I ignored smart seating solutions for my home office for years because what I’ve had has worked alright, but for the past year I’ve been using an Aeron chair for work during the day at the office, and my home situation got to the point where I would avoid using my home computer.

No longer. The SAYL is a fascinating (newish) chair by Herman Miller with a reasonable price. The frameless back is not only “a new leap” in chair design, but it drives costs down by using fewer parts and it actually is pretty comfortable.

I don’t want to get into it too much, since it is just a chair, but suffice to say it’s pretty and I can barely tell the difference between this and the Aeron (and honestly, I kind of like this one better).

Recommended.

Writing this to you from the comfort of my simple desk at home, on my home made Dvorak keyboard, hooked up to the cinema display, but going through my ageing, 15-inch early 2008 Macbook Pro.

A classic Mac as far as I know, but one that has served its time. Over the years, it has seen OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. It’s gone from 2GB of RAM to 4GB (its technical limit). It has relied on an SSD from 2010 and forward. It can drive the 27″ Cinema Display through its ridiculously old DVI port thanks to Atlona’s fancy adapter, etc.

For the most part it performs great, specially if you take out the external display.

I am obviously biased when I compare this to the other Macs I interact with day to day, mostly my 27″ i3 iMac monster I use at work. A machine built this year.

Regardless, currently, ‘La Nave’, costa rican spanish slang for a badass anything, sits on a desk next to my record player. A device I get much joy out of, regardless of the ageing nature of its medium.

In some ways it is fitting that they perform head to head.
The beach ball is a good indicator that it is probably just the right time to flip the record on its b-side.

A much loved computer, that will likely be kept in the family, just as soon as I decide if the new MBA’s will do, or if I should look for a similar workhorse to take me into 2016 (in the 17″ i7 thunderbolt MBP).

Desktop Screenshot, originally uploaded by josue salazar.

I remember -years ago- when this was actually done by a bunch of people and shared in groups.

Haven’t put up stuff in a while, but I did use to share what my desktop looked like at times.

So yeah, here…

The art works make me happy.

So does the Cinema Display.

(hello internet!)

A video of jonas bonnetta playing Mtn. Song @ Show and tell gallery in toronto for joshua barndt’s exhibition:

THE WORLD IS A MOUNTAIN AND EVERYTHING GETS BURIED

“I’ve always thought that all this city needs is a mountain.
So for this reason and many more too, i’m building one. A mountain of what? You may ask. Well, all my personal belongings, from encyclopedias and underwear to coffee tables and paintings. Everything down to the dirty little scraps. I’ve always dreamed of building a mountain. The world is a mountain and in the end everything gets buried. ”

joshuabarndt.com/​

joshuabarndt.com/​current-project/​

hifructose.com/​the-blog/​1133-joshua-barndts-atropic-existence.html

I’ve been waiting years for this.

Not a big fan of the other changes and features that came with version 10 though.

Apple launched Safari 5, baked with Reader —among other things, which is their take on ‘bookmarklet like’ functionality to take the article you are reading and make it easier to read, except it doesn’t, since it justifies the text (thanks derek).

So I’ve whipped up a simple user script that overrides the rule. To load this in Safari 5 you’ll need GreaseKit. Grab it here.

Keep calm and carry on [reading].