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The new home office

Goal: By 2010.01.01, restore home office / design capability to a level equivalent to, or exceeding the period known as "The Great Kronos Financial Crisis".

During early 2007, before I joined Flickr, the company I worked for then fell onto hard financial times and couldn't meet payroll obligations to its employees - often for weeks, if not months on end. To survive, I used my vacation time and started doing freelance consulting / design out of my spare bedroom. I spread myself too thin and stopped doing consulting work, and the home office kinda turned into a storage room.

Kronos went under in late 2008. For my buddy Mike and I, it was the best thing that happened to our careers - both of us ended up in companies where our skills are respected and valued, and where we can continue to grow. The fat cats who pissed the company's future away are still collecting unemployment, as far as I know.

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Work stations

I am pretty happy about how the desk turned out. From CAD design sign-off to completion took only 3 days for me to build. The desktop is maple-veneer 3/4 A1 plywood, with a polyurethane varnish. The legs are from IKEA :-).

Using IKEA and off-the-shelf components greatly reduced the fabrication time. I didn't even have to take an angle grinder to any of the legs...

This is my first desk that I've designed and built that can seat 2. :-). A fitting thing, since this is the first time I've got a girlfriend that can kick my ass at computer stuff.

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Workspace, closeup

Eventually, I'll be upgrading to a Mac Pro. Until then, my current 2 year old PC will have to do.

Missing is my Wacom tablet. The stuff for my CAD design is however there - a 3D 6DOF input device, called a SpaceBall, as well as a 3D laser scanner. Not exactly your usual desktop accessories.

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Bedroom - bookshelves

Rotated the old bookshelves out of the home office into the bedroom. I have waaaay too many stuffed animals.

What's really cool is that after a purging, I expect to only sit at around 60% shelf capacity. Which means, when I go and sort out boxes of old junk, I'm not just shuffling junk from box A to box B, but can actually afford to find a permanent home for all the pieces of crap.

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A couple of mortgage payments...

My collection of lenses. Missing is the 17-40 on the 5D2, which took this picture :-)

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