Yesterday, I had two computers in the blue room, each with two monitors. Today, I still have two computers, but one of them has three screens. The other, older one, will be decomissioned as soon as possible. I was tired of looking at the back of the monitors on a writing table facing out into the room, and I was also tired of Vista, the operating system on the older computer.

It took five hours to move what we moved, and even then I forgot, somehow, about ZoomBrowser, the app for viewing Canon images. Something to look forward to, and, in the meantime, a new way to allow images to proliferate without organization.

Jason Mei did all the real work as usual, but I was on my feet most of the time, looking for things and thinking aloud and really too restless to sit down, so I was exhausted by dinnertime. It would have been nice to chat with Kathleen after dinner, but she wanted to get some work done and was happy to do it now that Jason had upgraded the WiFi drivers on her laptop. So I drifted into the blue room, where Jason (now remote) awed me with pictures of multi-screen arrays, such as this one with 24 screens and another, which I’m sure must be in Germany, with an assortment of ten, if you include the iPad. Then there were the cool graphic displays, both on three screens, of some exciting city (Shanghai? Seattle?) and a baroque town square, respectively. But the one that really caught my fancy, with five screens, was a beautiful array of DOS commands. I have to have something like that, displayed on my three screens, that combines computer operations with Twitteer feeds. Not a screen saver, but a screen show.  

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 at 8:07 am.