Image Surgery

Today, my monitor died. Well, one of my many monitors died, but it seems the most significant because it was my main monitor, a lumbering behemoth and part-time bed for my cat.

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As a person who spends (too) much of his day trapped behind a monitor, I tend to want to have the largest amount of real estate available to me. It was with this in mind, and after years of using dual monitors at various workplaces that I decided to take the plunge and get this 21” used beauty. It was cheap, as all good technology hopefully is as well as rarely is. I bought it on eBay and hauled it across provincial borders, and even managed to mark up my desk trying to lift it up.

Now I have a hole on my desk. Given that I’m moving soon, I’m not too sad to see that much space cleared up. Even if I wasn’t moving, at an almost perfect 53cm cubed and a back breaking 32 kg, it’d clear up some major desk space. I’ll probably pay 10 times what I paid for it and get an LCD with a few extra inches in my new home, but part of me will miss the misfiring guns, the plethora of inputs of which only one is useful to me, and the 4 minute waits for it to warm up before the image appeared.

Nostalgia is a weird beast, attaching us to something that has so many drawbacks, making us feel a loss when all signs point to an improvement.

\* sigh *

It’s new, and best of all, it’s not too long! Take a peek at what I’ve been up to in the past two years.