Friday, 6 July 2012

I got a new monitor yesterday

I've been using my shitty TV as a monitor for the past few weeks, and it really hurts my eyes (not to mention that it's really hard to read on that thing). I decided to check craigslist to see if there were any cheap monitors for sale in my area. To my great surprise, there was one for $25 less than half an hour away! The only problem was that it was a 30kg(!!!!) CRT, and there was no way in Hell I was carrying that thing home. The seller was really cool and offered to deliver it to me for an extra $5. Of course I said yes. I got the monitor, gave the guy his money, and brought it to my room, only to find that it took up half my desk. There was just barely enough room for my keyboard in front of it, but then my face would be inches from the screen.

Anyway, I set it all up, and am using my keyboard Russian-style now, with my mouse on a little cupboard that I put on-end. It's a surprisingly workable setup, though anyone who sees it would shit themselves because it looks so silly (my computer is just a motherboard, PSU, and HDD sitting bare on my desk). I also had to run an ethernet cable up the stairs, because I don't want to go busting walls to route it that way just yet. Oh, also, my chair is a homemade lawn chair that's at least 8 years old. It's really cool.

On somewhat of a whim, I also ended up buying a webcam and a cheap headset ($20 and $12 respectively). I was going to just buy a mousepad, but this stuff is a lot more practical right about now.

HERE are the specs, and below are a couple pictures of my desk, just because. (On another note, I really want to work on Wolfcam some more; specifically, updating my config. At the same time, though, I want to wait and see if brugal will finally clean up all the cvars and shit, because if he does, I would have just wasted a bunch of time adding cvars only to delete them next update)

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