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Rig of the Week: Al Gore's setup
We're going to break from tradition this week and highlight a rig that is not a part of our flickr pool. At right we see former Vice President (and Apple Board member) Al Gore flanked by three huge Apple displays. We can only imagine where the computer powering those things is located in that cluttered office.By the way, does anyone know where I can get an enormous tree frog for my wall?
"Al Gore's American Life" photographed for Time Magazine by Steve Pyke.
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john russell said 3:25PM on 5-20-2007
Think how much those three displays must be adding to global warming. At least they aren't CRTs.
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Klemens said 3:27PM on 5-20-2007
Awesome.
I love him.
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Tom said 3:27PM on 5-20-2007
So Mr. Global Warming is using three 30 inch displays... 3 x 150 watts = 450 watts just for his computer monitors! Wow!
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Azhar said 3:29PM on 5-20-2007
Look at the speaker underneath the middle display, there JBL's ive got thesame speakers as Al Gore
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Albright said 3:49PM on 5-20-2007
Wow, his desk is even messier than mine.
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Andre Grusch said 3:51PM on 5-20-2007
I find it funny how Apple is all about the 'digital life'
which you can just only imagine on his three displays.
However if you have a look at his desk!!!
How does the man find anything?
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Wheels said 4:26PM on 5-20-2007
I wonder how many trees gave up their lives just to clutter his desk.
Hehehe. Just kidding. Rather have a leader with a cluttered desk than a jumbled brain. :)
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Shannin said 4:35PM on 5-20-2007
look at the monitor on the far left, is it just me or does that black bar on the bottom look like the vista tash bar?
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jeremy burnich said 4:38PM on 5-20-2007
I wonder what kind of chair that is.
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John said 5:31PM on 5-20-2007
guys is such a hypocrit... has a giant house.. flies around in planes... has three frickin computer monitors? This dude wants you to change the way you live but he doesnt want to change the way he does...
lame...
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JaY said 5:41PM on 5-20-2007
Hey John before you chastise someone how about you know a little. Gore uses Solar panels and actually sells electric back to the electric company. Im not a Gore supporter, however I don't like uninformed people bashing others. He can use as much clean energy as he wants.
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mayo said 6:15PM on 5-20-2007
So what exactly does he do that he needs 3 monitors? reading 3 websites side by side with maximized windows ... very nice, the truth certainly is inconvenient.
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John said 6:47PM on 5-20-2007
Wonder how many trees are sitting on his desk? Looks environmentally friendly to me. Hypocrite.
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fooyork said 6:49PM on 5-20-2007
We already knew Mr. Gore was a Mac user, he uses Mac's all the time when he is looking for Manbearpig.
http://www.fscklog.com/cube_sp.jpg
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Edsel said 7:48PM on 5-20-2007
JaY (#12)
Al Gore uses an average of 221,000kWh per year. If he, as you claim, generates excess electricity with his solar panels then he would need a zone change from residential to industrial. That's a lot of solar panels!
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Nic said 7:53PM on 5-20-2007
whilst I appreciate the consumption and impact he is having maybe greater than the general public surely you have to temper this with the awareness he is generating. Sure he uses way more resources than I do but believe you me that he is having a much greater impact in the long run than anything I do.
And I don't even like the man :-), must also apologise for starting a sentance with 'and' there.
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Karim said 8:13PM on 5-20-2007
Come on people, he NEEDS three 30-inch displays!!!
On Display # 1, he has a graph showing the rise in atmospheric CO2 in the last century.
On Display # 2, he has a graph showing the rise in his shares of AAPL in the last couple of years. (strangely, it's the same graph as Display # 1.)
On Display # 3, he has a tally of the votes in the 2000 Presidential Election. Keeps hitting refresh in the expectation it will change....
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josh said 8:54PM on 5-20-2007
what is that apple branded box-lookin thing he has on about the second shelf next to the pink photo-frame (above the left-most display)?
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ChrisM70 said 8:58PM on 5-20-2007
Al Gore is a very different kind of leader...
He's CURIOUS.
Throw all the stones you want, but everyone with an ounce of smarts knows that you can't do the kind of work and business he does without doing a lot of things that our current Prez seems adverse to:
1. READING (BTW, Gore just READS the info, he didn't cut down the trees)
2. LEARNING (you know... charts, graphs, listening to REAL scientists)
3. TRAVELING (if you know of a way for Gore to travel efficiently BESIDES using a plane - please let me know)
I wish we could get Gore into the White House. He's a true intellectual - and just happens to have been right about the war, the environment, and wouldn't authorize torture.
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Stephen Macklin said 9:39PM on 5-20-2007
Don't worry about all the energy he's wasting with those monitors. He's going to buy some carbon offsets to cover them.
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