I just noticed your location! It says “uncomfortable chair”
I had to take a class in ergonomics for work (a looooooonnnnnnggggggggggg class) and learned that the the single larges cause of emotional and physical trauma was uncomfortable chairs. Apparently, many employees go berserk and climb up on a tower on a university campus and begin shooting if their chair is uncomfortable. *
I like you. I don’t want you to go up on a tower and shoot at people. So go, GO!!! and get a comfy chair to sit on whilst you’re posting or reading the SDMB! 'cause dammit!, you are ONE oF THE GOOD ONES. Someone evil like Scylla or SPOOFE? They’re evil. They deserve uncomfortable chairs: lumpy, horrid things with broken springs and itchy horse-hair covers. But you deserve a comfy chair! (with fluffy pillows. And maybe a crocheted). So gawddamnit Rilch go drag a comfy chair into the computer room and post in comfor dammit! You deserve it.
And as long as we’re talking about ergonomics, I don’t care what those instructors said. I want my keyboard at elbow height, not in my knees. I like sitting on the edge of my seat, knees tucked under the chair, leaning slightly forward as I type not sitting straight up! Back Rigid! Knees bent at a 45% angle! Hands slightly curved! Watch your rhythm! (sorry, piano lessons flashback). I don’t want my mouse in my lap. I don’t want my monitor in my lap. What is this weird fixation that ergonomics people have with my la…oh.
Nevermind.
Fenris
*Actually the single biggest ergonomics sin is that people keep insisting on having their monitor set so that if they look straight ahead, their eyes are looking at the center of the monitor. The TOP of the monitor should be at just below eye level so you have to look DOWN to see the screen. DOWN at like 30[sup]o[/sup]. But second only to that is the chair thing.
“Actually the single biggest ergonomics sin is that people keep insisting on having their monitor set so that if they look straight ahead, their eyes are looking at the center of the monitor. The TOP of the monitor should be at just below eye level so you have to look DOWN to see the screen. DOWN at like 30 degrees.”
(Checks twice… really not sure if this is a complete joke…)
Uh, what makes anyone think 30 degrees is the perfect angle to view a screen?
30 degrees is the ideal angle for people with perfect posture? What about the rest of us?
30 degrees is the angle causing the least fatigue for normal people? Ok, so what if one’s more interested in being able to read quickest, regardless of fatigue?
I’d apply the same sort of arguments to “ergonomic” chairs. Chairs can be designed for any number of purposes, true? Sleep, comfort, sex, posture, good joystick control for flight simulators… No such thing as one, correct chair.
…ok… you can tell me you were joking now…
Instead, what do they have? Chairs of Ultimate Power. Of course, if you try using a computer from a COUP, you will probably eventually get a crick in your neck. Serves 'em right.
There may be a posture issue here, but I’ve it also concerns the eyes. You blink more normally when the screen is below eyelevel. People staring at a straight-ahead screen blink less.
This increases eyestrain, fatigue, etc. And for people like me with air oxygenation and lubrication problems, it leads to contact lens problems. I had a pre-existing oxygenation problem when I went law school. Staring at eye-level computer screens all day exacerbated it to the point where I had to stop wearing contacts.
I read this thread just before lunch, and then had a snooze after lunch. Big mistake.
I dreamt that I was hurtling down a steep highway in my office chair. One wheel wore off, and I crashed. Although I dreamt that I was not wearing my helmet, I dreamt that I only received scratches.
Thanks for ruining my Saturday afternoon nap you guys.
The funny thing is, Mr. Rilch has made mention of the possibility of getting an ergonomic chair!
Calling this chair uncomfortable is somewhat of an overstatement, in fact. What it is, is one of two chairs that appear to have been part of a dining-room set. (The other one is at the kitchen table.) Mr. Rilch and I saw them on the curb one trash day, and found them to be sturdy, if hideously unattractive. I’m not sure if the “upholstery” was always shades of gray or if they faded to this color. At any rate, they’ll do until we find something we like or they fall apart.
When I put that info in my profile, I had been at the computer for several hours. I’d changed the position of my legs every so often, but it was getting to the point where that wasn’t enough. I saw a thread that discussed the creative ways people listed their locations, such as “Arty Tech Barn” and “On the run with Kilroy”.
“How should I describe my location?” I wondered. “Ohhhhh, my legs…” :lightbulb smiley:
I assure, you, if I were going to take people out, which I have no plans to do, the chair would not be the impetus to put me over the edge! But for the reassurance of Fenris and others, I have changed my profile info.
I’m currently sitting on the chair pictured on the front page of my website. It came with the house I live in, and it’s every bit as uncomfortable as it looks.
Why yes, Rilch, that is a vapourizer and a doobie on the table. Or at least 3D Studio models of them.
Sometimes, to save my back, I’ll open SDMB threads in a text-to-speech reader, and listen to them while lying down on my bed. How pathetic is that?
I recommend spending whatever it takes to be comfortable. As a friend said to me, “Who ELSE is going to spend money to make your fat ass more comfortable?”
