RISE OF RISERS
Rise of risers is all about computer monitor riser. As a computer gamer, his or her table gets filled up with random stuff pretty fast. Hence the need of a screen riser.
I am onto a project that a virtual friend asked me to do. I know she’ll read this soon, and I hope she’ll forgive me for this blog. This project is called a monitor riser.
What in the world is that? What kind of woodwork will make a monitor rise? LOL. Please excuse my bland attempt at humor.
Back in the day, a monitor is a device that attaches to a patient’s arm or finger to keep a tab on his or her prognosis remotely. And if Google and PCs came three decades earlier, these will be what you would get from your searches.
Today, a monitor means the computer screen that we all use. This confusion explains my two-take on the word. Indeed, time warps and bends and changes the meanings of words too.
A CRT (cathode ray tube), as they call it in its inception, is a TV-like screen that has texts and letters that glows green with a pulsating curser. Ultimately LCD and LED monitors replaced the bulky, large CRT casings, yet some are still around. One can continue to see these TV-like screens in some government buildings. This phenomenon further confirms that, to some extent, the government has become inflexible – you know, like the “Man Who Can’t Be Moved.”
Anyways. As these computer monitors become thinner, outstretched, they occupy space quite fast. They seem to take up table space faster than China could implement its claim on the nine-dash line.
Hence, to supplant this tendency, an implement that will raise this LCD may just be the right thing to do to reclaim the area that it loses – I mean, I am talking computers here, not the dashed lines.
As I am wont to do, I went to redraw the project on Sketch-up and finished all the details. From the drawing, I made the cutlist and a list of materials to source out. With the plan, I went online to shop for the materials. I want kiln-dried mahogany – not the dripping-wet kind.
I found a source in Pilit, Cabancalan in Mandaue. They have a handsome supply of locally sourced and exotic timbers, and they are kiln-dried. I hope they keep the price down.
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DOUGLAS REY B. BERIDO
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