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I just got home from my Grandpa's house after watching today's Canucks hockey game where I was making notes about my current Create Simulator project, and realized I needed to have my notes beside my computer while I started adding more code to the project.
(it was the first game of the official playoff series. The visitors were the Chicago Blackhawks, who we solidly defeated with two goals in the first six minutes of play, and no goals after that)
Ordinarily, this wouldn't be much of an issue, but today it got me to thinking about what I would like to see in a desk setup.
I do a fair bit of typing when working on projects, which means that I need my desk to be easy to sit at and comfortable to type at.
Some other things I'd like the desk to allow is easy access to my growing selection of CDs, small reference books, and larger reference books, as well as having a convenient place to lay the reference material out so I can read it while typing.
In this case, I've found that reference material can come in many shapes and forms, not only including large and small reference books, but also sheets of paper and my varying array of clipboards.
(I much prefer to use clipboards for writing notes in over three-ring binders as they're much thinner than binders can be and don't take up as much width either, which means I can take more clipboards with me on my excursions and separate my subject matter earlier than with binders)
I've noticed that I much prefer using lots and lots of shelves for storing things in, as items that are stacked are quite easy to nudge over, and aren't so easy to search through when you've misplaced something.
(unfortunately, due to living in a converted attic, the walls are only vertical for about the first two thirds, and are diagonal after that, so I don't get to have very tall bookcases)
My preferences for using lots of shelves also extends to my preferences for storing other items.
I once saw a picture of a Mariners' Library of some sort in England where each row of bookcases were on rails, and each bookcase was easily moved by turning one of the wheels on either end.
My thought when I saw that was that it was a relatively efficient method for storing large amounts of whatever happens to need to be stored on shelves.
(in particular, cooled pantries would be a good place to use something like this in my opinion, as my family uses the pantry a lot for storing food that needs to be kept relatively cool, such as root vegetables, fruit, flour, soft drinks, wines, sugars, etc etc)
Back on the topic of desks, I also noticed that I need to ensure that my computers are underneath the desk's surface and even behind a door to keep the noise down.
(I may need to have my ears checked when I finally have a job that provides medical coverage, at night when things are quiet my ears have strange static-like droning, the meaning of which I have little idea)
On a slightly related topic, I'm progressing fairly well on the simulator I mentioned previously. I'm currently working on the Integrated Development Environment's interface and am getting close to being able to hook things up on that end.
However, I still don't have any code written for the simulator proper or the code compilation system, so I'm feeling a little behind.
(even though I still have at least six weeks to go)
Well, it's off to bed I go, then up to finish delivering the papers that were late in arriving, and then more code writing.
What a cycle...
(it was the first game of the official playoff series. The visitors were the Chicago Blackhawks, who we solidly defeated with two goals in the first six minutes of play, and no goals after that)
Ordinarily, this wouldn't be much of an issue, but today it got me to thinking about what I would like to see in a desk setup.
I do a fair bit of typing when working on projects, which means that I need my desk to be easy to sit at and comfortable to type at.
Some other things I'd like the desk to allow is easy access to my growing selection of CDs, small reference books, and larger reference books, as well as having a convenient place to lay the reference material out so I can read it while typing.
In this case, I've found that reference material can come in many shapes and forms, not only including large and small reference books, but also sheets of paper and my varying array of clipboards.
(I much prefer to use clipboards for writing notes in over three-ring binders as they're much thinner than binders can be and don't take up as much width either, which means I can take more clipboards with me on my excursions and separate my subject matter earlier than with binders)
I've noticed that I much prefer using lots and lots of shelves for storing things in, as items that are stacked are quite easy to nudge over, and aren't so easy to search through when you've misplaced something.
(unfortunately, due to living in a converted attic, the walls are only vertical for about the first two thirds, and are diagonal after that, so I don't get to have very tall bookcases)
My preferences for using lots of shelves also extends to my preferences for storing other items.
I once saw a picture of a Mariners' Library of some sort in England where each row of bookcases were on rails, and each bookcase was easily moved by turning one of the wheels on either end.
My thought when I saw that was that it was a relatively efficient method for storing large amounts of whatever happens to need to be stored on shelves.
(in particular, cooled pantries would be a good place to use something like this in my opinion, as my family uses the pantry a lot for storing food that needs to be kept relatively cool, such as root vegetables, fruit, flour, soft drinks, wines, sugars, etc etc)
Back on the topic of desks, I also noticed that I need to ensure that my computers are underneath the desk's surface and even behind a door to keep the noise down.
(I may need to have my ears checked when I finally have a job that provides medical coverage, at night when things are quiet my ears have strange static-like droning, the meaning of which I have little idea)
On a slightly related topic, I'm progressing fairly well on the simulator I mentioned previously. I'm currently working on the Integrated Development Environment's interface and am getting close to being able to hook things up on that end.
However, I still don't have any code written for the simulator proper or the code compilation system, so I'm feeling a little behind.
(even though I still have at least six weeks to go)
Well, it's off to bed I go, then up to finish delivering the papers that were late in arriving, and then more code writing.
What a cycle...
