Rig of the Day: That's some office

BWJones,

My mistake. That's certainly a nice office setup!

How do you like your Think chair?

Thanks Kinnie,

Appreciate you trying and no luck of finding that chair elsewhere unfortunately.

Lewis,

Oops, sorry. I just read down the Amazon page and found they only deliver within Japan.

Lewis,
As I live in Japan it was easy for me to get one of these excellent Sanwa Supply SNC-NET6A chairs. As for sources where you are I can't help, except to suggest you try Amazon.co.jp, enter SNC-NET6A, click GO then click on where they ask if you'd like the page in English (on theright)and try and order. Maybe they'll export.
Good luck!

i hear you jojo. i make a little more than $25k/year, have a two year old PowerBook, a Fuji external monitor, a lovely iPod altec lansing speaker system, and some other little toys. total cost? i don't know. i am still paying the credit card interest on it. hahahahaha!

I think that we would rather see normal setups, not someone's office at their job. Plus, I'd rather see stylish setups, not a bunch of Macs with cables and mess everywhere.

Damon,

Just to clarify, this office is *not* in my home. It's in our research building.

http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/C1516441744/E20060815141213/index.html

The chair is a Steelcase Think chair, not a bad chair but certainly inferior to the Steelcase Leap chair -- the Mercedes-Benz of office chairs.

After using the Herman Miller Aeron, Steelcase Leap, Steelcase Think, and numerous other chairs at my jobs I prefer the Leap.

On topic: I hate the fluorescent lights and the desk. The machines are cool, but I prefer more style in these Rig of the Day contests.

I have to ask: Who wants to see what amounts to a home cubicle after spending all day in one?

To answer your questions, the kind of work that goes on in this office is vision research into normal circuitry of the retina, abnormal changes in retinal disease and possible interventions using vision rescue strategies. It's quite computationally intensive with lots of image analysis work, software development, data analysis, manuscript preparation, grant writing, preparation of seminars and such things related to vision research. The (now) MacPro is my primary workstation, the Powerbook is my daily portable system that I use to take work back and forth from home, the dual G4 is my server that hosts our lab website, a couple of data repositories and my blog.

http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/

What does he actually do with that overbloated set up?

I agree with the comment above: how about a variety of situations not 'look at what I can afford'. I am a teacher and use mine in a pc-dominated school. I am imagining a shot of a classroom with desks and genuinely useful/used apple kit.