{"id":51564,"date":"2025-01-06T08:49:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T16:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51564"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:41:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:41:27","slug":"my-workspace-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/01\/06\/my-workspace-for-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"My Workspace for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:788,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/retro.social\\\/@ifixcoinops\\\/111480744130939877&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250827204440\\\/https:\\\/\\\/retro.social\\\/@ifixcoinops\\\/111480744130939877&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 13:42:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 19:30:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 07:28:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 07:28:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:789,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/sharii.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260206224456\\\/https:\\\/\\\/sharii.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 13:42:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 19:10:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 19:30:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 20:46:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 13:18:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 07:28:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 07:28:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:790,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/artaaronmorgan.weebly.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260116003249\\\/https:\\\/\\\/artaaronmorgan.weebly.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 13:42:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 19:30:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 07:28:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 07:28:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:791,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/michaelhans.com\\\/gigs&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250415145318\\\/http:\\\/\\\/michaelhans.com\\\/gigs\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 13:42:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 13:42:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Since I went to the trouble of actually straightening up my office (well\u2026mostly\u2026there are still a few random piles here and there, but that&#8217;s par for the course here), I figured I&#8217;d record it for posterity here.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3660-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A large with a PC laptop with an external monitor and a Mac Mini with two external monitors. There are two keyboards, one trackball, one track pad, and one drawing tablet towards the front of the desk. A printer sits on the right side of the desk. On the walls behind the desk are speakers and artwork, including a black-and-white cartoon sketch and a white-and-blue painting of a figure with a round head and two large blue circles for eyes, wearing a red fez.\" title=\"IMG_3660.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>My desk is actually an old drafting table, 3&#8242; deep by 6&#8242; wide. To the left is my work laptop and secondary screen, with an old wired Apple keyboard and a Kensington trackball.<\/p>\n<p>At center are the two screens for my personal Mac Mini, which can be seen under and to the right of the monitor stand on top of a Blu-ray drive; under and to the left of the monitor stand is a four-bay external drive. The Mini uses the wireless trackpad and keyboard, along with the wired Wacom art tablet.<\/p>\n<p>To the right of the Mac Mini is a printer (a reliable, no-fuss, Brother black and white laser printer \u2014\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/retro.social\/@ifixcoinops\/111480744130939877\">Just get a Brother, they&#8217;re fine.<\/a>&#8220;) under a cassette deck from when I was digitizing audiocassettes; on top of the cassette deck (along with a pile o&#8217; crap) is a small amp to drive the speakers mounted on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>The art directly above the monitors is a cartoon sketch of me by <a href=\"https:\/\/sharii.com\">Shari Chankhamma<\/a>; the art on the wall to the right is the logo of my brother&#8217;s punk band Beefadelphia from back in the &#8217;90s alternative scene in Anchorage, Alaska, painted in &#8217;94 by <a href=\"https:\/\/artaaronmorgan.weebly.com\">Aaron Morgan<\/a>. That painting used to hang on a wall at <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/gigs\/\">Gig&#8217;s<\/a>; when the club closed, I was able to snag it for myself.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3661-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Another view of the same room, with the desk to the left of the image. On the wall opposite the desk is a series of bookcases filled with books and various trinkets and memorabilia. A grey lounge chair sits to the right in the corner of the room. A green curtain hangs to one side from a curve plastic rail mounted on the ceiling.\" title=\"IMG_3661.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>And here&#8217;s looking the other direction, showing the shelves that are my backdrop most of the time I&#8217;m on Zoom from home. The furthest to the left is primarily graphic novels, oversize books, and books that don&#8217;t fit the categories of the other shelves. The next two shelves are all Star Trek, and have my Star Trek DVD\/Blu-ray library sitting on top. The next two shelves are all science fiction and fantasy, with my camera and lens collection sitting on top.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3662-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"The same view as before, only now the green curtain has been pulled along the ceiling track to form a curved green screen between the desk and the bookshelves.\" title=\"IMG_3662.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>And here&#8217;s what that ceiling track is for \u2014\u00a0when I&#8217;m doing something where I want something other than my bookshelves behind me, I can just pull the green curtain around to form a nice curved green screen behind me. Works great, and if you regularly Zoom from home and are looking for an easy way to manage a green screen, I can highly recommend this setup. It&#8217;s just the ceiling track and a photographic green screen backdrop that I punched holes in and added grommets to hang from the track hooks. Simple and effective!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look at my home office setup, since I actually bothered to straighten it up heading into the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2049],"tags":[5992],"class_list":["post-51564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-photos","tag-home-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52383,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51564\/revisions\/52383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}