- Pencil box (handmade gift)
- iPad Pro 10.5"
- Poetic Lumos case also holding Apple Pencil
- LG 27" 4K Monitor
- Keyboardio Model 01
- Hexomatic Retro 1951 with a Parker gel 0.7mm refill (ditched the original ballpoint refill)
- Waterman Expert rollerball, with Pilot G2 refill ($8 for a Waterman refill? Ain’t nobody got time for that.)
- (not shown) Rhodia Webnotebook, 3.5x5.5, lined, because I’m not an animal
- Crucial 512GB SSD in Sabrent external case
- under the desk 4TB My Book
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USB 3.0 Hub + Ethernet
- Flat ethernet cable
- (not shown)
- to an Apple Airport Extreme
- to a Motorola ARRIS SURFboard SB6183
- also a Hue bridge
- MacBook Pro 2015, 15", 16GB, 512GB
- held in a Twelve South BookArc
- Apple Magic Keyboard and Track Pad (old style)
- in a Henge Docks Clique
- LogiTech MX Master mouse (so long Anker vertical)
- Bose QC-35, without whose noise cancelling, I would be utterly useless
- Time Timer, 3", reminds you that time is passing, does not tick or distract by displaying the time
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Aeron chair, Herman Miller
- Size C, adj lumbar, tilt and seat angle, fully adj arms, standard casters, I think
- Side Chair, Herman Miller
- Desktops and legs, Herman Miller
- Binders of research papers, printed and indexed in my ref manager
- SoundFreaq SFQ-01
- Galilean Thermometer, something like this
- PaperPro 10-65 sheet stapler
- iMac G4 17"
- Photo of a boy with prosthetic legs that I found online, which inspires me and is related to my research
- Digital clock I made
- (barely visible)
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Tom Bihn Synapse 25 backpack
- Pre-2018 vertical cache for my rMBP
- Freudian Slip for organization
- misc pouches
- a key straps so they don’t wander away
- (not shown)
- Tenergy batteries, better than Eveready, etc. rechargeables
That keyboard!
How does typing on ‘normal’ keyboards treat you, after getting used to that?
I’m still learning it, and have been using Epistory to help with that.
Switching back and forth isn’t a problem. Humans and other animals have context-sensitive motor programs, which is why we can walk in the ocean, then on dry land, use pliers and tweezers equally well, etc.
I used to have two Harley Sportsters, one was a 1972, so the brake and shifter were reversed. Didn’t have any problems switching between that and my ‘96, which had them on the correct sides.
Back to the keyboard, it’s pretty awesome. I’ve programmed my own layout, based on Dvorak. There are plugins such as SpaceCadet that allow you to have keys with two different functions, dependent on whether they are tapped or held. For example, if I tap left-shift with my thumb, it types a left paren (, but if I hold it, it functions as shift. I have other thumb keys set up for brackets and curly braces.
I’ve defined a Hyper key (Ctrl+Cmd+Opt+Shift) to me used with Keyboard Maestro shortcuts, as well as a Meh key (Ctrl+Cmd+Opt), and even one for the modifiers used for Magnet (Ctrl+Opt).
It’s good stuff. Ordered my second one yesterday so I don’t have to transport them back and forth.
The G4 is probably my favorite design ever