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poll: what does your computer sit on?
« on: July 27, 2009, 07:40:27 PM »
note from franksolich: this poll was taken over two years ago, but for some reason unfathomable to reasonable people, lately it's been attracting a great deal of attention from "guests."

I have no idea why, but there it is.

I decided to repost it, deleting the previous poll results (which were pretty much a three-way tie, between the first three options), and to give another go at it.

What does your computer sit on, at home?

This being collected for market research only; all votes are anonymous.
« Last Edit: October 01, 2011, 04:30:24 AM by franksolich »
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2009, 07:43:37 PM »
Well, it is on a small bookshelf, I balance the keyboard on my lap and the mouse is on "Green Eggs and Ham". Someday, we will get a real computer desk. :-)
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2009, 07:46:15 PM »
Mines on one of those corner computer desks.  Fills all my needs perfectly, and takes up a minimal amount of space.
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2009, 08:17:27 PM »
I said table but it is actually the kitchen island.
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2009, 08:19:12 PM »
I use a laptop so it's on a home made lapboard that I can tote it around on and keep the hot bits off me.
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2009, 08:23:43 PM »
I have a large desk I picked up a few years ago, about four feet on each side and three feet deep.  Simple and sturdy.
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2009, 08:42:22 PM »
Small computer desk for me.
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2009, 09:24:10 PM »
A really special computer desk.



OK, not really...how about a Wal-Mart special computer desk.   :-)
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2009, 09:31:31 PM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on July 27, 2009, 09:24:10 PM
A really special computer desk.

OK, not really...how about a Wal-Mart special computer desk.

You know, when I moved to Omaha during the late 1990s and made a lot of money, I lived in some sort of luxury apartment near.....the world-famous Nebraska Furniture Mart.

This was after my sojourn in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, which understateably had a profound effect on me.

For a while I just stacked those plastic milk crates up, and lay a board across them, having a 4' x 8' computer table.  Then, because of frequent hints by friends that I was living preposterously underneath my means and status, I got one of those corner computer tables, an "L" with about five feet of one arm, four feet of the other.

It was a pain; there was never enough room, even though all I ever had on it was the computer tower, the monitor, the keyboard, the mouse, and a set of those plastic "in-out" trays.  Nothing more than that, and it was congested.

So when I moved out here to the Sandhills of Nebraska, I went back to using a table.

Right now, all's on a 4' x 6' dining room table in the area between the dining room and the living room.
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2009, 09:41:17 PM »
A 4' x 6' table for your computer???  Geez, that's bigger than our kitchen table!!   :lmao:
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2009, 09:44:52 PM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on July 27, 2009, 09:41:17 PM
A 4' x 6' table for your computer???  Geez, that's bigger than our kitchen table!!   :lmao:

Plenty of room out here, madam, as you well know.

It's not like the crowded corrupt cramped congested blue states and blue cities.

This particular extra dining room table has leaves, too, and during the winter I use them because the cats like to slumber near computer equipment.  So during the winter, it's 4' x 9'.
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2009, 09:49:04 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on July 27, 2009, 09:44:52 PM
Plenty of room out here, madam, as you well know.

It's not like the crowded corrupt cramped congested blue states and blue cities.

This particular extra dining room table has leaves, too, and during the winter I use them because the cats like to slumber near computer equipment.  So during the winter, it's 4' x 9'.
My great-grandparents left us a table that extends to 4 x 9...we use it on Christmas, Thanksgiving, and maybe Easter.    :rotf:   


If I recall correctly, you sleep on a mattress on the floor, right?  Yet you have a HUGE table for your computer...and your cats.   :rotf: :rotf:
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2009, 10:03:28 PM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on July 27, 2009, 09:49:04 PM
If I recall correctly, you sleep on a mattress on the floor, right?  Yet you have a HUGE table for your computer...and your cats.   :rotf: :rotf:

The mattress--single-bed size--on the floor is not quite on the floor.

You're familiar perhaps with those wooden pallets used in industry.  The mattress sits atop two of those, nailed together.  And so it's not like the mattress is exactly on the floor.

This too in Omaha caused much comment and distress from friends, who thought I was living preposterously below my means and status, but unlike the case with the computer table, I remained adamant, and to this day remain adamant.

