[Werk] The boy in darkness ...

[dancefloorlandmine]

Not a Mervyn Peake reference this time (although that's quite an interesting story, and the television adaptation was very odd), but I've just returned from my lunch to find my desk in twilight.

Turns out the relevant light units had been switched off because one of the tubes had begun flashing in a strobesque fashion. And there I was thinking we were turning the office into a goth club. They've just been turned back on - but the replacement didn't work at all. Back to the cupboard ...

Possibly my most pointless post to date. Which is saying something. Unlike this post.

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[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Are you bored dear heart?

*hug*

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I'd just got back from lunch, and was temporarily attempting to keep my face from the grindstone.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

*grins*

I know that feeling! *guilty start* Ah. Oh. Yes, well, that would be what I'm doing now really, wouldn't it?

[thepaintedone.livejournal.com]

Lucky bugger, I hate having to work under fluerecents and would much rather have a desklamp, darkness and the comforting glow of my monitor. But my whingy co-workers complain that they can't see anything and keep turning them back on :o/

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Have to admit that I didn't mind the darkness all that much - however, I don't have a desklamp (nor room for one amongst the piles of garbage on my desk), and I find that the monitor doesn't always give quite enough light to read small print by. But at home I do often use the side-light and monitor(s) combination.

This icon was taken by the light of my home monitor - depending on the brightness of yours, you may be able to make out the image ...

[thepaintedone.livejournal.com]

I find that the monitor doesn't always give quite enough light to read small print by.

Sorry, I don't understand this bit. The text is on the monitor, so unless you have the gamma turned down how can you not see it? It almost sounds like you are trying to read something that isn't on a computer monitor, but that can't be right.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

I suspect a clever combination of text on the screen and on his desk.

[vatine]

text not on screens do not exist, unless acoompanied by a comfy chair and a snifter of decent malt.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

*looks at sea of paper/books/Stuff on desk*

Definitely text over here! Not even a sniff of malt to be found anywhere either. Probably just as well seeing as I'm allergic to it.

[thepaintedone.livejournal.com]

I suspect I was being less than entirely serious, as in us IT geek types no longer recognising text that isn't on a monitor. Rather like people who don't have livejournals not existing. :o)

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

You mean there really are such beings??

*quakes*

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, they only *think* they exist...

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

There are people who don't have LiveJournals? How do they waste several unproductive hours at work? Oh ... I'm starting to see this ...

Reminds me of mr_prickle's comment about the large percentage of the world who don't actually have computers ... "But how do they update their LiveJournals?"

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Thanks sir - I sorely needed a [huge sodding grin] putting on my face. And you have just provided one.