Mon, 03 Mar 2003

Stupid Desk

Several months ago, back before we moved, Kris bought a "laptop desk". The thing has wheels, a rotating platform with tray to hold the laptop (or other work) and a sort of book basket off to one side. She used it as a combination magazine rack/drawing surface back then - since we moved it's become a temporary bedside stand until we get off our dead butts and get a real night table. Until today.

Today I got the bright idea to move it into the library and try to use it for what it's really supposed to be - a laptop desk. What a concept! Well, it would be pretty cool, I suppose, if it worked.

There's no way to pull the thing close enough to my Lazy Boy to get it a comfortable working distance. I have to hunch slightly forward to type. But even if you could get the lateral distance right, the height adjustment on the thing doesn't go low enough to get it over your lap! At least not while sitting in an easy chair. I suppose you could use it in a corporate setting with a folding chair or something - maybe as a very temporary workstation for a road warrior, but at home? Forget it. Useless as tits on a boar!

So the laptop is back where it belongs - on my lap. I think I'll leave the table in the library and use it to hold the laptop when I'm not working on it - it does keep it off the floor and out of the reach of puppy teeth. And the little basket thing is kinda handy. But as a desk - no way.

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