Silly Tuesday - To many Monitors?

Posted by JJ (Jersey City, United States) on 28 April 2009 in Miscellaneous.

I had a thought last week, that while walking around looking for a shot for silly Tuesday, my desk could well be the best shot and pretty Silly,
Four Monitors was perhaps a bit excessive, I normally use 3, as well as using one for day to day work mail etc, the others are on and monitoring other networks. The fourth was for testing desktop to desktop Video Conferencing, and when I walked back into my office and saw this setup and my normal chaotic desk, I thought yes this is silly, especially taking onto account although at work for 9 or more hours a day I seldom spend more than 4 hours at my desk

BTW its a lot tidier now and I downsized to 2 monitors

Cheers

Thank you for taking the time to visit. I really appreciate all your comments, and welcome any critique as I am learning the art of photography, and having a blast with it

Getting ready for a work trip from the 29th so may not be able to check all your posts but will do as and when I can

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Comments (38)

Chris Parr from Jefferson City, United States

It's always interesting to have a peak into someone else's world. I use three monitors at work myself, although two are integrated and act as one big one.

28 Apr 2009 5:12am

Standley from Carquefou, France

Nice to see your working environment. Your monitors line-up is quite impressive!

28 Apr 2009 5:16am

Nicholas from Shah Alam, Malaysia

I have one monitor and my desk is still messier than yours :P

28 Apr 2009 5:41am

Lynne's Somewhat Invented Life from United States

I think four monitors sound great. I always have a lot of windows open and that would work a lot better than "alt tab."

Loved seeing your workplace. I'm glad to know you don't get to only see the beauty of the city.

28 Apr 2009 6:25am

Robert Kruh from Slovenia

Oh, my ...!!! Very original desktop! :) THnx for sharing, great photo!

28 Apr 2009 7:30am

Paco Díaz from Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Lol! Your work hard on these silly tuesdays :)))

28 Apr 2009 7:39am

gavin hart from Gold Coast, Australia

I imagine many of us have work stations similar to yours. I only use one monitor at a time but often ask myself why I enslave myself to a P,C in a darkened room and with fans whirring away, for so many hours. It's as if our hard disks and their content are extensions of own souls. Not so many decades ago, all this stuff didn't even exist. What have we done to ourselves?

28 Apr 2009 7:53am

Judy from Brooksville, Florida, United States

Quite a 'silly' setup for sure ... but where is Bahbahra? :D

28 Apr 2009 7:54am

P J W Miller from Chase Terrace, United Kingdom

You need to spend more time away as you will get 4 times the amount of eyestrain lol

28 Apr 2009 8:08am

Linerberry from Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand

OMG you crazy fool you!!! This really is silly!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing and what a great realisation that the silliest thing you see daily is your own work desk lololol!!!!!
Thank you for being a silly billy!!!

28 Apr 2009 8:40am

zOOm from Paris, France

No headache ? :-)

28 Apr 2009 9:23am

Olivier Jules from Lanciano, Italy

eheh!! nice picture

28 Apr 2009 9:31am

Angel from Madrid, Spain

Certainly the today photography satisfies to more than the one curiosity of how you work. Of course I observe many monitors, for a space a little reduced, but I see that you organize yourself very well.

Greetings

28 Apr 2009 10:13am

Scene by Sharon Photography from Kingston, Ontario, Canada

wow... at least you don't have to stare at them all day long - talk about eye strain... nice to see your working environment

28 Apr 2009 10:14am

Marie-Hélène Ammor from Casablanca/Paris, Morocco

Great shot ! I like the different colors of montors !!

28 Apr 2009 10:16am

Betty from New Jersey, United States

OMG! Four monitors! I have one and my desk is a total mess! Thanks for sharing!

28 Apr 2009 10:28am

Zahai from Berlin, Germany

only four monitors? i think you could use a couple more ;)

28 Apr 2009 11:09am

vu@granby - Wolfgang from Granby, Québec, Canada

Too many monitors? I guess it depends on what you want to monitor!

28 Apr 2009 12:29pm

Luca Bobbiesi from Milano, Italy

What a cool office desktop!

28 Apr 2009 1:43pm

dobbino from Cape Town, South Africa

We'll just have to monitor your progress with the clean-up, won't we? :)

28 Apr 2009 3:56pm

Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada

You silly, silly man, this isn't silly, it's great lol

28 Apr 2009 5:05pm

peter from new york, United States

looks like it keeps you busy : )

28 Apr 2009 5:07pm

Liang from San Francisco, United States

better to keep busy these days right? nice shot of your work station!

28 Apr 2009 5:14pm

Susan from Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States

Yikes, there's mice crawling all over your desk!!! How silly is that?????

28 Apr 2009 5:29pm

beanow from Warsaw, Poland

Commonplaceness... Nice capture.

28 Apr 2009 6:57pm

chrissy from uk, United Kingdom

great picture, do all these monitors make you look very busy JJ

28 Apr 2009 8:46pm

jamesy from christchurch, New Zealand

I'm pleased that you have downsized I wndered if you had more than two eyes hehehe At least now you are down to 1 screen for each eye. Great but scary silly scary shot

28 Apr 2009 9:04pm

Craig@Random Ramblings from Herts, United Kingdom

Silly, can one ever have too many monitors? To tidy it up I suggest they all be 30" and the same model, there sorted :)

28 Apr 2009 9:15pm

Lesley from Lincoln, United States

This looks a bit like my husband's home office! He claims he needs all of them! I know I could use two, but I don't have the space. Nice shot.

28 Apr 2009 9:17pm

AC from New York, United States

Wow. That is a lot of monitors! Looks like you have this set up to your heart's content :)

28 Apr 2009 9:18pm

Stunner from Kingston, Jamaica

Nice shot. This reminds me of my office, there are so many monitors here too!

28 Apr 2009 11:49pm

martie from somewhere, United States

Perfect choice for Silly Tuesday, but I like it too! I have dual monitors and wish I had one or two more. Guess I'm too greedy. :-)

29 Apr 2009 12:54am

Macro photography from United States

Great look into your work space. It looks strangely familiar, well the mess at least.

29 Apr 2009 1:26am

dj.tigersprout from New York City, USA, United States

too many indeed!! :) i would get a headache for sure!! i don't see any plants? maybe add some bamboo in there to cut down on the screen radiation? haha -- just read that you are back to 2 monitors! :) nice!!

29 Apr 2009 6:29am