Excepting for periodic one-, two-, or three-night stays with friends who live in places other than around here, I haven't slept in a "real" bed for twelve years now.

I mean to say that having seen, touched, smelled, tasted, and lived socialism as it really is (as compared with what the primitives think it really is), had such an intense and profound effect on me that I could not possibly live any other way now.

I left the socialist paradises twelve years ago.....but I never, really, came back "here."
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2009, 10:05:04 PM »
frank, if you ever do get married, I hope you choose carefully.  You are a true Nebraska character.   :-)
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2009, 10:11:19 PM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on July 27, 2009, 10:05:04 PM
frank, if you ever do get married, I hope you choose carefully.  You are a true Nebraska character.   :-)

Well, granted, if I ever got married, I would have to give her wisdom, her insight, her feelings, equal weight with mine, and probably lose, but being man enough to accept it with good graces.

However, being single with no dependents, and hence no one else suffers from the stark asceticism, I'm free to be that way. 
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2009, 05:51:55 AM »
I picked "ordinary desk", but it's more like an antique desk. It's all wood, real wood, not that pressed board crap, drawers are dovetailed fits, and dowel rods and glue were used instead of nails or screws.  My dad bought it from a neighbor when I was 12 or 13 for $25 for me to do homework on.
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2009, 08:43:04 AM »
Thor's antique desk, beautiful piece of furniture.It has a laptop on it.
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2009, 11:56:44 AM »
My daughter's desk, with shelves above it, that matched her bedroom furniture, but she didn't want it when she moved out.

It was "pickled" wood and I painted it a bright yellow. I have a bunch of the white stuff that you buy in a box and turn into shelves and cabinets in here. Also took an old wooden table lamp and an ugly cheap file cabinet of fake wood and painted them yellow too. Covered an old love seat with a denim slipcover and turned my mish-mash of an office into a "me" room.

Now, if I could just find the time to clean it up so I can rearrange it so it's more efficient.... :uhsure:
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #18 on: July 28, 2009, 12:06:48 PM »
I need an "Other" option.  (To say nothing of a "JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS" and an "I Like Pie" option.)  My computer - being a laptop - sits on one of two places.  Either on my lap, or on my drafting table/desk in my office.
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #19 on: October 01, 2011, 04:32:23 AM »
Well, here it is, two years later, and I'm still using the antique dining-room table.
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #20 on: October 01, 2011, 04:38:42 AM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on July 27, 2009, 09:24:10 PM
A really special computer desk.



OK, not really...how about a Wal-Mart special computer desk.   :-)

Probably just like mine.... :-)    Really adds some class to the decor, don't it?... :lmao:
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #21 on: October 01, 2011, 06:47:44 AM »
A cardboard box. (Nobody sees it) which keeps it about a foot off the carpet.

Its a "shuttle" computer. Its only about 9"(Ht)x11"(Wdth)x15"(Lgth). Put it together myself.

But with a quad core processor, 8gb ram, $400 vid card and 1.5tb hdd it suffices for my gaming, graphics and muti-taskn needs. Dual boot XP/ 7.

Its small and light and I like the collapsible handle on the front of it so that I can take it with me when I have to work out of town.

I luv my laptop, but its not "Alien" so this desktop will have to do for the gaming. :)
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #22 on: October 01, 2011, 07:55:32 AM »
Mine's on a coffee table that a neighbor in SC gave me.  It reminds me of the fun times we had when we lived near each other.  Sadly, we have lost contact.
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #23 on: October 01, 2011, 12:08:43 PM »
Mine sits on a 3'-0"x5'-0" drafting desk.  Well, on a wire mesh laptop cooling rack on my drafting desk.  Oh, and I have some non-skid material between the cooling rack and the drafting desk to keep the rack/computer combination from sliding off - the drafting desk is a little elevated, in order to get the laptop monitor up where I can see it.
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Re: poll: what does your computer sit on?
« Reply #24 on: October 01, 2011, 12:15:59 PM »
Like everybody else, I've used lots of different surfaces over the years. But, since we've lived here we have an office "sectional" arrangement that's pretty nice and my gear is in a portion of that sectional. Mrs. E has a section of the sectional in our office as well, of course.

We have a notebook computer, but that's pretty much relegated for the road.
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