My desk at The OpenHub has been getting crazy messy lately so I decided that I needed to either throw away some junk or come up with a storage solution. Since I am a die-hard hoarder, I decided on the latter.
Measuring up the desk, I didn't have a lot of room once the MacBook and 24" screen were in place. I needed something tall and narrow. I didn't like the look of the stacking document trays at the newsagent - they were expensive and nasty - so I decided to make a little bookshelf. I need to get my cabinet-making skills as I am trying to convince my wife that I can build us a new kitchen, rather than spending $20,000.
Since I needed a tall and narrow bookshelf that would fit in only about 28cm of space, I decided to keep with the nerdy environment at work and build my shelves using an Apple Macintosh as a template. Here is the finished Shelfintosh, next to my template:
The template Mac Classic was sitting quite close to the table-saw during the construction of of the bookshelf, so chances are it is full of MDF dust now. Poor thing.
Three plastic document trays would have cost me about $15 at Officeworks, but I built my nerdy bookshelf using about $4 of 12mm MDF. If I hadn't spent about $1k in tools, I think you would agree that I am well ahead.
P. S. Yes, I have undeleted my blog. For my dozen or so readers, I am sure this is fantastic news. I will be writing sporadically, as always. I think the theme will be a bit different to my old blog. Mostly it will be showing the results of some little project, like this post. Of course most of my projects are programming related, so it will still be an unashamedly nerdy blog.
My next post will be about a couple of useful scripts that I am working on to automagically arrange my windows in Mac OS X, after a very useful tip-off from my desk-buddy John.
Measuring up the desk, I didn't have a lot of room once the MacBook and 24" screen were in place. I needed something tall and narrow. I didn't like the look of the stacking document trays at the newsagent - they were expensive and nasty - so I decided to make a little bookshelf. I need to get my cabinet-making skills as I am trying to convince my wife that I can build us a new kitchen, rather than spending $20,000.
Since I needed a tall and narrow bookshelf that would fit in only about 28cm of space, I decided to keep with the nerdy environment at work and build my shelves using an Apple Macintosh as a template. Here is the finished Shelfintosh, next to my template:
The template Mac Classic was sitting quite close to the table-saw during the construction of of the bookshelf, so chances are it is full of MDF dust now. Poor thing.
Three plastic document trays would have cost me about $15 at Officeworks, but I built my nerdy bookshelf using about $4 of 12mm MDF. If I hadn't spent about $1k in tools, I think you would agree that I am well ahead.
P. S. Yes, I have undeleted my blog. For my dozen or so readers, I am sure this is fantastic news. I will be writing sporadically, as always. I think the theme will be a bit different to my old blog. Mostly it will be showing the results of some little project, like this post. Of course most of my projects are programming related, so it will still be an unashamedly nerdy blog.
My next post will be about a couple of useful scripts that I am working on to automagically arrange my windows in Mac OS X, after a very useful tip-off from my desk-buddy John.
