New desk arrangement

[mckitterick]

To try to enhance my metabolism when working long hours at my desk and to avoid sitting-still injuries, I decided to give the stand-up desk thing a try. Here's what it looks like right now:



Basically, I piled one desk on top of another, dropped both as low as they'll go, pushed a little table in front of the whole thing, and piled a laptop writing desk and mobile writing desk on top of that for my keyboard and mouse. Still a little high, so rather than just an anti-fatigue mat below my feet, I added two more anti-fatigue mats and a rug on top of that. Good height now!

So far, I'm noticing that my lower back and knees aren't so happy with it, but I'll get used to it... I hope.

Anyone out there tried a stand-up desk? Tips, tricks to share?

And I had to share this awesome Space Kitty Rocket-Pack from artist Jeff de Boer:


Click the image to see the artist's Space Stuff page.

He has tons of great retro-space art, among other neato-keen stuff!

Chris

Comments

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I did this the cheapest, ugliest, and least-stable way possible at work - I stacked four or five desktop speaker boxes (the boxes are slightly bigger than bricks) on my desk, and put my monitors, keyboard, and track ball on top of them (which is to say, I have eighteen speaker boxes on my desk, in two stacks each of four and five high; when we have two hundred spare sets of speakers, we get a little punchy).

When I stand, I tilt the monitors upwards. When I sit, I take the keyboard and mouse off and put them on the desk, and angle the monitors downward.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

That is an awesomely Rube Goldbergian solution!