net health - sitting is bad

[Ron Whitfield]

But standing sucks http://health.yahoo.net/experts/mens...ull-do-all-day

[Walkoff Balk]

Re: net health - sitting is bad

How about the poor person who's getting sat on?

[Ron Whitfield]

Re: net health - sitting is bad

They probably paid for it, to each their own.

[Kaonohi]

Re: net health - sitting is bad

They probably paid for it, to each their own.

I have always wondered (being an English/Anthro major) whether it is more correct to say:
"Each to their own" rather than "to each their own."
Opinions?

[Honoruru]

Re: net health - sitting is bad

I think working while standing up is a good idea, but our modern offices are not conducive for that. When I had back problems many years ago, I used to search out chest-high countertops in my office, plop down my laptop (an old PowerBook) on it, and work away. Or I would place a stack of books on my desk and top it with my keyboard, and away I’d go. One of my co-workers (an art director) set up her computer on a high platform, so that you had to stand up to work on it.

On a historical note: Ernest Hemingway, because of a bad back, wrote standing up. He placed a Royal typewriter on a high bench, stood there, and typed away. He wasn’t the only one who wrote standing up. Lewis Carroll, Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens, Thomas Jefferson, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Wolfe, and George Sand, among others, did the same. So does Philip Roth today. Here’s the reference link and here. Or you could google “writing standing up”.

On the other hand, it must be noted that Mark Twain, Marcel Proust, and Woody Allen, all wrote in bed.

[Walkoff Balk]

Re: net health - sitting is bad

There are shake weights and the thigh master you can do while sitting.

[Honoruru]

Re: net health - sitting is bad

Or you could try the Hawaii chair.

But I think I'd rather stand.

[Ron Whitfield]

Re: net health - sitting is bad

Mark Twain, Marcel Proust, and Woody Allen, all wrote in bed.

I feel a writing spell coming on!