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shiny!
My spiffy new flat-panel monitor arrived today! The colors are a little weird -- everything was looking oddly washed-out at first, although I was able to make it better by adjusting some settings -- but it's so nice to have more screen real estate. My old monitor was going on ten years old, so it was past time for an upgrade. I was also finally able to ditch my monitor stand, which was actually the old Mac Centris (that picture shows a Quadra, but it looks almost the same) that I used in grad school.
The only unfortunate side effect is that I can no longer perch Syd on top of my monitor, which has been his resting place for years. Syd is the stuffed moose featured in my userpic. For many years, he lived atop my monitor -- first at home, then at LS (the dotcom where I worked right out of grad school), and when LS laid me off he came home with me. He has lived there ever since, along with a couple more stuffed moose and the little wooden owl. But the top of the new monitor is far too narrow. So now he sits at the base of the monitor's built-in stand. It's so weird not to look up and see him there. The trade-off is worth making, but I am still a little sad.
The only unfortunate side effect is that I can no longer perch Syd on top of my monitor, which has been his resting place for years. Syd is the stuffed moose featured in my userpic. For many years, he lived atop my monitor -- first at home, then at LS (the dotcom where I worked right out of grad school), and when LS laid me off he came home with me. He has lived there ever since, along with a couple more stuffed moose and the little wooden owl. But the top of the new monitor is far too narrow. So now he sits at the base of the monitor's built-in stand. It's so weird not to look up and see him there. The trade-off is worth making, but I am still a little sad.
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And I know what you mean about the weird colors. My new laptop is like that too.
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Did you go through the Mac OS color calibration? That helped a lot, although the black is still lighter than I'm used to -- the text looks too bright.
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