Clap your hands, say yeah

[flexagon]

No-thing-buying time is over today! It was pretty painless this year. This morning I ordered a GeekDesk frame... I want to buy a desk top separately... and daydreamed about buying jeans.

In social news -- an old friend from my first job was lunched with. Then I went straight to an afternoon drink and snacks with friends, which we arrived at right when aliens were attacking human planets in my book! Arrrgh! I was on tenterhooks the whole time. The only solace was getting to talk about the book with the woman who gave it to me -- and, yes, also the excellent company and excellent news, dr_alycat and cook_ting. :D

Finally, a concert. In the first half I was noticing how funny it looked when everyone in the auditorium held up their hands and clapped, like a huge room of trained seals performing in unison. Then in the second half one of the pieces consisted of two performers clapping, in complex rhythms -- when it ended we all did our seal routine on cue, and heisenbug leaned over and said "it's kind of embarrassing to have to clap after that."

Comments

[soong.livejournal.com]

what kind of top are you looking for? I have the parts to a eat-in-kitchen/dining table and the top seems to me to be pretty well made solid wood. Of course, it's a little sentimental to me since I've had it since I was 5 or so. Maybe I should put it on my own frame like that.

[flexagon]

My main requirement is that it be only 24" deep (I'd rather have 20" deep like I have now, but the prongs of the GeekDesk frame are 22"). A lot of standard desks are 36" deep -- totally unnecessary in the days of flat-panel moitors -- and the GeekDesk can be gotten 31.5" deep at the shallowest. I measured and know that the wasted space will bug me.

Plan A is to get a desktop like the one I have now only bigger, if they'll sell me just the top, the 24" by 72" tabletop from these. They're pretty indestructible.
http://www.smithsystem.com/productCategory.asp?categoryID=415

I'm thinking about nice wood as an alternative, but not really all that strongly. I don't think I should buy a sentimental item off a friend -- most likely yeah, you should find a way to use it yourself. :-)