Musical (expensive) ChairsĪ standing desk solution was not the first stop on my mental map from A) Gritting my teeth every time I rolled over in bed to B) Somewhere where anti-inflammatories weren’t needed. By the time I’d finished the second round of drugs and chiropractor appointments, I knew something had to change. More than that, twice I managed to pull something in my lower back during cool-down stretches that left me immobile for days at a time. As noted above, I like to stay active but a schedule of sitting 12 hours a day left me with lingering soreness that was starting to hinder my exercise schedule. In my starving student days, I’d worked in a warehouse and sustained an injury there – nothing serious at the time, but what takes a day with an ice pack to resolve at 19, can put you flat on your back for days later on. Why did I end up parting with old faithful, the cheap hardboard desk that I’d been using for the last 15 years or so? Well, much like our hacker hero from the intro, hunching over my keyboard was leaving me with an increasingly sore lower back. On the house.īackground: So, sitting for extended periods is unhealthy for a variety of reasons, most of which I hadn’t even considered previously. Want that in infographic form? Here ya go. While this wasn’t the reason I switched out desks and all-day sitting marathons, it certainly doesn’t hurt to take it into consideration. Sit for most of the day, and you significantly increase your chance of diabetes and cardiovascular disease – even if you sweat a pound off later on in the day. Spending most of the day sitting in front of my keyboard shouldn’t be a problem – I make up for it later. Science: I’m a fairly active guy – hit the gym 6 days out of 7, do some rock climbing and martial art classes. If only she had been using a standing desk…
Alas, passwords go uncracked, mega-corporations untoppled. Then, her lower back pain flares up from all that sitting and hunching she’s been doing, and she has to go lie down with a hotpack for the next few hours.
#Ghost in the shell steam api init failed code#
Finally, the code is complete – she takes a deep breath and, hunching over her keyboard, prepares to press ‘Enter’. Maybe, as she types away, a single bead of sweat rolls down her face, past her unblinking eyes. Her fingers fly across the keyboard, arcane symbols leaping from mind to screen her face is locked in an expression of intense concentration, stark in the green phosphorescent glare (our programmer is using an IBM 5151, because this is the future, and that’s what the future looks like – green ). The scenario: One lone programmer, sitting in a dark basement, up against the might of the military-industrial complex. Yes, this is my setup – hopefully you’re not scared of clutter, or this article isn’t getting off to a great start…