stand in the place where you work

if facebook is good for nothing else it is good for starting a stand up desk revolution. my friends ryan and chris have me thinking sitting is for sloths and they have the reference, and in ryan's case the experience, to prove it. ryan's lost 10lbs.

check out this great article chris posted.

i work in a brand new white laminate lined architect's office. it's not too stodgy but i will be falling out of line if/when i decide to stand. rather than acquire a dedicated standing desk i want to use a desktop converter. that way i can stand or sit and if i catch too much flack i can just stow the thing under my desk until the air clears.

since it is an experiment and i can't commit yet i want to spend a max of $100. this is a much bigger budget than chris and ryan who used bolts of cloth, reams of paper, and assorted plastic boxes. but at the same time ready made standing desks and converters can be hundreds of dollars!

here's my research:

cheapest...
standup desk
$69 black
only 15" deep.


here's a great article: standing desk shootout.

from the article the winner is:
giraffe desk.
$900.
beautiful in a 2003 kind of way but wtf! 900 bucks!
32x27x9" high


the other contenders are all dedicated standing desks.

i also looked at ikea hacker and then realized (since i have the ikea catalog memorized) that the billy bookcase height extender does the trick. $20, and i have one in the bottom of my closet!

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(currently) the winner is: the billy bookcase top with a close second to the $69 stand maybe with a monitor stand on it to get the monitor a bit higher and let my keyboard live under it to help with the 15" depth.

should probably get an anti-fatigue mat too.

i'm targeting october 1...stay tuned!





photo1: ernest hemingway exemplifying standing desking

photo2: my desk. killer view of times square assuming my standing desk faces out the window.