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The Study In Total
Note that the only things wireless about this setup are the keyboard and mouse (well, the ASUS netbook also has WiFi)-- everything else has a wire. How did I do at hiding them (except for the iPod sync cable and 3.5mm audio cable, of course)?
I do a bit of everything with my workstation-- I like to call this my "study"-- though mainly I write and read whether it's digitally or on paper. Literature, music, art-- it's my life force. Technology is just a very warm and fuzzy hobby.
This is a very new setup for me-- I actually redesigned my study mainly to show it off on the Lifehacker Workspace Show and Tell (and hopefully get it in as a featured workspace!), and partially because my room was cluttered and unproductive. This new setup works beautifully for me: Outside the window that my chair faces is a lovely green tree in which robins like to roost and sing. Since my brother measured the door wrong for this room, there is always good air flow when the window's open. My study is nice and open so that I can stretch out if needs be and think as I listen to Eric Whitacre pieces or Mormon Tabernacle Choir or Paul Cardall. I have plenty of space to work with, and all of my necessary tools are close at hand. My study is also enamored with various items that spruce up the overall morale of anyone who enters and helps my creative juices flow (hence the train set under the bed, the ship suspended from the ceiling, various pictures and art, action figures, vintage items, and cacti-- let's not forget the glowy blueness of my compy).
Funny fact: I bought the mini filing cabinet with the ASUS netbook atop it you see specifically for this setup. I used to have a big, bulky dresser upon which my printer used to sit. I cut that dresser up a few days ago, took off the top, and placed it on the mini filing cabinet-- it now serves beautifully as a desk for my netbook. Except for my socks and unmentionables (which go in the top drawer of the mini filing cabinet), all of my clothes now hang in the closet, and I have much more space to use in my study. The only sad thing is that there is writing in some of the drawers of that old dresser from when I was three or four. Alas. We can't hold on to everything.
The Study In Total
Note that the only things wireless about this setup are the keyboard and mouse (well, the ASUS netbook also has WiFi)-- everything else has a wire. How did I do at hiding them (except for the iPod sync cable and 3.5mm audio cable, of course)?
I do a bit of everything with my workstation-- I like to call this my "study"-- though mainly I write and read whether it's digitally or on paper. Literature, music, art-- it's my life force. Technology is just a very warm and fuzzy hobby.
This is a very new setup for me-- I actually redesigned my study mainly to show it off on the Lifehacker Workspace Show and Tell (and hopefully get it in as a featured workspace!), and partially because my room was cluttered and unproductive. This new setup works beautifully for me: Outside the window that my chair faces is a lovely green tree in which robins like to roost and sing. Since my brother measured the door wrong for this room, there is always good air flow when the window's open. My study is nice and open so that I can stretch out if needs be and think as I listen to Eric Whitacre pieces or Mormon Tabernacle Choir or Paul Cardall. I have plenty of space to work with, and all of my necessary tools are close at hand. My study is also enamored with various items that spruce up the overall morale of anyone who enters and helps my creative juices flow (hence the train set under the bed, the ship suspended from the ceiling, various pictures and art, action figures, vintage items, and cacti-- let's not forget the glowy blueness of my compy).
Funny fact: I bought the mini filing cabinet with the ASUS netbook atop it you see specifically for this setup. I used to have a big, bulky dresser upon which my printer used to sit. I cut that dresser up a few days ago, took off the top, and placed it on the mini filing cabinet-- it now serves beautifully as a desk for my netbook. Except for my socks and unmentionables (which go in the top drawer of the mini filing cabinet), all of my clothes now hang in the closet, and I have much more space to use in my study. The only sad thing is that there is writing in some of the drawers of that old dresser from when I was three or four. Alas. We can't hold on to everything.