A Geek Goes Flying

I have a desk in my bedroom that started out life as a slab of GLASHOLM glass held up by a pair of ARTUR trestles , though each trestle was eventually replaced by a sturdy two drawer vertical filing cabinet (like this ). It’s not my preferred place to work but sometimes the dogs are there and it just fits, y’know? It doesn’t get higher end stuff the living room workstation gets, but it’s more than usable. It’s kind of a Ship of Theseus situation, pieces get constantly changed out - is it the same workspace? How it started (circa 2020)   Intermediate setup, with pole mount and 15.4" MacBook Pro The chair I settled on is the generally very comfortable and supportive Branch Ergonomic Chair ($370 brand new), to which I added a pair of Aloudy Ergonomic Memory Foam Office Chair Armrest Pads (which don’t work nearly as well on the Branch as they do on the Aeron, but, they’re still more comfortable than the stock arm rests, by far). There’s no dedicated computer for this setup, though a...

Trying to find a smaller chair + ottoman I can kick back in for listening or reading. As much as I’d love an Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman , it’s a bit out of my budget and takes up a lot of space in my somewhat constrained floorplan (I’m trying to keep some open space for the pups...). Amazon has a slew of ~$75-120 offerings but they’re all kinda sus. (Not to denigrate the good corporate name of the venerable KOMFOTT, but, y’know...) So I stumbled across the IKEA POÄNG chair, which apparently is a long-standing classic , available in a bewildering array of color and cushion combinations.  POÄNG pages from 2002 IKEA catalog The cushions at least have been helpfully summarized by a redditor : Knisa - cheapest and thinnest (“The Knisa is noticeably thinner and less padded than the rest, still comfortable but will wear out faster ...”) Lysed / Vislanda - thicker than knisa, medium durability, kind of a middle ground Hillared - as thick as Lysed, but more durable fabric Glose - leathe...

I really wanted the “deal” I thought I was getting, buying a “Fully Featured” Aeron chair, size B , from SeatingMind.com, to be legit. So I ignored some red flags. Like the typos, or the fake “flash sale” count-down that gives the impression the deal you’re seeing will be gone soon, creating a sense of urgency: SeatingMind.com site showing fake flash sale countdown Pro tip: No matter when you come back, the chair will still be $549 with free shipping and no sales tax. Even if their math is a bit suspect: “ $1,199.00 $549.99 (You save $349.01 )”  Anyway. The “Item Conditon” [sic] reads: “Those chairs where purchased buy a large corporation which they did not end up needing them, due to covid, or they over purchased, so we purchased the load back, and can offer to our customers a larger discounts, They all still look Brand New, and come with a full Warranty and a full 30 Day money back” Item Conditon [sic] Text S...

New gig. Working from home. My old “workstation” wasn’t cutting it. Have a Dell U2311H that was sitting on its OEM stand, a Unicomp SpaceSaver M keyboard. My desk is a little (36.5" wide, 17" deep workspace) unfinished wood desk I sanded and stained (looks awesome, cost next to nothing). I didn’t have a lot of real estate left between the monitor base and that huge keyboard. So. Time to do something about it. Monitor I kit-bashed two pieces together (literally with a bit of duck tape - I happened to have some black Duck brand tape, 1 7/8" wide, that I wrapped around the upper (inner) tube of the floor stand; the desk mount tube for the monitor arm was just a touch thicker), because the desk (which has a 1 1/2" drawer hanging down, that makes it way too thick for any of the “clamps on the edge of the desk” mounts I could find, and I didn’t want to drill a hole through the desk - which, with the drawer, probably would’d have worked in any case). Mount-It! Portable Flo...