Oh my gosh! Another mac user!

Oh, right, meant to respond to your journal about that. :) You can definitely get a 2nd battery for the thing. I travel with 2 batteries with the MBP you see above, although I almost never have to use the 2nd battery unless I'm actively using it on a plane ride. As with any laptop, if you drop the brightness down and avoid having lots of tabs open in your browser (FA in particular, all those animated ads eat up CPU), you should be able to squeeze a few hours out of the battery. The biggest thing that eats batteries on laptops is crap running in the background that you don't really need. On Windows, you bring up a Task Manager. On Macs, you bring up Activity Monitor (Apps -> Utilities -> Activity Monitor). Anything chewing up more CPU than you think it ought to be should probably be killed or otherwise looked into. ;)

Thank you

I am wondering how you managed in Champions Online with this setup, it looks to be rather nice looking for it.

Ohhh, I should bring up one of those macro Rooth'roo screenshots and show you. It was awesome. :)

Oh please do, hehe even use one of the ones I sent you if those look good

Haha wow that's awesome!

I love all the shelving

Also, we have the same keyboard :V

Saitek Cyber thing, with 6 macro keys on either side? And cool backlighting? And silver wasd keys?

Yes! It is silly but I am a sucker for shiny lights @-@

Likewise. ;) One of these days, I'll buy one of these:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/.....rds-mice/cb22/

...I don't think i've ever wanted a keyboard so badly in my life. But now I do. I have reason. *grabby-hands*

Heehee, isn't it awesome? Oh, and they've come down in price! They used to be like $200. And they're in stock!! Wow, now's the time to get one. *ponders*

Would you get the white one or the black one? I'm all about the white one, I think, though the black one looks pretty slick.

*gurgles and rubs her face on the screen*

I like the black one.

Err... white one. Early morning is early.

I can't decide, myself. ;) The white one would definitely be fun, but the black one would look more stylish in my livingroom ... *hrm*

Get both :D

You and your .. 'logic'! *drools at thinkgeek*

One for each hand! There's sense in all this madness!

I designed the shelving to be like a kind of waterfall of dragons leading from the landing to the window. I was gonna put a fountain thinggie by the window, but I haven't found a good one yet (I have a brass leafy thing, but I'm looking for a dragony thing)

Wow, that's a lot of dragons. I though It had too many sitting on of my desk. ^_^

I don't have any sitting on my desk in this picture. Technically. ;)

Thank you! I designed the arrangement myself, but they are stock glass from Home Depot. The idea was to make it look watery/flowy down from the platform on the stairwell to the right (off-screen). I intend to put a copper fountain on a table in front of the window to the left, once I find a new home for that book case.

Lucky!!!

LOL, yeah, I get a chuckle out of that sometimes. ;) It's just a moving box I bought from U-Haul that has some books and stuff in it.

Obvious small box is obvious. n.n;;;

u my good sir are EPIC

>:^) Glad you approve! But it's the desktop background that makes the rig. lando gets most of the epic credit. ;)

MUY PADRE COMO SE DICE JAJAJA

OH MAH GAWD!

I love your dragon statues! *admires them and puts one of them under his wings* >.=.>

*flips all of your shelves on one side*

Must.... be.... symmetric!

Heh, that was my original design. I changed it to this because it's like water flowing down from the landing in the top right (that you can't see), and at the bottom of the flow is a window, and a water fountain. It's very feng shui

I adore your dragon collection!! When I was younger I used to collect them! But now I lack in space so I've stopped. :C

Heh, that wall is only a small part of my hoard. Someday, I'll make the rest presentable and post pictures. Someday.

But I hear ya, I used to live in a tiny apartment for a while, couldn't hoard anything. :/

This is just a guess. But I think you like dragons. ;p

You could put it that way. You could also say I seem to have a hoarding problem, and you'd be right. ;)

I know I'm like that sometimes. Tho it's not as bad now cos I seem to move a lot and it ends up going somewhere else. xp

You must like dragons.

Kinda. >.>

a late comment, but thats an awesome setup you have there good sir ;)

Thanks! I need to take a new picture - there has been an important addition. :)

sooo many dragons. i wants them. tell me where you got some of them . i am looking for dragon sculptures

Franklin Mint (Michael Whelan sculptures), Ren Faires, Dancing Dragon Catalog (defunct), gifts, Denver Museum of Natural History, eBay, Attactix gaming store, Colorado Dragon Boat Festival.

Oh, and a sculpture store in Moab, UT.

thanks. this will help greatly with my quest too find them

Oh wow I've never seen anyone else with that gold dragon on the top left of your collection.
I love all the dragon pieces I own but that one takes the cake for me, I've never seen a dragon figure with that much energy, and that well rendered.

Cool to see someone else liked it enough to buy it!

It was a gift from my dad. :) Ohh, and I just remembered, it lights up. I totally should turn that on more often. ^_^

omg OMG, dragon dragon! i like too

^_^

This has got to be one of the most beautiful setups I have ever seen. I am in awe.

