Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for January 21, 2019

Even Brewster’s chair on the bridge has been replaced with the “Captain’s X on the floor”.

A nickle here, a nickle there….next thing you know you’ve saved a dime!

Cliff mentioning the health beneficial perspective?!?

The end is near…

Chairs were invented because people have problems with standing all day.

Cliff will not stand for that!

At least she doesn’t have to sit on a huge rubber ball, as I’ve seen some office staff doing in the past. No it wasn’t a tech company, it was the constituency office of my MP.

Looks like they won’t have to buy a mouse, either.

Due to a recurring tailbone injury back in 1979, I can’t use these standing desks.

OMG – they just completed a total office makeover where I work, reduced our prison cubes in size by 20% but gave us all motor driven standing desks. Every time I see people standing up to work I want to throw a paper plane at them.

I don’t think standing is any better for you than sitting. The problem isn’t positional, it’s being static. It’s better to alternate standing a while with sitting a while, or just take walking breaks throughout the day (I let my bladder dictate the breaks :-)).

What’s next, “NO SITTING” signs?

Its either a standing desk or a breast rest.

Use a giant ball instead.

My office bought one of those “chairs” with no back, and pads for your backside and knees. I tried using it, and it was helpful for my weak back, but it was murder on my knees!

My messed-up back would be killing me after an hour at one of those standing desks. I have to lean back in my chair to take some of the pressure off a crushed disc just above my pelvis so my toes don’t go numb.

I hate to be a “Sheldon” but we just ordered a standing desk. You do NOT save money on chairs, they (desks) are ridiculously priced!

I like having an adjustable desk. On days like today when the weather is bad, I can get a little exercise by raising the computer and standing for half an hour or so.

Don’t forget the boss’s Eames chair.

I recently saw a video about standing desks, by an M.D. researcher. He said the evidence that standing desks are better than sitting desks is lacking.

He said sitting desks are not bad because of sitting. They are bad because the user doesn’t move much. People at standing desks tend to make the same mistake. When they use standing desks without moving, its as damaging to their health as sitting desks.

As a industrial design student studying human factors, one should not stand or sit for long periods. Hence the sit/stand computer work station.

That was why Freedonia’s Secretary of War, Chicolini, favored a standing army. (Duck Soup, 1933)

Went through that fad a couple of years ago. I cannot remember the last time I heard the whirr of a table lift motor. The point was to vary the height from sitting to standing throughout the day. Nobody figured that out. They worked for a couple of hours standing, got tired, then never stood up at the desk again. Such a waste.