My desk

Recently I came into possession of two delightful gadgets: an Ergotron dual desk mount (“a robot arm for your display”) and a Kinesis Advantage keyboard.The arms mount on the edge of your desk, providing fully-positionable support for (in this case) a display (23" Apple Cinema HD display) and a laptop (my MacBook Pro). Not only can you move and rotate these (hence my vertical screen), but you also end up with an uncluttered desk (no more balancing a screen on top of reams of paper, no laptop stand). I've lost count of how many times people have stopped to ask where I got them.

The keyboard I bought to prevent the recurrence of my RSI, emboldened by the advice of Bill Clementson. I'm nearly fluent with it now; the only keys with which I have a problem are v/c, "/:, (/), and the awkwardness of hitting arrow keys and using the thing one-handed. On the whole it's actually better for typing real words.

Because I haven't done a desk shot for some time, there's one in this post. Walking, L->R:

• Phones number 1 (out of shot), 2 and 3
• Amazing Thermos cup
• Ink, fountain pen
• Apple Mighty Mouse (thanks, Tingting!) — not a good arrangement with the keyboard, but I'm working on that
• Keyboard
• Cinema Display, hiding two external drives
• MacBook Pro (tempted by the new ones, but this'll do for now!)

Posted at 2006-10-25 21:35:50 by Richard • Link to My desk
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Teeth

I was at the dentist to have my cracked tooth crowned today. It took 90 minutes, yielded the joyous news that I might need a root canal (“if your face swells up or the pain doesn't go away”), and involved the temporary crown falling off once during application.

Then, during dinner, it disappeared without fanfare. (I wasn't even chewing on that side of my mouth!)

Back to the dentist I go. *sigh*

Posted at 2006-10-25 21:18:45 by Richard • Link to Teeth
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