*bows* It's getting better. Stay tuned. :)

what image is on your laptop???

 max-dragon did it. http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3867632/
(note: there's a 3D version of it also)

wats with furries and super cluttered desks D:

iknow,right? zomg

looks like mirrors edge on the mac background?

Yep! Check it out: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3867632/

awesome!

that dragon can cheat with his wings :P

Thats why h's so good at it! :)

That is possibly the coolest wall I've ever seen in my life...

Such a great setup X)

Dagrons dagrons dagrons

Damn, you have some pretty awesome stuff man.

Very Nice and Clean Setup ^^
Damn i want that Keyboard :)
Isnt that a Saitek Cyborg V7
I Had a Logitech G510 but now its on Ebay this Fucking thing always Made my System Freeze xDD
Damn Logitech Drivers ^^'

LOL, you're selling a dysfunctional keyboard on eBay? ;)

FWIW, that Saitek Cyborg keyboard had issues for me as well. It would periodically stop responding, the lights would go out, etc. But to be fair, I had attached to an unpowered hub on the end of a 25' long USB cable. Not really fair. I should give it another try, now that I have replaced the 25' usb cable with a CAT5 cable flanked by USB converters, and I found power for the hub.

Haha no ^^ The Keyboard Works fine but Everytime i Installed The Software for the Display and the Stuff it Freezes Randomly ^^''
Hm I just want a Keyboard who has Keys they are not so Loud when im Typing and it must Gloom and Shine xD
I thought Awesome The Logitech can Changes the Color of the Led's and it has a Display Woooow but naaah Nevermind :3

I want one of these:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/.....rds-mice/e609/

Haha thats the Same Keyboard i also want ^^
But for That Price Pffehw

Hm but i saw this here and maybe i Buy it,but before i do anything i Read some Reviews and stuff ^^ http://eclipsetouch.com/ltkey.htm#img/ltk/ltk1.jpg

That's a very pretty keyboard! But I'm not sure I'd use that keypad much. Hmm. Neat idea, I just have to think about how it would work with the apps and games I like to play. O.o

i think you like dragon's.

You should see the dragon room. ;)

^o^ i hope you're not joking. that would be awesome.

Unfortunately, I didn't take a photo before I started evacuating it in preparation for a new rooommate/housemate. But, here are some older photos of how the hoard in the dragon room looked a few years ago, which is fairly close to how it looked a few weeks ago, as I didn't have many additions since then. Note that the figurines in the curio cabinet in the corner outnumber the plushies, but you wouldn't guess that by looking at it. ;) This also doesn't include the "display hoard" -- the dragons scattered throughout the house in a more visually appealing manner, such as those flanking the TV.

OMG!!! *o* i would love to just dive into those plushies as a kitty and explore it all.

that's quite a large collection!

imo the football light switch plate feels kind of out of place lmao

Yeah, it is, so is the football strip. That all came with the house, and I was too lazy to take it down. Figured the dragons would eventually fill it floor to ceiling, at the rate I was going, so no point in going through all that work. ;)

doesn't looking up so much hurt your neck?

A little, yes, and I do take frequent breaks. The key is to be far enough back so the vertical motion necessary to cover the whole screen with a glance is minimal. Also, the TV is tilted a little, so it's mostly perpendicular to my plane of vision, which is good. I have a taller chair with a ledge for my feet (designed for electronics/manufacturing workbenches), but I need a taller table. I could put it on books or something, but that's lame, and makes it hard to move around (which I do often).

technically you're supposed to posision yourslef so that your eye level is around the top of the screen

Yeah, I had some EHS training at work (after setting this thing up *sigh*). I could actually move the mount lower, but it would sorta break the layout. I'd have to lower the bottom shelves to line up or something. >.> Too much engineer in me! ;) I actually thought about designing a mount where the TV could be lowered for computer use, and raised for movie or display purposes. Hmm.

that sounds super cool! o:

I really love all your dragon statues, plus your setup is very awesome. C:

Thanks. :) It's about to get awesomer!

I saw this pic and I immediately thought: What an awesome setup :D I really like it, thanks for sharing ^^ Gave me some ideas too :3

Thanks! I want to see what you come up with. :) Those glass shelves I got at Lowes and/or Home Depot (they both carried them), but finding that many shelves (and mounts) that were not scratched was difficult. Took several visits over a few months.

Loving the display!

one can never have enough dragons ^.=.^
I got a fair collection myself.

I used to have a whole room full of 'em, a few years ago. Since those photos, it got so ridiculously full, there was almost a fire. So I packed 'em up and made it inhabitable. >.>

That would be like a dream to me!

Home Depot and Lowes. Strangely had to go to both, 'cause neither store had enough, and the mounts were of mixed quality.

One shelf started coming loose, so I took it down and rescued e mounts with better drywall anchors. Now it is crazy strong. I was going to do the same with the others, but I'm not sure which kind of anchors I used now. Heh. Plus, the wall is really annoying, because right about the top of the TV is this huge HORIZONTAL support beam (it's a split level house). But the result was worth it. :). I've displayed many commissions on that thing, and they look so awesome. ^_^

Oh, and the curvy shelves keep me from putting too many things on them, which I have a tendency to do. Enforced elegance, by design.