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I'm always reminded of the movie Grandma's Boy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLR3faI7lU

Pretty Sweet My Dude! I feel like I leveled up :P Relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLR3faI7lU

To start with, this won't work for everyone mostly because not everyone works from home like I do.

I used to have this constant, nagging lower back pain when I used to sit at a desk working an office job. It wasn't the sort of back pain where you've pulled a muscle after a botched deadlift or you just twisted the wrong way picking up a sock off the floor, but it was the sort of pain where it just felt like there was a warm knot in your lower back that was not-quite-painful but incredibly uncomfortable. Hard to explain. It was hard to sit still and I had to change sitting positions after every 5-10 minutes which made it difficult to actually focus on work. I strengthened my core and tried various stretches but it never went away.

This went on for years until I started working from home. I figured, instead of trying to find the perfect way to sit, why sit at all? Maybe humans weren't built to sit for long periods of time but I sure don't have problems lying down! I got myself a laptop stand, started working while lying down, and I've never had lower back issues since.

I wouldn't mind having JP's set up in Grandma's Boy either actually (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLR3faI7lU). Monitors at eye level to eliminate neck strain, seat all the way reclined to relieve lower back pressure, and keyboard at just the right height. Perfect.

Your basically just described a scene featuring Joel David Moore (as JP) in Grandma's Boy:

http://youtu.be/bHLR3faI7lU?t=12s

I still think of that setup years after having seen the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLR3faI7lU

  At one focus is suspended a huge, omnidirectional, ten thousand Watt speaker 
  system. At the other focus lies an elaborate, 21 screen wrap-around display 
  connected to a Mac Pro cluster. In this dream, I am seated in a comfortable 
  recline at the computer station while thundering trance emanates from the
  sound system and is parabolically focused upon my exact location.

Ah, so basically the traditional "Grandma's Boy" setup[0]. Yes, I think a lot of us share that dream. The more monitors, the better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLR3faI7lU&t=00m06s

⬐ kayoone

http://www.stefandidak.com/office/

⬐ RealGeek

He loves trance too :)

⬐ mojombo

You know, I've never seen that movie. I suppose the techno-blasting isolation room with tons of monitors is some kind of archetype, to be stumbled upon time and time again by coders throughout the ages.