You Know It's Time

As my title suggests, it's time. And I know it is time as my monitor clearly couldn't take one more second of displaying my digital needs, as it failed at the stand hinge and falls flat on it's back in a fit of rage. I think its message was pretty clear. Here let me show you.



You are probably asking yourself, how can a monitor just break and fall over? Here I'll show you.

In the below photo, the round hinge use to connect to other Plexiglas piece at the bottom of the image. There is no metal there to support, just the Plexiglas screwed through and connected to the hinge.




I guess it is actually something that happens to these old apple cinema displays. That's fine, it was getting pretty old, starting to ghost and the colors were noticeably a bit "warm". After all, I have used the monitor for a good 4 years, and I bought it used.

Actually, it still displays, it just doesn't stand up. And this monitor thought that by falling backwards on it's rear it would avert me from finishing my photo editing, pSSSH! As I got over the initial shock of the fall, I just stood up and kept clicking away until I was done. See Monitor, I tell you when you are done. Not the other way around.



The ironic thing was that it fell in the middle of me editing a photo of Jordan waving her finger of judgment / disapproval at me. It was like an "I Told You So" that she didn't even want to say. Oh well, out with the old, in with the new.

I did some quick research and Jordan and I headed off for Fry's and Best Buy. After considering a HDTV as the new replacement, I was assured by a Best Buy associate that in my line of work, I need to stick with the plain computer monitors for more actuate color densities and representation. We perused their selection but I wasn't impressed with anything non-apple, but I didn't really want to spend $900 on a new apple monitor. We headed back to Fry's where I ran across a Samsung 23" monitor with the HDTV capability built in...hmmm. Interesting. If I shouldn't get a TV with monitor capabilities, I'll get a monitor with TV capabilities! Perfect, I can replace my old tube TV in my room and my monitor at the same time! Brilliant!

They didn't have any in-stock. Then they closed for the night. So on Sunday we made a trip up to another Fry's and picked it up there, and then I spent the rest of afternoon cleaning, disconnecting, arranging, rearranging and reconnecting all my gear up. Here is the new set up, I'm diggin' it. Much cleaner and more functional I feel. I think I need to look into getting an HD cable box now.