<story><title>The greatest enemy of the programmer: hemorrhoids</title><url>http://blog.cubeofm.com/the-greatest-enemy-of-the-programmer-hemorrho</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msisk6</author><text>Right now I&apos;m sitting in an Aeron chair I bought myself 11 years ago. It&apos;s been through 3 startups, 4 moves, 2 wives and a half-dozen laptops. I don&apos;t want to even think about how many hours my keister has been in this chair. Amortized for use over time I don&apos;t think I ever spent money so wisely.&lt;p&gt;Get a good chair now -- even if you have to spend your own money on it. You won&apos;t regret it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SwellJoe</author><text>Same story here, though I&apos;ve recently given up my Aeron. I bought my Aeron at the Arthur Andersen  bankruptcy auction in Houston in response to back, elbow, and wrist pain caused by a half dozen crappy chairs bought from Office Max or Office Depot for about $100 each over the span of several years. I kept the Aeron for 8 years, and then sold it when I was moving out of my house and into an RV...and it looked as good as the day I bought it. The guy who bought it from me couldn&apos;t believe I&apos;d had it for nearly a decade and that it was used when I got it. Best $385 I ever spent, and when I can make room for another one, I won&apos;t mind spending a few hundred bucks to buy another one. I can say with absolute sincerity that it&apos;s just stupid to buy a cheap office chair. You pay for it with your back, your ass, your wrists, your elbows, &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; with your wallet, because the cheap chairs only last a year or two if you are a heavy user, as programmers always are.&lt;p&gt;I had started to regret selling it a month or so into my travels, but I&apos;ve now figured out how to avoid trouble with the new lifestyle. Moving regularly between all of the several sitting locations I have in the RV (dinette, desk, sofa, and also sitting outside in a cloth folding chair or a wooden folding chair when weather is nice (which is most of the time, since I follow good weather), and exercising a lot more (easy since I have to walk my dog regularly, anyway, and I&apos;m always in some place new that is way more interesting than what&apos;s on TV). I also still have my tall table from Ikea that I used for a while as a standing desk, but I haven&apos;t parked anywhere long enough to make it worth setting up.&lt;p&gt;As I type, I&apos;m sitting outside under the awning overlooking the desert in a place called &quot;Slab City&quot; about 150 miles west of San Diego, and just south of Joshua Tree. I think I am going to do some customization of my next RV to get an  Aeron back into the picture, though. There&apos;s just no good reason not to have a really good chair.</text></comment>
<story><title>The greatest enemy of the programmer: hemorrhoids</title><url>http://blog.cubeofm.com/the-greatest-enemy-of-the-programmer-hemorrho</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>msisk6</author><text>Right now I&apos;m sitting in an Aeron chair I bought myself 11 years ago. It&apos;s been through 3 startups, 4 moves, 2 wives and a half-dozen laptops. I don&apos;t want to even think about how many hours my keister has been in this chair. Amortized for use over time I don&apos;t think I ever spent money so wisely.&lt;p&gt;Get a good chair now -- even if you have to spend your own money on it. You won&apos;t regret it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abstractbill</author><text>In the office I work at a desk and on a chair.  But at home (where I work on side-projects several hours most days) I &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; work sitting on a chair - it&apos;s always either curled up with a laptop on the couch, or sitting on the floor.  Usually I alternate between the two.  I much prefer &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; sitting on a chair if I can avoid it.</text></comment>