Originally published at: Exotic monitor orientations | Boing Boing
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Exotic monitor orientations?
No shaming, please - it’s not ‘exotic’. My monitor can claim any sexual orientation it wishes, and be respected for that.
Oh, rotations? I see. 
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Needs a fish tank screen saver.
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My job involves a lot of cartographic layout work. I use two monitors, one in normal (layout) orientation and one in portrait orientation. The portrait one is also the better way to view websites.
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Somebody has way too much time on his hands.
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Well, that’s one angle on the subject, I suppose. It has a degree of plausibility.
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With a big air bubble in the top corner.
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Dual monitors, one landscape and one portrait. Landscaped monitor is always used for screen sharing.
And your tiny laptop monitor can be used for griping via Slack.
I thought everyone knew this?
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And a leak in the bottom corner, draining into the bit bucket.
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I am sure you are not being at all obtuse. You must be more acute than I have inferred.
Maybe the arc of these exchanges is getting a little protracted. I’ll stop now, before we end up going full circle.
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Choose the hypotenuse.
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Too square, man, too square. And two squares, too.
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Portrait is also superior for reading comics and manga. And it’s really good when you get into arguments on Discord. You can have a browser open on the same screen as Discord while both show a lot of content
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I’m inclined to think this is not on the level.
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You’ve caught me out. I’ll slope off for now, then. But I may be back for another tilt at it later.
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This could work if you could make your desktop have toroidal topology.
but but… that’s only rotation along single axis! Have him report back once they’ve concluded with a full quaternion (“coding head downwards on the chaise lounge, m’self”)
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