pay ~$700. Buy at some online places which claim to be 'for less' and it can by $999!! Buyer beware.
Test it on your machine! Test it on your machine! Show us the screen grab afterwards!
Rest assured that that connection would cease to be there if it doesn't find the mine carefully enough. At that point it would fail the sentient test and become merely "sent'.
Now that's a sense of humor! Laughed out loud!
Hi "GreyGent", I just checked over about a dozen titles of articles you've replied to. You seem to have history of histrionics. Neverthless, allow me to explain: I'm the 'dumb bastard' you just referred to in your post. Some notes: a) Most everyone on /. is a geek on some level. There are those who are alpha geeks and those who just desperately write opinions as if they were. Look in the mirror and decide for yourself which category you fit into. I've got a suspicion I know.
b) Not everyone who wakes up on Christmas morning, downloads some images and is presented with an obvious programmer's lark of music in the background is immediately charged with the solemn responsibility of thoroughly documenting the machine-state for bored off-his-ass septegenerians such as Your Eminence. All, presumably, so that said Eminence wont have to use up a calorie deciding whether its 'for real' or a ruse.
Let me do at least some of the work for you: It all happened exactly as I stated in my original post. No ruse. If you really think the moderators have time to do fact-checking on something which at last count 38 posts have yet to be able to verify, you really are a little lost.
c) I thought the experience was fun and a little mysterious, and posted it on /. so others -- who enjoy a challenge -- could hunt down the switch. Real geeks enjoy challenges.
d) Sarcasm is easy.
Merry Christmas to you too, Ebinezer!
No troll here. The whole thing happened as stated. At first I thought I was still half asleep so I called my fiancee in to hear it. She did (thus, at least hopefully shooting down the crack, egg-nog, involuntary hallucination theories) As I said in my original post, I couldn't get it to repeat... but didn't go as far as resetting the clock. Time was about 7:00am Christmas Day morning.