This may not seem like fun to some, but it is for me. I have a confession to make and hope that both of my readers will understand. I am kind of geeky, which is different than nerdy, I was never in the chess club in high school, nor was I a mathlete in junior high. I was a normal kid running around raising hell, and was pretty good at it.
I tried to label the picture posted above, so that it makes sense. I am my own technical support person so I can do anything I want to, using my hardware, software and a little imagination. I use a laptop computer and have it hooked up to a monitor and set it up so that I see two screens at the same time.
My email, and anything I am writing is on the laptop screen. On the larger screen I have a web browser so I can access the MLS and have access to web based programs and the internet. I can move my mouse from one screen to another, and drag windows from screen to screen. My computer has a couple of gigabytes of ram and some additional hardware so that I can run multiple programs on multiple monitors without losing any speed. The best part is that I can watch a DVD on one screen and use the other for computing. This set up is just drop dead cool, there isn’t any other way to describe it.
My clients seem to appreciate my ability to get infromation and follow up quickly when they have a question. When it comes to the geeky stuff no one else really gets me, which is O.K., I don’t get me either. I occasionaly meet other people that are like me but they are usually men in their twenties and thirties.
Vendors send me products to test and people ask for my opinions and comments on various software doodads made for the real estate industry, or for blogs. I teach some classes for realtors and help other realtors with some of the basics. Some of the gadgets in the side-bars of this blog are products that I am testing for myself or for someone else, which is why they kind of come and go. I almost never have to read a manual or use online help, if I do I figure I am just not smart enough to use the product.
So for fun this Friday ask the freindly folks in your IT department at work if you can have two monitors for your computer. Explain how it will increase your productivity and your boss will make more money. When no one is looking go ahead and play a DVD, and remember to use your head phones. The remote control for my laptop makes it easy to make the screen go blank, see if your IT department will get you one.
Have a great weekend, stay warm and buy real estate.
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I love it! (Especially a laptop with multiple gigabytes!)
Twin monitors ARE the coolest! I have a twin monitor, multi-gigabyte, twin Xeon system, myself… but the ten fans in that box annoy the hell out of me… so I often use a quieter, single monitor setup.
http://www.douglasquance.com/picts/dougpost.jpg
When I grow up, I want to be all high-tech like the Blogging Goddess.
I think Doug is a guy in his 30′s.
Doug use the newer, more energy efficient thin flat screen monitors. To keep my lap top cool my genious of a husband went to K-Mart and purchased a wire rack that is designed to put in a skink to protect it from scratches. It keeps my laptop about 3/4 of an inch above my desk so it can breath. The only noise in my office is the ringing phones and the clacking of my keyboards.
I have the same banker’s lamp
Jake – start your own company, your boss will let you have most anything, I know mine does.
JF – look like you need a hair cut, but I can see by your comment that you are a gentleman of impeccable taste.
Yes, Dual Monitor (one giant) is a must for bloggers. Lar
Teresa, I always dress up when I go somewhere classy.
It’s an illusion, T!
Those monitors, while flat – are anything but flat-panels! They’re 22″ CRT’s weighing around 66 pounds each!
They eat my desk! LOL
(and I was born in ’59)
Nice Calender
What’s undressed on that calendar Lar?
JF – there is indeed a lot of nakedness on the calendar. It is amazing to me that he got those baby pictures of you laying on that nice rug. I think we have been underestimating his investigative reporting skills.
Shane, let me guess, you are a male between the ages of 20 and 39.
My oh my what imaginations you have. That calender has spiders all over it. Fully dressed. lar
Lar – I must have had some reason for cropping the picture so that the calendar can not be seen.
Love your setup! My home office is a pretty simple setup — just a laptop, really, but my car is much more tricked out…I always have my laptop with me, plus my Motorola Q with high-speed Internet access through Verizon, plus my GPS (which ties in to Microsoft MapPoint, so I can see demographics of neighborhoods I’m passing through), plus my cell-phone-through-the-car-speakers system. I’m actually probably more efficient in my car office than my office office!
So mathlete equals nerd? Oh geez, another change to my resume is in order.
Great setup! Though, I more of a minimalist when it comes to workspaces… http://tinyurl.com/2fclbb
So mathlete equals nerd? Oh geez, another change to my resume is in order.
Great setup! Though, I more of a minimalist when it comes to workspaces… http://tinyurl.com/2fclbb
Michelle,
You can’t see me smiling, “super fly drop dead cool”?
You know the picture was taken in my home office. the only thing I have that you don’t have is the extra monitor. It takes up very little room and was actually a birthday present from my husband. I mostly don’t buy anything unless I need it so he figures out what I want and buys it. Strange birthday gift but I just love it.
Your set up is super fly! Drop dead cool works too… the ‘two screens at once’ bit made me realize how we do that inside our noggins… listen to buyer wants while scrolling down our second screen of known homes that might fit those needs. Just a random thought. I can’t get my head around dragging windows from one screen to another, here at my home office it is me and my laptop,(OK scanner/printer/cell/wireless/ extra hard drive) does a regular TV count as a second screen?