My home office desktop
Inspired by posts on http://usesthis.com – How nerds get things done, this is my home office desktop setup.
From left, macbook pro with extended monitor and wacom tablet, handbuilt pc running xp with logitech cam and epson scanner, lava lamp, dell laptop on ubuntu 9. The macbook also has three virtual machine images in it: ubuntu 8, xp on bootcamp/parrallels, and kubuntu – and also has MAMP and a bitnami django stack. I code in dreamweaver, jEdit, and/or komodo IDE. I design in cs4.
Left of this is a tall secretary (not pictured) where I keep my drafting and art supplies, I draw and hand draft on the foldout table and have a folding easel for bigger projects in oil, gouache or watercolor. I keep cameras and cables in one of the drawers. We’ve got three film slr bodies with various lenses, a few different digital point and shoots, a nikon d80 slr with a few lenses and a jvc minidv camcorder. No developing on site, the oil paints are the only toxic chemicals – kept safely out of kid reach.
Other machines in the office on two other desks (not pictured) include a g4 imac for kids and audio recording that is midi interfaced into a Roland full stage piano and also a g4 mac powerpc tower for general use, writing, and light graphics work. While older, both are still running solid on osx 10.4 with older versions of ilife, creative suite and open office. I want to get a line6 pod to bring the guitars and bass in.
My garage has a shelf full of torn apart whitebox towers, drives, chips, boards and spare parts that I affectionately refer to as the boneyard (my wife, not so affectionately). I have a soldering iron and I’m not shy about using it.
I did all this to test my email postie wordpress configuration. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
