My wife’s monitor died in explosive fashion, and as the wonderful person she is, she decided that she would take MY old monitor and allow me free reign to purchase a new one for myself.

This display of generosity came at an unfortunate time, however, since she waited a few hours between her monitor dying and telling me that I could buy a better one for myself… by that time, I’d already, uh, bought a better one for myself with the intention of giving her the hand-me-down, without, you know, checking with her that it was OK.

So I feel a bit like a heel, but at the same time I have a cool monitor now, so I’m a heel with a cool monitor anyway.
This being a Gateway FHD2400, which is a lovely shiny 24″ 1920×1200 monitor. Not that those stats are, in themselves, anything especially crazy, but this thing also goes way beyond the norm in terms of inputs – it’s got the standard DVI and VGA, of course, but also has S-video, Component, Composite, and HDMI inputs. For a guy with far too many old video game consoles around, this thing is just about perfect.

No picture because my desk is a horrific mess right now. It’s, uh, a big shiny monitor with chrome trim. I’ll let you envision that.

Filed under “organization” because it’s going to let me get rid of a 24″ Toshiba CRT TV that has the most annoying shadow mask in the history of CRT displays. It’s something I managed not to notice for a very long time, but once it was pointed out it became something I couldn’t unsee.
I hate that.