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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

New DesktopA couple of weeks ago my work PC crapped the bed. I ended up with one that was earmarked for someone else in QC. Unfortunately the monitor that came with the unit was a 17″ flat panel and that had less real estate than my present 20″ tube behemoth, so I didn’t take it. My cubical neighbors (they work for a different manger) just had their same vintage tubes replaced with 22″wide screen flat panels, so I figured now was the time to press the issue with my boss man.

He agreed and passed the request through channels so I could get a new screen too. I was lobbying for a 24″ Ultra Sharp Dell Widescreen, but the manager in charge of purchasing the new PC equipment thinks that the money for this sort of thing comes out of his pocket, so I got the same bargain monitor as the others. It is a GE and while it has a small tilt adjustment there is no vertical height adjustment. Sitting on the desktop was too low, a 1″ thick Reid Tool catalog was close, but the 2″ thick ream of copier paper is perfect.

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Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud." Oddly, when Sturgeon's Law is cited, the final word is almost invariably changed to 'crap'.

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